China News Service, Beijing, October 12 (Reporter Xing Chong) On the 12th, Beijing time, after losing 1:3 to the Italian team, the Chinese women's volleyball team stopped in the quarter-finals, thus ending the tour of this World Championships.

Reaching the quarterfinals has achieved the goal set before the game, and it is also a reasonable ranking that the current Chinese women's volleyball team can achieve.

　　The current Chinese women's volleyball lineup is far from comparable to the "golden era".

The 2016 Rio Olympic Games and the 2019 Women's Volleyball World Cup have successively won the championship, and the Chinese women's volleyball team has reached its peak. However, last year's Tokyo Olympics encountered Waterloo and failed to qualify for the group stage with two wins and three losses, setting the worst record in its Olympic history.

Since then, head coach Lang Ping has stepped down, veterans such as Yan Ni and Liu Xiaotong have retired, and the core players of Zhu Ting and Zhang Changning have faded out of the arena due to injuries and other factors, and the Chinese women's volleyball team has fallen into silence.

　　Until February of this year, Cai Bin was in charge of the national team again after a lapse of 13 years. The Chinese women's volleyball team started the selection of players and officially kicked off the new cycle of preparations. After a series of selection methods such as training camps and physical fitness tests, a new combination of old and new was formed A national team.

In the first competition of the new cycle, the World Women's Volleyball League, the Chinese women's volleyball team won 8 wins and 4 losses, and lost to the Italian team in the finals, and finally ranked sixth, the lowest ranking in the past four competitions.

　　It can be seen from the World League that the pattern of women's volleyball in the world has quietly changed.

The Italian team with a neat lineup and the superstar Egnu has won the world league championship for the first time. The traditional first-class teams such as Brazil, Serbia and the United States have completed the transition between the old and the new, and the strength is still strong. Japan, Thailand and other comprehensive teams Rapidly rising, the Chinese women's volleyball team is still going through the pain of changing blood, losing to Thailand, the United States, Japan, Brazil and Italy successively.

　　As a more important battle in the new cycle, the Chinese women's volleyball team in the World Championships basically followed the World League lineup. In the 10 games they participated in, they played against 9 opponents. Except for the loss to Brazil and Italy, they all achieved victories, which is better than that of the World League. There's really been some progress.

　　For example, the Chinese team in the World League was reversed 1:3 by the Japanese team, the World Championships played again, and the Chinese women's volleyball team took revenge for three consecutive games. In this battle, the Chinese women's volleyball team blossomed more, Li Yingying's attack was sharp, Diao Linyu's deployment was reasonable, and Wang Mengjie showed world-class freedom Human ability, to justify his name, Wang Yunwei, who is mostly a substitute in the World League, has become an extraordinary soldier. He is stable and decisive in attack, and is the main scorer of the team. This allows the outside world to see the growth of women's volleyball players.

　　The quarter-finals played against the Italian team again. The opponent's main force still had the upper hand, but the Chinese women's volleyball team showed excellent organizational attack and blocking in the third game, forcing the opponent to make repeated mistakes and stubbornly fight for the next game with 25:13. , compared with the 0:3 "brittle defeat" in the group stage, there has been a significant improvement.

　　Although there are still problems such as lack of blocking and disconnection of offense and defense in the face of strong players, the gradual formation of the Chinese women's volleyball tactical system is also visible to the naked eye.

Before the game, Gong Xiangyu's foot injury recurred, and he was unable to effectively undertake the right-wing offensive task. The Chinese team made a temporary change, Gong Xiangyu made more support-type responses, and took advantage of the situation to launch a high-speed play system with Li Yingying as the core attack point, revitalizing the entire team.

Younger Yang Hanyu, who came off the bench twice against the Netherlands and Italy, showed a good temperament and enriched the team's offensive system.

　　In addition, compared to the World League, head coach Cai Bin was more able to command on the spot, and used the suspension adjustment many times to help the team out of the predicament.

The team's running-in is also getting better. Cai Bin has expressed his trust in the players many times, and the players often mention "more confidence and unity".

　　It is undeniable that the current Chinese women's volleyball team still has an obvious strength gap compared with the world's top teams, but it has already allowed the outside world to see growth and progress.

In Cai Bin's view, the goal of the Chinese women's volleyball team participating in the World Championships is not only what kind of results they can achieve, but also hope that the players can absorb nutrients and accumulate experience in the process of confronting high-level opponents in Europe and the United States, so as to improve the overall strength of the team.

　　In the previous world championships, the Chinese women's volleyball team has only won two championships in the 1980s, and it has been 36 years since the team won the championship for the last time in 1986.

The World Championship is an honor that fans and the women's volleyball team aspire to win. The outside world also needs to look at the strength and situation of the new women's volleyball team objectively and calmly. It is impossible to get out of the trough overnight, and it takes time and patience.

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