【Opening Remarks】
It's been a full twenty years since the rose-colored summer of 1999.
In the past two decades, the world's women's football team has been turbulent and changing dynasties; while the Chinese women's football team has struggled in constant repetition.
If the Chinese women's football team won the championship twenty years ago, would it be different now?
The live bar interviewed Gao Hong, Ma Xiaoxu, Han Duan, Bi Yan, Li Donna and other generations of women's football internationals at different times, talked about their current situation, talked about their past World Cup memories, and of course, the upcoming World Cup.
These top internationals who have represented The Chinese women's football team in the World Series, each of them has their own different experiences and experiences, as well as their own unique thinking and perception.
Gao Hong, who has coached in the women's football team for nearly seven years, said that to promote the development of women's football, it is not only dependent on the results of the competition, but to see how the project is viewed in the overall sports and society;
Ma Xiaoxu was only 19 years old when he first participated in the World Cup, became famous at a young age, and suffered repeated injury setbacks, but he has persisted until now. She said that no matter how many times she was given the opportunity, she would choose the path of football;
Han Duan still remembers the regret and sadness of the 2007 World Cup to stop in the quarterfinals, and is also grateful for the experience of staying in the United States Major League and bringing his own insight and experience;
Bi Yan recalled her past experience in participating in the competition, saying that Chinese women's football teams have "grown up in mistakes", saying that China often loses in taking victory and defeat too seriously;
Li Donna participated in the first half of this competition cycle as the main force, and she wanted to stick to the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, but the changes in the external environment made her start planning her future in advance.
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We are trying to restore this period of history in order to record each generation of Chinese women's football. They have gone through many detours and have never given up their upward efforts.
Every step that each generation of players has taken can be learned and reflected upon, and has meanings that can affect and change the future, and is worth cherishing.
Chinese women's football is not only the so-called "feeling", nor should it only have the "spirit".
Taking history as a mirror, we can know the rise and fall.
In this issue, the object of our interview is Ma Xiaoxu.
In 2006, when Ma Xiaoxu was 18 years old, she reached the peak of her life.
That year, Ma Xiaoxu won the MVP of the Women's Asian Cup, and at the same time led the team to win back the long-lost Asian Cup championship trophy, which was the last Asian Cup championship of the Chinese women's football team; that year, Ma Xiaoxu won the Golden Ball Award and the Golden Boot Award of the World Youth Championship, and led the team to the runner-up of the World Youth Championship; that year, Ma Xiaoxu also won Miss Asian Football, and Wang Shuang won this honor again for Chinese players 13 years later.
Ma Xiaoxu is a genius, no one in the football circle denies this, but unfortunately, the genius, her knee can not withstand her advanced manly play, in just a few years, her two knee ligaments were broken 3 times, injuries destroyed the Chinese women's football team, the unborn genius, Ronaldo's knee was only broken twice.
Successive serious injuries did not crush Ma Xiaoxu, and she got up from the injuries again and again. In 2016, ten years after she won Miss Asian Football, Ma Xiaoxu qualified for the Olympic Games for the first time to represent China, making up for missing out on the Beijing Olympics.
In 2019, the Women's World Cup reignited the flames of war, and the 31-year-old Ma Xiaoxu is still fighting in the first line of the league, but unfortunately she has no chance to compete in the World Cup again.
Li Guang is difficult to seal, Feng Tang Yilao, at this time, 12 years have passed since Ma Xiaoxu first represented the Chinese team in the World Cup, she is no longer the omnipotent "little horse brother", she can only wish the sisters of the women's football team to show their old style again.
"The hair of the first world cup is erect"
Live: Remember the first time you played in the World Cup? You were only 19 years old at the time, excited or nervous?
Ma Xiaoxu: I've always been a person who is not very nervous, and I am particularly excited when I play, and the more people there are, the more excited I am. The 2007 World Cup was in China, when there were a lot of fans, and the stadiums in Wuhan and Tianjin could accommodate tens of thousands of people, and the stadiums were full for each game. Just walked out of the stadium, saw tens of thousands of people cheering there, their hair stood up. It should be said that I was particularly excited at that time, especially wanted to show myself, and felt that my aura could radiate to 5 meters away.
Live: Can you recall how you prepared for the World Cup? Is it different from preparing for other matches?
Ma Xiaoxu: The World Cup is different from other competitions, it is the highest temple in the whole football world, but if you are prepared, the competition is similar. At that time, everyone's mood was very excited and excited, and the competition in the team was fierce and the pressure was also very high. I think that no matter what era it is, the competition has pressure, the preparation period is very tired, our mentality is very positive, and the specific preparation is not essentially different from other competitions.
Live it: What is the deepest memory of the World Cup? At the end of the last game, what kind of mood do you remember?
Ma Xiaoxu: My deepest memory of the world is the section from the lounge to the stadium, that feeling is really goosebumps, as soon as I entered, I heard everyone shouting your name, shouting the Chinese team, shouting for you, that feeling has never been felt, so many people are too shocked, I am particularly excited anyway, especially want to express myself. In the last eight-in-four, I was killed by Norway, and I felt lost and sorry at the end of the game, but I still felt that I had the opportunity to participate.
Livestream: If you could do it all over again, what was the one thing you would most like to change yourself at the World Cup? Is there anything you don't cherish?
Ma Xiaoxu: There is no chance to start all over again, but some things have passed in the past, and the experience at that time was the best, and there is nothing to regret. You want to say that there is no cherished thing, I think it is still more greedy when I was a child, and now I think I should be more involved.
"No matter how many more chances I get, I will choose the path of football"
Live: You are the youngest Asian football lady in China, what kind of stimulation does this honor bring to you? Wang Shuang is a good friend of yours, she also received this honor this year, do you think it will have any impact on her participation in the World Cup?
Ma Xiaoxu: When I got Miss Asian Football, I was very young, and I brought me a lot of things that changed my life, but at that time, I was too small to feel many things. Wang Shuang got Miss Football this time, which has played a positive impact on the environment and development of Chinese football, I believe that as the performance of Chinese women's football is getting better and better, there will be outstanding talents in Asia and the world, Wang Shuang's award can bring a positive impact to girls who want to play football, and can drive more girls who love football to really go to the court.
Livestream: What do you think is the most important thing that you should have been passed down from then to that year? Is there anything that should be improved with the progress of the times?
Ma Xiaoxu: Our generation is also inheriting the things of the old women's football team, such as hard training, such as patriotism, and these things should also continue to be passed on. As our generation, I think the most worthy of inheritance is our love for football, today's children's love for football is not as good as our then, to say that we are from the heart of love for football, very pure love.
Live: Women's football is a very hard industry, if you can choose again, will you still choose the path of professional football? Why?
Ma Xiaoxu: No matter how many times I am given a chance, I will choose the path of football, I like it too much, I love it too much. I'm getting older and probably haven't played for a few years, and I always feel like I'm running out of time, and if God allows me, I'll be satisfied if I can stay around 30.
"Frequent coach changes are not good for women's football"
Live: Do you still pay attention to the current batch of Chinese women's football teams?
Ma Xiaoxu: Of course, I will pay attention to all their dynamics.
Live: What do you think are the advantages of this batch of Chinese women's football? How far can they go in the World Cup?
Ma Xiaoxu? To be honest, I don't know much about their specific abilities and technical and tactical play, after all, I am not in the team, and I usually can't present a very intuitive thing just by watching the game. I also listen to them say something, but also watch their games, now the biggest advantage of women's football is momentum and a very good mentality, I think Jia Dao pays more attention to defense, their defensive ability, defensive intensity, the speed of offensive and defensive transfers, and the physical fitness on the field can give them a good guarantee. I definitely hope that they can go as far as possible, but no one can guarantee that they can get there, the game is still playing step by step, I hope they can have a good result.
Live: This women's football team has advanced to the quarterfinals in the World Cup and the Olympic Games in a row, and the two quarter-finals have lost the game 0-1, how far do you think the Chinese women's football team is from the world's top four?
Ma Xiaoxu: I think sometimes the score can't fully reflect the gap between the two teams, football is a very delicate thing, 1-0 this kind of score you can hardly say whose strength to grab how much. I think the gap between the Chinese women's football team and the European and American teams is still very large, I always feel that we have not improved a lot, so many years have been stuck in place, other teams are really rapidly improving, but our progress is not big.
Live: From the 2015 World Cup to the 2019 World Cup, the Chinese women's football team has changed 4 coaches, what impact do you think this has on the team?
Ma Xiaoxu: I think that frequent changes of coach are not good for the team, and Japan is a particularly good example, coach Sasaki, who led them to win the World Cup, brought the Japanese women's football team for 10 years. 10 years ago, the gap between the Japanese team and the Chinese team was not a star and a half, and now, we are not a star and a half away from others. A coach can play a very key role in the team, if the frequent change of coaches, players need to frequently adapt to the coaching arrangement and technical and tactical play, the total change of coach is not a good thing for the team.
"The women's football team won the championship in 1999, but it can't change the status quo of women's football"
Live: If the Chinese women's football team won the championship in 1999, how do you think the current women's football team will be different?
Ma Xiaoxu: The old women's football team in 1999 did play well, I admit this, but I think even if they won the championship, the current women's football team is still in this situation. If they really win the championship, it will only make more children playing football now, and maybe we have more seedlings to choose from, but they will not bring about particularly obvious changes. I always feel that now everyone is grabbing women's football, so it shows that Chinese women's football is not good. At that time, only China was engaged in women's football, and other countries did not really grasp the movement of women's football.
Live: The current world of women's football has developed to a very different stage than in the past, do you have any knowledge of this? How will you follow this Women's World Cup?
Ma Xiaoxu: Now the world's women's football is developing too fast, more and more masculine, and now the women's football team's offensive and defensive conversion, running speed, running distance, physical confrontation... Sometimes it doesn't look like a girl playing football, you see the personal speed and technical advantages of South American players are too big, and the physical confrontation in Europe is also very close to men, it can be said that the high-level women's football game is really pleasing to the eye.
(Live it)
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