Recently, some netizens exported the number of professional volleyball players of all ages in Japan and China through the FIVB volleybox, and the results were shocking: from 15 to 37 years old, the number of professional volleyball players in China is far lower than that in Japan!
Perhaps this also explains the rapid decline of the Chinese men's and women's volleyball teams, which were defeated by Japan in many games, and the Japanese men's and women's volleyball teams entered the World League finals one after another!
The Japanese men's volleyball team has entered the World League finals, and the Chinese men's volleyball team here is still struggling to win the World Cup, and it may not be able to win the championship! The Japanese women's volleyball team is getting better and better under the leadership of Masayoshi Manabe, but we in China have Zhu Ting, Li Yingying and others, but we can't beat Japan, which has an average height of just over 1.7 meters! This comparison can make people angry, and fans can only be anxious, obviously the height is better than others in all aspects, what is the problem?
Because the basic number of people participating in volleyball is much more than ours, coupled with an excellent coaching team, the policy of encouraging players to "go out and bring in", and a relatively high level of youth training, the future of Japanese men's and women's volleyball teams may always be pressed against China!
And Japan really loves, we are not good at basketball to practice volleyball, there is no such training environment since childhood, people are trained from a young age, not changed halfway, Japan plays with that passion, love can withstand all difficulties, even if it is a physical deficiency, can make up for it! At the same time, people's understanding, basic skills, and tactical literacy of volleyball are much stronger than ours! You must know that the popularity of volleyball in Japan has not been able to catch up with China for decades, and volleyball is a pure niche sport in our country!
There is an even more cruel fact that if we did not have a national system and access to school for sports students, there would be fewer people playing volleyball than now, and many provincial teams would be eliminated immediately!
And we don't value the league, there are no foreign coaches, and no players can go overseas to practice, the league is only a pool of stagnant water, so there are fewer and fewer professional players!
Besides, the coaches at the grassroots level, the foreign clubs are all top coaches like Lao Tilo, and the coaches of our local teams are all former men's volleyball players who have no achievements and have nowhere to place them after retiring, and their own level is limited, can the students they teach be the same?
Finally, our volleyball philosophy is also backward! The biggest problem is the improvement of the level of professional players, the improvement of physical ability, the competition is only one aspect, all the blame is one-sided on the tournament and the number of players. If the grassroots do not pay attention to basic physical training and rehabilitation training, as well as the awareness of self-protection, these are empty talk!
Because Japan does not have any advantage in height, it really takes a lot of effort to study technology and improve ability, and it has been cultivated since childhood, if we are not willing to really spend time on improving our grades but on those evil and crooked ways, wait, the Chinese men's and women's volleyball teams will be worse!