The Chinese women's football team has won! In the highly anticipated Women's Asian Cup final, the Chinese team beat the Korean women's football team and successfully lifted the trophy that has been separated from us for many years.
Yes, 16 years, the Chinese women's football team has been waiting for this moment for a full 16 years.
In 2006, after the Chinese women's football team defeated Australia and lifted the Asian Cup for the last time, it has not been able to touch the laurels of this event for 16 consecutive years, in fact, the last time the Chinese women's football team reached the final of the event was in 2008, 14 years ago.
In the past decade or so, China's women's football team has long been far behind the team representing the highest level of women's football, and the Japanese women's football team not only stole the Asian hegemony of the Chinese women's football team, but also successfully lifted the women's World Cup championship trophy in 2011; in recent years, after the European women's football team has been professionalized, the overall level has improved by leaps and bounds; leaving only the Chinese women's football team with good memories of the Sino-US era of glory 20 years ago.
At the turn of the 21st century, the Chinese women's football team has not yet embarked on the road of professionalization, but it has won the glory that the Chinese men's football team has never dared to covet for a lifetime - the runner-up of the women's football team at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games and the runner-up of the 1999 Women's World Cup.
At that time, the Chinese women's football team, with a salary that could only make a living, but won the glory that made all of China proud, the Chinese women's volleyball team was called the spirit of the women's volleyball team, and the Chinese women's football team was praised as "sonorous rose".
Unfortunately, when the sonorous rose bloomed the most brilliantly, we twice lost the United States, and what we did not expect was that although the sonorous rose bloomed brilliantly, it has gone through a period of decline for more than ten years, while our old rival, the American women's football team, can still kill seven in and seven out in the pursuit and interception of the european women's football team with strong hands.
In 2011, the Chinese women's football team did not qualify for the World Cup finals, in fact, since the 1999 Women's World Cup semi-finals 5-0 victory over Norway, the Chinese team has only won 1 victory in the Women's World Cup knockout round in the next 20 years; the most recent international competition, the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games held in the summer of 2021, the Chinese women's football team in the group stage 1 draw 2 losses, dismal out, but also by the elderly Brazilian team 5-0, by the Dutch women's football team to 8-2.
A haze began to hang over the entire Chinese women's football team, which could not be dispersed for a long time, when will the sonorous rose bloom again? Is the Chinese women's football team really no longer working?
Perhaps not necessarily, after the Tokyo Olympic Games, women's football head coach Jia Xiuquan left class, and The Chinese women's football team ushered in the shui Qingxia era.
Shui Qingxia is a Chinese women's football team that is older than Sun Wen, and Sun Wen has been a teammate in both clubs and national teams, and is also a member of the national women's football team in the sonorous rose era, and she has her presence in the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games and the 1999 Women's World Cup.
At the critical moment, the Chinese women's football team defied the public opinion and chose the representative of the older generation of women's football who understands the spirit of women's football more, and the sonorous women's football team must be brought by the sonorous women's football team.
After Shui Qingxia took office, she unloaded the psychological baggage for all women's football players, and encouraged the star players to develop their personalities, but there was only one condition, that is, unconditional obedience to orders and arrangements on the court, and the spirit of women's football could not be lost on the court.
What is the spirit of women's football?
The Chinese team in the quarter-finals of the Women's Asian Cup, was scored by the Vietnamese team first, the result of the Chinese women's football team to catch up, pulled 3 goals in a row, eliminated the opponent to advance; in the semi-final against the Japanese team, in the unfavorable situation that Wang Shuang could not appear due to injury, the Chinese women's football team fell behind twice, equalized twice, successfully dragged the game into the penalty shootout, successfully eliminated the Japanese team in the middle of the day, and advanced to the final.
In the final against the South Korean team, the Chinese women's football team was the first to fall behind, and it was 2 goals behind, and the adversity moment showed the true color of the women's football team.
Do not abandon, do not give up, Shui Qingxia head coach in the adversity, successively show the winner and loser, in the second half of the early morning even changed three people, and the water coach is very courageous, dare to take down Wang Shuang, who is not in a good state due to injury, it is Zhang Linyan, who replaced Wang Shuang, who appeared on the scene, to help China score the equalizer goal.
In injury time, Xiao Yuyi, another player who was replaced in the half under the guidance of Shui Qingxia, helped the Chinese team score a killer goal, and the Chinese team once again reversed the victory and successfully lifted the heavy Asian Cup.
Shui Qingxia's guidance to take over the Chinese women's football team is only 3 months, such a short period of time, can it bring qualitative changes in the basic skills and technical capabilities of the Chinese women's football team? Obviously not, the only thing that Shui Qingxia's guidance can bring to the Chinese women's football girl is the tenacity of the old women's football team, a person who knows more about sonorous roses, no, a person who is himself a sonorous rose, in order to make the sonorous rose bloom again.