On February 6, 2022, Chinese ice hockey goalkeeper Zhou Jiaying Golden Dragon protected his body and rewrote the historical record of "13 years of winless against Japan" with five consecutive penalties. This game

On February 6, 2022, Chinese ice hockey goalkeeper Zhou Jiaying Golden Dragon protected his body and rewrote the historical record of "13 years of winless against Japan" with five consecutive penalties.

In this game, compared to Zhou Jiaying's excellent ball skills, what is more eye-catching is her unique goalkeeper equipment: a helmet with a golden dragon shape, attached to the Great Wall pattern, and a dragon embroidered on the left and right of the legguard, which is called "Dragon Tenghu Leaping Ming Wall Shield" by netizens.

Zhou Jiaying's style full of Chinese elements makes her full of energy on the ice hockey field.

Zhou Jiaying performed so well, how did he get involved with ice hockey?

Zhou Jiaying was born into a sports family, his mother is a Chinese, a former member of the Xi'an Jiaotong University basketball team, and his father is a Canadian ice hockey goalkeeper.

She grew up lively and active, inheriting her parents' excellent sports genes, but her interest in ice hockey comes from her brother Zhou Jiaxiong.

Zhou Jiaxiong is also a son who inherited his father's business and was once a professional athlete on the Harvard University ice hockey team. Every time his brother had a game, Zhou Jiaying would come to the arena to watch his brother play ice hockey. Watching her brother's handsome gallop on the ice rink, she always showed envious and adoring eyes.

With the passage of time, Zhou Jiaying could no longer sit still, so she pestered her mother to buy her protective gear, and she wanted to personally play with the little ice hockey like her brother.

At that time, few girls played ice hockey, and Zhou Jiaying could only practice with boys. On the ice hockey rink, she trains with the boys, fights together, and is as brave as any boy. Later, she became the goalkeeper of the team, as long as she was there, her own door was difficult to be broken by opponents.

Because of this, Zhou Jiaying has been guarding the goal for 10 years. Whenever I think of that time, Zhou Jiaying will always say emotionally: "At that time, I was the happiest child in the world!" ”

Really good people, everywhere they go, excellent.

While practicing ice hockey, Zhou Jiaying did not relax his studies. Later, she was admitted to the world-famous Ivy League university with excellent results, Princeton University.

In college, she represented the varsity team, played more than 100 games, and won the title of "Best Goalkeeper" of the school ice hockey team with an average save rate of 0.92 per game. She was then named to the Ivy League Hockey League All-Star Roster for four consecutive years and won the U18 World Championship for the Canadian national team.

But after all, people's energy is limited, and in order to complete her studies, she had to temporarily leave her beloved hockey. After graduation, Zhou Jiaying became a fund analyst on Wall Street.

One day in 2018, Zhou Jiaying suddenly received an invitation from Shenzhen Kunlun Hongxing Ice Hockey Club, hoping that she could join the Chinese team and chase the Olympic dream together.

Influenced by her mother, Zhou Jiaying has deep feelings for China. In order to better communicate with her grandmother and grandfather, she began to study Chinese during college. She has always hoped to have the opportunity to return to China and become a true Chinese.

However, she didn't know much about Chinese hockey, so she went home to ask her mother for advice.

The mother listened and said happily to Jiaying: "This is an opportunity, a good opportunity for you to connect with China, go, go play for China!" ”

With the support of his family, Zhou Jiaying embarked on the road of chasing his dreams without hesitation. In the four years since joining Shenzhen Women's Ice, she has won the Russian Women's Ice Hockey League championship and the title of Best Goalkeeper.

To this end, Zhou Jiaying proudly said: "Playing ice hockey professionally is my ideal, and playing on behalf of China is my dream!" Representing China in the Olympic Games is one of my proudest things! ”

Finally, Zhou Jiaying realized this dream, in addition to achieving good results on the court, she always wanted to do something extra to make Chinese culture show in the Olympic games.

So she put on this set of golden dragon armor, which also successfully attracted people's attention.

She said happily: "I hope to show the world more traditional Chinese culture, at the same time, I also hope that our team can be as strong as the dragon, and I hope that Chinese ice hockey will become stronger and stronger in the future." ”

She didn't just say that, she did. During the match, Japan made 33 shots on goal and was saved 32 times by her. In a penalty shootout, she successfully saved the ball for 5 consecutive times, making the Chinese team firmly in the top 8.

Zhou Jiaying, who debuted as a senior white-collar worker on Wall Street, became a professional ice hockey goalkeeper in order to chase his dreams and fight for the honor of his motherland.

From Zhou Jiaying, we can see that overseas Chinese have always regarded the inheritance of Chinese culture as their responsibility and dream.

Today, they have returned to the embrace of the motherland, and through their own efforts, they have sprinkled the unique romance of Chinese culture to the world, and also let the world feel the friendship and fraternity of our China.

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