Chinese women’s football rookie Zhang Linyan joins Swiss Grasshoppers
2022-07-09 09:28:32Source: Xinhua News Agency
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, July 8 (Reporter Wang Chujie, Gongbing) The Swiss Grasshopper Football Club announced on the 8th that Chinese female football player Zhang Linyan joined the Grasshopper Women’s Football Team on a one-year loan.
The 21-year-old Zhang Linyan is a striker. She plays for the Wuhan Chegujiang University Women’s Football Team in the Women’s Super League this season. She scored 6 goals in the first 10 rounds of the season, ranking second in the local scorer list. As a representative player of the new generation of Chinese women’s football, Zhang Linyan has represented the national team seven times so far. In the Asian Cup final held at the beginning of this year, Zhang Linyan, who came off the bench, performed amazingly, scoring her first goal in the national team and helping the Chinese women’s enough to reverse the victory over the South Korean team 3:2. She herself was named the future star of the 2022 Women’s Asian Cup final.
Regarding joining the Grasshoppers Women’s Football Team, Zhang Linyan said that she would seize the opportunity to play in Switzerland, earnestly train and improve her level.
“I would like to thank Wuhan Chegujiang University Women’s Football Club for their strong support for me to study abroad. I hope that through my growth during the loan period of the Grasshopper Women’s Football Club, I can better contribute to the Chinese women’s football team in the future.” Zhang Linyan said.
Chang Weiwei, head coach of Wuhan Chegujiang University women’s football team, said that Zhang Linyan had just joined the team at the beginning of the season, and she showed a very strong ability to adapt and end games, and made great contributions to the team’s ten-game winning streak. Join the Grasshoppers and succeed in Europe.
Grasshopper Women’s General Manager Lara Dickenman welcomed Zhang Linyan’s arrival: “Her skills, agility with and without the ball, game reading ability and experience in international competitions are all her strengths. We look forward to Zhang Linyan’s arrival. And will help her integrate into the team as soon as possible. We also look forward to establishing a close relationship with the Chinese women’s football team, and I believe that Zhang Linyan’s joining will be the beginning of a great story.”
The Grasshoppers are currently competing in the top Swiss league, reaching the semi-finals of the playoffs in the 2021-2022 season and winning the Swiss Cup runner-up.