Original title: Viewpoints | Jia Xiuquan leaves behind a feather, where is the future of Chinese women’s football?
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 issued a notice on the selection of the head coach of the Chinese women’s national team, which opened the open recruitment of new coaches-Jia Xiuquan silently became the past tense of the Chinese women’s football team.
After coaching the Chinese women’s football team suffered a disastrous defeat in the Tokyo Olympics, Jia Xiuquan’s departure was not unexpected, but the chaos left by the defeat in the Tokyo Olympics has not been dissipated so far…
Regarding the Chinese women’s football coach and the future development direction, there is still a cloud of fog.
Jia Xiuquan led the women’s football team in both the Asian Games and the World Cup.Good appearance, bleak ending
When Jia Xiuquan took office, there was quite a surprise at the beginning.
In 2018, the then coach of the Chinese women’s football team and Icelander Ejoelson’s leadership performance was not satisfactory. After only half a year of coaching, get out of class was suddenly dismissed. Facing the upcoming 2018 Asian Games and the 2019 World Cup, Jia Xiuquan has become the new choice of the Chinese Football Association.
For Jia Xiuquan, who has been coaching for many years, but has never brought women’s football before, it seems very calm——
After he received the job, he took up the post. In his own words when interviewed by The Paper, he was in a mood that “has no reaction, no thoughts, no waves”.
As an old Chinese football player, he has long been accustomed to obeying arrangements. In this way, Jia Xiuquan took over the coach of the Chinese women’s football team from a blank that even the players did not know.
In the short preparation time after taking over, Jia Xiuquan’s debut in the competition was recognized by the outside world. In the 2018 Asian Games, he led the team to the final again after 16 years. After a fierce battle, he defeated Japan 0 to 1, but his performance was enough to make the outside world look forward to the World Cup next year.
After qualifying for the World Cup group, Jia Xiuquan shed tears.In the 2019 Women’s World Cup, although the Chinese women’s football team has experienced difficulties, they also qualified in the group. They lost to Italy 0-2 in the knockout round and stopped in the top 16. This is considered to have completed the task.
However, at the most important Tokyo Olympics, Jia Xiuquan failed to keep his “evening festival”.
Only 1 draw and 2 losses were scored in the three group matches, 6 goals were scored and 17 goals were lost, 0 to 5 were lost to Brazil, 4 to 4 were narrowly tied to Zambia, and 2 to 8 was defeated in the Netherlands. All three games were played. Called “black history”. The Chinese women’s football team also created a record for the most conceded goals in a single Olympic Games in the team’s history, and was disgraced in the group stage.
Such results undoubtedly completely sentenced Jia Xiuquan to the death penalty in women’s football coaching position. Before the Olympics, he told reporters that he still wanted to lead the team for another three years, but after such a trip to the Olympics, the Football Association has already There is no plan to give him more time.
The Tokyo Olympics was a black shot of the Chinese women’s football team and Jia Xiuquan.“Do you think I succeeded or failed”
The Waterloo of the Tokyo Olympics left Chinese female football fans not only painful memories, but also more confusion.
Why does the team suddenly employ so many new players who have not been tested by the competition in a big game like the Olympics? Why did Tang Jiali, Ma Jun, Lou Jiahui and others who helped the Chinese women’s football team qualify for the Olympics missed the Olympic list? There is no answer so far.
Before the Olympics, five of the 22 Chinese women’s football players played 0 games in the international A-level matches, and another five played between 1 and 3 games.
The defeat in the Olympics is related to the sudden change of the team’s lineup and the difficulty of escape on the field.
What Jia Xiuquan said to the outside world is:
“Plant more trees, it doesn’t matter who picks the fruit, and train more people for the Chinese women’s football team. This is what I should do in this position.”
But judging from the results, how much exercise can the young players get after such a fiasco after catching the ducks on the shelves is a questionable question.
The opponent of the Chinese women’s football team, Banda, once questioned Jia Xiuquan’s selection of the Chinese women’s football team on Weibo.The confusing line-up selection also immediately triggered a lot of conspiracy theories-for example, the player list was not made by Jia Xiuquan himself, and the Chinese women’s football list was “influenced” by the National Games after the Olympics.
As the coach in charge of the entire team, Jia Xiuquan was not moved. Although every time he lost, he would say “The responsibility lies with me”, but he did not publicly resign after the Olympics. He just said “I am the owner” after the end of the group game. Whether to do it in the future depends on the Football Association, it depends on me.”
Perhaps such a result was destined before the team actually set foot on the Tokyo arena, but such a tragic process is shocking. But at least from Jia Xiuquan’s own speech, he doesn’t blame too much for his work.
After the Olympics was out, a reporter asked Jia Xiuquan how he would evaluate himself, and he directly asked: “I lead the team to qualify for the Women’s World Cup, which is one of the best among Asian teams. With two places in the Olympics, we grabbed the second place. Do you think I succeeded or failed?”
Shui Qingxia coached the Chinese Women’s Football National Games United Team in the heavy rain, but was not able to compete for the final Chinese women’s football coach.Where is the future of Chinese women’s football?
In fact, in the past three years of coaching the Chinese women’s football team, the controversy left by Jia Xiuquan is not only the selection and collapse of the roster at the Tokyo Olympics. At the 2019 Women’s World Cup, he also left a “famous quote”.
When talking about the use of Wang Shuang, the player in the formation, Jia Xiuquan said, “What I need is a team, I don’t need a star.”
However, in the second round of the Olympic preliminaries playoffs, it was Wang Shuang who scored twice to help the team win the Olympic tickets in a thrilling manner. The Olympic group match against Zambia was also Wang Shuang staged a big four, and won a shameful draw for the team…
Stars who are not “needed” have repeatedly saved the head coach. This has even become a “stalk” that fans often ridicule. It has also become a memory that Jia Xiuquan has been destined to keep in people’s minds after more than three years of coaching.
Compared with many previous coaches, Jia Xiuquan has not changed the Chinese women’s football long-term tradition of focusing on national team training and neglecting the training of the league. The high-intensity and large-volume training method can be regarded as a “tribute” to the old women’s football.
However, the professionalization of women’s football in Europe is developing rapidly and the Chinese women’s football is already lagging behind. It is a question that managers must consider whether to hold on to the old tradition and not let go, or to actively promote a more professional and market-oriented development model.
Only when the general direction is correct, the Chinese women’s football can embark on a healthy development path.
Chinese men’s football star Zhao Junzhe will participate in the selection.As for the candidate for the next coach of the Chinese women’s football team, the Chinese Football Association has issued an announcement on the public selection of coaches.
Previously, Shanghai Women’s Football Coach Shui Qingxia temporarily coached the Chinese women’s football team to win the National Games. Her status as an old women’s football team, years of experience in coaching women’s football teams, and long-term investment and research in women’s football have all made the outside world optimistic about her becoming a women’s football team. The next coach.
However, according to “Football News” reports, this time Shuai Qingxia will not participate in the selection. The former Chinese men’s football star and Guangzhou City club leader Zhao Junzhe will participate in the selection and has now become the most popular candidate.
Could it be that everything has to be done from scratch again?
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