Xinhua News Agency, Yokohama, October 19th question: Although the Chinese women’s volleyball team has lost, its growth is more important than its achievements
Xinhua News Agency reporter Wei Hua, yan Lei
The Chinese women’s volleyball team, which saved many matches, still failed to resist egnu’s attack at the end. 2:3. After a thrilling five-game war, the Chinese team was blocked out of the final.
It is true that the Italian team has become a roadblock for the Chinese women’s volleyball team in the world championship, but this game will be remembered by many people. For the team, especially many young players, this rare experience is bound to become a stepping stone in their future growth path.
Growth, learning and experience are the three words that team coach Lang Ping mentioned most to reporters in this world championship. In the interview, she kept emphasizing “hope young players continue to grow” and “learn more from strong teams and accumulate experience for future games”……
This is not Lang Ping’s polite words to compliment his opponent. In the game, Lang Ping encouraged young players to fight for many times. When facing America’s 1:2 lag in the final six, Lang Ping decisively let Li Yingying take the bench. The latter’s 12 points became the key to the team’s reversal. Against Italy, Hu Mingyuan scored two consecutive serve points in the second game, directly helping the team lock in the victory of the bureau. Of course, as young players, their performance is sometimes unstable. For example, when facing Italy twice, Li Yingying failed to relieve Zhu Ting’s pressure well after his debut. Maybe this is the price of growth.
When the players perform well, Lang Ping will still point out their shortcomings, while when some players are criticized by the outside world, Lang Ping chooses to continue to trust. Although Lang Ping understood the importance of the world championships, she also knew the experience of the competition, especially the significance of the tests in adversity to these young people.
In the second stage and the final six, the Chinese women’s volleyball team still tried their best to win the two strong enemies of Russia and Holland twice under the condition that they had already finished ahead of schedule. Lang Ping once admitted to the reporter: “It is not that this year depends on this game, but also focus on Tokyo. Why do you say not to let the ball play with the strong team, because these are all strong players, it is very difficult to fight with anyone. It is an accumulation and experience.”
What Lang Ping said was not false. In the women’s volleyball world championship four years ago, the Chinese team lost to the United States to win the silver medal, setting the best result since 1998. What is more valuable than the silver medal is the growth of a group of young players in the team. Zhu Ting, who was already the main force of the team at that time, completed his first show in the three competitions, yuan Xinzhen was ordered to replace Xu Yunli, who was injured in the match between the top six and Dominica. Come to fame in an activity, the two also became the absolute main force of the team. In this Olympic cycle, the Chinese women’s volleyball team also successively stood on the highest podium in the World Cup, the Olympic Games and the Champions League.
In the first three competitions of the Tokyo Olympic cycle, although the Chinese women’s volleyball team failed to reach the final, its performance was still remarkable, after all, they defeated the US team that had not won in the three major competitions for ten years. Before the semi-finals, they played a record of ten wins and one loss, and became the best team with the Italian team. It is a pity that Lang Ping and her team members still blew a loud LaCorne in the new cycle.
Chinese women’s volleyball team, please continue to cheer!