Reporter Wang Wei reported that after 80 days of leading the team, Shui Qingxia and the Chinese women's football team won the Women's Asian Cup championship that had been lost for 16 years, and 194 days ago, when the Chinese women's football team played the Tokyo Olympic Games, both inside and outside the circle, there was a lot of mourning. Now, the question arises: what did Shui Qingxia do?
"Over the years, Shui Dao has watched the domestic women's football players grow, she knows them very well, and when arranging the players' matches, her thinking is clear and she can play out everyone's strengths." A female soccer player said.
After returning to China, the women's football team all went to the Suzhou Hotel for isolation, excited, they also had some "reflection", many team members said that playing football under the water guide, indeed can feel that she knows the team and the team members very well, she can play the advantages of each team member.
Careful people can notice that in the final match with the South Korean women's football team, Shui Qingxia started with Wang Shuang, who was not completely injured, in the first half, she did not have many opportunities, obviously affected by injuries, in the second half, Shui Qingxia gave Wang Shuang 15 minutes, and then replaced it with Zhang Linyan, this substitution, played a miracle effect.
"Dare to replace the core player Wang Shuang in the final, on the one hand, it proves that Shui Qingxia knows a lot about the situation of Chinese female footballers, on the other hand, it also reflects Shui Qingxia's boldness, and the average coach is afraid that there is no such boldness." A number of domestic women's football coaches said.
The outside world is very curious to know, what changes has Shui Qingxia brought to this team? The answer is actually very simple, she adjusted the psychology and technical tactics of the Chinese women's football team members in the shortest time, and the women's football players all said that Shui Qingxia was "serious on the field and delicate off the field".
After the victory of South Korea, the girls threw Shui Qingxia into the air, and at that moment, the whole team was very happy. In fact, after eliminating the Japanese team on penalties in the semi-finals, Li Ying and other players proposed to throw Shui Qingxia into the air to celebrate.
"After the match with Japan, everyone wanted to throw the water guide up to celebrate, but the water guide refused at the time." Center-back Wang Xiaoxue said. After the final, Shui Qingxia revealed that the rejection at that time was because there was still a final, and this celebration action was not yet timely.
After winning the championship, Shui Qingxia did not refuse again, enjoying the respect given to her by the team members, although she was a little "afraid" that the girls would not be able to catch her.
Shui Qingxia, who usually has a serious face, is not the same face in private. In life, she embodies the delicacy of female coaches everywhere. When the Training Camp in Shanghai before the Asian Cup, because it was a closed training, Shui Qingxia told them that in her spare time, she should video with her family, and if she had a boyfriend, she wanted to communicate with her boyfriend more, and her idea was to let the team members have an emotional exchange and catharsis; for Zhang Xin, who was a mother, Shui Qingxia suggested that she was allowed to see her children when she went home. In Shui Qingxia's view, it is not good to be separated from the child for too long, although it is possible to communicate by video, it may be better to be able to hold the child.
From the concentration in Shanghai on December 9 last year to the Asian Cup in India on January 16, in more than a month, in the eyes of the players, what is the impression of Shui Qingxia?
Shui Qingxia herself said this, "I think the team members will say that in their daily lives, they are still quite easy-going, they are also quite funny, and they are still quite strict in training." ”
Shui Qingxia analyzed well, during the Shanghai women's football team as the head coach, she was very strict, a team member because of violations of training regulations, was criticized by Shui Qingxia in front of the whole team to cry, and at the same time asked her to leave the field immediately and could not participate in training. It can be said that on the court, whether it is training or playing, Shui Qingxia is not ruthless at all.
However, the water Qingxia under the field is very delicate.
At the Tokyo Olympic Games, the main center-back Wang Xiaoxue made many mistakes, this girl from Jiangyan, Taizhou, Jiangsu Province, was criticized by the outside world, some comments were "very difficult to hear", before the Asian Cup, Wang Xiaoxue set himself a goal, that is, to play well and no longer be scolded.
At the Asian Cup, Wang Xiaoxue regained trust and respect, and the scene of the last moment of the final, despite the eye-catching scene of the body blockage, touched many fans, and the outside world saw the tenacity and hard work of the sonorous rose.
For Wang Xiaoxue's outstanding performance in the Asian Cup, Shui Qingxia specially wrote such a sentence to the media: without their efforts, it is impossible to win, Wang Xiaoxue should be Wang Shuang on the defensive line, many balls she does not struggle to block, the result is different.
Wang Xiaoxue burst into tears after learning about it.
Shui Qingxia is not an emotionally exposed coach, but for many details of training and competition, she sees in her eyes, every time Wang Xiaoxue pays, she knows that "praise" in such a special way can be described as a silent moisturizer.
In fact, the football field was originally "king and loser", but for the Chinese women's football team, whether it is a highlight moment or a low point, what they need is understanding.
In Wang Shuang's eyes, Shui Qingxia is a coach who especially pursues perfection, "but the special pursuit of perfection may be particularly tiring and particularly hard, especially a female coach, I myself admire the water guide." ”
After Zhang Rui returned to the national team, he played a very key role in the Asian Cup, and in the eyes of Shui Qingxia, the veteran is a treasure of the team. For Shui Qingxia, Zhang Rui commented: "I think Shui Dao is a relatively strict coach on the training ground, but in ordinary life, after all, she is all women, and she was also a female football player before, so she may know more about us." ”
"I think the water guide is particularly serious on the pitch, especially in the details, which is particularly helpful to me." Zhang Linyan, the youngest of the players, said.
Lou Jiahui, 31, is known on the pitch as "Desperate Sanlang", and in the second half of the semifinals, she was injured and carried off the field on a stretcher, but three days later in the final, she returned to the starting lineup.
Before the game, Shui Qingxia once asked Lou Jiahui if she was in good health, and after getting a positive answer, she said, "I believe you!" ”
"The water guide trusts me, then I will go on the field and continue to fight!" Lou Jiahui also fulfilled her promise.
Winning the Asian Cup is Lou Jiahui's first Asian championship after entering the national team in 2008, "After Water Coach became the head coach of the national team, I regained my confidence, I really didn't expect that the national team would give me another chance, thank you very much for letting me return to the national team when I was at my worst, and won my first Asian championship in the competition." ”
Before going to India, Shui Qingxia once said that Lou Jiahui was "very special" because in addition to being a player, she was also the executive head coach of henan women's football team.
"Lou Jiahui has a change of role, she went from a player to a coach, from a coach to a player, this role change, she feels the most deeply, so I think Lou Jiahui has played the role of both an old player and a coach." Shui Qingxia said.
"Usually, the water guide is a more humorous person, in fact, in 2007, the water guide took me when I was an assistant coach in the national youth team, our relationship has been good, and then the water guide became the head coach of the Shanghai women's football team, I am a member of the Henan team, I have been in touch, she knows me very well, I also know her." Usually in the national team, Shui Qingxia called Lou Jiahui as Lou Director, "If you call Lou Director, everyone thinks it is very funny, very humorous, and the team's training atmosphere is very important." Lou Jiahui said with a smile.
"In the national team, I am a player role, the water guide is the head coach, first of all I must respect her, when I first came, the water guide and I joked about 'Lou guide', I was also particularly uncomfortable, I told the water guide not to call me 'Lou guide', I felt particularly embarrassed. The water guide said to me it was okay. Usually, she especially likes to joke with us, and she has a very good personality in life. Lou Jiahui told reporters.
This time, Shui Qingxia led the Chinese women's football team to win the Asian Cup, and then, the "test" was one after another, this year there was the East Asian Cup and the Asian Games, next year was the World Cup, and then there was the Olympic Preliminary Tournament and the Olympic Games.
For the old team members, Shui Qingxia will not give up, she hopes that the old team members will play the role of passing on the help, the Chinese women's football team needs to complete the replacement of the old and the new, but in this process, the old team members need to bring a belt.
For Lou Jiahui, 31, this Asian Cup may be her last Asian Cup, "Thank you very much for the water guidance, I am very happy to be in this team, I am very grateful." Lou Jiahui said.
After winning the Asian Cup and returning to the peak of Asia after 16 years, the girls of the Chinese women's football team and the head coach Shui Qingxia, the coaching team, and the management team have all contributed. But a reality that must be faced is that against the asian powerhouse, the Chinese women's football team has no advantage, or even is at a disadvantage.
In the semi-finals, the opponent of the Chinese team is also in the adjustment period of the Japanese women's football team, in terms of possession rate, pass success rate, threat ball, etc., the Chinese women's football team is in the inferior position; in the final against the South Korean team, once 0-2 behind, and, in terms of physical confrontation, several European internationals of the South Korean women's football team have caused a great threat to the Chinese women's football defense.
Shui Qingxia also pointed out in an exclusive interview with Xinhua News Agency that with the overall improvement of the overall level of Asian women's football, the challenges facing Chinese women's football will become greater and greater. "Now countries and regions are increasing their investment in women's football, and the game is really not easy to play. Everyone is relatively close to the level, and sometimes we may not be dominant. ”
After winning the championship, the outside world has been pursuing women's football, but for the positioning of Chinese women's football, the girls are actually very clear. "Now, we are just starting, we have not won the championship for a long time, the European women's football team has improved very quickly, we are more important to use this Asian champion to spur ourselves on, face the gap, can not say that we must be the first, followed by the East Asian Cup, the Asian Games, we will have higher requirements for ourselves." Zhang Linyan said, "My goal now is to take every step steadily, because European women's football is developing rapidly, and the gap between Asian football and them will become wider and wider, and the goal now is to narrow this gap." ”
Wang Shuang also said: "Like the water guide said, the japanese women's football team shows that the technical and tactical play is indeed better than ours, and we need to learn it. There are still many places we have to work hard, this championship can not represent anything, we must really recognize ourselves, continue to work hard in the future, and move forward firmly towards the goal. ”
Compared with the world's first-class teams, the gap between China's women's football team is more obvious, Shui Qingxia said in an interview with Xinhua News Agency that the biggest shortcoming of China's women's football team compared with European and American teams is the lack of player self-confidence, "We are currently catching up with Japan and Australia in Asia, and then we have to catch up with Europe and the United States as much as possible." Winning the championship will definitely increase self-confidence, and at the same time improve some technical tactics and tactics to make the players' mentality more stable. This matter is urgent, and it must be done step by step. The Chinese women's football team has combat effectiveness and fighting spirit, but this is only part of football. Only when the mental, physical, technical and tactical, and physical aspects are improved can we go further in the World Series. ”