China U17 women's football team will face the last opponent of the U17 women's football World Cup group stage at 7 pm Beijing time on the 18th - the 2018 (last) champion Spanish team. If you can win, the Chinese team will enter the knockout round. Although the opponent's overall strength is obvious to all, the Chinese U17 women's football team is ready to give it a try. Before training, the coaching team intentionally re-presented the team's technical and spiritual performance in the first two rounds of the game again in front of the players through video playback, and repeatedly encouraged everyone not to lose confidence and advance to Goa (the quarter-final place of the U17 Women's World Cup). This is tantamount to giving the whole team a "spiritual chicken soup" before the battle.
Give up the outdoor training plan before the game
According to convention, each participating team will conduct restorative training outdoors the next day after the game. But on the afternoon of the 16th local time, the Chinese U17 women's football team gave up their plan to go outdoor training and stayed in the hotel gym for physical recovery training. Except for training on "rollers" and pulling, the main players did not conduct other content training with too much intensity. In response, a team insider explained: "I just finished the game under high temperature conditions, and the interval between the two rounds is very limited. Compared with training, the players should have a better rest before they can prepare for the match against Spain."
In fact, the highest daytime temperature in Mumbai, India has been above 30 degrees Celsius recently. Compared with the cool rainy days when they played against Mexico in the first round, the Chinese U17 women's football team faced Colombia in the scorching sun and high temperatures. It is easy to imagine how much physical consumption is. It is reported that the weather in Mumbai is sunny and rainy during the day. The coaching team gave up arranging the team to go to the venue for training on the 16th, which is also worried about the possible dangers caused by thunderstorms. In addition, the driving distance from the resident hotel to the training ground is relatively long, and the coaching staff also consciously avoids the players from being physically exhausted due to "torture".
"Video Class" added confidence
On the evening of October 15, Beijing time, after the Chinese U17 women's football team lost to Colombia with two goals, some players shed tears. However, head coach Wang Anzhi fully affirmed the team's performance after the game and took the responsibility for the loss.
In the second round of the group stage, the Spanish team, as the defending champion, lost to Mexico 1-2, which made Team C Group 4 score 3 points in the same round after two rounds. Since the coaching staff watched the Western and Mexican matches on the spot, the focus of the preparations of the Chinese U17 women's football team has shifted to the final round of the group stage.
On the afternoon of the 16th local time, before the entire team went to the gym of the station hotel for recovery training, the coaching team specially arranged for the team members to take a "video class". The video content mainly shows the team's relatively outstanding performance in the first two rounds of the group stage, especially in the second round against Colombia. Head coach Wang Anzhi encouraged the disciples and said, "Everyone actually played well in the previous game, and I hope everyone will not lose confidence." It is a common wish to move towards Goa. When the disciples trained, Wang Anzhi and his assistants also seized the time and used the game images and data to further analyze the Spanish team's skills and tactics and the personal abilities of the players.
It is worth noting that the three group matches of the Chinese U17 women's football team were scheduled to be held at 4:30 pm local time and 7 pm Beijing time, and the games were all arranged in the same field, which is the venue where the Chinese women's football team won the women's football Asian Cup championship in early February this year - Patil Stadium, Navi Mumbai. This means that the Chinese U17 women's football team does not need to run around due to the movement of the match range during the group stage, and it is easier to adapt to the venue and game time than the opponent.
It is worth noting that the hotel where the Chinese U17 women's football team is also located in the same place as the hotel where the Chinese women's football team was located. The "little flowers" naturally hope to follow the senior sisters' footsteps of achieving the championship and create their own glory. The competition schedule shows that whether the Group C team qualifies as the top or second place in the group, they will go to Goa, another place in this event, to participate in the quarter-finals. At this moment, no one in the Chinese U17 women's football team is thinking about "going home". It is the common wish of all members of the team to move towards Goa.
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According to the plan, the U21 national football team will participate in the first stage of the Paris Olympic qualifiers in early September next year. In less than three months, the quality of preparation for the U21 national football team has been greatly improved. Judging from the fact that the U19 national football team and the U17 national football team have used overseas training and high-quality warm-up to improve their competitiveness and finally advanced to the final stage of the Asian Cup Asian Cup , the preparation method of "competing instead of training" is correct.
This group of text/Reporter Xiao Zan
Coordinator/Du Rui Photo provided by Visual China
