Chinese roses bloom again! Wang Shuang is shortlisted for the top three Asian Football Miss, Suspense is about to be revealed

On September 25, the AFC officially announced the 2025 award nomination list, with Chinese women's football star Wang Shuang being listed. This is the final three-person shortlist for the highest personal honor of the Asian women's football team after seven years after winning the "Miss Asian Football" in 2018. The award ceremony is scheduled to be held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on October 16. Wang Shuang's entry was due to her outstanding performance in leading Wuhan Chegujiang Women's Football Team to win the first Women's Football AFC Champions League championship in historic.

Wang Shuang's nomination is valuable. In the official comments, the AFC specifically pointed out: "As the core player of Wuhan Chegujiang Women's Football Team, Wang Shuang is a key figure in the team's historic AFC Champions League championship. She equalized the score at the last moment of the final and made another contribution in the penalty shootout."

Looking back on the thrilling AFC final, Wang Shuang showed the value of the core players. When the team needed it most, she withstood the huge pressure and took the penalty kick in stoppage time to achieve a tie. Then she calmly scored a key penalty again in the penalty shootout.

In the entire AFC Champions League journey, Wang Shuang is not only a key scorer on the offensive end, but also the team's spiritual leader. In the quarter-finals, she played against the Japanese Urawa Red Diamond Women's Football Team. She returned from injury and made a substitute and scored a key goal in the penalty shootout. In the semi-finals, she scored a direct free kick and scored a first record for the team.

Wang Shuang's firm oath at the pre-match press conference, "We must keep the championship trophy in Wuhan!", eventually turned into the fruit of victory.

As with Wang Shuang to compete for the honor of this year's "Miss Asian Football" are also Australian scorer McNamara and Japanese international Takahashi Kaori, and the competition is extremely fierce.

McNamara made 17 appearances in the women's football A-League this season and scored 15 goals, leading the Melbourne City women's football team to the league championship and won the runner-up in the AFC Champions League. Takahashi Kazuhira helped Urawa Red Diamond Women's Football Team win the Japanese domestic Cup, ranking third in the league, and her stable performance at the Japanese national team and club level was equally impressive. The three candidates have their own characteristics, but Wang Shuang's collective honor as the AFC Champions League champion undoubtedly added an important weight to this competition.

Time goes back to the evening of November 28, 2018, and Wang Shuang won the honor of "Miss Asian Football" for the first time, becoming the fourth Chinese player in history to receive this honor after Sun Wen, Bai Jie and Ma Xiaoxu. At that time, she was playing for Paris Saint-Germain in Ligue 1 and performed well in various competitions for Paris.

Seven years later, the AFC still regards her as "one of the most influential offensive players in Asia". 30-year-old Wang Shuang has played 130 times for the Chinese national team. Her rich game experience and stable performance at critical moments have kept her at the top of the Asian women's football team.

No matter what the results of the award ceremony on October 16, 30-year-old Wang Shuang has proved that the real star is not only the highlight moments that shocked everyone, but also the leadership that can still lead the team to the top after experiencing ups and downs.