The reporter group of this newspaper reported that "dreams, everyone has, after playing football for so many years, I hope to be a coach in the national team and show it on the world stage." On September 25, after leading the united team to win the women's football championship of the National Games, Shui Qingxia finally stopped hiding and said what she said in her heart, but she herself did not know whether she could take over, at present, the women's football coach position is still a suspense.
On August 16, three days before the end of the isolation of the women's football team, it was reported that Shui Qingxia would replace Jia Xiuquan as the coach of the women's football team, and her first task was to lead the united team to play the National Games. But then, Shui Qingxia debunked the rumors in an interview with the Shanghai media, saying that she only temporarily led the team, and after the game, she would return to the Shanghai team.
In Xi'an, after almost every game, Shui Qingxia was asked about a topic that included "whether she would take over the Chinese women's football team", except for the first 1-0 Shaanxi, because after that game, she and the players declined to interview.
But when the event was not over, Shui Qingxia was not easy to answer, so she chose to avoid, but for other topics about women's football, she no longer resisted.
It must be said that for the women's football coach, Shui Qingxia has ideas, as she said after the game, "Dreams, everyone has, played for so many years, I hope to be a coach in the national team, on the world stage." 」 Everyone wants to be the best in different lines. ”
As a player, Shui Qingxia represented the Chinese women's football team in the Asian Cup, the World Cup, and also played in the Olympic Games. In 1996, at Atlanta, she played in several games; for the Shanghai women's football team, she won the National Games; in addition, she also went to Japan twice to play.
After becoming a coach, Shui Qingxia led the Shanghai team to win the National Games, leagues, championships, and FA Cup championships, which can be called a Grand Slam, and she also won the honors of the best coach of the league and the best coach of the championship.
It can be said that Shui Qingxia's coaching career is almost the coaching of the Chinese women's football team.
In 2017, after leading the team to win the National Games, Shui Qingxia entered the women's football coach candidate list for the first time, but she lost to the Icelander Eyjolsson, who led Suning Women's Football Team to win the FA Cup and the third place in the United League, Ejolson won, it is said that the FA values his international competition experience, he led the Icelandic women's football team, which is not a strong team, to win the 2011 Algarve Cup championship and entered the top 8 in the 2013 European Cup, for this reason, the head of the FA at that time, Zhang Jian, the head of the FA, personally went to Nanjing to persuade Suning to release people.
Less than half a year, the poor performance of Eyolsson class, because the previous signing of a probationary contract, only lost two months of salary, Shui Qingxia and Hao Wei, Sun Wen and other candidates again, but in the end, the Football Association chose Jia Xiuquan.
Although Jia Xiuquan won a certain recognition, his performance at the Tokyo Olympics undoubtedly brought his coaching of the Chinese women's football team to an end.
Now, the opportunity is once again in front of Shui Qingxia, 55-year-old, she does not want to miss it again - the National Games, it is a test of "water".
For the joint team, Shui Qingxia can actually do not much. First of all, the players are still those players, just because Chen Qiaozhu was injured, Zhong Xiudong was added; secondly, the time was too tight, from taking over to the game, there were only three weeks, it was difficult to make a big transformation of the team.
"I haven't had time to do anything yet", "I haven't changed much", "I haven't changed much"... This is Shui Qingxia's answer to questions from the media.
In fact, the biggest problem with the United team is confidence, and the 1 draw and 2 losses at the Tokyo Olympics have left everyone with baggage. "Confidence, let them be more confident, the past should be forgotten as soon as possible, to look forward." 」 After winning the championship, Shui Qingxia expounded her "thoughts" in this way, as for tactics, "the overall thing is a little more talking, I hope to hit more feet, I hope more passing." ”
As a women's football coach for 20 years, although some players are unfamiliar to the outside world when they enter the Olympic list, Shui Qingxia "knows very well", she naturally brought it from Shanghai, some of it was brought by the national youth, and some were opponents in the league, and they had been studied in the past.
Shui Qingxia did not completely deny Jia Xiuquan's employment, and there was not much change in attack, even Ebony Guzhila, who was criticized at the Olympic Games, also got the opportunity to take turns playing the main force with Xiao Yuyi. The change came from the defensive line, Wang Shanshan re-played the center-back, and Li Qingtong did not play for a minute, and the same was hidden by the snow was the previous main goalkeeper Peng Shimeng.
4 games to win the championship, the performance of the united team, in fact, did not win the general recognition, in addition to the semi-final 4 goals swept beijing team, the other 3 games, are 1 goal small win, of which the game against Jiangsu was once behind, relying on two set-pieces to reverse, and the game to win Beijing, is questioned by the outside world has "cat greasy" - the opponent changed 7 starts, Ma Xiaoxu, Zhang Linyan did not start, Gu Yasha did not even enter the list.
But no matter what, the champion was won, and when Du Zhaocai, deputy director of the General Administration bureau and vice chairman of the Football Association, presented the award, the girls' faces showed a long-lost smile - using the national gold medal to heal the Olympic injury, the effect was good.
Regarding the awards, one detail is that the players' medal uniforms are on different provinces, and Shui Qingxia also has the word "Shanghai" on the clothes.
On the 26th, Shui Qingxia, who ended the task of coaching the united team, returned to Shanghai, but about her future, it is still a mystery, in other words, the women's football coach position is still vacant.
After winning the championship on the 25th, in the face of Shui Qingxia, the media asked the most questions, still "Do you coach the Chinese women's football team?" ”
At first, Shui Qingxia did not want to answer head-on, and in the face of the question of "how to arrange it next", she played Tai Chi, "Tomorrow back to Shanghai, first take a holiday break, and then go back to Shanghai to play the league well." On the 26th, she told this newspaper, "First go back to Shanghai, train on the 2nd." ”
The so-called "2-day training" should be to lead the Shanghai women's football team to prepare for the women's super on October 2. This year's women's super league was divided into three stages, of which the first stage was the first three rounds, which had been played in May, and Shanghai team was temporarily second with 2 wins and 1 draw. Originally, the second stage was scheduled to be held from August 11 to August 27, with a total of six rounds of matches, but due to the postponement of the epidemic, the battle began in mid-October.
As for the rumors of the women's football coach, Shui Qingxia initially said, "To be honest, even I don't know about this matter, the outside world is just speculating." So there is no need to wait until that day, as a coach or to constantly improve themselves. Some media asked if they envisioned coaching the Chinese women's football team, and Shui Qingxia joked: "I look forward to life." (Chinese women's football) coach I didn't think so much, do you want me to be? Oh, then I'll fight for it. She added, "You guys give me some help." ”
But in the end, Shui Qingxia still said what was in her heart, "Dreams, everyone has, played football for so many years, I hope to be a coach in the national team and show on the world stage." Everyone wants to be the best in different lines. In her view, coaching the Chinese women's football team is an honor, "every coach wants to do something for the motherland, this is a responsibility, if possible, I hope to take on this responsibility." As Chinese should do something [for Chinese football]. ”
This is the first time that Shui Qingxia has made a public statement, and now, it depends on the Chinese Football Association.
It is worth mentioning that after the award ceremony on the 25th, Du Zhaocai and Shui Qingxia privately communicated and exchanged, but the time was not long and the specific content was unknown.
It should be noted that although Shui Qingxia led the team to play the National Games, she is not the only one on the women's football coach candidate list.
According to this newspaper, the senior management of the Football Association has also previously found a young and powerful male coach, asked him whether he is willing to take over the women's football team, and let him talk about his views on the women's football team, if he takes over in the future, what aspects he wants to start from. The coach has coached in Chinese Super League teams and currently works for local clubs.
According to the regulations of the Football Association, the national manager needs to compete, that is, there is a fixed procedure, so the possibility of the male coach participating in the competition is not excluded.
Compared with Shui Qingxia, the male coach has not been involved in the field of women's football before, and the same as Zhang Haitao, Pei Encai and Jia Xiuquan before.
The new coach of women's football has two major tasks next year. The first task is the Women's Asian Cup in India from January 20 to February 6 next year, which is also the qualification for the 2023 World Cup, but due to the six places in Asia, it is not difficult to qualify. In the last Asian Cup, Eyolsson led the team to a good group stage, but lost 3-1 to Japan in the semi-finals, and finally only finished third, which also became one of the "crimes" when he left class.
The second task will be the Asian Games to be held in Hangzhou from September 10 to 25 next year, when Jia Xiuquan led the team to win the silver medal at the Asian Games in Jakarta, which was recognized by the Football Association, and then led the team to the World Cup in France and the Olympic Games in Tokyo. This home battle, if not win the championship, at least the ranking can not fall.
However, no matter who takes over, we must face a reality, that is, the strength of China's women's football team has long been different, especially the young players have not been on top.
After winning the National Games, Wang Shuang posted on her personal social media, she first affirmed the sense of team honor and responsibility displayed by the young players in the team, including the spirit of not giving up and not abandoning in difficult times, but she believes that "team football needs spirit, but it is far from enough to rely on spirit to play." She said a lot of young players need to show more ability to prove themselves.
After coaching in women's football for so many years, Shui Qingxia knows more, but she still hopes to give a little more time, "Coaches and players are very hard, may have made a lot of mistakes on the way to work hard, but still have to give them more time, because they still want to run hard." 」 So, each of us should be a little more tolerant, in addition to accusations, or give them more applause, just like their own children, after you say her, you still hope that she can grow and improve. ”