preface
In the final of the 2022 Asian Cup in India, the Chinese women's football team successfully reached the top of Asia with a 3:2 victory over the South Korean women's football team. While all Chinese people are rejoicing in this, we need to calm down and analyze why Shui Qingxia was able to build this Chinese women's football team into a championship team in just 90 days.
What are the factors that make her successful? Compared with the previous Jia Xiuquan, what is the difference between the two of them? What are the implications of this success for the future development of our Chinese women's football team?
The difference between female coaches and male coaches
Jia Xiuquan and Shui Qingxia both had the experience of serving the country. As players, they are very good professional athletes, but when coaching the women's soccer team, this requires a completely different quality from coaching the men's soccer team.
For example, the physical limitations of women's soccer team players, the psychological and physiological grasp of players, the planning of training volume, etc., these points are not something that male coaches can pay attention to in detail, especially for a male coach who has not coached on a women's soccer team for a long time, and the weakness in this regard is more obvious.
Although they have a wealth of experience coaching men's clubs, they switch roles to coach the women's soccer team, and obviously in training, in life, the care for the players is far less than that of the women's coaches.
This is the natural gap between female coaches and male coaches, and it is also a "gap" that cannot be filled in some way in the later period.
Shui Qingxia knows people well and masters the players, which Jia Xiuquan is difficult to reach
At the end of the day, female coaches know and master the players of the women's soccer team much better than male coaches.
Shui Qingxia's coach made a detailed assessment of each player's physical condition at this Asian Cup, and the technical characteristics of each player and the current state were well understood.
Multiple players have played brilliantly in multiple positions, and substitution adjustments at key moments have become extremely accurate because of their correct judgment. In many cases, the players who replace the players can play the results that the coach wants.
This is the perfect demonstration of Coach Shui Qingxia's "complete mastery" of all aspects of the women's football girls in the game.
Different positions, different roles, different players, people make the most of them
Throughout this Asian Cup, The Chinese women's football coach Shui Qingxia has consistently adopted the formation of the 442 parallel midfield position, and the different positions have been rotated to a certain extent under the premise that the main framework 442 formation has not changed.
At the same time, special people are arranged in key games to come to special positions and play the desired results of the water guidance.
For example, No. 11 Wang Shanshan will come to the forward position in the group stage and the first game of the knockout round, and enter the semi-finals and finals, in these two strong dialogues, Shui Qingxia will transfer the No. 11 Wang Shanshan to the center-back position, using Wang Shanshan's defensive strength to ensure the defensive flexibility of the Chinese women's football team. In turn, the No. 4 positive indian center-back Li Jiayue was placed on the bench and made certain sacrifices.
At the same time, Lou Jiahui, who played forward on the 14th, also made a cameo appearance as a right-back in this Asian Cup; Yao Wei was a midfielder, but her left-foot technique and the confrontation between the card position and the body in the defense made her the best candidate for defensive left-back; the attribute of The No. 23 Gao Chenneng side ability was a major tactical change point guided by Shui Qingxia in the game; No. 6 Zhang Xin could play both full-back and midfield, with excellent physical fitness, and the coach's use of her was also very suitable.
This all reflects the manager's deep understanding of the players, placing the right players in the right positions, giving them a certain degree of freedom, and fully playing on the field, which is all the manager can do.