On the evening of February 6, 2022, the Chinese women's football team let the two chase three, and the South Korean team won the championship!
This is the second time that Chinese women's football has reached the top of Asia after 16 years, and the ninth time it has lifted the Asian Cup championship trophy, which is enough to make every Chinese proud!
Behind all this, as the new coach of Chinese women's football and the first female coach in the history of Chinese women's football, Coach Shui Qingxia is indispensable.
The female football player who has worked quietly in women's football for 40 years was ordered to lead the Chinese women's football team to regain its strength and regain its footing in Asia after the Tokyo Olympic Games.
The official AFC once commented on Shui Qingxia: "She knows better than anyone how to win the Women's Asian Cup." ”
As one of the first women's football players in China to make a name for herself in the world, Shui Qingxia has scored three times and three times out of the national team, and won the Asian Cup for the Chinese women's football team five times in 11 years.
After becoming a coach, she also continued to be legendary, leading the Shanghai women's football team to the national games championship three times, such a brilliant resume, enough to be qualified as the coach of the Chinese women's football team.
Shui Qingxia
But what is interesting is that when she was young, Shui Qingxia trained not football in sports schools, but athletics.
On December 18, 1996, Shui Qingxia was born in Funing County, Yancheng City, Jiangsu Province.
"Since I was a child, I have enjoyed participating in various sports, including shooting, table tennis and other sports, and finally chose to go to the sports school track and field team to practice track and field."
At the age of 11, Shui Qingxia entered the sports school to practice athletics, at that time, she was looking forward to the future to shine in athletics, but she did not expect that the yin and yang were wrong, making football her lifelong obsession.
At that time, Shui Qingxia's sports school was facing diversion, and if the results were good, she entered the sports team, because of her height, if she continued to train in athletics, it might be difficult to go down.
Shui Qingxia when he was young
The coach liked this hard-working little girl, and he could see that Shui Qingxia was a good seedling for sports, so he recommended her to the football team to practice football.
Shui Qingxia's first reaction when she heard the news was a little panicked: "How can you go to play football?" Girls play soccer, it feels terrible. ”
At that time, football was still a new thing in China, not to mention ordinary people, and those who engaged in sports also knew very little, and Shui Qingxia inevitably played drums in her heart.
But the coach persuaded her many times, told her the prospects of football, and let her try it, so Shui Qingxia hardened her scalp.
When she began to learn to play football, Shui Qingxia was already 17 years old, and she was considered "advanced" among other students who were generally 15 years old, which was inevitably a bit difficult.
But she was willing to work hard to endure hardships, coupled with a few talents, in 1984, Shui Qingxia stood out from more than 100 people and successfully entered the first team of the Shanghai women's football team.
In the days of the Shanghai team, Shui Qingxia grew rapidly and gradually became the main force of the team, winning many honors with her teammates.
In 1986, Shui Qingxia was successfully selected for the national team and sprinted all the way, and the threatening free kick impressed the opponents she had played with.
It was also in this year that Shui Qingxia won the Asian Cup for the first time, and in the following years, she won the Asian Cup for the Chinese women's football team in 1989, 1991, 1995 and 1997.
In addition, Shui Qingxia is also one of the earliest women's football players who have a career in foreign countries, and Shui Qingxia has also won many large and small honors with the team.
In 1993, when Shui Qingxia was staying in Japan, she fractured her tibia in her right leg and buried a 30-centimeter-long steel plate in her leg.
After recovering from the injury, Shui Qingxia originally wanted to take out the steel plate, but one event after another, Shui Qingxia did not want to live up to the expectations of coaches and teammates, gritted her teeth and carried off one game after another, and when she finally went to the hospital to get the steel plate, 7 years had passed.
When Shui Qingxia came to the hospital to get the steel plate, the doctor was shocked to see her situation.
After inspection, it was found that the steel plate had been left for too long, and there was already adhesion, and if it was to be taken out, the leg bone had to be broken.
How do you play football with a broken leg bone?
Shui Qingxia firmly opposed, and communicated with the doctor for a long time before trying to knock it out, but it also left sequelae, and to this day, her injured leg will have pain on rainy days and when the amount of exercise is large.
Set-pieces are Shui Qingxia's "trick". In 2001, at the age of 35, when she participated in the final of the last National Games, she scored the only goal of the game and locked in the victory of the Shanghai women's football team.
But this "trick" is actually a weakness that Shui Qingxia has always felt very embarrassed about, because often "can't kick the point", she always feels that she has failed the team's defenders to take a good head, and she is very guilty.
If you don't play well, practice! In Shui Qingxia's dictionary, there is never "abandonment" and "escape", "hard work" and "diligence" are the creeds that have always supported her continuous progress.
In order to practice set-pieces, Shui Qingxia went to the field half an hour in advance every day to practice set-pieces, and often practiced by herself, relying on a wave of tenacity to practice the invincible "trick".
In 2001, after completing the national games to defend her title, 35-year-old Shui Qingxia began to consider hanging up her boots.
In fact, she feels that her physical condition can continue to play, and she feels that she can't play football for a lifetime, or she still has to make plans early.
After thinking about it for a long time, she felt that she still couldn't do without this green grassland that had struggled for half a lifetime, so she resolutely chose to transform into a coach.
After retiring from the military, she worked as a coach in Shanghai Women's Football Team, China Women's Football Youth Team and Shanghai Junior Sports School, and was later appointed as the coach of China Youth Women's Football Team until 2009.
"Fierce" and "Strict" are the most profound impressions of the team members on Shui Qingxia, and her scolding is always the most obvious in the green grass.
Shui Qingxia often said: "There is nothing negotiable on the pitch and in terms of technology. ”
She is not only "strict" with her players, but also more "strict" with herself, and whenever the team is in bad condition, she is always the first to reflect on herself.
In 2009, Shui Qingxia returned to the Shanghai team as the young coach of the Shanghai women's football team, at this time she still had some confidence, after all, she had the experience of national youth, and felt that she could try to learn how to lead the team.
But reality dealt her a hard blow: at the National Games, the team didn't even qualify for the group stage.
As a head coach, Shui Qingxia was close to collapse and once wanted to leave, thinking that she needed to learn more experience to be competent as a head coach.
But the former team members tried their best to retain, the team members who got along day and night understood the ability of the water coach, and they were also very reluctant to this "strict master", after some ideological struggle, Shui Qingxia stayed.
This time, Shui Qingxia deeply reviewed herself, reviewed each game of the team, seriously looked for reasons, actively improved, and then led the team to march forward, winning many championships in large and small events.
But Shui Qingxia has a higher goal: she wants to impact the 2017 National Games, and she has to get up wherever she falls!
This time, Shui Qingxia led the Shanghai women's football team to successfully win the National Games championship for the third time, and also created the biggest score in the history of the Women's Football Final of the National Games!
While the players were hugging and cheering, Shui Qingxia only wanted to sleep, and the pressure buried in her heart for a long time was swept away, and she could finally rest assured.
Just when Shui Qingxia thought she had taken root in the Shanghai team, the Chinese women's football team threw an olive branch at her.
2021 was a dark year for the Chinese women's football team, in this year's Tokyo Olympic Games, the Chinese women's football team scored 6 goals and conceded 17 goals in three group matches, and was out of the group with the worst result in history.
The Chinese women's football team, which returned home, faced the dismissal of Bishop Jia Xiuquan, the outside world's doubts and some fierce remarks, and the morale was low.
Although the coaching position of the Chinese women's football team has made many people flock to it, it also means that there are huge risks and difficulties to take, most people have chosen to wait and see, and the future direction of the "sonorous rose" has fallen into a fog.
At this critical juncture, Shui Qingxia stood up.
Shui Qingxia once led the Chinese Women's Olympic United Team as an interim head coach to participate in the 14th National Games and won the championship.
Shui Qingxia saw frustration and confusion from this group of female generals, but her strength still made her very recognizable.
Deeply in love with football, she can't watch our Chinese women's football team go down like this.
Although the process of taking over as the manager of the Chinese women's football team has not been smooth, fortunately, the results are good, and on November 18, 2021, the Chinese Football Association officially announced Shui Qingxia as the head coach of the women's national football team.
As a coach, Shui Qingxia can be regarded as a veteran, but as the manager of the Chinese women's football team, she is a complete newcomer.
After many reviews and in-depth understanding, the experienced Shui Qingxia quickly found the problem and gave a solution:
Recall the players with the best ability and status in the three generations of the old, middle and young, low-key training, peace of mind, and wait for the accumulation of thick hair.
The "numb" Shui Qingxia of the players in the Tokyo Olympic Games is also in her eyes, and she attaches great importance to the mentality of the players and actively carries out psychological counseling.
What Shui Qingxia taught the players is tenacity and unity on the field, to pay attention to every opponent on the field, but also to have enough confidence.
Confidence is the key to victory, not only in oneself, but also in one's teammates, in one's coaches and in China's women's football team.
Since Shui Qingxia became bishop, in one game after another, the performance of the Chinese women's football team has made visible progress to the naked eye, and the strength has gradually returned to the peak, and the change of spiritual qi has been seen by everyone.
The "sonorous roses" are quietly blooming.
In the 2022 Women's Asian Cup, with the victories again and again, the players who had been silent for a long time became more and more courageous, and finally when they defeated Japan in the semi-finals, the emotions of the girls reached their peak, and when they were happy, the water guide woke them up in time.
Shui Qingxia, who was directed in the rain
In Shui Qingxia's view, reaching the final is not the time to celebrate, and the most important thing now is to calm down and prepare for the South Korean team.
'Even if we win the title, I don't think it's a great record, we're still preparing as always, I'm more focused on the win of the game itself.'
In the final against South Korea, the Chinese women's football team lost the first half, temporarily lagging behind 0:2, and the audience inside and outside the stadium tugged at the heart together.
But Shui Qingxia was still calm, in the second half she began to boldly dispatch troops, replacing Lou Jiahui and Wu Chengshu with Zhang Rui and Xiao Yuyi in the midfield, and in the 60th minute, she also boldly let the 21-year-old from Mianyang, Sichuan, Zhang Linyan replace Wang Shuang.
Shui Qingxia's strategy quickly worked, and in the 67th minute, Zhang Linyan made a point for the Chinese women's football team, and Tang Jiali scored a penalty.
In the 71st minute, Zhang Linyan's header broke the goal, pulling the score back to 2:2, and for a while everyone was staring at the black and white ball on the pitch, and the air seemed to freeze.
Finally, in the 93rd minute, China's Xiao Yuyi burst into the penalty area.
"The ball is in!"
With deafening cheers, the Chinese women's football team defeated the South Korean team 3:2, and after 16 years, they once again stood on the top of Asia!
It wasn't until the end of the whistle sounded that Shui Qingxia raised her arms and cheered, and the tears in her eyes couldn't stop flowing, she knew better than anyone how much pressure these girls were under in their hearts, and how much they wanted to win, and now that their dreams had finally come true.
From this moment on, the Chinese women's football team, set sail again!
In addition to the celebrations, Shui Qingxia and the Chinese women's football team members have begun to look forward to the next goal.
"Of course, the way forward cannot be smooth, it may be smooth, and it may encounter many problems in the process, and I think as long as the direction is correct, the expected result should not be too bad."
Bless Coach Shui Qingxia! Bless this group of girls too!
Resources:
Beijing News: The Chinese women's football team has come out of the trough, and the "sonorous rose" is back on track
People's News: Who is Shui Qingxia?
The Paper: Once deep| what did Shui Qingxia bring to women's football? Be steadfast and do only the right thing
Upstream News: Consecutive "God Substitutions" to win the Asian Cup! Allow us to say to Shui Qingxia's guide: Thank you!
China Youth Network: Women's football team won the championship, Shui Qingxia spoke