Beijing News Sports | Reporter Kong Ning
In the early morning of October 12, Beijing time, Chinese women's volleyball ended the journey of the 2022 international competition with sixth place in the World Championships. This year, the Chinese women's volleyball team completed two important international competition tasks, namely the World Women's Volleyball Team League and the World Women's Volleyball Championship, both of which reached the quarterfinals. Chinese women's volleyball coach Cai Bin 12 accepted Beijing Daily client reporters on the evening of the 312th and said that the Chinese women's volleyball team should still work hard in the future.
The topic of reporters and Cai Bin starts from the quarter-finals between the Chinese team and the Italian team. Cai Bin said that the team was well prepared before the game and could have rushed out in the first game, but facing the strong Italian team, the players were somewhat restrained, and this game was a knockout match that decided the semi-finals. The players did not completely relax the start and their performance was unstable. In the third game, veteran Ding Xia and deputy attacker Yang Hanyu played a very good role in the appearance. In the fourth game, the team also had a chance, but the details such as first pass were not meticulous enough, allowing the opponent to widen the score gap. Cai Bin believes that the players worked very hard throughout the game and showed good fighting spirit. "Faced with the world-class team of Italian women's volleyball , we must adapt to the characteristics of our opponents in actual combat and find ways to defeat our opponents. Egnu 's bounce and explosive power are at the top of the world, but our blocking and defense still make them make many mistakes. This is an opportunity, but we have not been able to continue to put pressure on us." Cai Bin said, revealing his unwillingness.
When it comes to the quarterfinals of the World Women's Volleyball League and the quarterfinals of the World Championships, Cai Bin believes that each player has made progress to different degrees of improvement compared to himself. Among them, the main attacker Wang Yunhuang is the most prominent representative, and her changes are all-round. Cai Bin said that Wang Yunzhang trained very hard, fought very hard on the court, and dared to fight. He had a good temperament in the game, which also led the entire team. In fact, every player in the team is improving, and the tacit understanding and trust between players and between players and coaches are increasing.
On February 3 this year, Cai Bin officially became the head coach of the Chinese women's volleyball team. However, when he started training in Zhangzhou , the women's volleyball girls who experienced a crushing defeat at the Tokyo Olympics were distracted, and the whole team was not formed at all, and there were no star players. Even Li Yingying was the first time in to play the main force during the Paris Olympic cycle, and young players still find it difficult to support the technical and tactical system. Cai Bin’s important task is to revitalize the confidence of the Chinese women’s volleyball team.
Restore confidence, it is easy to know and difficult to do. Cai Bin and the coaching team have done a lot of work and have suffered unimaginable hardships outside. However, real reshaping still requires real swords and guns to verify. Just after the World Women's Volleyball League advanced to the quarterfinals this year and lost to the Italian team 1-3 in the quarter-finals, some people believed that the confidence of the Chinese team was frustrated. In fact, it was just the opposite. Cai Bin said that what the girls saw was that they were not "so bad" as they imagined.
The whole team returned to the Beilun training base in Ningbo. Their mental outlook was completely different from that in Zhangzhou training camp. It can be said that confidence was rebuilding. Just when the outside world is not optimistic, after just two months of training in Beilun , the Chinese women's volleyball team is far from being "reborn", but it is indeed a brand new look. This confidence comes from the slight improvement of technical and tactical capabilities, and comes from the victory after firmly implementing the coach's intentions. At this World Championships, the Chinese team had two classic battles, one was a 3-0 victory over the Japanese team , and the other was a 3-2 defeat of the Dutch team. In the two games, the Chinese team not only played excellent technical and tactical skills, but also played the women's volleyball spirit , which was tenacious and never-sayed.
Cai Bin said that the players showed a good mental outlook in the game, could see their bright spots and potential, and also found the direction of the future efforts of the Chinese women's volleyball team through this World Championships. "Although the team failed to go further in this Women's Volleyball World Championships, the players have implemented the pre-match requirements well in the competition, made sufficient preparations for each opponent, and fought hard for each opponent, showing their own level and good spirit.We face different difficulties and are able to rely on the strength of the team to fight against various world powerhouses with different styles and characteristics step by step. This is our gain this time. "Cai Bin said.
passed the World Championships, the Chinese women's volleyball team proved that it was still among the world's strong teams, and after the competition, it gained confidence and was full of expectations for the future. Cai Bin said: "The Chinese women's volleyball team will make a good summary of this World Championships, work harder to develop comprehensively at the technical level, and strive to improve the balance of offense and defense to a higher level. ”
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