Original title: the first women’s football international to win Golden Boots in overseas league matches — Tu Linli: go my own way

recently, the Iceland Women’s Football League A ended this season, chinese player Tu Linli won the League Golden Boot with her outstanding performance of 16 goals in 17 games. Her FHL club won the fifth place with 7 wins, 6 draws and 5 losses. The 23-year-old Tu Linli also became the first women’s football international to win the best striker in overseas league matches.

Tu Linli, born in Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province, once won the gold medal in the 2014 Nanjing Youth Olympic Games on behalf of the national youth team of the women’s football team. In 2016, Tu Linli, who was only 17 years old, was selected into the national team for the first time, realizing his dream of national football.

Different from other women’s football players, Tu Linli started his overseas career very early. In 2019, Tu Linli left the Beijing North control team who played for it at that time and joined the American University women’s football league to feel different atmosphere. On February this year, the mature Tu Linli came to the Iceland League to start a new career journey.

Tu Linli’s “Don’t take the ordinary road” is a miniature of the Chinese women’s football team rising up again in recent years and constantly trying bravely.

Up to now, 10 Chinese women’s football teams have left overseas (the scale of the foreign football team has been tied to Japan and surpassed South Korea). Not only are the number unprecedented, but also the choices of the foreign football team are more diversified-not only France, major League of America, Spain and other mainstream women’s football leagues, as well as Scotland, Russia, Iceland, Switzerland and other previously unknown women’s football leagues.

In the past, the American Women’s Football League has always been considered as the first league in world’s women’s football, but now the European Women’s Football League has become the stage that many players dream. Take Asian players as an example. Wang Frost of the Chinese women’s football team once played for the French women’s football team and Tang Glade once played for the Premier League women’s football team. Chi Xiaoran and Yan Yuan zhennai and other Korean and Japanese women’s football players also played for the Premier League women’s football team. The improvement of their personal strength also appeared on the national team.

In the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games qualifier, Chi, who was once considered far inferior to Wang Frost, laughed and led the South Korean team to fight against the Chinese team to the end. At the beginning of this year, the women’s football Asian Cup, which was also the Korean team, also fought with the Chinese team in the final until the last moment to win.

If you stay abroad, you can feel more diverse football culture and experience richer professional experiences, which is beneficial to the improvement of players’ technical and tactical strength and the perfection of professional personality. These advantages will influence the development of the players themselves and even the whole team imperceptibly. Shui Qingxia, the coach of the Chinese women’s football team, pointed out that staying abroad is an important means to improve the level of the women’s football team. “In the short term, the Chinese women’s football team must improve its combat power, and high-intensity training and foreign travel must be parallel.”

Although some progress has been made in recent years, the Chinese women’s football team still faces many difficulties in the development process. Sun Wen, the current vice chairman of the Chinese Football Association, said frankly that the development of women’s football is a systematic project. “At this stage, on the one hand, we should try to improve the environment of women’s football, on the other hand, we should pay attention to the cultivation and guidance of players. It is a very good attempt and a very effective means for players to experience themselves in European high-level leagues.”

It is under the guidance of this idea that Tu Linli and her sisters are firmly taking the road to stay abroad. On Tu Linli’s microblog, this smiling girl always records her beloved football-“I am on my own path with myself”. (Zhu Yazen)