On January 4, this season's Women's Volleyball Super League ended the battle for three or four places, and finally the Shanghai women's volleyball team swept the Liaoning women's volleyball team 3-0, winning 2-0 in the three win-two competitions and winning the third place in the league. From the beginning of the 2014-2015 season, the Shanghai women's volleyball team has entered the top three in the league seven times in the past 8 years, and finally won three runners-up and four third places, except for the 2016-2017 season, when it won the sixth place. Such a stable result, but can not be exchanged for a league championship breakthrough, especially this year the Shanghai women's volleyball team has spent a lot of money to introduce two world-class foreign aid, but the result is that because of the limitations of the format, it has not played a role, and the fans are not happy.
As a league after the Tokyo Olympic Games, in addition to the return of the national team members to the local area, many places have also opened a reinforcement policy, although in the case of the continuous impact of the global epidemic, this season's Shanghai women's volleyball team, Tianjin women's volleyball team and the new army Shenzhen women's volleyball team have introduced high-level foreign aid. Especially the Shanghai women's volleyball team, re-invited back to South Korea's sister Jin Softjing, as well as the American star Larson, hoping that the double foreign aid to sit in, can achieve a breakthrough in the league results, did not expect that just before the start of the league, the Chinese Volleyball Association issued a foreign aid appearance restrictions, in each game, only one foreign aid appeared, that is to say, the idea of double foreign aid appearing at the same time. This is undoubtedly aimed at Shanghai, because only the Shanghai women's volleyball team has double foreign aid.
After the official announcement of the change in foreign aid policy, the Shanghai women's volleyball team responded very atmospherically, which can be regarded as maintaining the face of the volleyball association. In the course of the league tour, the Shanghai women's volleyball team relied on the overall strength of local players plus the rotation of Jin Softjing and Larson, or achieved good results, and finally ranked second with a score of 11 wins and 2 losses, and successfully won the semifinals of the playoffs. However, in the competition with their old rival Jiangsu team, they failed to withstand the impact of the youth storm, regrettably stopped, and finally could only compete for the third place with the Liaoning team, which also lost the game. Fortunately, the whole team still attached importance to the third place result, and went all out to win two consecutive games and win another league third place.
From the heavy reinforcements at the beginning of the season, to the generous response to policy changes, to the excellent performance in the season, the Shanghai women's volleyball team proved their support for the league and their all-out professional attitude with practical actions, but unfortunately they failed to achieve the breakthrough in performance as desired. The fans are all mirrored in their hearts, and openly complain for them: "Shanghai team needs a fair and just league environment!" "Although the Shanghai team responded to the changes in the foreign aid policy before the start of the match and protected the face of the volleyball association as much as possible, this policy did damage the interests of the team." Indeed, as a professional league, it should be treated with a more open attitude, especially in terms of official policies, which are changed from day to time, and it is not only the team that is damaged, but also the sponsors, fans, etc.