On February 6, Beijing time, the final of the 2022 Women's Asian Cup, the Chinese women's football team defeated the South Korean women's football team 3-2 and won the championship! For Shui Qingxia, who has been in office for less than three months, history has been created!
At the Tokyo Olympics last year, the Chinese women's football team was out of the group stage with 1 draw and 2 losses, and Jia Xiuquan's dismissal has become inevitable. In September 2021, Shui Qingxia temporarily served as the coach of the Chinese Women's Football United Team during the National Games and led the team to win the championship. But in the initial manager recruitment of the Chinese Football Association, she did not participate in the competition.
However, on November 13, the recruitment of the manager was urgently stopped; six days later, on November 18, the Chinese Football Association officially announced that Shui Qingxia had become the new manager of the Chinese women's football team.
The voice of public opinion questioning is inevitable, and the water guide only proves himself with the results on the field. The Women's Asian Cup is the first test, she trusts the veteran, promotes new people, and leads the Chinese women's football team to win 2 consecutive group stages, scoring 11 goals and conceding 0 goals; in the quarterfinals, she defeated Vietnam 3-1 with the first goal conceded.
In the semi-final against Japan, Shui Qingxia's tactical arrangement and substitution adjustments were even more classic, with two draws behind and two equalizers, especially wang Shanshan's absolute draw in the 119th minute! In the end, the confident Chinese women's football team won the penalty shootout and reached the final for the first time in 14 years.
In the final against South Korea, the South Korean team took the lead in scoring the goal with a counterattack, Yao Lingwei accidentally sent a point before the end of the first half, Chi Xiaoran scored a penalty, and the Chinese team was once 0-2 behind. But in the second half, Tang Jiali passed Jiangong, Zhang Linyan made a point off the bench, and equalized with a header. In the 94th minute, Xiao Yuyi single-handedly killed and won with one blow! 3-2 Win!
In the history of Chinese women's football, there are a total of 8 Asian Cup titles, and the managers at that time were all men: Cong Eryu in 1986, Shang Ruihua in 1989 and 1991, Ma Yuanan who completed an unprecedented four consecutive championships in 1993-1997, and Ma Liangxing in 2006.
Today, Shui Qingxia became the first female coach to lead the Chinese women's football team to the Asian Cup championship, and she won the Asian Cup in the player era5, and she also became the first person in history to win the Women's Asian Cup as a player and manager respectively!
Coaching the Chinese women's football team for 80 days, Shui Qingxia has brought a lot of changes to this team. She trusts veterans, promotes new people, has experience, tactics, and brains, and leads the team to stage a series of reversals in the knockout rounds. From the olympic group stage out to the Asian Cup to win, the progress has been very obvious, and the water guidance really makes people see the future of China's women's football team.
This year, the Chinese women's football team will also participate in the Women's East Asian Cup and the Hangzhou Asian Games, under the leadership of Shui Qingxia, the Chinese women's football team has the strength and opportunity to impact the championship and gold medal!