The Paper's reporter Pu Yaolei
The Era of Jia Xiuquan of the Chinese women's football team has come to an end.
For Jia Xiuquan's departure, the Chinese Football Association did not even send a farewell.
On October 8, the official website of the Football Association released a notice on the selection of the head coach of the Chinese women's national football team, opening the open recruitment of the new coach - Jia Xiuquan silently became the past tense of The Chinese women's football team.
Jia Xiuquan's departure after coaching the Chinese women's football team suffered a crushing defeat at the Tokyo Olympics was not unexpected, but the chaos left by the defeat at the Tokyo Olympics has not yet dissipated...
As for the Chinese women's football coach and the future development direction, it is still in the clouds.
Jia Xiuquan led the women's football team to perform well in the Asian Games and the World Cup.
Nice debut, dismal ending
When Jia Xiuquan took office, he had some unexpected taste at the beginning.
In 2018, the then Chinese women's football coach and Icelander Eyjolsson did not lead the team satisfactorily, and he suddenly left class after only half a year of coaching. Facing the upcoming 2018 Asian Games and the 2019 World Cup, Jia Xiuquan has become a new choice for the Chinese Football Association.
For Jia Xiuquan, who has many years of coaching experience but has never taken the women's football team, it seems very calm - he took up his post after receiving the job, in his own words in an interview with the surging news reporter, his mood at that time was "no reaction, no ideas, no waves."
As an old international player in Chinese football, he has long been accustomed to obeying the arrangement. In this way, starting from a blank space that even the players did not know, Jia Xiuquan took over the coaching whip of the Chinese women's football team.
In the short preparation time after taking over, Jia Xiuquan's debut "appearance" was recognized by the outside world. In the 2018 Asian Games, he led the team to reach the final again after 16 years, and finally lost to Japan 0-1 after a fierce battle, but such a performance was enough to make the outside world expect the World Cup in the next year.
After qualifying from the World Cup group, Jia Xiu burst into tears.
In the 2019 Women's World Cup, although the Chinese women's football team has experienced difficulties, it is also a group qualification, and the knockout round is 0-2 to Italy to stop the round of 16, which is a complete task.
However, when it came to the most important Tokyo Olympic Games, Jia Xiuquan failed to save his "late festival".
In the three group games, only 1 draw and 2 losses, scored 6 goals and conceded 17 goals, lost 0-5 to Brazil, drew 4-4 to "Fish Belly" Zambia, and lost 2-8 to the Netherlands, all three games can be called "black history". The Chinese women's football team also created the record of the most goals conceded in a single Olympic Games in the history of the team, and was humiliated at the group stage.
Such results undoubtedly completely sentenced Jia Xiuquan to the "death penalty" in the women's football coach position - before the Olympic Games, he once told reporters that he still wanted to lead the team for another three years, but after such an Olympic trip, the Football Association did not plan to give him more time.
The Tokyo Olympics are black shots of the Chinese women's football team and Jia Xiuquan.
"Do you think I succeed or fail?"
The Waterloo of the Tokyo Olympics has left Chinese women's football fans with not only painful memories, but also more confusion.
Why is it that in a big competition like the Olympic Games, the team suddenly uses so many new players who have not been tested by the competition? Why did Tang Jiali, Ma Jun, Lou Jiahui and other heroes who helped the Chinese women's football team qualify for the Olympic Games not make the Olympic list? There is still no answer.
In the 22-man roster of the Chinese women's football team before the Olympic Games, five people made 0 appearances in the international A-class competition, and another 5 people played between 1 and 3 games.
The rout on the Olympic field is related to the sudden change of blood in the team lineup and the deployment on the field.
Jia Xiuquan's own external statement is: "It doesn't matter who picks the fruit, it doesn't matter who picks the fruit, and cultivating more people for the Chinese women's football team is what I should do in this position." ”
But judging from the results, the fiasco after such a duck on the shelves can make young players get how much training is debatable.
Chinese women's football opponent Bandadu once questioned Jia Xiuquan's lineup choice for Chinese women's football team on Weibo.
The confusing choice of lineup has also triggered a lot of conspiracy theories - for example, the player list is not formulated by Jia Xiuquan himself, and the Chinese women's football list is "affected" by the National Games after the Olympic Games.
As the manager in charge of the whole team, Jia Xiuquan was not moved, although after each loss will express "the responsibility is on me", but he did not publicly resign after the Olympic Games, but after the end of the group stage, he said "Whether I will do it in the future depends on the Football Association, it depends on me".
Perhaps such an outcome was predestined before the team actually set foot in Tokyo, but such a tragic process is frightening. But at least from Jia Xiuquan's own speech, he did not have much self-blame for his work.
After the Olympic Games, a reporter asked Jia Xiuquan how to evaluate himself, and he directly asked: "I led the team to qualify for the Women's World Cup, which is one of the best in Asian teams." The Olympic Games have two places in Asia, we grabbed the second place, do you think I succeeded or failed? ”
Shui Qingxia coached the Chinese women's football team in the heavy rain, but did not have the opportunity to compete for the final Chinese women's football coach.
Where is the future of Chinese women's football?
In fact, in the more than three years of coaching the Chinese women's football team, Jia Xiuquan has left behind more than just the choice of rosters and the collapse at the Tokyo Olympics. At the 2019 Women's World Cup, he also left a "famous quote".
At that time, when talking about the use of player Wang Shuang in the squad, Jia Xiuquan said, "What I need is a team, I don't need a certain star."
However, in the second leg of the Olympic Preliminary Round play-off, it was Wang Shuang who helped the team to grab the Olympic tickets for the second time, and the Olympic group stage against Zambia was also Wang Shuang's senior joy, which won a shameful draw for the team...
The star who is not "needed" has repeatedly saved the head coach, which has even become a "terrier" often ridiculed by fans, and has also become a memory that Jia Xiuquan is destined to remain in people's minds for a long time after more than three years of coaching.
Compared with many previous managers, Jia Xiuquan has not changed the long-term tradition of Chinese women's football team in focusing on national team training and light league training, and the training method of high-intensity and large-volume sports can also be regarded as a "tribute" to the old women's football team.
However, the rapid development of women's football professionalism in Europe, china's women's football has lagged behind at the moment - whether to hold the old tradition and not give up, or take the initiative to promote a more professional market-oriented development model, is a problem that managers must consider.
Only when the general direction is correct, can the Chinese women's football team embark on a benign development path.
Chinese men's football star Zhao Junzhe will participate in the selection.
As for the next coach of the Chinese women's football team, the Chinese Football Association has issued an announcement on the open selection of coaches.
Previously, Shanghai women's football coach Shui Qingxia temporarily coached the Chinese women's football team to win the championship at the National Games - her status as an old women's football team, many years of experience in coaching women's football teams, and long-term investment and research on women's football have made the outside world optimistic that she will become the next manager of women's football.
However, according to the "Football News", this time the coach Will not participate in the selection of Shui Qingxia. Zhao Junzhe, a former Chinese men's football club leader and club leader of Guangzhou City, will participate in the selection and has now become the most popular candidate.
Do you have to start all over again?
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