The match for the 2022 Men's Volleyball World Championships kicked off yesterday in Poland and Slovenia. At 17:00 Beijing time today, the Chinese men's volleyball team will play against the first opponent Turkey. The most important volleyball event in 2022 is about to be ushered in, the World Championships, and for the lads of the Chinese men's volleyball team, the most important thing is the mentality. This season, the Chinese team has participated in the World League and the Asian Cup, and has a good performance. Although this World Championship is as strong as a forest, it involves the participation situation of the Olympic Games, so the Chinese team must strive for good results.
A total of 24 teams competed in this year's Men's Volleyball World Championship, which was divided into 6 groups of 4 teams each. The format of this World Championship has changed, with the top two of the 6 groups and the 3rd place with the best results advancing to the semi-finals, which is changed to a single-elimination system, and 16 teams are dueled in pairs until the final champion is decided.
The Chinese men's volleyball team was divided into Group E, and the opponents in the same group included Turkey, Canada and Italy. According to the real-time ranking of the FIVB, China, Turkey and Canada ranked 19th, 17th and 14th respectively, and Italy ranked the highest, ranking sixth.
Considering the overall strength of the Italian team, in order to advance to the round of 16, the Chinese men's volleyball team must strive for at least 4 third places with the best results. In this way, their matches with Turkey and Canada are crucial, especially in today's first game against Turkey, and the Chinese team must strive for victory, or even defeat the opponent.
Judging from the 14-person roster announced for the World Championships, the lineup of this Chinese men's volleyball team combines the old and the new, including experienced national players such as Dai Qingyao, Zhang Zhejia, Yu Yaochen, Liu Mao, and young players such as Wang Bin and Yang Yiming. Of course, what everyone is most looking forward to is the performance of Zhang Jingyin, the main attacker who is in excellent form recently, for this World Championship, Zhang Jingyin said: "For this competition, our entire team has made a lot of adjustments, including some improvements in technology and tactics. Because after playing the Asian Cup, we also found the problems with the team, including the one-pass system and the blocking system. ”
After the Asian Cup, the Chinese team continued to train in Serbia, and the team also conducted serious research on the opponent, zhang Zhejia, a player, said: "I hope to show my level on the field, play every game with my teammates, and do our best to show our own skills and tactics." After the Asian Cup, we also went to Serbia, conducted targeted training, and took some of the shortcomings and problems of the Asian Cup, hoping to improve in the game. ”
Of course, for this Chinese team, the world series experience is not enough, the return of the old national player Dai Qingyao, is also to make up for this problem, "I hope to play my role on the field, with teammates to attack every opponent, play a level of training, we strive to play more games in the World Championships." ”
For the team's goal, Wu Sheng, head coach of the Chinese team, said that he still based on the group stage and strived to qualify, "I hope to play the group stage one step at a time through the World Championships, and strive to qualify from the group." ”
In history, the Chinese men's volleyball team has participated in a total of 14 World Championships. The first entry was in 1956, when the team finished ninth. As of the 2018 World Championships, the best result of the Chinese team was the seventh place in 1978 and 1982. At the 2018 World Championships, the Chinese men's volleyball team lost 5 games in the group stage, and finally won the 22nd place, which is also the worst record in history.
(Beijing Sports Broadcasting)