China News Service, October 12th. In the early morning of the 12th Beijing time, the Chinese women's volleyball team lost 1:3 to the Italian women's volleyball team in the quarter-finals of the World Championships and failed to advance to the semi-finals.

Summarizing the journey of the World Championships, Cai Bin, the head coach of the Chinese women's volleyball team, said that although there are regrets, the players showed a good spirit in the game, and they can see their shining points and potentials, and they also found them through this World Championships. The future direction of the new Chinese women's volleyball team.

Cai Bin, head coach of the Chinese women's volleyball team.

Photo by Zhang Jinchuan

  In the quarter-finals with the Italian women's volleyball team, the Chinese women's volleyball team did their best.

In the face of the pressure from the Italian women's volleyball team in the blocking link, the Chinese women's volleyball players actively adjusted.

Under the unfavorable situation of losing two games at 16:25 and 22:25, the Chinese women's volleyball team tenaciously pulled back a game with 25:13.

However, due to the ups and downs of the first pass, the Chinese women's volleyball team's attack was suppressed by the opponent, and finally lost 17:25 in the fourth game.

  Cai Bin said that the team members worked very hard in the game that day and showed good effort.

However, since this game is a knockout match that will determine the semi-finals, although the young players are all looking forward to going further, they were a little timid at the beginning of the game, they did not fully let go, and their performance was not particularly stable.

However, Cai Bin also affirmed the performance of the players in the third game. He believed that the players, including veteran Ding Xia and auxiliary attack Yang Hanyu, played a good role when the team's offensive rhythm was not smooth.

  The Chinese women's volleyball team and the Italian women's volleyball team have played four matches this year in the World Women's Volleyball League and the Women's Volleyball World Championships.

Cai Bin believes that in the face of the world-class Italian women's volleyball team, the young players of the Chinese women's volleyball team need to adapt to the characteristics of their opponent's style of play from actual combat and find ways to defeat their opponents in order to improve.

The Chinese women's volleyball team's blocking and key blockade of the Italian women's volleyball team's top scorer Egnu that day also improved compared with the previous games.

Under the pressure of the Chinese women's volleyball team, Egnu made many active mistakes, "Egnu's jumping and explosiveness are at the top level in the world, we have to find ways to deal with her, including the rhythm of blocking her, etc., We all have to make a conclusion.”

  Cai Bin said frankly that although it is a pity that they could not make further progress in the current women's volleyball world championships, the young Chinese women's volleyball players have well implemented the pre-match requirements during the competition and have done a good job in the face of various opponents in the world championships. prepared for the difficulties, fought against each opponent, showed his own level and good spirit, and the overall performance was quite satisfactory, "We face different difficulties, and we can rely on the strength of the team, step by step, and each team with different styles and characteristics. The world powerhouses play against each other, which is our harvest of this World Championship."

  Cai Bin also said that through this World Championships, he saw the bright spots of the players and their future potential, and also found the direction of the Chinese women's volleyball team.

He said that the Chinese women's volleyball team will do a good job in the summary of the World Championships, work harder to develop in an all-round way at the technical level, and strive to improve the balance of offense and defense to a higher level.

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