For countless people, February 6, 2022, this day is of great significance. In the final of the Asian Cup, the Chinese women's football team defeated the South Korean team 3:2, and won the Asian Cup women's football championship after 16 years, and the team members became the darlings of netizens across the country overnight.
"Lina, we are waiting for you to go home, Chinese women's football team, we will always believe in you!" Beautiful girl goalkeeper Zhao Lina is no exception in order to welcome her home, Zhao Lina's neighbors also specially pulled up banners, waved flags, and made blessing videos. It turned out that Miss Lina lived in Jiading!
She's so well suited to be a goalkeeper!
Zhao Lina was born in Shanghai in 1991 and is a native of Shanghai. Speaking of how to get involved in football, Zhao Lina's parents smiled and said: "Probably because my daughter is really too tall, from kindergarten, we have to buy her a full ticket." Inherited from her parents' "high altitude" gene, Zhao Lina is now 1 meter 8 tall, from small to large, her height is very eye-catching.
When Zhao Lina was still in the first grade of primary school, the Putuo District women's football coach went to the school to select football seedlings, and Zhao Lina just happened to rub shoulders with the coach at that time, and it was this short 5 seconds that she was selected by the coach. "That's her!" The coach immediately decided to select Zhao Lina into the district's football special school. "Maybe I'm tall, and the school hired me to try it out." Zhao Lina said.
Unlike girls of the same age who cry their noses because they are homesick, Zhao Lina, who is lively and cheerful by nature, is very adapted to the accommodation life and also enjoys the feeling of running in the sun.
Speaking about why she became a goalkeeper, Zhao Lina's parents admitted that there was a small episode in it. Once, Zhao Lina's father accompanied his daughter to watch a ball game and inadvertently said, "The goalkeeper may not be suitable for you, or play as a striker, and the goal can get a lot of attention." Unexpectedly, little Zhao Lina really listened, and the next day of training, she said to the coach: "My father said that I can't be a goalkeeper, and I shouldn't be tall." "In fact, the coach recruited her with the intention of training her to become a goalkeeper, but never found the opportunity to turn her into a goalkeeper." You go to the gatekeeper tomorrow and feel your least favorite spot. "It's good that the coach simply showed off with her." Since then, she has never left the position of goalkeeper.
The ballast stuck into the flesh, anemia, and did not shout to stop
After becoming a goalkeeper, the training became even more arduous. Zhao Lina's father would go to see Zhao Lina training every Wednesday, "The ball came, the daughter directly rushed up, 'boo', the ball hit the chest, face, her eyes immediately red." And every time Zhao Lina's father rushed over to comfort her, Zhao Lina always smiled and said that it didn't hurt.
What makes Zhao Lina's father even more distressed is that as long as her daughter's training intensity goes up, she will have dizziness. After the doctor's examination, Zhao Lina suffered from anemia, "The doctor said that my daughter is not suitable for such a strenuous sport as football, I thought of persuading her to give up, I originally agreed to let her go to the football team, but also wanted to strengthen her body." ”
Zhao Lina, who is stubborn and loves football, heard about it and resolutely refused her father's request and cut off her hard-to-grow hair. "She's different from other kids, she never wanted dolls, she cried that she only liked football, she wanted to win the gold medal, we couldn't do anything with her." Zhao Lina's father said.
Although she knew that her physique might not be as good as others, Zhao Lina did not flinch, but spent more energy than others to practice. Zhao Lina's mother recalled that in the past, many training venues were paved with coal ballast, and once they fell to the ground, their knees were easily injured, so the training time should not be too long. In order to adapt herself to high-intensity training, Zhao Lina did the opposite, "The coach said that she did not rest, her knees were all broken, but the knee joints were always moving and difficult to heal, so as soon as she got home, she quickly lay down, put her feet in the air on the chair for more than ten hours, and her feet were numb, just to seize all the time to recover and not miss normal training." Zhao Lina's mother said.
With hard work, Zhao Lina was successfully selected into the first team and achieved excellent results. In 2016, in the qualifiers for the Rio Olympics, China defeated its formidable rival Japan 2:1. This is a key battle to enter Rio, and if you win, you basically get the ticket. Under Zhao Lina's perfect performance of desperately saving and zero mistakes in the whole field, it forced Japan into a desperate situation. "Thanks to the skill I trained to block the ball with my face, after blocking this ball with my face, I am completely awake!" That year, many people remembered the most beautiful goalkeeper who was not afraid to disfigure as long as he kept the ball.
Like ordinary people, the beautiful girl goalkeeper was also confused
"At that time, the physical condition was a little bit not very good, and the training in the team may be a little difficult to keep up." After Zhao Lina achieved many honors, she also fell into a bottleneck period, and suddenly announced her withdrawal from the national team at the age of 26 and returned to Shanghai.
In fact, Zhao Lina, who has outstanding appearance and tall figure, was photographed by the agency when she was a student, and the high salary invited her to enter the development of the modeling industry, but out of love for football, she refused one by one.
After leaving the national team, Zhao Lina originally planned to adjust for a period of time and make new choices, and the appearance of her mentor Shui Qingxia changed her life again. At that time, Shui Qingxia had just taken over the Chinese women's football team and was facing greater pressure. At this time, the Chinese women's football team will soon compete in the Asian Cup, and Shui Qingxia hopes that Zhao Lina can come out of the mountain. A sentence of "women's football needs you" made Zhao Lina burst into tears, and in this way, she put on the women's football robe again and set sail again.
Rather than money, I hope that everyone can pay attention to the Chinese women's football team
"Rather than money, I hope that the championship we won can make everyone pay more attention to the Chinese women's football team." This is Zhao Lina's latest video posted online. After playing football for more than twenty years, "Amway" women's football team has become Zhao Lina's habit. In fact, in addition to football players, Zhao Lina also has an identity - an Internet celebrity with millions of fans. She confidently said: "If you don't love football, most people will probably be out right away. ”
It turned out that the content that Zhao Lina "produced" was related to football, and through the short video platform, she showed the fans the amateur life of women's football players at the same time, but also did the goalkeeper teaching video.
With the increase of netizens interacting and asking questions, Zhao Lina's enthusiasm for shooting has also become higher and higher. In order not to delay normal training, Zhao Lina often sacrifices the only day of rest in a week to shoot teaching videos.
For her original intention of initially contacting the short video platform, Zhao Lina said: "The fans' impression of women's football is still stuck in the 'sonorous rose' generation, thinking that women's football is not smiling, training is very hard, in fact, women's football players also have their own joys and sorrows, I hope that their own little efforts can break people's inherent impression of women's football, but also hope to bring more attention to women's football." ”
Zhao Lina said this and did the same. During the Asian Cup, Zhao Lina used the camera to record the bits and pieces of women's football players, preview and analyze the event situation, and fixed the moment when the women's football team won the award and cheered from the first perspective. Zhao Lina recalled that because she wanted to shoot the moment of winning the award, she could not share the joy with the team members for the first time, but she did not feel sorry, because this frame picture finally became an indispensable material for major media reports, "Let everyone feel the joy of the Chinese women's football team at close range, everything is worth it." ”
"They kept pushing me behind me and the ball speed never decreased"
Many people may feel that Zhao Lina, who is high-looking and talented, was born in a good family. In fact, Zhao Lina's family of 5 people have been crowded into an old house of more than 60 square meters for more than 20 years, and the shabby sofa at home is where Zhao Lina slept when she was a child. "There was no place to sleep, my daughter said 'the sofa is comfortable', don't let us sleep there, she has been sensible since she was a child, we feel indebted to her." 」 Zhao Lina's mother said.
And Zhao Lina never thought so, it turned out that in order to let Zhao Lina successfully pursue her dreams, her parents' salaries were basically used on her. In the most difficult times, my mother's sisters often reached out to help. Grandparents who usually don't even want to eat braised meat, every week as long as they can see their granddaughters, they will immediately bring chicken soup, and Zhao Lina's father will also buy her favorite drink and bring it to her.
"It hurt the child, her face and body were injured at that time, and she felt that she should eat better." Although Zhao Lina's parents said that they did not want their daughters to be hurt in their hearts, they insisted on not crying in front of their daughters, and always smiled and cheered for their daughters.
On the day of Zhao Lina's grandfather's death, Zhao Lina was still playing in other places. Afraid of affecting her daughter's play, Zhao Lina's mother waited until her daughter finished the game before telling her about this situation, "Knowing that she would play after two days of rest, we told her that at that time she might blame me in her heart, but I think this is also her grandfather's idea." ”
It turned out that in the days when she was with Zhao Lina, her grandfather also suffered from Alzheimer's disease and almost forgot everyone, but as long as he watched the ball game, he would say loudly: "Zhao Lina is the first!" "If only he were still here and could see that his granddaughter really took the first place, it would not have been easy along the way." Speaking of this, Zhao Lina's mother could no longer hold back the tears in the corners of her eyes.
The family's unrepentant and unrepentant efforts also make Zhao Lina cherish the road of football even more, "I feel that I am football, my family has given everything to let me continue to 'roll forward', it is they who 'push' me all the way, I can get to the present." ”
Knowing that Zhao Lina will come back in a while, these days, Zhao Lina's mother has bought eggs, she excitedly told reporters that tea eggs are her daughter's favorite food, must be prepared in advance, otherwise it will not taste. Neighbors also prepared a surprise for her. Let's look forward to the most beautiful goalkeeper coming home!
Source: Shanghai Jiading