The Chinese women's volleyball team ended the journey of this season's Women's Volleyball World League as the runner-up.
Compared with last year's World Women's Volleyball League that stopped in the quarterfinals, the Chinese women's volleyball team a year later can obviously let the outside world see progress - a more stable lineup and a more tenacious fighting spirit.
Whether it is a veteran or a newcomer, whether the opponent is strong or weak, everyone is as head coach Cai Bin said, "We must play with spirit and show the spirit of daring to show the sword." ”
Li Yingying became the core of the Chinese women's volleyball team.
A year later, the Chinese women's volleyball team is more stable
Coming to the new Paris Olympic cycle, how the Chinese women's volleyball team rebuilds the team is particularly important, which has become the main problem faced by coach Cai Bin.
Last year, the first year that the Chinese women's volleyball team entered the era of Cai Bin's coaching, when the new coach told the surging news reporter that finding a stable lineup is the current priority, "The main team must be determined first, and the team cannot be all newcomers to play games to 'pay tuition'." ”
In his own words, "We changed a lot of people, and [at the Tokyo Olympics] there were seven people on the field, leaving only three people, a free man, a receiver, and a side attacker, so we need to do a lot of work in this area." ”
Yuan Xinyue (left) and Wang Yunbi (right) block the net.
Therefore, the World Women's Volleyball League and the World Championship that year were more of a process for the Chinese women's volleyball team to try and stabilize the new lineup. After trial and error, Wang Yunbi became Li Yingying's main offensive line partner, and the secondary attack combination of Yuan Xinyue and Wang Yuanyuan was basically formed, and Diao Linyu's performance in the second setter position was gradually stabilized.
Through the test of this year's Women's World Volleyball League, this lineup has indeed shown the ability to compete with the world's top teams, and the performance of the players has also been praised by Cai Bin.
The Chinese women's volleyball team has played brilliantly in the competition with strong teams many times - "double kill" Brazilian women's volleyball, Lectra American women's volleyball, defeated the Japanese women's volleyball team, revenge Polish women's volleyball... In the end, to be able to stand on the stage of the final, the team is by no means lucky.
Cai Bin also said with satisfaction that compared with last year's run-in period, this year's Chinese women's volleyball team has become "more mature" and more determined, "Everyone is gritting their teeth whether they are leading or lagging behind." ”
Li Yingying in the game.
Fight unity, play the spirit of "bright sword"
In terms of technique and tactics, Cai Bin is constantly debugging and improving this team, and it is not difficult to see from the game that the current Chinese women's volleyball team is far from being able to say that it has reached "perfection".
For example, in this year's World Women's Volleyball League, the Chinese women's volleyball team suffered a wave of four consecutive defeats, losing to Poland, Italy, Serbia and Dominica, exposing the problem of insufficient ability to grasp key points and insufficient rapid adjustment of blocking and defense.
After losing to the Italian women's volleyball team, Cai Bin made an analysis that the team was still not decisive enough at key moments, "We have more means in terms of key points, and we must continue to improve in defense." ”
But for the problems exposed in the game, he did not blame the players, but took it as a goal in the next stage of the team's training, and worked hard to improve the shortcomings, "The team cannot be very mature from the beginning, it will definitely go through some tosses." ”
Cai Bin instructs the team members.
"The players are working very hard, but it has nothing to do with the experience of the game and the strain on the pitch, after all, this year is only in its second year. The proficiency of athletes is definitely better than last year, but I think it is still not enough. He told The Paper.
In his opinion, "if this team runs in for a longer time, the cooperation will be better." Therefore, cherishing every opportunity in every game and showing the highest fighting spirit regardless of victory or defeat is what he values more.
In fact, in addition to technical and tactical requirements, Cai Bin also attaches great importance to the team's willpower and spirit, and in his exchanges with surging journalists, he repeatedly mentioned the importance of unity and fighting spirit.
"Go all out, no matter the strong team or the weak team, we must fight seriously, we must play with spirit, and show the spirit of daring to show the sword."
Give the substitutes opportunities and let them grow
In the improvement of training and the tempering of competition, the Chinese women's volleyball team is fully prepared to meet the challenges of the Paris Olympic Games.
For example, Li Yingying has deservedly grown into the core of the current team's offensive end, and the new players such as Wang Yunbi, Wang Yuanyuan, Diao Linyu and other players who have entered the main lineup have also given their own high-gloss performances.
In addition to this new main lineup, the substitutes are also working hard to improve themselves.
Before the start of the Women's World Volleyball League, Cai Bin told the surging news reporter that this year, the team will let the substitutes play more at the right time under the premise of taking into account the team's results.
During the competition, Zheng Yixin, Zhonghui, Xu Xiaoting, Yang Hanyu, Gao Yi and other team members also got the opportunity to perform.
In some matches, the appearance of substitutes did show a dazzling performance, and even had a highlight moment that changed the trend of the game.
The Chinese women's volleyball team always has the support of fans behind it.
For the substitute players, Cai Bin does not want to be too harsh - in his opinion, the tension and mistakes at the beginning are not important, the important thing is whether they can grow quickly in the accumulation of experience, "Whoever starts to enter the world will be nervous, the key is to find the right direction of effort." ”
In order to give the substitutes more confidence, he also carefully thinks about the timing of sending them on the field, "I have been ready to let them play, but find a more suitable time." In this way, after the athlete goes up, self-confidence can be slowly cultivated. ”
There is no doubt that through this World Women's Volleyball League, the Chinese women's volleyball team, whether it is the main force or the substitute, has been fully tempered, which is enough to bring more self-confidence to the team.
Next, the Chinese women's volleyball team will also face the challenges of Olympic qualification and Asian Games this year, after the team has already put forward goals:
The Olympic qualification round strives to qualify as soon as possible, and the Asian Games strive for the championship.
In the face of the challenges ahead, the Chinese women's volleyball team will continue to "show the sword".