The final whistle sounded, and 55-year-old Shui Qingxia was thrown high by the women's football girls.
On the evening of February 6, 2022, in the final of the Women's Asian Cup, the Chinese women's football team achieved an epic reversal after falling behind by 2 goals at halftime, and defeated the South Korean women's football team at the last moment to win the championship. After the game, the women's football girls rushed to head coach Shui Qingxia.
The "water mother" in the hearts of the team members was thrown high.
In an interview, Shui Qingxia was deeply impressed by this moment, and she once refused, thinking in her heart: "My hand is tightly grasping them, I am afraid that they will not be able to catch me." ”
Bravely taking on the burden when the women's football team fell into a trough, and leading the team to win important championships in less than 3 months as the women's football coach, Shui Qingxia quickly detonated social media.
Topics such as "What has changed in Shui Qingxia", "Who is Shui Qingxia", and "Shui Qingxia's God Has Changed" have emerged endlessly. Shui Qingxia said: "If we adjusted a little better and more confident during the game, it should be better... There's nothing remarkable about taking a championship. ”
Calm, not humble, this is Shui Qingxia.
In 2021, the Tokyo Olympics in Japan, once considered the women's football team that Chinese football hopes, surprised everyone.
In the first game of the group stage, the Chinese women's football team lost 0:5 to the Brazilian women's football team. A few days later, facing the Zambian women's team, the worst in the group, the girls were forced to equalize by four goals.
In the final match against the veteran Dutch women's football team, the riveted girls conceded 8 goals and lost miserably with a score of 2:8.
3 games conceded 17 goals, accumulated 1 point, the Chinese women's football team ranked at the bottom of the group, did not qualify for the top 8.
This is the worst record of the Chinese women's football team to play in the Olympic Games. The "sonorous rose" that people once admired seems to be on the verge of withering, and the voice of doubt is overwhelming.
Back in China, then head coach Jia Xiuquan had to leave class. Who can take over the whip of the Chinese women's football team and revitalize the majesty of the "sonorous rose" has become a hot topic of discussion among fans.
A women's soccer girl at the Tokyo Olympics
Before the Official Decision of the Football Association, the media and fans listed many candidates, whether it was the head coach of the local team or the female coach Chen Wanting in Hong Kong, China, it seemed that it was okay or not.
At a time of crisis, the Chinese women's football team needs a person who can boost morale and turn the tide.
At the 14th National Games, as the then head coach of Shanghai women's football team, Shui Qingxia unexpectedly became the "temporary head coach" of the "Olympic United Team", which was seen by the outside world as a signal that she would become the head coach of women's football.
The final was held in heavy rain, and Shui Qingxia stood in the rain to direct the whole game, and the whole body penetrated the way she wiped her glasses, leaving a deep impression on the audience.
At the end of the game, the Olympic team won, and Shui Qingxia, under pressure, slammed the towel on the ground.
Shui Qingxia commanded in the rain
As the main player of the golden generation of women's football, Shui Qingxia's call to become the head coach of the national women's football team is getting higher and higher. When the reporter handed the microphone to her and asked her if she intended to become the manager of the women's football team, the always cold head coach gave the answer:
"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 her heart, the head coach of the national team is a heavy job. When she used to wear the national team uniform to compete, she always had a sense of pride and responsibility.
"It's a very exciting feeling, it's like that feeling of going to war with a gun."
When she was young, Shui Qingxia was interviewed
In October, when the Chinese Football Association officially competed for the head coach of the Chinese women's football team, Shui Qingxia unexpectedly did not participate.
According to the surging news report, at that time, the circle had long been circulating that the Football Association tended to let Zhao Junzhe serve as the head coach of women's football. Participating in a competition destined to "accompany the run" is a damage to Shui Qingxia's dignity, so she chooses to stay out of the matter.
This cloud-shrouded open competition has not been resolved in public doubt. On November 18, after many discussions, the final results were announced, and 54-year-old Shui Qingxia was directly appointed.
Shui Qingxia became the first local female head coach of the Chinese women's football team.
At this time, there are still 2 months left before the Women's Asian Cup.
Shui Qingxia
The first thing to do, Shui Qingxia set herself the goal of boosting morale.
As a core member of the women's football team that once won the runner-up of the Atlanta Olympic Games, Shui Qingxia understood the strength of the Chinese women's football team at that time and did not fall out of the ranks of the asian strong teams, and the team members needed encouragement most when they were hit by the Olympic Games.
During the 5-week training camp, in terms of training, she was strict and put forward technical and tactical execution requirements for the team members beyond their previous abilities. In life, take care of every girl.
Zhang Xin in the team is the first mother player of the women's football team, and during the training break, Shui Qingxia asked her to go home to see her children more. She also encouraged other team members to communicate more with friends and family, "that is an outlet for their emotional catharsis."
Emotionally closer, in the conference room, she emphasizes another thing: "You may fail, but you never doubt yourself." ”
Later, in an interview, she talked about her experience when she was young, and repeatedly mentioned that she had also experienced regrets and successes, "to make the players more confident." ”
On the one hand, comforting and encouraging, on the other hand, in the women's national team candidate, Shui Qingxia is cold beyond doubt.
At the end of 2021, Shui Qingxia announced the list of the first batch of training members of the women's football team. Media comparison found that 12 athletes who had participated in the Olympic Games were not selected. And some people who were once excluded from the national team list were called back.
Tang Jiali, a former shanghai women's team, was previously unable to make it into the big list for the Tokyo Olympics. But at the end of the game, she transferred to the Premier League team and punched many people in the face.
In the coaching staff, the former team leader, assistant coach, and physical fitness coach are all replaced. Shui Qingxia is also staffed with team members in a number of positions such as physical trainers and analysts.
The new coach took office with three fires and the decision to defy the public opinion, so that many people questioned Shui Qingxia, who was the head coach of the women's national youth team and the head coach of the Shanghai women's football team: worried that she was biased against the players she had brought.
Shui Qingxia's response was only one sentence: I am still a relatively principled person.
Shui Qingxia's principle comes from the pure love of football in her heart.
Born in 1966 in Funing, Jiangsu Province, Shui Qingxia had excellent physical fitness since childhood.
At the age of 11, she was selected to enter Shanghai Hongkou Sports School to train in long jump and pentathlon. The pentathlon includes long jump, discus throwing, javelin, sprinting and wrestling, each of which requires a long period of training.
Shui Qingxia is a person who does not die in training, and she often stays in the training ground for a long time.
It was not until 1983, when Shanghai set up its first women's football team, and when the sports school selected talents, 17-year-old Shui Qingxia was selected. She knows very little about football, and she has no basic skills.
When she learned that she was going to go to the soccer team, her first reaction was: "How can you go to play football, girls play soccer, it's terrible." ”
In the end, she obeyed the coach's arrangement and went to the women's football team to report. "At that time, I was not tall, and it was difficult to break through in athletics.
A yin and yang choice, but let Shui Qingxia devote a lifetime of enthusiasm.
Shui Qingxia was young
At the age of 17, she first came into contact with football, and Shui Qingxia's difficult road began. Her ball sense is not good, and after practicing for a while, she has not had more than 10 balls. Even so, she was selected by the coach to join the Shanghai team.
At that time, what was valued by the coach was the strength in her bones that did not accept defeat. Not accepting defeat is a team's last weapon, the last hope, the last dignity, at this point, I believe that the majority of fans have a deep and heartfelt experience in the process of watching the men's football game.
The ball is not good, she only has to practice desperately. There are no shortcuts in this world, and they all rely on dead ends. Dead tossed, her ball sense continued to rise. Passing and stopping the ball is not good, she practices for nearly two hours a day, the coach is moved, and he accompanies her every day.
A year later, the national women's football training list was announced, and Shui Qingxia became the first Shanghai player in the history of Chinese women's football to be called up.
"In the back, the more you kick, the more you feel, the self-confidence comes up, and maybe you have a little understanding." She said so.
In 1986, after entering the national team, Shui Qingxia played almost all positions in the team. Her most aggressive is set-pieces, a skill she has trained so hard for years that she has helped the Chinese women's football team win many international championships.
As the main player of the national team, she helped the Chinese women's football team win the silver medal at the Atlanta Olympic Games and won the Asian Cup for many times.
In 1999, she competed in the World Cup with the Chinese women's football team. That year, the Chinese women's football team won the good result of the World Cup runner-up, the title of "sonorous rose", a hit.
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The classic 1999 Women's World Cup, the heart-wrenching and tearful women's soccer girl
Even in 2000, Shui Qingxia was selected for the national team again at the age of 34, creating the oldest player in the national team at that time.
Shui Qingxia and women's football team won Olympic runner-up Shui Qingxia (4th from right in the second row)
Shui Qingxia's husband once commented on Shui Qingxia in this way. "She's just serious and doesn't accept defeat. Whether it's a player's period or a coach's period. ”
Even after retirement, in order to relieve the pressure on his wife, he often called his wife to play in the middle-aged and elderly team to relax, "I said you pass the ball and play." She went up to fight, and she wouldn't lose. She still has steel nails on her feet."
In 2001, at the age of 35, Shui Qingxia joined the team in defending the National Games.
At the age of 35, an age when most female footballers have long since retired, Shui Qingxia felt that she could still play physically, but her heart could not continue, "I should always retire, it is impossible to play football all the time." ”
Long before she retired, she had figured out the path for her future. She got too much attention from coaches when she was young, and she also wanted to become a coach. As a player, he played football while obtaining a coaching certificate.
At the end of the final game, she said in an interview with the media: "When I am a coach in the future, my players should perform the same as me on the field.
After retiring from the army, Shui Qingxia was appointed as the assistant coach of Shanghai women's football team, and then transferred to the national youth women's football team as the head coach.
Until 2009, after years of training in the national youth team, she returned to Shanghai as the head coach of the Shanghai women's football team. With more experience and confidence, she lost the most important game.
In 2013, in the women's football competition of the National Games, the Shanghai women's football team led by Shui Qingxia failed to qualify. Shui Qingxia did not shirk any responsibility, she said: "Any problem on the pitch is not a problem of the players, it is a problem of the coach. Or don't be the head coach. ”
At that time, she was disheartened and wanted to leave at one point. In the end, the team members kept her, "emotionally reluctant." ”
In the following competitions, Shanghai women's football team gradually became a mythical team of domestic women's football, winning consecutive National Games championships. It has provided many talents for the national team.
As a young player, Shui Qingxia, who had three in and three out of the national team, said her style may not be suitable, "much more bumpy than others."
It is even more regrettable that many martial arts have not been fully developed, "if you go back to the past, there is a coach who appreciates himself, it will be different."
It is also this feeling that makes Shui Qingxia, who has become a coach, have more insights. She introspected that she would like to give the players more help if she could.
Many players commented on her, knife mouth, tofu heart. Once there was any problem in the training, Shui Qingxia would say a few words without hesitation. Back in life, she is like a "mother", taking care of the team members, which is also the source of the name "water mother".
Shui Qingxia's manicure
She would work with the women's soccer team members to do nail art and choose a good style. They will also squeeze their own juice and ask the players to drink it. Women's soccer player Wang Shuang said:
"The water guide is a coach who pursues perfection, it may be particularly tired, especially hard, especially for a female coach, I admire the water guide."
In her first interview after becoming the head coach of the national team, Shui Qingxia proposed a name - "Sisters". I hope you all help each other like sisters.
Behind this attention is her sympathy with the women's football team.
In 2016, in the Women's Super League, the Shanghai women's football team led by Shui Qingxia finally finished second.
Shanghai fans, who are accustomed to winning the championship, do not understand that in the Women's Super League at that time, the introduction of foreign aid was the choice of most teams. The addition of super foreign aid can quickly improve the team's record and help the team get better results.
Shui Qingxia resolutely did not use foreign aid, "I want to give the girls more opportunities to exercise." She said, who has served as a player and the head coach of the national youth team, "Compared with the men's football team, there are not many opportunities for women's football to play, and in a limited time, the players must be given the most opportunities to exercise." ”
In the green field, whether a person is fighting for fame and fortune, or for cultivating talents, fighting for love, can actually be seen at a glance.
Losing is normal, but in the face of different attitudes of backwardness, people are divided into different looks, some people give up running, broken jars and broken falls, some people do not abandon, do not give up, desperately run to the last second.
As a result, we can see that some national teams have repeatedly fallen below the bottom line, while some national teams can bottom out and rebound and counterattack in a desperate situation.
In the 2022 Asian Cup competition, many people commented on Shui Qingxia's "god substitution", behind which is her cherishing of each team member.
Every game, she will let different, even young players play, to feel the atmosphere of the game. Several substitutions have also worked wonders.
Behind the substitution is the painful memories that Shui Qingxia has experienced again and again.
In 2017, the Shanghai women's football sponsor withdrew its investment, and the players who lost income had no intention of training. Even though they had just won the National Games at the time.
At that time, about 7 players chose to retire, "there are only 9 players left in the team, and the others do their work, I really don't want to continue to play, and there is no way." ”
Helpless and helpless, especially dignified between the brows of this 50-year-old woman.
The departure of the team members is, in the final analysis, a matter of treatment.
At that time, in the national competition, there were young players recording in the circle of friends, 3 beds crowded in a small moldy room, and the hotel did not even supply hot water.
Zhao Zhen, a reporter for the Football Newspaper, also had a grudge against the tragic situation of the women's football team. He attached a photo of the women's football team and angrily wrote: "The only meat dish is braised chicken thigh, which is the current situation of the development of Chinese women's football!" ”
Zhao Lina, goalkeeper of the women's national football team, once revealed: "Women's football girls do not have high incomes, just like ordinary people working outside. If you play soccer, you can't afford to buy a house in your lifetime. ”
Under all kinds of pressure, it is inevitable that many female players who play football choose to leave.
At the same time, some men's football players have already driven luxury cars and have thick bellies.
Competition is often fair; life, often no fairness at all. However, it is the place of injustice that awakens the conscience and can produce miracles.
Zhao Lina
Shui Qingxia said bitterly: "There is nothing wrong with the players wanting to pursue their own ideas, and everyone has paid a lot for football. ”
After becoming the head coach of the national team, she has always encouraged everyone to enjoy the game and enjoy the fun that football brings to her. Faced with the real problem, she could not find a solution.
Once, she also mentioned the men's football team, "If like the men's football team, a ball to get more than 100,000, a year down tens of millions, then everyone will certainly not leave, women's football can not reach this level." ”
In the years after the divestment of sponsors, the Chinese women's football team is also trying to professionalize, and many players still do not want to lose the job of "playing football" in the system. In the eyes of some fans, this is an obstacle to the evolution of players, and Shui Qingxia understands this as "insurance".
"You want to be professional, but your market is not to this extent. You say give you 500,000 a year, are you willing to give up the system (establishment)? Shui Qingxia said.
Cold analysis, nakedly imprinted here.
In the final of the 2022 Women's Asian Cup, after defeating Chinese Taipei 4:0, Iran 7:0, 3:1 reverse victory over Vietnam, two times behind and twice equalizing, and finally killing Japan, the Chinese women's football team reached the final.
In the final, facing a 0:2 drop in the first half, Shui Qingxia adjusted on the spot, replaced with a young player, and won the championship against the South Korean team in the last minute.
After winning the championship, the praise that came to the face made the women's football team receive extremely high attention, and a number of companies have carried out cash rewards for the women's football team, with a total of more than 30 million bonuses.
That 30 million, far from drowning out injuries that she and too many people on the team can't see.
30 million, compared to the income of men's football may be a drop in the bucket, but it will make more people pay attention to the future of women's football.
Women's football girls, the income requirements are not high, the competition requirements are very high; they can not guarantee to win, but they can guarantee to fight to the end; they can not compete with the passing of youth and injury troubles, but as long as the rose can bloom, they will never give up running...
Looking at the global situation, under various competitive situations, as a country and a nation, what is most needed is not the stubbornness of women's football team to unite as one, face difficulties, and be diligent and pragmatic?
In 1993, when he was staying in Japan, during an ordinary teaching competition in the team, Shui Qingxia was shoveled down, and the tibia of her right leg was kicked off and severely fractured. During the treatment, the doctor performed the operation of fixing the nails in her leg and supported her leg with a steel plate.
Shortly after the operation, Shui Qingxia immediately entered the state of competition, preparing for the shanghai team and the national team.
Seven years later, when the steel plate was removed again, because it was stored for too long, it could only be knocked out by very "primitive" means. To this day, every rainy day or increased exercise, her legs hurt.
Shui Qingxia's nose bone has also been broken twice, there are still scars on her mouth, and her cruciate ligament of her knee has also been broken, and she has suffered from countless injuries.
Athletes have to compete, fight, and fight with themselves all their lives, and Shui Qingxia looks at it very lightly, she said: "I think it doesn't matter, after all, I was born as a human being, and God will always give you some small tribulations to overcome." ”
A photo of Shui Qingxia when she was young
Time pulled back to 1997.
In the final of the National Games, Shui Qingxia won a penalty for the team at a key moment, and then scored directly from the corner. This goal, even in the men's football arena, is extremely rare.
Shui Qingxia's corner kick was scored directly
At that time, Shui Qingxia was 31 years old, honor-level, but still lived in the dormitory building of shanghai major sports school, living for 15 years.
It was a cramped quadruple room, the windows were not large, the outside of the dormitory was peeling off the wall skin, and sneakers were everywhere. In addition to the two bunk beds, the room features a stool, a small round table and a small dresser.
Shui Qingxia's dormitory
Shui Qingxia's bedside is pasted with posters of women's football championships and her favorite plush toys.
At that time, her state was still brave, and the result of 12 minutes of running could reach 2950 meters, and the coach commented: "Yes, the men's football selection has also passed." If you don't train hard, you will definitely not be able to run. ”
She had just gotten married, and her husband transferred from Beijing to Shanghai to support her. At the time, she said she couldn't give up football despite the tough conditions.
"There are too many things in football that are difficult to give up, that cannot be abandoned, that words cannot be expressed, so I am going to devote my life to my career."
At the end of the article, we hope that the men's football team can also see this article...