Chinese women's football team
Today, the Chinese women's football team officially announced the list of players to participate in the warm-up match in the United States, previously, the Chinese Football Association announced a relatively large number of training lists, and finally eliminated a few people, and the remaining players will follow the Chinese women's football team to Florida in the United States, where they will participate in two warm-up matches with the United States team, and these two games will also be the last two games of the Chinese women's football team in 2023. For head coach Wang Jun, this is also the first time she led the Chinese women's football senior team to participate in an official game, although it is only a friendly match, but it is still a very rare opportunity for her, if these two games are played well, there is also the possibility of correcting her, until the next Asian Cup, the Chinese women's football team has no official games to play in these two years, so at the level of choosing a head coach, there is not much time left for China to do more investigations.
These two games with the United States team are full of gold, judging from the list announced this time, compared with her predecessor Shui Qingxia, Wang Jun has made a big change in the selection of personnel, among which the three players who were very used during the Shui Qingxia period and the core players who won the Asian Cup have all faded out of the national team. And judging from the news released before, two of these three will even say goodbye to the national team. These three players are goalkeeper Zhu Yu, Lou Jiahui, who can play multiple positions in the back line and forward line, and Zhang Rui, the core of the midfield.
Zhu Yu, at present, may be because of some personal application reasons, so she has not entered the current squad, there should still be the possibility of entering the list in the future, after all, her age is still relatively young, and the level is enough, although there have been low-level mistakes in the World Cup, but to cultivate a good goalkeeper. Especially a goalkeeper with World Cup experience is very difficult. Therefore, although Zhu Yu said that this issue is not in the training list, I think she still has a high probability of returning to the Chinese women's national football team in the future, at least she will be the focus of investigation.
The other two veterans Lou Jiahui is estimated to never enter the sequence of the national team in the future, and the Asian Games is likely to be her last major competition of the Chinese national team. For Lou Jiahui, she has indeed contributed a lot to the Chinese women's football team, from winger to fullback, and from fullback to forward, may not be very good from this year's point of view, but after winning the Asian Cup, her role in the position of right fullback is still very high.
The other is Zhang Rui. In the World Cup game, especially in the match with The Hague team, she, the navy, in this game, her very reckless foul once put the Chinese women's football team in a desperate situation, to play more with less, and finally that game with Wang Shuang's penalty, won the only victory of the Chinese women's football team in the World Cup. Although that victory did not lead the Chinese team to finally qualify for the group, at least it will not end the World Cup journey with a winless result, which can be regarded as a more decent result.
In the Asian Games, in fact, Zhang Rui's performance is okay, she has always been a player that Shui Qingxia likes very much, wearing the No. 10 jersey of the Chinese women's football team, and is a core player in the absolute midfield of the Chinese women's football team, but the overall performance is a slight deviation from Shui Qingxia's expectations for her, and the Chinese women's football team will also usher in a new era, I hope that these two games with the United States team will be a sign of the beginning of our new era.