At the 2019 Women's Volleyball World Cup awards ceremony, the Chinese women's volleyball team climbed onto the highest podium in the World Cup and achieved the feat of ten championships in three major competitions.

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　　China News Service, Beijing, May 28. A few days ago, the Chinese Volleyball Association website published an article by Zhang Ran, a former Chinese men's volleyball setter who was over 90 years old. In the article, he recalled the development of China's volleyball career and sorted out The formation and development of the spirit of women's volleyball, and put forward their own expectations for the future development of Chinese volleyball.

　　In 1951, Zhang Ran became the first professional athlete of the Bayi Volleyball team. In September 1956, the Chinese men’s and women’s volleyball team participated in the World Volleyball Championship for the first time in Paris. The men's volleyball ranked 9th.

According to his memories, in the early days of the founding of New China, the mass base of volleyball was low and the level of sports skills was not high. It was far from the Soviet Union and some countries in Eastern Europe, which were the world's volleyball hegemons at the time.

　　Zhang Ran recalled in the article that in the 1950s, the New Chinese volleyball players learned the Soviet "Big Brother" relatively systematic volleyball teaching and training theory and methods; in the 1960s, they learned the revolution of the People's Liberation Army that "one is not afraid of hardship and the other is not afraid of death". Spirit, and the hard-working technical skills of "starting from difficulty, strictness and actual combat"; at the same time, learn the strict training, strict requirements and high-volume training methods of Japanese women's volleyball coach Omatsu Bowen.

Data map; Zhu Ting in the game.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Du Yang

　　After several generations of Chinese volleyball players' hard work, on the basis of learning from others and summing up their own experience, in the middle and late 1970s, they finally found a correct development that follows the rules of volleyball training, conforms to the trend of world volleyball technology, and conforms to the characteristics of Chinese athletes. the way.

　　Moreover, in the process of long-term practice, the "women's volleyball spirit" factors such as the motherland in mind, hard training, tenacious competition, unity and friendship, have become a powerful spiritual pillar of daily training and competition.

　　In June 1976, the National Sports Commission decided to reorganize the national team, with Yuan Weimin as the head coach of the women's volleyball team and Dai Tingbin as the head coach of the men's volleyball team.

　　With the active cooperation and joint efforts of assistants and athletes, Yuan Weimin has built the Chinese women's volleyball team into a team with technical characteristics, tactical style, tenacious will, strong style, unity, friendship, courage and strategy, and able to win in a relatively short period of time. Team.

Data map: Lang Ping.

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　　The 1977 World Cup won the 4th place, the 1978 World Championships the 6th place, and the 1979 Asian Championships won the laurels, all exceeding the best results in history.

In November 1981, he made his debut in the World Cup in Japan. In 1982, he won the World Championship in Peru. In 1984, he won the Olympic champion in the United States.

　　"It's worth pointing out that the Chinese women's volleyball team won the'three consecutive championships'. It is not easy and easy to get. They are all difficult to obtain in a decisive battle with the host, the time and place are favorable, and the situation is not conducive to me." Zhang Ran Write.

　　In 1985 and 1986, the Chinese women's volleyball team was taught by Deng Ruozeng and Zhang Rongfang respectively, and they won the World Cup and World Championships in a row, which was known as the "five consecutive championships."

　　Zhang Ran wrote: The Chinese women's volleyball team won these miraculous achievements, not by luck, but by hard work. With the help of the motherland that has been honed and demonstrated through the accumulation of work, it is inspiring to win glory for the country, hard scientific training, and mastering superb technology. , Use tactics correctly, fight tenaciously, and work in close unity.

Data map: Chen Zhonghe (first from right).

Photo by Wang Dongming

　　He concluded that the technical strength of this team and the spirit of its performance are called the spirit of the women's volleyball team.

　　After the Chinese women's volleyball team won the "five consecutive championships", it experienced a period of setbacks and decline.

After the joint efforts of everyone, by the beginning of the 21st century, the volleyball situation will be extremely smooth and vigorous.

　　The Chinese women's volleyball team, led by Chen Zhonghe and Lang Ping respectively, inherited and promoted the "Women's Volleyball Spirit" and won three World Cups and two Olympic champions.

　　Zhang Ran believes that the spirit of the women's volleyball team did not appear by accident. It is the crystallization of several generations of Chinese volleyball players who have gone through tribulations, continuous exploration, and joint creation. It was inherited and established by Yuan Weimin and his team in the 1970s and 1980s, and his successor Chen Zhonghe , Coach Lang Ping, linking the past, carrying forward, and through training and competition life this big stage, it is vividly interpreted.

　　"The spirit of the women's volleyball team does not exist in isolation. It is attached to or rooted in the corresponding technical strength."

　　After winning the "three consecutive championships", Yuan Weimin summarized the main technical advantages of the Chinese women's volleyball team as follows: "Comprehensive technology, changeable tactics, high-speed combination, and tacit cooperation."

Acosta, then chairman of the International Volleyball Federation, once praised the Chinese women's volleyball team's style of play, which represented the development trend of contemporary world volleyball.

Data map: Chinese women's volleyball team.

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　　Zhang Ran believes that the acquisition of these technical advantages must rely on the hard work, firm will, tenacious struggle, and courageous and enterprising spirit cultivated in daily training and competition.

　　For the future development of the women's volleyball team, Zhang Ran also put forward his own views.

　　He believes that with the improvement of athletes' body, physical fitness and offensive ability, volleyball offensive and defensive confrontation will surely intensify; not only will the "online" deduction and blocking skills struggle be intense, but also the "ground" padding, passing, defense, and protection skills will also It must be heavy, and offense and defense technology and tactics must be more comprehensively coordinated.

　　Due to the continuous development of technical and tactical levels, new requirements will be placed on the spirit of the women’s volleyball team, enriching new connotations, such as the arduousness and science of training, the predictability and planning of the game, and the ability to mobilize people. Will be further strengthened.

He said that this should be the duty of Chinese volleyball players in the new era.

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