After a 10-day off-season, the second stage of the 2021-2022 Chinese Women's Volleyball Super League is rekindled, according to the schedule, after the end of this stage, the 14 teams will be divided into two groups of 6 and 7-14, so this stage of the game is crucial for each team. The Chinese Volleyball Association also unveiled the second stage poster on its official social platform.
Compared with the poster of the first stage, the poster of the second stage is more atmospheric and the selection of personnel is more abundant, not only domestic players, but also international foreign aid. A total of 8 players appear in the poster, namely Tianjin Yao Di, Jiangsu Gong Xiangyu, Shanghai Jin Softjing, Shandong Song Meili, Zhejiang Zhu Yuezhou, Liaoning Dingxia, Guangdong Liyao and Shenzhen Zhang Yichan.
Some fans saw this poster and joked that "the team to which these 8 players belong should be the top eight of this year's Volleyball Super League." "Of course, the specific ranking also depends on the subsequent performance of each team. What is quite surprising is that This poster is missing Tianjin female ranking general Li Yingying. In the league's first poster and all-Star Game poster, Li Yingying is the first choice of the volleyball association, and both put her in the C position.
Li Yingying not only missed the second league poster, but was also replaced by Yao Di of the same team. It is worth noting that the heads of Gong Xiangyu and Jin Softjing in the poster are enlarged, so that fans can see at a glance. Jin Softjing, as the first sister of the Korean women's volleyball team and the MVP of the London Olympic Games, enjoys this treatment beyond reproach. As for Gong Xiangyu being amplified as the focus of publicity in the second stage, it can only show that the Volleyball Association recognizes Gong Xiangyu.
This season, due to Zhang Changning's injury, Gong Xiangyu has become the captain and core of the Jiangsu women's volleyball team. Before the start of the league, fans were more worried about whether Gong Xiangyu's offense could support the burden of the team's adjustment of attack, but as far as the first stage of the league and the all-Star Game were concerned, Gong Xiangyu's attack had no problem at all. Although Gong Xiangyu's offensive strength is not as good as other players, there are more offensive changes, the choice of hanging ball, tap and landing point is stronger than other players, and the seemingly non-threatening slam can always turn the crisis into a turnaround.
Under the leadership of Gong Xiangyu, the results of the Jiangsu women's volleyball team in this league to the current position are very ideal, only lost to the Liaoning women's volleyball team one ball, the rest of the games are full victories, even the Shanghai team with foreign aid can not stop Jiangsu from winning the pace. Perhaps it is precisely because of this that Gong Xiangyu will be favored by the Volleyball Association and become the focus of the second stage of publicity, which is also a thing worth celebrating for the Jiangsu women's volleyball team. I hope that Gong Xiangyu can continue to work hard in future competitions.