On the evening of August 31, the official website of the Chinese Volleyball Association published an article criticizing the performance of the Chinese women's volleyball team in the Tokyo Olympic Games, "Why the Chinese women's volleyball team lost the army", analyzing the reasons for the defeat of the Chinese women's volleyball team from five angles. The author is no one else, it is Zhang Ran, former vice chairman of the Chinese Volleyball Association and head coach of the Jiangsu team, and Zhang Ran, 91 years old this year, is also Yuan Weimin's mentor.
Born in 1930, Zhang Ran was the second setter of the Chinese Bayi team and the national team in the 1950s, and served as the head coach of the Jiangsu men's and women's volleyball teams, the vice chairman of the Chinese Volleyball Association, the director of the coaching committee, the editorial board of China Volleyball Magazine, and the chairman of the Jiangsu Provincial Volleyball Association. In 1958, Zhang Ran went to Jiangsu as the first head coach, bringing out a number of outstanding volleyball players such as Yuan Weimin, Zou Zhihua, Di Anhe, Sun Jinfang, Zhang Jieyun, Yin Qin, etc., of which Sun Jinfang, Zhang Jieyun, and Yin Qin won the world championship, and Yuan Weimin, Zou Zhihua, Di An and 3 all served as the head coaches of the national men's and women's volleyball teams. It is particularly worth mentioning that Yuan Weimin, who has the reputation of "gold medal coach", has almost no contact with volleyball before meeting Zhang Ran. At that time, Zhang Ran, as the coach of the Jiangsu team, selected the first batch of players for the Jiangsu team, and Yuan Weimin, who had just graduated from high school, was selected by Zhang Ran, who said, "Yuan Weimin's receptivity is very strong, the reaction speed is very fast, the pace is very flexible, and it is very suitable for training as a second setter." "It turns out that Zhang Ran has a unique vision, and after entering the Jiangsu team, Yuan Weimin grew up rapidly, and his passing action was almost exactly the same as Zhang Ran's. In less than 4 years, Yuan Weimin was selected by the national team, and his volleyball life began all the way.
The left one is Zhang Ran, and the right one is Yuan Weimin
Yuan Weimin has always regarded Zhang Ran as his mentor, and later after leading the Chinese women's volleyball team to win three consecutive championships, he also said, "Without Zhang's guidance, I would not be where I am today." However, Zhang Ran behaved very modestly, "The growth of an outstanding athlete depends on the good conditions created by the party and the government, and is also inseparable from his own talent and diligence." The so-called 'master leads into the door, and the talent is in the individual.' Yuan Weimin's learning ability is very strong, and the degree of hard work and hard work he has studied hard is unimaginable to many people. ”
In addition, Zhang Ran is also the "suggester" of the volleyball base in Zhangzhou. According to the "History of Volleyball in China" compiled by Yuan Weimin, in 1972, in order to develop the volleyball cause, the State Sports Commission decided to establish a volleyball training base in the south of China to conduct volleyball training conferences. In order to choose a suitable training base, the Volleyball Department of the State Sports Commission assigned Zhang Ran, who was working in the volleyball research group at that time, to go south to investigate. As an expert of the research group of the State Sports Commission, Zhang Ran went all the way south to visit several regions, and finally selected Zhangzhou, Fujian Province, and reported the inspection results and site selection suggestions to the State Sports Commission. In the report, he mentioned that there are four advantages to using Zhangzhou as a volleyball training base, namely: the leadership attaches importance to sports; the masses love volleyball; the winter climate is pleasant; and the material products are abundant. Afterwards, Zhang Ran admitted that although he had feelings for his hometown at that time, he did not have selfish distractions, comprehensively considered various factors, and the objective conditions and subjective efforts of Zhangzhou were in line with the needs of the construction of the national volleyball training base.
Zhang Ran, known as the "Teacher of the Stars", although he has not undergone systematic study and further study in colleges and universities, he is good at learning, loving to study, good at thinking, diligently summarizing, with tenacious perseverance, Zhang Ran assiduously taught himself cultural knowledge and volleyball theory, not only became the first batch of state-level coaches in China rated by the National Sports Commission, but later also became a professor at Nanjing University of Physical Education. In the long-term training and competition practice, Zhang Ran learned to grasp the development trend of volleyball at home and abroad and the advanced training concepts of various countries, and used his spare time to write books and lectures. According to incomplete statistics, Zhang Ran has published 6 monographs, 6 co-authors, and published more than 400 articles, many of which have been published in the technical journals of the International Volleyball Federation. In addition, as a senior lecturer of the FIVB, Zhang Ran has also been to more than 30 countries and regions to engage in volleyball competitions and lectures. In 2019, Zhang Ran, who is already ninety years old, also published the book "New Choreography Ball Training Discussion", saying, "I hope to record the experience of our generations of Volleyball players in China, pass it on and carry it forward." And look forward to the Chinese volleyball industry, a hundred feet, to a higher level! ”
Now, with Zhang Ran's "Why the Chinese Women's Volleyball Team Defeated dongying", an article criticizing the performance of the Chinese women's volleyball team in the Tokyo Olympic Games, which has aroused heated discussion on the Internet, he has once again become the focus of people's attention.