Looking back on the coaching in the past two years, the 57-year-old coach believes that the Chinese team has made great progress in initiative, passing and catching the ball, and fighting ability.
Xinhua News Agency, Suzhou, May 14 (reporter Wang Hengzhi) the Chinese women’s football team is conducting a new training at the Taihu football center in Suzhou. Unconsciously, Jia Xiuquan has led this women’s football team for two years. Looking back on the coaching in the past two years, the 57-year-old coach believes that the Chinese team has made great progress in initiative, passing and catching the ball, and fighting ability.
Teaching Chinese women’s football team in the past two years, Jia Xiuquan handed over the silver medal of the Asian Games and the answer sheet of the 16th World Cup. In the Olympic qualifier at the beginning of the year, he led the women’s football girl to get the qualification for the play-off under very difficult circumstances. This training was also to prepare for the play-off match with the South Korean team. When the reporter asked Jia Xiuquan about the biggest change he thought had brought to the team in the past two years, the old handsome man was in a good mood and asked, “Do you want to listen to modesty or not?”
After getting the “not modest” answer, Jia Xiuquan said: “Maybe everyone’s understanding cannot be unified, or say modestly that the women’s football team has played in the past two years, is it more active in attack and defense? Now we dare to force the world champion to play and create many opportunities. I think this may be one aspect of the change. Second, do you think the girls have made great progress in passing and catching the ball? This is that we have spent a lot of energy on practicing passing and catching the ball in each class in the past two years, so they may have some improvement in the competition. Does the third one think the girls’ confrontation is improving? What is the auxiliary thing behind the improvement of confrontation ability? We have practiced a lot of things, including body and physical fitness. Of course, we have more physical fitness combined with balls and more round-trip (running). Although we scored few goals in the World Cup, there are also some gratifying and progressive places. Our physical condition is the top few among the top eight. I think some progress, maybe if there is no progress, our group match in the World Cup will be eliminated. Of course, our skills and tactics are not satisfactory, which is the direction we need to work hard. But these are all obvious changes in our players in the past two years. Then there is self-confidence, which is gradually improving through training and the Asian Games. I hope they can recover.”
When talking about the disciples, Jia Xiuquan said that they are the real new generation of women’s football, hoping that they can practice the technical and tactical characteristics of modern women’s football in this development period; if they can grasp the development trend of modern women’s football, they can show themselves well.