The results of the Chinese Women’s Volleyball World League are not satisfactory. Why has Lang Ping with swollen eyes nothing to say?Fly into the homes of ordinary people
With swollen eyes and nothing to say, Lang Ping and the Chinese women’s volleyball team have been frequently searched for in the past two weeks. The World Women’s Volleyball League is only a commercial event of the FIVB, but the significance of being held on the eve of the Tokyo Olympics is different. Training the lineup, inspecting players, and selecting substitutes are the main goals of the head coach Lang Ping. The results are obviously not the first.
However, the performance of the second team in the international arena is still shocking. Whether it is technical level or psychological quality, they are very different from the image of women’s volleyball fans in the hearts of fans. Fortunately, today, the six main players of the Chinese women’s volleyball team, led by Zhu Ting, rushed to the rescue. They will make their debut in the game against the Dutch team on June 12. This group of main players will undoubtedly turn the tide in the world league, but the gap between the second team and the main force is so huge that it should not be normal.
Caption: Lang Ping’s official Chinese women’s volleyball team (the same below)
Basic skills are not solid enough
“I have already said what I have to say, I have nothing to say.” When playing against the German women’s volleyball team, Lang Ping’s tactical arrangements were broadcast live. Lang Ping, who had nothing to say, did not personally direct him in the last game against Turkey. She was still noticed while wearing a mask, and her eyes were red and swollen. Indeed, the 3 wins and 3 losses, how can she sleep well.
In the 5 games she coached on the spot, the most talked about was block and pass. She emphasized to the deputy attackers over and over again, pay attention to the shape of the hand, don’t keep raising it high, but at the same time stretch it forward, and don’t press some balls into destructive blocks. Blocking has become the “pain point” of the Chinese women’s volleyball team in these six games.
Data can tell everything. Against Turkey, the Chinese women’s volleyball team’s four secondary attackers were all tall and scored 0 in the block, while the opponent’s old captain, Ada, who was only 1.90 meters tall, had 5 blocks, more than the Chinese women’s volleyball team. In fact, the deputy attack is precisely the position where the Chinese women’s volleyball team has come out in large numbers. However, from the perspective of this game, there is no one who can succeed the 34-year-old veteran Yan Ni.
Caption: Chinese Women’s Volleyball Team vs. Turkish Women’s Volleyball Team
What is even more frustrating is that the first pass is “flying all over the sky.” Even the main free man Wang Mengjie, beside a group of second team members, also exposed the lack of ability to pass the next pass. The first pass is not good, which directly leads to the play of the second pass. The setter in this team can’t be worthy of any secondary attacker, and the ball sent is either a hunched spike or a weak vegetable ball.
Lang Ping has said everything he should have said countless times. Regarding these two technologies, both belong to the problem of basic skills. Why do the talents who are selected among the best, but not even the basic skills?
The best passes of the Chinese women’s volleyball team are Zhu Ting and Li Yingying, but even after these two talented players came to the national team, it was under the polishing of Lang Ping that they improved the level of the pass by more than one level. The purpose of the national team training is precisely to train tactics and cultivate coordination. Shouldn’t these basic skills be cultivated from an early age?
From this perspective, there is no doubt that there is a gap between the level of training and methods of players in the grassroots team and the connection between the national team. There are not many volleyball clubs in China, and there are few teams with sufficient funds and a good youth training system, so that even if players are recruited into professional clubs, their basic skills are still lacking in many details.
National team training takes a lot of time to start from the basic skills, Lang Ping is indeed very tired.
Playing less in high-level games
In fact, these players are not newcomers. As early as the 2019 World League Finals, almost the same group of players finally won the final third place. The main difference between the two teams is that Zhang Changning replaced Gong Xiangyu two years ago. Two years ago, this team could wrestle with the strongest main team in the world, but now it can’t even beat the second-rate team. What happened?
Is it because of less training? On the contrary, due to the new crown and preparations for the Olympics, the national team has had the most training camps in the past two years. In fact, they are not practicing less, but playing less.
In the 2019-2020 season, the Super League has been compressed to the shortest schedule to make way for the national team to prepare for the Olympics, but the Olympics were delayed. Last year, although there were championships and leagues, the epidemic was compressed to the shortest time in history.
Illustrated:Chinese women’s volleyball team lost to Canada women’s volleyball team 2:3
In contrast, Europe and the United States, their leagues are in full swing. Not to mention that the Canadian women’s volleyball team has never won the Chinese women’s volleyball team before, but in the past two years, the team’s newcomers have grown rapidly, and many people have taken on important responsibilities in various European teams. Among the main opponents of the Chinese women’s volleyball team in this world league, most players play in these leagues. Undoubtedly, the epidemic has a greater impact on the Chinese women’s volleyball team.
For a long time, the world‘s best volleyball players have played in the European League, and the Chinese women’s volleyball team basically competed with their own. As there are performance indicators in various local clubs, except for Zhu Ting, outstanding players rarely have the opportunity to stay abroad, and usually do not feel the changes and progress of the world‘s main opponents in volleyball.
In two years, the opponents are improving, but our group of players has only become “old”.
If you want to win, you will be too burdened to lose
When Wang Yuanyuan issued the “air ball” that did not touch the ball, even the referee was shocked and asked: “What happened?” Afterwards, Wang Yuanyuan explained that she was disturbed, but the careful fans discovered that this was not her first time. Once this problem occurred, it fully reflected her lack of concentration.
Illustrated:Wang Yuanyuan Xinhua News Agency
The serve of the other side attackers was not much better, and the serve was weak and weak, allowing the opponent to frequently organize effective offenses. During the timeout, Lang Ping also repeatedly asked: “We usually serve and practice so much, why can’t we play as soon as the game is in the game?”
Lang Ping is investigating who can go to Tokyo on the bench, and some players are burdened with a huge psychological burden of wanting to win and fear of losing. In the face of pressure, Wang Yuanyuan’s mentality collapsed directly.
After 6 games, the only thing that made people shine was the youngest Li Yao, an attacker who improved every year, capable of taking two positions in the main attack. Although the strength is incomparable with the main players, she is competent in the much-needed substitute position of the Chinese team.
The Chinese women’s volleyball second team players must achieve self-transcendence. This is why, in the preparatory meeting before the game against Turkey, Lang Ping did not specially arrange anything, but let the players discuss and encourage each other.
Zhu Ting and other six main forces “rush to help” undoubtedly make fans look forward to the dawn of victory. But don’t forget the purpose of this world league. In the third week of the match against Belgium, Serbia and Brazil, the main force of the “assistance” is still not available. The second team players need to play twelve points and seize the chance to prove themselves in the end. (Xinmin Evening News reporter Tao Xingying)
Editor: Wu Xuying
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