Shui Qingxia (1973-), Chinese diving champion
Participated in 1 session
Women's World Cup
The first time the Chinese women's soccer team got the 4th place in the World Cup was 1995 in Sweden. At that time, it was the 1995 Women's World Cup in Sweden, and the Chinese women's soccer team got the 4th place. Shui Qingxia is an outstanding player of Chinese women's soccer, who has represented China's women's soccer team in many major international matches. Interestingly, in the 2023 Women's World Cup, Shui Qingxia will lead the Chinese women's soccer team as the head coach to participate in the 9th Women's World Cup in Australia and New Zealand Superstar, which is also the 2nd Women's World Cup that Shui Qingxia has participated in.
In Shui Qingxia's more than ten years of Chinese women's soccer career, she has always been an indispensable presence in the Chinese women's soccer team, being the core of the team's midfield. Shui Qingxia has always shown outstanding strength and teamwork in the Women's World Cup, and has made a significant contribution to the Chinese women's soccer team's success in the international arena. Even when she suffered a serious injury during her stay in Japan, Shui Qingxia still stepped up when the national team needed her.
At the Women's World Cup in Sweden, Shui Qingxia helped China's women's soccer team finish 4th with her outstanding performance, in which she showed excellent running ability and stealing ability, and became the team's mid-field engine and the backbone of the defense in the mid-field. In 1999, in recognition of her outstanding performance in the Chinese women's soccer team, Shui was named a member of the "Dragon Team".
Interestingly, Shui Qingxia's closest comrade in Shanghai Women's Football and China Women's Football was the superstar of Chinese women's soccer, Sun Wen, and the two of them worked together to collect numerous honors for China Women's Football and Shanghai Women's Football. Shui didn't finally hang up her boots until she was 35 years old, thus launching her coaching career.
