Special correspondent Zuo Ruiyuxi reports has only played one Chinese Super League, Zhejiang Greentown's left-back Wang Shiqin, and suddenly received a call-up from the national football team in Yuxi. After the 32-man roster was announced, not only did the parties find it unbelievable, but perhaps outside his hometown Chongqing and his new club Zhejiang, fans who paid attention to the fate of the national football team in the top 18 would also wonder: Who is Wang Shiqin?

The 21-year-old national football player who played for Chongqing Tonglianglong said goodbye to the Chinese League this season and defected to Zhejiang Greentown. In the sunlight on the terrace of the Yuxi Hotel, under the night light of the home stadium of the Yukun Plateau, the slightly exaggerated two-tone hairstyle of the left foot made him stand out among his uniformly dressed teammates.

The story begins with the hairstyle: the upper part is blonde, fluffy, and in no way affects the sight; The bottom half is black, ethereal, and there is no shortage of visual effects. After the end of the 2023 season, Wang Shiqin, who won the championship of the second division with Chongqing Tonglianglong, felt that it was necessary to change his hairstyle, not because of eye-catching, but because his previous hairstyle "had no personality".

In life, he himself doesn't understand why very simple casual clothing is exaggerated by others? Why do some natural thoughts that teammates think are weird? "Maybe my style preferences are a bit niche." He said that he is not unreceptive to other people's opinions, "If you say that I am doing something wrong, I will seriously think about whether it is really wrong, and if it is, I will definitely correct it." ”

For example, Chongqing fans' evaluation of him: the breakthrough is very strong, and the cross is very skimming (southwest dialect, which means very poor). He admits that he has a lot of crosses, but the accuracy of his crosses is not high, "I fully accept that statement, the fans are right, and it is not too much at all. For this reason, as long as he has time and body to eat after training, he "will definitely practice crossing".

Although his hairstyle is eclectic, he is humble in his conversation, and his directness is clearly part of his personality. When face-to-face with "Football", Wang Shiqin did not shy away from the reason behind the personalization of his hairstyle - missing his mother. "When I was a child, my mother gave me a braid, which was later cut off, and this hairstyle was actually an expression of missing her. So I'm probably going to keep this hairstyle all the time. ”

On the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve in 2018, on that day of celebration for thousands of families, Wang Shiqin, who was not yet 15 years old, lost his "most loved, dearest, and best" relatives forever.

On the same day, the family was in the car, and an accident occurred on the way, the vehicle lost control and rushed off the road, and an unbearable tragedy occurred...... At the moment of life and death, the mother completely ignored herself in order to protect the child, and finally paid for her life. "Dad was also seriously injured, and he was finally rescued. And I was the least injured, just a broken hand. "At the beginning, the relatives who rushed to the hospital told Wang Shiqin that your mother was being rescued and would be fine, until the son's bone injury was slightly better, and he didn't know the truth about his mother's death.

In Wang Shiqin's memory, his parents have always been very supportive of playing football, and their ideas are very unified and simple, as long as the child likes it. After entering Evergrande Football School, his father continued to do business, and his mother gave up her job to play football with her son. After the car accident, he was no longer accompanied by his mother.

After scoring his first career league goal at home to Shijiazhuang Kung Fu last season, Chongqing saw a moving scene at home: he knelt on one knee and folded his hands to express his longing for his mother.

It has been seven years since he said goodbye, and his son was selected for the national football training list this time, and his mother is in the sky, which must be a more unexpected surprise than the goal in the Chinese League and the debut of the Chinese Super League. "My dad was very happy to hear about this, my mom probably didn't think that I could enter the national team, she just wanted to accompany me to grow up happily and happily, and never thought that I would make a living from football and treat football as a career."

After his mother's death, his grandmother became a staunch supporter of Wang Shiqin. The old man doesn't know how to use a smartphone, and every time his grandson comes back, he patiently learns and uses it, with only one purpose, to see his grandson playing football on the field and working hard in a foreign country, even if he can't understand it. "I haven't figured out how to tell my grandmother about being selected." He wanted to make her happy, but he was afraid that she would be too happy.

It took Wang Shiqin more than a year to come out of a sharp pain in his life. In those heartbreaking days, the only thing that could make him forget his pain was football. "I can't do it if I was asked to study at ease when I lost my dearest, but football is a really fun sport, and if you put it into it, at least at the time, you can forget a lot of things."

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It's not easy to get out of your grief and get back on the pitch. He tried to numb himself by playing games, because after a broken hand, the steel needles were hit in the bones, and he could not participate in training matches and could not follow the team into the competition area. "Fortunately, after this incident, the team's Coach Lin took good care of me, and Xiang Yu Wang, Li Zhenquan, and other teammates also gave me a lot of friendship and warmth. Slowly, I walked out. ”

After winning the runner-up in the National Games with the team, Wang Shiqin met Zhao Hejing, a former international player with braided hair, in Tonglianglong. "Kang Kang has no effect on my hairstyle, it has a big impact on my football." Before Zhao Hejing retired, Wang Shiqin had the honor to play in the professional league with his predecessors for two years, "At that time, I was a left wingback, Kang Kang was a left central defender, we were very close on the field, and we were very close off the field, we had a deep understanding with each other, and he gave me the most care." ”

Due to Zhejiang Greentown's three-center-back tactics, Wang Shiqin's current position is Zhao Hejing's previous position. Head coach Kaneda said: "Wang Shiqin has only played in the Chinese League before, but everyone can see his potential. The first time he played in the Chinese Super League and the first time he played as a left central defender, he impressed the national football coaching staff, because he showed his training efficiency well during the winter training period, and he also reached the level of victory in the warm-up game, so he got the opportunity to start. ”

When he first joined the new team in Zhejiang, Wang Shiqin felt a little surprised. "It's better than I thought it would be. Before I came, I asked Liu Haofan, and the new environment made me quite scared, I was afraid that if the atmosphere in the team was not very good, a young player would not be able to play football or something like that, and his future would be affected, but he told me that the atmosphere in the team was very good. ”

On the first day of his debut in the Chinese Super League, he was very nervous, so he specially contacted Hu Hetao and Zhao Hejing, "I asked them what to do, and they all said to let go of the kick, young people don't think so much." "Before going on the pitch, Kaneda also made it very clear, don't be afraid, play your level, and the result is a matter of course." But I never thought I'd be in the national team. ”

Wang Shiqin, who made his debut in the Chinese Super League as a left central defender and was selected for the senior national team, took over the mantle of Zhao and Jing within a week, still regards the former as a caring big brother and a learning object. "I think Kang Kang is very good. Although he is now retired, in terms of defensive experience and confrontation ability, he is really a senior that I need to learn carefully. ”

Chongqing and Hangzhou are two cities with very different geographies, food, and cultural styles. Since Wang Shiqin went directly to the Haikou training site to report, and then went to Dubai with the team, after the end of the winter training, it was actually the first time in his life that he went to Hangzhou, and he had only turned around here before. After a week, he was still very unfamiliar with Hangzhou, except for renting a house near the club and going back to rest after training. But Chongqing cubs feel that "as long as the working atmosphere is good, everything else is not a problem." ”

Joining Zhejiang Greentown is the first time that Wang Shiqin, a young defender, has walked out of the mountain city in his career. The new environment, the new location, it seems that he is more adaptable. When summing up his technical characteristics, Wang Shiqin feels that adaptability can only be regarded as "reasonable", and his own goal definition is "tough". And the ideal toughness is hopefully the intensity of England right-back Kyle Walker.

Taking the first step out of home, there will inevitably be a next stop. Looking to the future, Wang Shiqin is full of yearning for the Bundesliga. On the one hand, Zhejiang Greentown has such a mind, "as long as you have the ability, it will not stop you from going to a high place." On the other hand, the success of Japanese and Korean players in the Bundesliga, and the experience of seniors Yang Chen, Shao Jiayi, and Xie Hui benefiting from German football, also made him feel that the Bundesliga is not out of reach, "It may be quite suitable for the development of Asian players." ”

The biggest challenge at hand is not in the Bundesliga, but in the Chinese national team. "I used to look up to the national team, but now that I was selected for the squad, I had to find a way to keep it. It's the first time you've been in a team like this, and it's the first time you've been wearing a shirt for an senior national team, and there's nothing more exciting than that. Wang Shiqin said.

Each subsequent contender would study the best of the same position, and Wang Shiqin was also pondering Hu Hetao.

"Actually, we both know each other, both are from Chongqing, I have known him for a long time, but I don't know if he knew me when I was a child, and we would meet when we played campus football at that time." He said, "We only added WeChat some time ago. In his eyes, "Walnut" has better competition experience, round-trip ability, and psychological quality, and he may be slightly better in physical strength. 'If manager Ivan trusts me, I'll definitely do what he asks, whether it's my forte or not.

What is it like to be selected for the national football team at the critical moment of preparing for the round of 18? Wang Shiqin thought about it and said, it seems that he can't find a more suitable word to describe it than "Xiongqi". As a newcomer to the national football team, the experience of the training camp may be short. If he returned to the audience, he said that since they had all fought together in the same team, the players who stayed should be more capable of fighting for the country, "I definitely support my teammates in the national team." ”