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China lift trophy at World Cup warming-up tourney with last minutegoal (2) |
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08:38, July 11, 2007 |
The key to China''s attacking was then denied by Mexican goalie Tajonar Alonso Pamela after ten minutes into the second half, as Han picked up a nice through pass from veteran winger Liu Yali but stumbled to shoot through the solid defence from the rivals.
Mexico''s best chance came at the 53rd minute when Lopez Luna Evelyn made a powerful shot from 35 meters away but the ball flew far high.
Nothing was changed with an exhausted Chinese side creating just a little bit more scoring opportunities than Mexico after China''s head coach Marika Domanski-Lyfors made a stunning change to the squad in 64th minute, substituting Han Duan with Zi Jingjing, a young striker just rejoined the national team after half-year absence due to injury.
In the two sides'' last encounter, China only managed to a 1-0 win over Mexico in a round-robin match of the four-nation tournament on July 4.
The Latin American powerhouses, who tied China 1-1 at the Athens Olympics group stage in 2004, narrowly missed their chance of making the World Cup final stage slated for September 10-30 on Chinese soil after losing to Japan last March in a two-leg qualifying playoff.
With less than 400 days in front of the 2008 Games, the women''s soccer event served as a testing ground for all aspects of the organization of the Beijing Olympic Games soccer events, as well as the warming-ups for the hosts who stand the only side out of the four having qualified for the upcoming World Cup.
Source: Xinhua
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