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She is a phenomenal figure in the Chinese women's football team, is a female football player who is called "sonoral rose" by countless fans Sun Wen.
After retiring, she had a bright future, but she resolutely resigned and went abroad for her overseas Chinese boyfriend whom she had been in love with for many years.
What is her growth path? Why did she later quit her decent job at the Shanghai Sports Bureau? How was her life like after returning to her family?
The bloom of the sonorous rose
In December 2020, Chinese football female player Sun Wen and American athlete Ax won the 20th century Best Female Football Athlete Award .
This award has a high value, which is a recognition of Sun Wen and a recognition of the Chinese women's football team. Sun Wen was just 27 years old at this time, but she has won awards of all sizes in many domestic and foreign football matches.
Many domestic football enthusiasts like to call Sun Wen's women's football team "Sonk Rose". At that time, there were Sun Wen, Shui Qingxia and other very powerful players.
Sun Wen was first known to domestic fans when it was the first Women's World Cup held in Guangzhou in 1990.
Sun Wen was just 17 years old at that time and was a young player who had just been selected into the national team. Because she was still young and had never participated in any major competition, Sun Wen looked a little nervous before the competition.
Soon the World Cup group stage kicked off. In the second game, Sun Wen hit the goal with a long shot outside the penalty area. With the fans' loud cheers, she kicked her first goal in the World Cup.
Sun Wen's kick also opened up a new situation for the game. The girls found their own form for a while and quickly tied the score with the Denmark team.
Unfortunately, although the performance of the Chinese women's football team is remarkable, they still lost to Sweden in the final four match and missed the future match.
After the World Cup, although Sun Wen felt very regretful of the failure, she and her teammates were not discouraged, but worked harder to train and prepare for future games.
1994, Sun Wen and his teammates once again represented China in the second Women's World Cup held in Sweden, and finally achieved a good result of fourth place in the second Women's World Cup.
What makes Sun Wen's rose bloom and known to the public is the Atlanta Olympics held in 1996. The
competition was held in Atlanta as scheduled. The team members who cooperated with each other passed five levels and defeated six players, and rushed from the group stage to the final. The girls seemed to be walking very smoothly, but they also encountered many strong opponents.
The Chinese team met the favorite Brazilian team in the semi-finals, and Sun Wen led the team members to a very classic game.
At that time, Sun Wen's teammates included Liu Ailing , Shui Qingxia and Fan Yunjie, etc. These are all very powerful players. In the current perspective, they are very luxurious " All-Star Lineup" . After the game started, both teams played very cautiously at the beginning, and Chinese team's Sun Qingmei contributed the first goal in the game. After seeing his teammates scored, the girls' morale rose sharply, and the Brazilian players were defensive throughout the first half.
Chinese women's football team entered the second half with a 1-0 lead.
But at the beginning of the second half, the intensity of the Brazilian team's method suddenly increased by a certain level. In addition, Sun Wen and others began to make some minor mistakes frequently, and the Chinese team could not find a good opportunity to attack for a while.
We were always behind in the second half, but the Chinese team did not respond negatively, but were constantly looking for the flaws of the Brazilian team.
Finally, in the 83rd minute, with Liu Ailing's assist, Wei Haiying kicked the ball into the ball again with a cross. The score has reached 2-2, and the game has returned to a very anxious situation, and everyone has left the suspense to the end.
When the game was about to end and everyone thought it was going to have a penalty shootout, calm Sun Wen passed the ball outside the penalty area under huge pressure, and Wei Haiying locked the score at 3-2 with a strong shot. The
game ended, and the Chinese women's football team defeated the Brazilian team and entered the Olympic finals in a surprise.
Although he lost to the US team by one goal in the subsequent finals, it is already very exciting for the Chinese women's football team to win the runner-up. Countless domestic fans know that the Chinese women's football team has a promising future, and this Olympic Games has also become the pedal for women's football team to move internationally.
In 1999, the third World Cup was held in the United States. Sun Wen led the players to the group stage with a strong momentum and even swept Ghana 7-0 in the group stage. In this refreshing victory, Sun Wen scored three goals by himself.
The semi-finals are against the old opponent Norway. This time, the Chinese women's football team won a 5-0 victory. Although they lost to the US team again in the final, the girls' performance is still very good.
After the game, she was hailed as the "Best Scorer" and "Best Player", and won the Golden Globe Awards and the Golden Boot Awards, becoming the first non-champion team in history to win the Golden Globe Award.
In November of the same year, Sun Wen led the team members to continue to participate in the 12th Women's Football Asian Cup and won the championship. If Sun Wen had shining alone in the past, then this time would be the shining moment for the entire Chinese women's football team.
Later, Sun Wen was also named Miss Football in the 20th Century, and everyone calls her " Maradona in skirts".
At this moment, Sun Wen has already won the award. She seems to be glamorous and stands on the world's top podium, but in fact she has a lot of unknown hardships and sadness.
The sadness behind the flash
Before Sun Wen went to the Atlanta Olympics in 1996, she had to remove her meniscus due to serious injuries, but after the operation, there were only five months left before the start of the Olympics.
But Sun Wen was unable to walk normally for a month after the operation, and even her legs could not bend normally.
At that time, many people around her advised her not to rush to participate in this competition. It is most important to maintain a good health. After all, the 5-month recovery time is too hasty for a professional athlete.
Faced with the persuasion of the people around her, Sun Wen never had the idea of giving up. She said that she had only one idea in her mind at that time, that is, that is, she believed that miracles would happen to her.
It is precisely because of her spirit of believing in herself that everyone can see the strength of the Chinese women's football team.
From 1995 to 2003, the Shanghai Women's Football Team led by Sun Wen won eight national league championships. Sun Wen not only has superb breakthrough skills, but also has super capture power for scoring goals, but every game has her highlight moments exclusively.
The role she plays on the court is not just an excellent striker, but also the "soul" of the entire team.
Coach said that Sun Wen was born with an invisible appeal. When she was on the court, the players could instantly twist into one rope. She is the soul of the entire team and can lead everyone to win together.
However, Sun Wen’s superb skills are not in vain. All her achievements come from her uninterrupted hard training since she was a child.
In 1973, Sun Wen was born in a hospital in Fuzhou, Fujian. She is the second child in the family and has an older sister named Sun Qian.
Father Sun Zonggao works in Shanghai all year round, while his mother works as a teacher in a school in Fuzhou. The couple is thousands of miles apart and often can't meet a few times a year.
When Sun Wen was one and a half years old, her father took her to Shanghai to live with her grandparents. During the Chinese New Year every year, his father would take her to Fuzhou to reunite with his mother.
In 1983, Sun Wen's mother was transferred to Shanghai to become a teacher in a primary school. So although Sun Wen was born in Fuzhou, she is a girl who grew up in Shanghai.
Father Sun Zonggao is a very football fan. When he is free, he also likes to make an appointment with his friends to watch football games or play football, and he likes to take his daughter Sun Wen with him.
In this way, under the influence of his father, the young Sun Wen gradually began to come into contact with and understand the sport of football.
1985, Sun Wen had just graduated from elementary school and loved playing football very much on weekdays. When she applied for junior high school, she applied to Shanghai Datong Middle School and Shanghai Youth Sports School.
The former was because her parents really wanted her to go to this middle school, while the latter was because she was young and already had a football dream in her heart.
The excellent Sun Wen received admission letters from these two middle schools that summer , but holding these two pieces of paper made their family difficult.
Although parents support cultivating their daughter’s football hobbies, they did not think about whether football can become the direction of their daughter’s future development. So they still prefer to let their daughter go to Datong Middle School to to study junior high school, but at this time Sun Wen had already made up her mind to go to sports school.
Seeing that his daughter was so stubborn, it was difficult for him to force his wishes, so he agreed to let his daughter go to sports school, but he had to get the top three in every exam.
Sun Wen naturally made a happy promise after seeing her parents’ consent, and reported to the sports school on time after school starts.
In addition to training football every day, she also had to learn some necessary cultural courses. When they calculated the total score at the end of the period, they were football scores plus cultural scores.
Sun Wen grasped both the grades, but she didn't miss any of them. In the end, she fulfilled her promise to her parents. She was the top three in the sports school every time she scored.
With Sun Wen's talent and hard work, she quickly became an outstanding football student in the sports school. 988, the Shanghai Women's Football Team came to Shanghai Sports School to select football seedlings. Sun Wen, who performed very well on weekdays, naturally became one of the students recommended by the school.
Sun Wen, who is just fifteen years old, is also full of confidence in herself and looks forward to being selected by the coach every day. But in the end she was unexpectedly not selected, which shocked her and her parents.
The reason given by the coach is that Sun Wen is only 1.63 meters tall, which is a bit shorter than professional players. It may not be easy to achieve results in the future, so she was not selected.
However, this reason made Sun Wen even more regretful. She thought that her strength was not enough and there was room for improvement, but her height problem was something she could not change.
After losing the election, Sun Wen's mood dropped to freezing point. She even called her parents and cried and said that she didn't want to practice football anymore.
The parents were naturally very distressed when they saw their daughter being lost, and rushed to the sports school to advise their daughter not to give up halfway. Because if Sun Wen suddenly drops from a sports school at this age, the situation will be very embarrassing, because no middle school will accept Sun Wen anymore.
But Sun Wen, who was hit, couldn't listen to his parents' persuasion, and he planned to give up football and stop staying at the sports school.
Seeing this, the parents had to constantly comfort Sun Wen. What the three of them did not expect was that just as they were discussing their daughter's future life direction, the Shanghai Women's Football Team suddenly changed their minds.
After the coach returned, he watched the video of Sun Wen's training at school repeatedly and found that the girl was not tall but had full explosive power. She had a talent that should not be underestimated in shooting accuracy.
So they changed their mind temporarily and decided to recruit Sun Wen to join the team and let her join the team to participate in training as soon as possible.
In 1990, Sun Wen, who was just 17 years old, was selected by the national team for her excellent performance in the Shanghai team. Not long after, she participated in the first Women's World Cup held in Guangzhou .
It was also after that that female football players such as Sun Wen, Shui Qingxia, and Liu Ailing jointly created the peak moment of the Chinese women's football team. In Sun Wen’s mind, it’s not just football that is learning endlessly, but also some things outside the football field.
Life after retirement
Sun Wen once said that the domestic football atmosphere in that era is far less strong than that of now, and their income from playing football was very small.
But Sun Wen believes that there are many things that cannot be measured with money. She remembers the audience's cheers and recognition of her. She said that it is the most precious thing that nothing can replace.
In the 2003 Women's Football World Cup, Sun Wen took the lead again. At this time, she was already a 30-year-old veteran. As an athlete, some of the new and old injuries on her body restricted her performance on the court.
But Sun Wen did not disappoint the fans. She scored 1 goal in the first game so that the Chinese team narrowly defeated Ghana 1-0, but the Chinese team still stopped in the quarterfinals because of losing to Canada.
With the end of the last game, Sun Wen also announced to the media that she had officially retired.
She explained that her body could not withstand the current high-intensity games and tasks, and she chose to hand over her mission to the younger generation of players.
Fans expressed their understanding and respect for the curtain call of this "sonochorrent rose". Sun Wen has left a brilliant enough mark in the history of the Chinese women's football team.
After retiring to the front line, Sun Wen did not leave her football career. After retreating, she chose to go to Xinmin Evening News to be a sports reporter and use her professional knowledge to go to the arena for interviews and explanations.
Sun Wen watched many games while working as a sports reporter. She had already retired and saw other women's football girls running on the field, and the football flame that had not yet been extinguished was ignited again.
So at the end of 2005, Sun Wen chose to continue participating in the training of the national team, but this attempt also made her body completely lit up red lights. chose to retire again after a year of return.
In November 2006, Sun Wen was elected as the deputy secretary-general of the Shanghai Football Association and deputy director of the Management Center. However, she was used to being free and easy to do not get used to this decent but boring job, and thought she did not have strong management skills. After working for a period of time, she voluntarily left her position.
Sun Wen was 33 years old at this time, but she was not married yet. This made her worry her parents. She often said in her ears that she should care more about her lifelong affairs.
But Sun Wen is not anxious about this matter. Zhang Dexiang is Sun Wen's friend and is currently the editor-in-chief of "Shanghai Wednesday".
Seeing that his friend's marriage has not yet been settled, he took Sun Wen's consent and placed her information on the blind date section just launched by the magazine.
As soon as this news came out, many fans were talking about Sun Wen’s personal situation. Everyone is speculating on the reason why Sun Wen has never been married, and some rumors have even become more and more outrageous, saying that she wants to become a monk.
But Sun Wen was unmoved because in her heart, there was another thing that was more important than getting married, and that was to complete her studies that had been delayed by participating in competitions and training for many years.
In the 2006 graduation season, Sun Wen also successfully obtained the undergraduate diploma of Fudan University , and she fulfilled another dream in her life plan.
It was also at this time that an old friend of Sun Wen contacted her again. is not so much a friend, but a suitor for Sun Wen for many years.
This man is an overseas Chinese. After graduating from a graduate student in Shanghai, he stayed in Shanghai to work. It was also in Shanghai that this man met and fell in love with Sun Wen.
He is not a person in the sports circle, and he even knows nothing about football, but he is deeply fascinated by Sun Wen. He expressed his love to Sun Wen early, but Sun Wen repeatedly declined him because of his busy studies.
But he heard about Sun Wen’s graduation recently, so he hurriedly contacted Sun Wen again, hoping that she could give herself a chance.
Now that Sun Wen has completed her studies, she thought that he had been chasing her for so many years and had always been very concerned about her, so she decided to try to start this relationship.
After the two officially fell in love, although they were not in the same country, they would express their longing for each other through the Internet every day. The foreign love did not stump them, but made this relationship stand the test more.
009, the two had been in love for 3 years and got married in Shanghai in November.
Apart from a marriage contract, the two did not hold their own wedding in a big fuss. Because they all think that getting married is their own business and there is no need to do something meaningless for others to see.
"Marriage is not the game, it is a private matter between two people, and there is no need to show it to others."
Although Sun Wen was still paying attention to her football career at this time, she had already focused her life on her family. She spent more time with her husband and running her marriage.
In 2010, Sun Wen was invited to serve as the coach of the Shanghai Women's Football Team, but three years later she chose to quit her job at Shanghai Football Association and followed her husband to Canada to live.
In 2017, Sun Wen, who had been married for many years but had not had a son or half of her daughter, chose to return to her motherland and served as vice chairman of Chinese Football Association in 2019.
Sun Wen is almost 50 years old now. Although she is separated from her husband and the couple has always had a good relationship, but unfortunately, they have never had children.
Sun Wen's first half of her life can be said to be full of legendary colors. The Chinese women's football team she led not only became a memory of a generation, but also made great contributions to the Chinese football cause.
After retiring, she returned to her family and lived every day with her husband, which is also a good choice.
Although there are still regrets in Sun Wen's life now, her career is successful and her husband and wife are harmonious. We believe that her life will definitely become more and more successful in the future!
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