On the morning of August 13, Beijing time, in the US Women's Football League, Wang Shuang staged his debut after joining the Louisville Athletic team in the United States, and came on as a substitute in the 60th minute of the game between Louisville Athletic and The Das Women's Football Team in Houston, and finally the two sides shook hands and made peace.
On August 10, Wang Shuang announced that he would join Athletic Louisville in the United States, and at the same time, Lokomotiv Moscow announced the joining of Chinese player Yang Shuhui. On August 11, Tang Jiali confirmed that she will land in La Liga in the new season and signed for the Madrid CFF. In addition, Shen Monroe, Shen Mengyu, Zhang Linyan, Tu Linli, who played in the Women's Football League of Various European Countries, and Zhao Yujie, who had not yet determined the club before studying in the United States... When Wu Lei bid farewell to espanyol, and the Chinese men's football team only carried the banner of staying in the West alone with Li Lei of the Swiss Grasshopper Club, the Chinese women's football team ushered in a wave of enthusiasm for staying in the west.
Wang Shuang in training. Image credit: Athletic Louisville
Shui Qingxia was a "tide maker" at that time
Choosing Athletic Louisville and landing in the U.S. Women's National Football League (NWSL) is Wang Shuang's third stay in the Ocean after joining south Korea's Chungbuk TOTO women's soccer team and Ligue 1 Paris Saint-Germain women's soccer team. Shui Qingxia, the head coach of the Chinese women's football team who is leading the team to train in the United States, sent a message to Wang Shuang: "When you arrive at the new environment, you must have new requirements for yourself, and I hope that you will live and train in the new team and all the best; To a new environment to have a new challenge to yourself, I hope you can accept the new challenge; Another point, pay attention to the body, and then English through learning to improve quickly, speaking is great. ”
Shui Qingxia has a personal experience of staying in the ocean, because she is one of the first batch of female football players in China to stay in the ocean. In 1992 and 1999, she played in the Japanese Women's Football League twice.
But the first wave of large-scale foreign tides of Chinese women's football came around 2001. In 1999, the "sonorous rose" created a legend in the United States - the Chinese women's football team reached the World Cup final for the first time in its history. Women's soccer also set off a boom in the United States, and the following year, the Major League of Women's Soccer came into being. In addition to Liu Ying, the main players of the Chinese team who participated in the 1999 Women's World Cup, including Sun Wen, Wang Liping (Atlanta impact), Liu Ailing, Zhao Lihong (Philadelphia Charge), Pu Wei, Bai Jie (Washington Freedom), Fan Yunjie, Zhang Ouying (San Diego Ghost), Gao Hong (New York Power), and Wen Lirong (Carolina Storm) all played in the Us Women's Major League Soccer For one to two seasons. Unlike later, these players were introduced by overseas teams as "excellent football talents".
Since then, the career development of women's football in the United States has been intermittent, and the European women's extremely developed men's football team has developed rapidly as a reference and support, and the professionalization process has developed rapidly. At the end of February 2007, Miss Asian Football Ma Xiaoxu signed with Sweden's Yumeå Club, becoming the first Chinese women's football team to land in Europe. However, after playing for less than half a year, Ma Xiaoxu chose to prepare for the World Cup with the national team and terminated his contract with YuMeo Club. Before 2012, Zhang Yanru signed a 7-month contract with Swedish SSK Club to compete in the Swedish secondary league, counting as the second Chinese player to play in the European Women's Football League.
Six years later, the Chinese women's football team ushered in the third European international footballer - Wang Shuang.
On March 27, 2019, Paris Saint-Germain player Wang Shuang celebrated the team's goal during the match. On the same day, in the second leg of the women's Champions League quarterfinals held in Paris, France, Paris Saint-Germain defeated Chelsea 2-1 and missed the semi-finals with an aggregate score of 2-3. Xinhua News Agency
These foreign players are very young
Compared with the predecessors who brought the Chinese women's football team to the peak more than 20 years ago, the stay of this group of players is now more full of tests. Language and life are common obstacles. Talking about the experience of staying in the Women's Football Team in Paris afterwards, Wang Shuang bluntly said that what she felt in Paris was an endless sense of loneliness, as well as the difficulty of integrating into the team environment caused by the language barrier. Shen Mengyu, who plays in the Scottish Women's Premier League, has also "complained" about the obscure Scottish English with Tang Jiali, who plays for London Tottenham Hotspur.
On October 13, 2021, Tang Jiali represented the team in the League Cup group stage against Charlton. She is characterized by good health and fast speed, but in Europe, such an advantage is not obvious. IC pictures
On the field, the girls will also encounter many setbacks and tests. Tottenham Hotspur women's football team is a middle and lower Premier League team, last season, Tang Jiali can only play as a substitute for most of the time in the team, a total of 13 appearances in the season, scoring 1 goal. The Madrid CFF she joined last season ranked 13th out of 16 teams in La Liga women's football team, which can also be described as a low-middle team. Louisville Athletic, which Wang Shuang joined, can only be counted as mid-level and lower-middle at NWSL. However, the advantage of joining a non-giant team is that the playing time can be guaranteed, so that when playing against other strong teams, it can be more exercised and improved.
Shen Monroe began to join the Portuguese Premier League giants last season, but it was difficult to get the opportunity to play, and then switched to Oren Athletic, but the team was weaker and ultimately failed to stay in the Portuguese Premier League.
Shen Mengyu sat in the main position of the Soviet Super League giants Celtic last season, following the team to win the FA Cup and the League Cup, but the overall level of the Soviet Super League is still low in Europe, and the best team is also at the level of the top sixteen in the women's Champions League.
After one season, Shen Mengyu sat firmly in the main position and was known as the "dimple goddess". Image credit: Celtic official social media
Yang Shuhui played for The Charente Suvayo club last season, which belongs to the relegation level in Ligue 1, she was a rotation player in the early stages, lacking the opportunity to play the whole game, and finally represented the team in 9 league appearances and 2 Appearances in the French Cup. Her newly signed Lokomotiv Moscow is a strong team in the Russian Premier League.
Tu Linli's leading goalscorer's list in Iceland '12 goals in 12 games' has become a good story among fans, but she plays in the Icelandic secondary league after all, and she is not competitive enough.
As for Zhang Linyan's grasshopper women's soccer team, she is currently playing in the Swiss top league, reaching the semifinals of the playoffs last season and finishing runners-up in the Swiss Cup.
Compared with the "sonorous rose" ratio of the collective foreign troops more than 20 years ago, one of the significant characteristics of this foreign legion today is that it is very young. Except for Wang Shuang and Tang Jiali, who were born in 1995, the rest were born around 2000, the older Tu Linli and Zhao Yujie were 23 years old, and the youngest Shen Monroe was only 20 years old. They are the future of Chinese women's football.
Nandu reporter Tao Xinlei