Cai Bin took over the Chinese women's volleyball team after the Beijing Olympic Games, after eight consecutive years in the women's volleyball national youth team full-time head coach, during which he led the team to participate in four world youth championships, and sent a batch of outstanding reserve talents for the national team, Liu Yanan, Song Nina, Li Juan, Xue Ming, Wang Yimei, Wei Qiuyue, Hui Ruoqi, etc. were all proud disciples under Cai Bin. The impressive record of the adult team is that during the shanghai women's volleyball team as the head coach, it won the championship four times in the National A A League;
Judging from the previous records and on-the-spot command, Cai Bin is still a very thoughtful and very brainy coach. The reform of the team and the construction of tactics seem to be very insightful now, but it is a pity that "it is not timely". When the team was reformed at the beginning of his tenure, he lost successive games in a system of matches, first in the women's volleyball grand prix to Germany, Poland and other countries, and then in the women's volleyball Asian Championship actually lost to Thailand. The emotional breakdown of the fans began to erupt, and only half a year of the managerial career came to a hasty end.
At that time, Wang Yimei, the star player of the Chinese women's volleyball team, had outstanding characteristics and had a certain strong offensive strength, but he did not have an advantage in the confrontation with the strong teams in Europe and the United States. The shortcomings of poor bounce, slow movement, and inability to receive a pass were magnified, affecting the play of the Chinese team's fast attack tactics, so Cai Bin began a drastic reform. There was no Wang Yimei on the announced list of expeditions, on the grounds that he could not fight due to injury, which shocked everyone's jaws. Now it seems that Cai Bin's reform should have been "premeditated" and correct and feasible, but Cai Bin had no confidence and no time to announce this "earth-shattering" plan. The transformation of Wang Yimei actually began in the later period of Chen Zhonghe, and later Wang Baoquan also tried, until the Lang Ping era, the cultivation of Zhu Ting, this reform was successfully ended. Many excellent coaches have a consensus on this, Chinese physique is different from that of Europeans, can not rely only on explosive power, strength to fight with European and American strong teams, we need to have a strong offensive ability, have a pass guarantee, and then play the speed of the deputy attacker, play the rapid change of Asian teams.
Revisit the list of Chinese players who played in the Asian Championships at that time: Wei Qiuyue, Xue Ming, Ma Yunwen, Li Juan, Chu Jinling, Yin Na, Hui Ruoqi, Xu Yunli, Shen Jingsi, Zhao Yanni, Zhang Xian, Wang Qian. In fact, Cai Bin's tactical thinking is consistent with the later direction of Lang Ping. Let's take a look at the list of winners of the Asian Championships at that time:
List of individual awards
Most Valuable Player: Sittirak Onuma (Thailand)
Top Scorer: Kim Yeon-kyung (Korea)
Best Slam Dunk: Xue Ming (China)
Best Net: Xue Ming (China)
Best Tee: Saori Kimura (Japan)
Best Second Pass: Nootsara Tomkom (Thailand)
Best Free Man: Vannes
At that time, the awards in each position were actually the world's top existence, including a number of Asian celebrities such as Wei Qiuyue and Takeshita Jiajiang, who were not on the list, and a number of Asian celebrities such as Wei Qiuyue and Takeshita Jiajiang rose up, vigorously promoting the reform of masculinity in Europe and the United States, while making Asia's rapid and changeable as the pinnacle. Fans have always been the only game of the Chinese team in Asia was suddenly broken, panic that China withdrew from the ranks of the world's strongest teams, in fact, later the London Olympic Games, South Korea joined hands to enter the final four, proving that that period of time is actually a highlight period of Asian volleyball, not the decline in the strength of the Chinese team.
The young new coach Cai Bin faced great pressure and difficulties at that time, but the fans gave little room to maneuver. At that time, many teams in the international volleyball and Asian volleyball arenas were already in the harvest period of reform, the masculine play of European and American teams was basically formed, the fast belt of several Asian teams was also playing with wind and water, repeatedly overturning strong teams in the competition, more than a dozen teams in the entire world volleyball world were at a similar level, each team may win the championship, it is also possible to fail to enter the top eight, but this is completely unacceptable to Chinese fans at that time, and now it seems that it was the fans who were stingy at the time, Cai Bin was really aggrieved. After the Grand Prix team lost to Germany and Poland, doubts and curses were raging. The next Asian Championship, unfortunately defeated by the golden generation of the Thai women's volleyball team, the fans completely broke out, the official media have spoken out, the spearhead pointed directly at Cai Bin, Cai Bin apologized useless, the intolerable volleyball association really accepted its dismissal. Looking back at that time now, in fact, the real failure was the reform of the women's volleyball team, precisely because the volleyball association at that time was not firm and the direction was not clear, which led to the reform of the Chinese women's volleyball team tactics being questioned, denied, and losing the precious time of the London Olympic cycle. Cai Bin is a bit of a tragic "death before he dies", if he could give Cai Bin a certain amount of trust and time at that time, the situation would definitely be very different.
Time has passed, and the new coach of that year is no longer young, and Cai Bin, who has been misunderstood once, will return to this Chinese team that embarrassed him? Whether you want to come back or not, you want to sincerely say to Cai Bin, "Thank you, I'm sorry!" ”