The Women's Asian Cup has reached the top after 16 years, which has excited countless Chinese people and injected a warm current into Chinese football in the cold winter. In the lineup that won the championship, the manager Shui Qingxia, who was strategic, Wang Shuang and Wang Shanshan, who destroyed the city and the village, Tang Jiali and Lou Jiahui, who were old and strong, and Xiao Yuyi and Zhang Linyan, who were suddenly emerging from the new generation, were the focus of everyone's attention. However, in the final showdown, the Chinese team was able to turn the tables against the sky in the desperate situation of 0:2 behind, and beat the old rival South Korea to win the championship, and the team's main center-back Wang Xiaoxue was absolutely indispensable! It was her deadly defense in injury time that blocked the gun hole, which cut off the South Korean team's last-minute idea of killing the Chinese team, and also laid the foundation for the Chinese team's last-minute kill.
Looking back at the Tokyo Olympic Games more than half a year ago, Wang Xiaoxue was also the main player of the Chinese women's football team, participating in the three group matches of the Olympic women's football team. However, the memories of this expedition to Wang Xiaoxue are extremely painful: 0:5 loss to Brazil, 4:4 draw with Zambia, 2:8 defeat to the Netherlands. The Chinese women's football team lost two losses and one draw in the group stage, scored 6 goals but conceded 17 goals, and the group bottomed the way back home. The once glorious sonorous rose suffered an unprecedented fiasco!
The team suffered an unprecedented defeat, and the backline, which lost 17 goals in three games, was criticized and even stormed by fans across the country, especially Wang Xiaoxue, who was not in good shape in the game, and was on the cusp of the storm. Objectively speaking, in the Olympic games, Wang Xiaoxue's physical condition and psychological state were not adjusted to the best state of the game, and the loss of position and sending points in defense did exist. But football is a whole sport, and it is indeed unfair to put all the responsibility on a player in the backline when the whole team is in a slump and the coach's tactical play is inadequate.
That period of time can be called the darkest moment in Wang Xiaoxue's football career, in the face of overwhelming doubts, accusations and even insults, this girl born in 94 once fell into confusion and sinking, and washed her face with tears many times. In order to avoid being attacked by the Internet, she shut down her personal social media, no longer accepted any interviews, and her daily life was boring training and competition.
In November 2021, the new coach of women's football, Shui Qingxia, took office, and no one ever thought that her arrival brought a different atmosphere to the Chinese women's football team, and also made Wang Xiaoxue in the abyss usher in the rebirth of nirvana.
After Shui Qingxia took office, she basically retained the main framework for participating in the Tokyo Olympic Games, but recalled veterans such as Tang Jiali and Lou Jiahui, who had previously been abandoned by Jia Xiuquan, and Zhang Linyan, a young general who was not optimistic. In the back line, Shui Qingxia did not make too many adjustments, but Li Qingtong, who performed poorly in the Olympic Games, was not selected for the national team, and she still chose to trust Wang Xiaoxue.
Now think back, Shui Qingxia can be called the reassuring pill of the Chinese women's football team, and it is also the leader who leads Wang Xiaoxue out of the darkness. For Wang Xiaoxue, Shui Qingxia, who is affectionately known as "Water Mother" by the team members, is her nobleman.
For Shui Qingxia to continue to trust Wang Xiaoxue, some fans were full of confusion and incomprehension, and then began to speculate. However, the seemingly weak, but actually stubborn water guidance is not moved, in the list of the Asian Cup, she still did not hesitate to take Wang Xiaoxue.
In the group stage of three games, because the Indian women's football team abstained, the Chinese team only played two games, in these two games, the Chinese team scored 11 goals without conceding a goal, and advanced to the knockout round with the first place in the group.
In the brutal and fierce knockout stage, the Chinese team's three games were overturned in the backward situation, which can be called the most tenacious team in this tournament. In these three games, The water guide has discharged three kinds of center-back combinations, Yang Lina, Ma Jun, and Wang Shanshan, who have appeared in the back line, and the iron defense is the sea god needle that has been questioned before!
For Wang Xiaoxue, Water Guide gave absolute trust! Perhaps in her opinion, the setbacks she had endured at the Olympics would make the young girl more calm, more determined, and more eager to win.
It turns out that the use of water guidance, especially the grasp of the psychology of the players, is perfect!
Wang Xiaoxue, who had high hopes, turned all the humiliations and grievances brought about by past failures into a surging driving force. Blocking, jamming, stealing, falling down and getting up again and again. This stubborn girl used her performance to tell all the doubters that I had fallen into the abyss, but I had not stopped following the footsteps of the light for a moment!
In the final Sino-Korean war, Wang Xiaoxue ushered in his own highlight moment in the injury time stage of the game - after teammate Zhu Yu magically saved the opponent's close-range shot, in the face of the opponent's powerful supplementary shot, Wang Xiaoxue had no fear, put his hands behind his back, and used his chest to block the opponent's shot like a cannonball! After blocking the shot, she endured severe pain to kick the ball out of the danger zone, which could not support the pain and fell to the ground.
This moment is enough to make fans across the country move!
This girl, who was once questioned and internet violence, repaid her trust in her water mother with her own actions, and even more justified her own name!
After returning from the glory, Wang Xiaoxue went from a sinner of the Olympic rout to a hero of the women's football team's return to the peak of Asia overnight. Between the big falls, she maintained a rare calm. Perhaps in her mind, the darkness she had experienced was more like a catalyst for her growth. Having experienced pain, how can you care about those false names?