Xinhua News Agency, Naples, June 29 (reporter Gong Bing, Li Bowen, Zhou Chang) the Chinese college women’s football team, who will participate in the 30th World University Summer Games, arrived in Italy on the 29th and is full of confidence in the competition, looking forward to the goal is called “Playing well one by one”.
Yu Dongfeng, head coach of the Chinese women’s football team, said that the team had been training in Dalian for more than ten days before, but “only one day is complete” because college students have to take exams, participate in competitions or graduation ceremonies on behalf of the school. He believes that this situation will have an impact on the team’s performance in this big summer meeting, but the team will do its best to play well.
The opponents of the Chinese team in the group match are Mexico and Russia. Since the understanding of the opponents mainly comes from the last game, Yu Dongfeng positioned the game as “encounter”. He also said that the Mexican team had more short passes and the Chinese team made corresponding preparations.
20 team members come from 7 colleges and universities. They are selected from more than 80 people recommended by each school. How to knead them into a whole? Yu Dongfeng said that the players came from different places and were not a whole team. It was indeed difficult to prepare for the battle. For example, some positions would overlap. Therefore, some adjustments were made, including the defender changing the forward and supplementing the border guards. Although it is difficult, “we will do our best to do these things well, after all, they represent the country”.
The women’s football competition will start on July 4. Yu Dongfeng said about the pre-competition plan: “One is recovery, the other is preparation.”
Captain Wang Huan was full of confidence in the competition. “in Dalian in the early stage, our whole team made sufficient preparations. We are still very confident in the competition and hope to achieve good results, give yourself a satisfactory answer sheet”.
When talking about the situation of the opponent, Wang Huan said that the coaching staff has been analyzing the opponent, including introducing the physical conditions of the opponent. Does objective factors such as examinations affect their preparation? Wang Huan replied like this: “I think the impact is still not big, because everyone just left for a short time, and the main idea is to focus on the training. The whole training is still more active and serious.”
Zhang Lei, vice chairman of China University Sports Association who arrived on the same plane, introduced that the summer festival will be held in three cities, including Naples, Salerno and kaserta, among which the women’s football competition will be held in Salerno. The difficulty brought by this situation to the delegation was that the team was scattered, “in order to better manage the sports team, we divided into three League departments”.
For the competition target of this summer festival, Zhang Lei said: “On the one hand, it shows the style of Chinese college athletes, on the other hand, it tests the achievements of University Sports. (We) require the players to play style, level and clean in this competition.”
The summer festival will be held in Italy in July 3-14, with 18 major events. It is expected that 12000 athletes and officials from 120 countries and regions will participate. The Chinese delegation will participate in 144 competitions in 14 major events, with a delegation size of about 360 people, including 198 athletes from 66 colleges and universities in 21 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities.