Zhang Linyan is small and has great energy football girl, Beckham still remembers her
On February 8, the official Weibo of the Chinese women's football team announced that Zhang Linyan was elected as the "Future Star" of the 2022 Indian Women's Football Asian Cup final, with the text: "Small body contains great energy, and the future is promising."
In the just-concluded Indian Women's Asian Cup final, the Chinese women's team defeated the South Korean team 3-2 to win the championship. In this shocking reversal game, Zhang Linyan, a Sichuan girl from Guangzhou Women's Football Team, made two goals in 11 minutes.
After the Chinese women's football team returned to China, we learned the growth story of this Asian "future star" through Zhang Linyan's narration and the introduction of Guangzhou women's football team leader Hu Tingting. From the Evergrande Football School, she has been training with the men's football team for a long time. She is teammates with Tan Kaiyuan and Wang Shilong of the same age group, and they also play and grow together.
In the Asian Cup final on February 6, Zhang Linyan replaced Wang Shuang in the 60th minute of the game, when the Chinese womens team fell behind 0-2. Only 5 minutes into the game, Zhang Linyan shot from the left side of the penalty area and caused a handball by the Korean defender. Tang Jiali took a penalty kick to make the score 1-2. In the 71st minute, Tang Jiali made a pass from the right side of the frontcourt, and Zhang Linyan inserted a header from the back row to help the Chinese women's football team to tie the score to 2-2.
Zhang Linyan made points and scored goals within 11 minutes of playing. Such an outstanding performance can be regarded as an important contributor to the victory of the Chinese team in this game.
Zhang Linyan's outstanding performance also attracted the attention of "Uncle Bei". In 2013, when Beckham came to China to participate in the event, he took a photo with Zhang Linyan, a young player who participated in the event, and gave her a signed football. Zhang Linyan was only 12 years old at that time. On February 8, 9 years later, Beckham reposted Zhang Linyan's Weibo, congratulating her on winning the Asian Cup, "Linyan, I remember our meeting in 2013. It's great to be rewarded and realize my dream. Congratulations again for winning the championship." Zhang Linyan immediately replied: "Thank you, Uncle Bei, for remembering me. The signed football you gave me has always been cherished at home, and I will continue to work hard."
For Zhang Linyan, who just turned 21, this Asian Cup has given her a baptism of adulthood. In the first match of the Asian Cup of the Chinese Women's Football Team, Zhang Linyan entered the starting list of the match. She herself did not expect that the head coach Shui Qingxia would start her in the first match. She was a little nervous in the game. "I didn't play very well in the first game. I felt my head was blank. When my teammates called me, I was still confused." Zhang Linyan said.
In the semi-finals, when the Chinese team faced the Japanese team, Zhang Linyan also got the chance to start the game. After being substituted, she watched the promotion process of her teammates' penalty shootout victory over the Japanese team on the bench. "I thought at that time, if I play in the final. If so, I hope I can perform well and perform well.”
In the final with the South Korean women's football team, the Chinese team trailed 0-2 in the first half. Shortly after the start of the second half, Shui Qingxia replaced the injured Wang Shuang with Zhang Linyan. It was this substitution that determined the final of the final. towards. "I don't know that the water director will replace me at this time, but my heart is always ready. At that time, we were two goals behind, and everyone was very anxious. We expected that the game might be behind, but we didn't think about it. Two goals behind." Zhang Linyan said, "The water director sent me on the field to attack, because at that time we were already 0-2 behind, and there were more than 30 minutes left in the game. There was nothing nervous at that time, just let go and fight, just want to We attacked and played our own things. In fact, when I played, I felt that we had a chance. According to the requirements of the water guide, after playing, we should run more and create more offensive opportunities.”
Zhang Linyan scored a header in the 71st minute to tie the score. "At that time, I saw Sister Jiali making a one-two breakthrough on the right, and Sister Shanshan rushed in front. When Sister Jiali made the pass, there was a big ball in front of me. When I was empty, I rushed over and went in." Zhang Linyan, who was less than 1.60 meters tall, scored the goal of the South Korean team with a header, which many people did not expect, "Because I am not tall, I used to have My teammates teased me, saying that my first goal in the national team was a header, but I didn’t expect it to be a header, and not only one teammate teased me, but my teammate Xu Huan teased me every day these days.”
Regarding this goal and this reversal, Zhang Linyan said, "At that time, I felt that the Korean team's physical fitness was declining. They may not have thought that Sister Jiali would be able to pass the ball when she was on the bottom line. It was a fluke, actually, we didn't lose confidence at half-time because anything can happen in football and we had some chances to score in the first half."
Before the start of the Asian Cup in India, on January 16, Zhang Linyan had just passed her 21st birthday, and the Asian Cup champion was her best birthday present. "This is the first time the Chinese women's football team has won the Asian Cup championship after 16 years. I feel very lucky to be led by the big sisters to fight together and win the championship together. It is really important at this moment in life. "
Winning the Asian Cup and winning the "Star of the Future", Liu Jiangnan, the former president of Evergrande Football School, sent congratulations to Zhang Linyan, expressing her honor and pride for Zhang Linyan, and at the same time encouraging her to continue to work hard for women's football and the country win glory. Zhang Linyan replied immediately, thanking the old principal for her cultivation.
In the 2021 season, Zhang Linyan represented the Guangzhou Women's Football Team in the Women's League One and became the top scorer in the Women's League One in the 2021 season with 9 goals. She also represented the Beijing Women's Football Team in the Shaanxi National Games.
Regarding her future development, Zhang Linyan really wants to go abroad to play football, hoping to have a better platform, "I still want to go to a better place to play football, to play in a high-level league, because now many Asian stars are heading to Europe. Let’s go, like Sister Jiali and Sister Shuang, they are already the main force in the Women’s Super League at my age, and I feel that the gap between myself and them is getting bigger and bigger.” Zhang Linyan said, “I often meet up with the Celtics. Shen Mengyu, who plays football, communicated, she told me that it is a lot of exercise in foreign competitions, and the two of us often compete in secret, and I have that energy, always thinking that I can work harder."
At the beginning of 2021, Zhang Linyan returned to the Guangzhou Women's Football Team to play football and participated in the Women's A League. Under the leadership of head coach Li Kun, the Guangzhou Women's Football Team won the runner-up in the Women's A League in the 2021 season. As the captain, Zhang Linyan performed very well in the game.
"Zhang Linyan's own characteristics are very obvious. She plays football quickly and has fast feet. Although she is young, she is not stage fright and has a big heart. She plays in the midfielder position of the Guangzhou Women's Football Team and is the core of the team. She is there in the game. The team's self-confidence will be stronger." Li Kun introduced, "However, Zhang Linyan has no physical advantage, especially when confronting European and American players. I hope she will use her characteristics reasonably and give full play to herself. Her specialty, like Messi, although she is not physically dominant, others can't touch her."
Written by Sicily from SIBOASI
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