Qingdao referee Zhang Lingling participated in the Olympic Games as a physical fitness lecturer for women's football referees

Original title: Female Golden Flag Grand Slam!

At the upcoming Tokyo Olympic Games, in addition to the athletes on the field, the support personnel outside the field are also worthy of attention. Zhang Lingling, an active FIFA referee physical fitness lecturer from Qingdao, will also go to Japan to work as a support worker for the women's football competition of the Olympic Games, and before going to Japan, the Qingdao Football Association held a grand guild for Zhang Lingling. It is understood that the 47-year-old Zhang Lingling was assigned by FIFA to participate in the Olympic Games as a referee physical fitness lecturer, which is the only woman in China to participate in the refereeing work of the Olympic football project, and realized her participation in all international women's football competitions.

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By chance, he became a football referee

On the afternoon of July 12, peninsula all-media reporters met Zhang Lingling, who was about to go to Japan, at the Qingdao Football Association. Zhang Lingling has been working in football for 25 years, and her journey to football refereeing is somewhat accidental. Zhang Lingling said that after graduating from Qingdao University's Normal College in 1996 with a major in physical education, she worked at Qingdao No. 5 Middle School. It just so happened that Qingdao No. 5 Middle School formed a women's football team that year, and Zhang Lingling was the school's first women's football coach. But at that time, she did not understand the rules of women's football and most of the time she could only completely obey the referee's command. Fortunately, that year, the Qingdao Football Association just organized a referee training class, and from the perspective of leading the team, Zhang Lingling signed up for the training. Because her English and theory are particularly solid, she participated in the national referee training, and became a national referee in that year, and was even allowed to participate in the Chinese Super League and China First Division referee training courses.

As early as 2011, Zhang Lingling was invited to serve as an assistant referee for the Women's World Cup in Germany, becoming the pride of Qingdao football. The grand meeting on the afternoon of the 12th made her feel a thousand emotions: "It took six years from the national level to the international level, and it took another six years from the international level to the law enforcement World Cup, and now it is standing on the Olympic field again, and another ten years have passed."

Dream Come True:

Participation in the Olympics fills the last gap

Zhang Lingling has served as a referee in the China Women's Football League and the Women's Football Super League for 12 consecutive years, and has won the awards of the Best Referee of the Eleventh Games Women's Football Team and the "Best Women's Football Assistant Referee in Asia", and was elected as the "Women's Golden Flag" in Asia. It has successively enforced the 2011 Women's World Cup, the 2008, 2010 and 2012 Youth Women's World Cup, the 2010 Asian Games, the Portuguese Algarve Cup and other important women's football events.

In 2014, Zhang Lingling was highly recognized by AFC and FIFA with her excellent international organization work experience and English expression ability, and became a FIFA referee physical fitness lecturer. Since 2017, she has been working as a physical fitness lecturer for the Women's World Cup Candidate Seminar and has been assigned by FIFA as a lecturer for the top referee workshops in many Asian countries. While going global, Zhang Lingling is also responsible for the daily training of women's World Cup referee candidates, remote monitoring and evaluation guidance.

Participating in the Olympic Games filled the last blank in Zhang Lingling's refereeing work and realized her grand slam dream. When Talking about this Olympic trip, Zhang Lingling also had a lot of feelings: "Going to the Olympic Games is the dream of every sports person, and it is also my dream."

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The women's referee's requirements are no less than those of the men's football team

According to the plan, Zhang Lingling will leave Qingdao on July 14 to take a plane to Tokyo, Japan, and after completing the epidemic prevention testing work in accordance with local requirements, she will devote herself to the training of Olympic referees and will monitor the physical fitness of the referees of the entire Olympic women's football competition: "This time there are four physical lecturers, and the other three male lecturers are from Belgium, South Africa and Uruguay. There were two preparatory meetings online before, and we were prepared for our business and epidemic prevention. In addition to completing the traditional event guarantee, we, as physical fitness instructors, must ensure that every referee is in the best physical condition throughout the entire event. ”

When talking about the training of women's football referees, Zhang Lingling believes that now women's football competitions are gradually approaching men's football teams in terms of running distance and competition intensity, so the requirements for women's referees are getting higher and higher: "Many years ago, we paid more attention to the study of technical rules and field theory for refereeing work, as well as the improvement of technical aspects such as coping with various unexpected situations on the field, but the data obtained in terms of physical fitness in the last women's World Cup showed that The women's and men's World Cups are very similar in terms of the total distance of running in the whole field and the number and distance of the five zones of speed, requiring women's referees to adapt to the intensity of the game, and also need to be further strengthened in terms of physical fitness. After all, if there is no physical protection, you can't run to the position to see the situation on the field, and there may be misjudgments. ”

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Going abroad is not a battle alone

At the end of the interview, Zhang Lingling believes that she is not alone in the fight to participate in the Olympic Games: "We actually don't say that if we go abroad, we may go out of Shandong, we will be proud of Qingdao, and then we will maintain Qingdao's image and honor; Going abroad, I definitely think about the image and pride of being a Chinese. This question plays out in our minds every day, and we Chinese it is really not easy to gain a place in such an international organization, and to work in it is to maintain the image of our people, because it is not only related to how long the individual has worked in this organization, but also to the evaluation of the Chinese by the international organization, whether it gives us more opportunities Chinese. Thinking about the motherland behind me, I feel that I am not alone in the battle, and I must complete the work of each day very seriously in order to be ashamed. At the same time, I hope that through this Olympic trip, I will learn more advanced concepts and provide more experience for qingdao's referees. ”

Text/Photo Peninsula all-media reporter Pan Lichao intern Ma Yutao

[Source: Peninsula Metropolis Daily Editor: Light and Shadow]