The Asian Cup matches the style and characteristics of the new Chinese women's volleyball team

　　Our reporter Su Chang

　　The 2022 Women's Volleyball Asian Cup came to an end in the Philippines on the evening of August 29.

Although the Chinese women's volleyball team lost 1-3 to the Japanese women's volleyball team in the finals and was the runner-up, many young players showed their style and characteristics in this Asian Cup, reflecting the fine style of tenacious struggle and inheriting and carrying forward the spirit of the women's volleyball team.

As a test of the reserve force, the future of the Chinese women's volleyball team can be expected.

　　This Asian Cup, the Chinese women's volleyball team is based on the national youth women's volleyball team under the age of 20, plus 24-year-old freelancer Xu Jianan, second pass Xu Xiaoting, 25-year-old deputy Cao Tingting, 26-year-old deputy Hu Mingyuan and second pass Sun A "mixed" team formed by Haiping and other young players in their prime.

The backbone of the team are all teenagers born around 2000. For example, the main attack Zhuang Yushan is 19 years old, the main attack Wu Mengjie, the support Zhou Yetong and the auxiliary attack Wang Wenhan were all born in 2002.

The 20-year-old main attacker Zhuang Xinru, who came off the bench, had an eye-catching performance in the game, and the captain Wang Yifan was only 17 years old, and he had the aura of a newborn calf who was not afraid of tigers.

Wu Mengjie, Zhou Yetong and Hu Mingyuan were also selected for the best team of the Asian Cup.

　　In the final, they lost to the Japanese women's volleyball team. Kuang Qi, the coach who led the team to the Asian Cup, admitted that he must have some regrets.

"From this aspect, we can see the fundamental gap between the youth team and the adult players. This gap is not in terms of technology, but in the ability to seize opportunities. But I think the overall quality of the players in this Asian Cup is The performance and the process of each game are worthy of the team's hard work." Kuang Qi said.

　　In this Asian Cup, the Chinese women's volleyball team has won all the way in the group stage, and in the semi-finals, they fought tenaciously in 5 games to defeat the Thailand women's volleyball team who played the main force and had a good strength, which is impressive.

Kuang Qi said that this team has experienced many difficulties in the preparation and participation of the Asian Cup. For example, players such as Cao Tingting and Xu Xiaoting cooperated with the team for a short period of time, and they did not fully run in particularly systematically. The results have made him satisfied and gratified.

"We are a successful team, the fly in the ointment is that we have experienced too little. If we can have more opportunities to play against Asian powerhouses with distinctive technical characteristics such as the Japanese women's volleyball team and the Thai women's volleyball team, in time, our young team will be Can outsmart the opponent.”

　　Kuang Qi introduced that the entire team insisted on building basic skills and ideological style during the preparation and training process.

It is precisely because of the large number of young players that we must be unreserved and not afraid of hardships in the game. "We are brave and have no fear. After hard work, we can accept the result whether it is a win or a loss." Kuang Qi believes that the young players are in the In the Asian Cup, hands and feet were released, and all the players in the squad got the chance to play, "Everyone has seen that the new generation of main attacker Zhuang Xinru is on the stage, and every time the captain Wang Yifan plays the ball, he can make the opponent get stuck... ...So, our layout and arrangement are correct, but the ability to seize opportunities is a little immature."

　　After this Asian Cup training, young players in various positions have discovered their own shortcomings and accumulated experience.

For example, the attack height of the main attack is not inferior, but the changes of attack points and lines are not rich enough, and the small ball and defense are still a little less hot.

Another example is that the secondary attack has a good network port advantage, but the attack speed is not as fast as several Southeast Asian teams.

Kuang Qi said that young off-attackers should also combine high speed.

　　Through this Asian Cup and this year's many competitions, we can see that the Chinese Volleyball Association has insisted on the right direction to build the women's volleyball reserve force in recent years. Many outstanding young players with training potential have emerged in China. The concept of the national team and the establishment of the national women's volleyball training camp.

Kuang Qi introduced that Japan, Thailand, Vietnam and other Asian countries and regions with better development of women's volleyball will organize similar big national teams and training camps. Many second-tier teams of Asian powerhouses also train intensively all year round, so their young players cooperate with each other. It seems very tacit.

Kuang Qi hopes that the young teams of the Chinese women's volleyball team will have longer training time and more competition opportunities in the future, which will help improve their strength and help young players grow.