Participating in the World Women’s Volleyball League Brazil (Quote)
The Chinese team has a heavy task of comprehensively testing the lineup
Xie Chen, reporter from Tonight News
In the first week of the upcoming 2024 World Women’s Volleyball League, the Chinese team will participate in four games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Through the confrontation with the South Korean team, the United States team, the Canadian team, and the Serbian team, the Chinese team not only strives to win and accumulate world ranking points but also needs to complete many test goals for itself.
During this trip to Brazil, the Chinese team was accompanied by a total of 16 players, but the final roster could only report a maximum of 14 players. Among them, setter Ding Xia, who only returned late last month, has not been able to cooperate with her teammates for a long time. Perhaps coach Cai Bin will give Xu Xiaoting some opportunities to come on as a substitute to test her running-in with many attackers and her on-the-spot performance in international competitions.
In addition, among the five main attackers and four secondary attackers, Cai Bin may reduce one person when determining the 14-man roster. Since Zhu Ting missed the first race, the Chinese team had the opportunity to conduct rotation inspections of Li Yingying’s diagonal position in Brazil. Have Wang Yunxi’s strong attack breakthrough ability and Wu Mengjie’s and Wang Yizhu’s first pass stability improved? How is veteran Zhang Changning’s physical condition and game feeling recovering? Is there anyone who can handle the rotation duties at the setter position? There may be answers by then.
In addition, last year, the Chinese team emphasized accelerating the offensive rhythm on the one hand and increased the proportion of the secondary attacker’s tasks in the first attack and counterattack on the other hand. After the main offensive line has been fully strengthened this year, whether the team’s overall tactical play will be appropriately adjusted is also a point worth testing in actual combat for the Chinese women’s volleyball team in Brazil. Whether to achieve a balance or make a trade-off between offensive strength and first-pass quality is also a problem that coach Cai Bin needs to face head-on in the first stop of this year’s World Women’s Volleyball League.
Although the World Women’s Volleyball League sub-stations are related to qualifying for the Paris Olympics, the Chinese team still needs to strive for good results while starting preparations for the Paris Olympics in advance, especially different attempts and active adjustments to its own lineup and playing style.