Special correspondent Lin Shuang reported that on the evening of August 30, 27-year-old women's football international Li Mengwen flew from Shanghai to Paris, and she will join Paris Saint-Germain women's football team on loan. Li Mengwen herself revealed in an interview with CCTV that this joining was led by former Jiangsu women's football coach Jeslin.
Li Mengwen is from Wujiang, Suzhou, when she was a child, she practiced athletics, mainly attacking 400 meters, and in 2006, she changed to football in the fourth grade of primary school, initially playing forward, and later entered the national junior team to play right-back. In October 2017, she entered the women's national team for the first time, Jia Xiuquan was the main right-back during the period, and is currently the main substitute in the ShuiQingxia national team, in addition to the right-back, she can also play left-back and midfielder, is an all-rounder.
Li Mengwen has good physical fitness and active running, but as a defender, fighting is not enough, last year's Tokyo Olympic Games, her father told her through WeChat: Your fight is not enough, there is no domineering, the competition can not lack domineering.
Li Mengwen has always wanted to stay in the Ocean, and after last year's Olympic Games, this willingness has become even stronger. Originally, she wanted to go to Italy, and there was also an agent to help her contact, and later, she chatted with the former coach of Jiangsu women's football team, Jacelyn, asked him for his opinion, as a result, he asked Li Mengwen if he wanted to go to Paris, "At that time, I was still very surprised, and then I thought about it, I felt that I had the opportunity to try it." In an interview, Li Mengwen said.
It is worth mentioning that Jeslin is currently the assistant coach of the Greater Paris Women's Football Team, and the manager is his father, Gerald Pretchell. Precher led Lyon women to three Ligue 1 titles, including the Champions League on two occasions.
In 2018, Precher came to China to coach jiangsu women's football team, when he led the team to win the national championship and the FA Cup, and was a contributor to the rise of Jiangsu women's football. After Precher, his son Jeslin took over, leading jiangsu women's football team to win the women's football, national championship and FA Cup triple crown in 2019, and leading the all-China squad to the women's super league runner-up twice in 2020 and 2021. This season, he became the manager of the Guangdong women's football team, but left after only three months in charge, and then joined the greater Paris women's football team to assist his father, Precher, who just took over the team in August this year.
After the East Asian Cup on July 26, Li Mengwen did not go to the United States with the national team to train, but returned to China to deal with the matter of staying in the West. According to Li Mengwen, on August 5, she and the greater Paris reached an agreement, at the same time, she and the Jiangsu side also communicated, Jiangsu women's football, the provincial Jiangning football training base all the way to the green light, in less than a month, she completed all the formalities, on the evening of the 30th, she set off from Shanghai, to Paris.
Judging from the schedule, Ligue 1 opened on September 9, and it is not known whether Li Mengwen can get the opportunity to play.
Li Mengwen said that this time to stay in the Ocean, in fact, is to realize a dream of her own, she also revealed that she twice refused to open a high-paying Wuhan team, "Staying in the West is my dream, but whenever there is a chance, I will still go to the West, hoping to broaden my horizons." ”
It is not easy for female footballers to stay in Yangyang, Wang Shuang, who has played in Paris, told Li Mengwen that language is the biggest obstacle. During Wang Shuang's time in Paris, there was no translator, no assistant, the team's arrangement, basically in a social media group, text, she can use software, but the voice is difficult, because of the language barrier, Wang Shuang has been fined many times.
Li Mengwen has not learned French, but english has a certain foundation, "First use English to communicate with the coach over there." She said.
Li Mengwen loaned Greater Paris, further strengthening the women's football team.6 At present, Wang Shuang competes in Louisville in the US Women's Football League, Tang Jiali in Madrid CFF in La Liga, Yang Shuhui in the Moscow locomotive of the Russian Premier League, Zhang Linyan in the Swiss Super League's Zurich Grasshopper, Shen Mengyu and Shen Monroe are all in the Celtics of the Su Super League, Tu Linli is in the FHL of icelandic First Division, in addition, Zhao Yujie, who finished her studies in the United States, also wants to continue to play abroad.