We won.
On the last day of the Spring Festival holiday, the Chinese women's football team defeated the South Korean team 3:2 to become the Asian champion for the ninth time.
This is a 14-year lapse, and the Chinese women's football team has once again advanced to the final of the Asian Cup.
It is also after 16 years that the Chinese women's football team has once again won the top of Asia.
For a time, "You can always believe in women's football" brushed the screen.
But speaking of which, the mood of many people watching that game may be like this:
First, after the defeat of Tokyo, everyone did not have much expectation of the Chinese women's football team.
Second, shortly after the game began, the South Korean team took a two-goal lead.
But even so, the women's football team has been fighting.
In the 66th minute, Zhang Linyan shot a penalty, and Tang Jiali scored a low shot to recover a point.
In the 71st minute, the equalizer was scored.
In the 93rd minute, Wang Shanshan went straight, Xiao Yuyi received the ball and calmly hit the far corner to break the goal, killing South Korea.
3:2, the Chinese women's football team achieved a rebound.
From two goals behind, to equalizing, to the kill, the Chinese women's football team has achieved a task that the men's football team has never done and can never do.
Turn the tide of the tide, and be reborn on the verge of despair.
Some people say that the face of Chinese football has finally been earned back.
The women's soccer girls kicked like grandpas one by one.
Some people have changed the toilet signs.
In fact, the most exciting thing is not the achievements.
But behind the honor, this group of fearless people.
For example, Wang Shuang, who was born in 1995.
She was the first Chinese to score in Europe and won the title of "Miss Football of Asia" in 2018.
In particular, the Chinese women's football team played against Vietnam in the quarterfinals of the Asian Cup, and she almost single-handedly helped the team win.
But because Wang Shuang has been injured, he missed the semi-final against Japan.
This time, in order to play in the final, she made a more detailed training plan for herself:
Every day 2 hours in the morning, 2 hours in the afternoon, and sometimes extra exercises.
After the comeback of the line of fire, Wang Shuang's tempering of himself has increased.
Until he was replaced by the coach, he was constantly sprinting.
Zhang Linyan, who helped the team equalize, just turned 21 last Sunday, and is the youngest player in this year's Chinese women's football team.
But in the face of a teammate's pass, she was only 1 meter 54 tall, jumped high, a powerful header hit the goal, and the ball was in the net.
After the game and her family video, she said: The Chinese team has fallen behind 0:2, and at that moment she only wanted to score! goal!
Xiao Yuyi, who killed the South Korean team, just turned 25 this month.
She has loved football since she was a child, and since the second grade, she will train for about 2 hours every day from 3:30 pm to 5:30 pm.
For 8- and 9-year-olds, feeling bitter and tired is inevitable.
"However, I have never heard Xiao Yuyi complain, she laughs and giggles every day. Whenever she went out to play, she also took the initiative to help other team members get items. ”
There is also Lou Jiahui, who was carried off the field on a stretcher in the semifinals, and sacrificed herself many times to save the ball until the old injury recurred.
When she came off, she lay on the ground with tears in her eyes.
Player Zhang Xin returned to the court 8 months after giving birth to the child.
And through high-intensity exercise was selected for the national team.
Maybe this is the real responsibility, this is the real love.
Everyone in the team held their breath, everyone united and worked hard, cooperated with each other, and achieved each other to usher in the final victory.
Of course, there is another person who has to be mentioned, head coach Shui Qingxia.
At the end of the first half, South Korea led 2-0 and everyone was immersed in a tense atmosphere.
Jia's old sentence: I still want to win 3 goals, you want to win 10 goals, but the strength does not allow it", it seems to float back.
But Shui Qingxia did not blow the ends of her hair, nor did she pin her hopes on "asking for a penalty".
After realizing that the tactical arrangement in the first half was obviously ineffective, Shui Qingxia did not hesitate to change the plan immediately.
She decisively replaced Wang Shuang, transferred Zhang Linyan, and put Wang Shanshan in the premise of letting her return to the front.
After the adjustment, the offensive force of the Chinese women's football team was also immediately improved.
Zhang Linyan, a young player who came off the bench, first made a penalty and then an assist.
But after chasing the score, Shui Qingxia still has thunder in her chest and faces like a flat lake.
It wasn't until the real champion was secured that she sighed in the air on the field, laughing with tears.
Remembering that when she defeated Japan in the semifinals, the players also wanted to raise Shui Qingxia high, but she seriously refused on the spot:
Even if you win the championship, there is nothing remarkable.
Nothing remarkable means:
It does not mean that the Chinese women's football team is strong, and it does not mean that it will always be the hegemon.
Thinking of danger in times of peace, he always calmly calculated the "hard battle" that followed.
This is the wisdom of the woman in northern Jiangsu, and it is also the instinctive reaction of this veteran of women's football.
Shui Qingxia entered the sports school to practice athletics at the age of 11, and was recommended to join the women's football team in 1983.
It was the first time in Shanghai's history that a women's soccer team had been established.
Shui Qingxia also became the first Shanghai player in the history of Chinese women's football to be called up.
Since then, in 11 years, she has lifted the Asian Cup five times.
At the age of 35, Shui Qingxia chose to retire for physical reasons, but she did not give up the football she loved, but stayed on the stadium and became a coach.
"Everyone has a dream, and I hope to be the head coach of the women's national team and lead the team to show on the world stage."
In 2021, the Chinese Football Association officially announced on November 18 that Shui Qingxia was appointed as the new head coach of the Chinese women's football team.
After experiencing the farce of competition, Shui Qingxia carried out two reforms as soon as she took office: one is the atmosphere, and the other is the system.
The Asian Cup registration list is 23 people, while the training team has 34 players, and 11 people will eventually fail.
In the past, when the big list was announced, the head coach would be scolded wildly, and the players who lost the selection could not avoid complaining.
But this women's soccer team did not.
Shui Qingxia used her public heart and courage to purify this atmosphere.
As for the tactical system, because of the continuous decline in performance and the decline in the world ranking, the women's football team has become "afraid, shrinking and defending".
Shui Qingxia took the team members to study, watch video research, actual combat, and improve... Awakened the essence and genes of women's football.
"I think because we've been through a lot of things last year, it's a new team, now it's a new team, the goal is to win the championship, and we have that confidence too!"
The media once commented that Shui Qingxia, a coach who really loves women's football, is willing to pay for it, and is not afraid of really taking responsibility, is not so much.
And Shui Qingxia is the one who has the most confidence and the courage to face difficulties.
But then again, looking back at the women's football team's road to victory is also quite poignant.
Because they are also playing football, the difference in treatment between the women's football team that wins and the men's football team that loses is still very large.
Although it is said that women's football should not be used as a reference to men's football, this is the case.
Men's soccer players, charter flights, stay in five-star hotels, eat a variety of meals.
When women athletes participate in competitions, the treatment in all aspects is very poor.
Zhao Zhen, a reporter for football newspaper, once reported on the treatment of women's football:
No hot water, no TV signal, cramped, moldy, only one meat dish per meal.
In order not to miss important games, it is time for menstruation and I have to continue to play.
In addition, the naming fee of the men's football team is often more than 50 million, and the highest is more than 200 million.
The naming fee of the women's football league is hundreds of thousands of dollars a year.
With less sponsorship, less pay.
The average annual salary of a male football player is about 2 million.
The average annual salary of women's football players is only more than 100,000, a difference of more than ten times.
"We don't have enough money to buy sunscreen and skin care products."
This has also led to many excellent female players choosing to retire at the golden age of twenty-six or seven.
Without well-known players, even fewer people watch the game.
Most women's football matches have few fans off the field.
Zhao Lina, a member of the national team, once said,
"On match days, apart from our relatives, there may be only a few dozen real fans coming to see us play."
"Only about half of our home stadium is open and able to accommodate a few thousand spectators, but as far as I know, it's never been full.
This time, CCTV also broadcast the women's Asian Cup finals for the first time under the shouts of the masses.
Therefore, some people say,
"The vast majority of those who forward women's football to win the championship may have watched this women's football league."
But even so, women's football girls have always been very competitive.
Even if no one is watching, they are desperately kicking.
"In the 120-minute race we never thought about giving up.
More than 130 days of training, each of which is more than 10,000 running training, even if you rush them, you can wash them down! ”
Moreover, these young people in their 20s have long been accustomed to making fun in pain.
They like to share clips of their lives on Weibo, as well as photos of the competition.
For example, center-back Li Jiayue opened his own B-station account and often posted training dynamics and funny videos.
Let the teammates can't help but hug their arms tightly, can't help but scare her:
"You go quickly, I'm afraid of nightmares at night."
Zhao Lina, who is 182 tall, is not only playing football, but also an e-sports enthusiast.
Goalkeeper Peng Shimeng likes Song Qian, and will send a photo of Song Qian before the game to encourage herself, using idols as motivation.
After winning Japan in the semi-finals, striker Li Ying posted a video of his friends celebrating in the locker room.
At the request of fans, the abs were shown.
Who said that women are not as good as men, they are Chinese stars, but also the stars in their own lives.
Walk through the trough and go to the top.
Now, the Chinese women's football team has overturned South Korea and has also overturned its own destiny.
It also received 3 prizes totaling more than 30 million yuan.
This prosperous situation is inseparable from the hard work of women's football players, and it is also inseparable from our better and better sports environment.
But raising a glass and going out of the circle is not the goal, inheritance and development is the original intention.
As the women's soccer players said:
"When you support the angle of women's football,
No longer to satirize men's football.
When your support,
It's about seeing us not just in the national team.
There are also other female footballers who play football in the club,
Give them the meaning of kicking down,
Then our Chinese women's football team will be really strong in the future. ”
Indeed, the significance of the rise of sports is not to satirize anyone.
Victory or defeat is never the first, only a person who works hard and is not disappointed by fate.
Hopefully, The Chinese women's football team is getting better and better.
I also hope that after a short cheer, I will forget them again.
Sonorous roses, always worth believing!
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