Beijing time on April 7, 2022 news, the women's league Tianjin Shengde women's football team has adjusted the team's head coach, 34-year-old former Chinese women's football captain Li Donna was promoted to the team's head coach. On April 11, the new season of the Chinese Football Association Women's First Division is about to start, and Li Donna, the former captain of the Chinese women's football team and Tianjin women's footballer who has just taken charge of The Yin, will lead the team to participate in this competition.
Li Donna played as a striker and centre-back when she was a player, and was only 18 years old when she competed with the national team in the World Cup. Li Donna is the former defensive iron gate, because of the fierceness of the fight, but also got a nickname "little wolf", she participated in the 2015 World Cup and the 2016 Olympic Preliminary Tournament and the Olympic Games as the main defender, and made great contributions to the return of the Chinese women's football team to the World Cup and the quarterfinals of the Olympic Games.
In 2019, 31-year-old Li Donna announced her retirement, and after retiring, she had a good job as a teacher in a primary school. However, she loved football and gave up her stable and comfortable teacher job to return to the green field. In 2021, Li Donna passed the assessment of professional-level coaches. She then joined Tianjin Shengde Women's Football Team as an assistant coach and player, helping the team play in the league this season.
Although there are experienced veterans like Li Donna, the strength and experience of Tianjin women's football team, which is dominated by young players, are insufficient, and their results are not ideal. In the recently concluded National Women's Football Championship, Tianjin team finally won only 16th place, that is, after this event, Tianjin team resolutely adjusted the women's football coaching position and appointed Li Donna to take charge of the team's coaching whip. Although the 34-year-old Li Donna is not very experienced in coaching, she is easier to play with the young players of the team, and her rich training, game experience and major competition resume can also provide more reference and help for the young players of the team.
Born in 1988 in Dalian, Liaoning Province, Li Donna is 34 years old this year. Li Donna belongs to the natural love of football, she began to play football at the age of 13, in the school playground, she became the only girl to play football, and did not run slower than the boys. After that, Li Donna entered the Jinzhou District Sports School in Dalian, trained at the sports school at 3 p.m. every day, and later officially entered the women's football team of the sports school and officially started her sports career. Since then, with her own efforts, Li Donna has successfully been selected for the women's national youth team, and she was nicknamed "Little Wolf" when she was in the national youth team, with a cold appearance and fierce fighting. Transformed as a defender, becoming the team's "defensive iron gate". Since then, Li Donna has become a regular for the national team and participated in the 2015 World Cup and the 2016 Olympic Preliminary Tournament and Olympic Games with the team as the main defender.
In May 2015, Li Donna represented the Chinese women's football team in the Women's World Cup in Canada. On June 21 of that year, the Chinese women's football team faced the Cameroon women's football team in the 1/8 final of the World Cup, and in the 12th minute, Li Donna assisted Wang Shanshan to score the only goal of the game, helping the women's football team win 1:0 and successfully reach the quarterfinals of the World Cup. However, in this Olympic cycle, the Chinese women's football team has frequently changed coaches and turmoil, and Li Donna has gradually faded from the national team.
At the club level, Li Donna was once the representative of the Chinese women's football team in the South Korean League; after returning to China, Li Donna joined the Dalian Quanjian team in her hometown, catching up with the best time of the team. In 2016, Li Donna, who played for a Korean club, officially joined Dalian Quanjian Women's Football Team. In January 2019, after the problem of Quanjian Group, Dalian Quanjian Women's Football Team had no sponsor. The team was also renamed "Dalian Women's Football Team". Because of the arrears of wages for several months, foreign teachers also hung up the crown and left. Li Donna, the oldest member of the team, made a cameo appearance as a coach and led the team to training matches. Helplessly, dalian quanjian women's football team finally could not escape the fate of disbanding. After that, Li Donna announced her retirement and went to a primary school as a teacher.
In 2021, Li Donna, who passed the professional coach examination, returned to the green field to join tianjin women's football team as an assistant coach and player. Now the 34-year-old former women's soccer captain has finally gone one step further and has been promoted to head coach of the team. According to the plan, the new season of the Women's League A is scheduled to start on April 11, and in the first stage of the competition, Tianjin will take the lead against the five opponents of Hebei, Zhejiang, Yunnan, Dalian and the U17 national team in the same group. For the new season's goal of leading the team, Li Donna is very sober, she said: "The record should still be based on relegation, and the most important thing is to help young players grow through competitions and gain a firm foothold in the league faster." ”