On the afternoon of January 10, the Volleyball Sports Management Center of the State General Administration of Sport officially released the "Announcement on the Selection and Appointment of the Head Coach of the National Women's Volleyball Team" by the China Volleyball Association. The announcement said: "In order to strengthen the construction of the Chinese women's volleyball team, successfully complete the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games, the 2022 World Championships, the 2023 World Cup and the 2024 Paris Olympic Games to prepare for the competition, it is planned to organize the selection of a new national women's volleyball head coach." A leading group and an expert group were set up in the selection and recruitment work, and Chen Zhonghe, Lang Ping, Shen Fulin, and others became members of the expert group. The announcement requires applicants to submit their application forms by 15 January 2022.
Since August 31, 2021, after the expiration of the contract of former Chinese women's volleyball coach Lang Ping, it has been more than four months until now. Since the Tokyo Olympic Games, the Chinese women's volleyball team has disbanded and returned to their respective local teams and participated in the preparation and participation in the final of the National Games and the new season of the Volleyball Super League. In the second half of the year, the only international event women's volleyball Asian Championship, the Chinese women's volleyball team also gave up participating, although it is related to the qualification for next year's World Championships, but the Chinese women's volleyball team has locked the seat, coupled with the impact of the epidemic and the lack of head coach candidates, so the national team is an early end to the annual conquest plan. In these months, many fans are concerned about the dynamics of the women's volleyball team's head coach selection, after all, 2022 is a big year of sports, and the time left for the women's volleyball national team to train and prepare is running out.
Around the discussion of the new head coach of the Chinese women's volleyball team, various rumors have risen and fallen. Among them, many people support Lang Ping to stay in office and then lead the Chinese women's volleyball team to participate in the Paris Olympic Games cycle, after all, compared with the previous Tokyo Olympic Games cycle, Paris only has three years. But the only question is whether Lang Ping himself still has the energy and willingness to continue to work. Another remark is to hope that Chen Zhonghe, the old coach of the golden generation of the Chinese women's volleyball team, will return, but with Chen Zhonghe's age of 65 years old, I am afraid that it is difficult to be qualified for such a high-intensity coaching work. With the official announcement of the selection of head coaches, Chen Zhonghe and Lang Ping have become members of the expert group, which shows that the return of the two is impossible.
It can be seen from the conditions and requirements for the selection of head coaches mentioned in the announcement that the new head coach candidates need to have three basic qualities, excellent political quality, strong professional ability, and clear training ideas. On the whole, the requirements for future head coach candidates are quite high, not only to be familiar with the situation of domestic women's volleyball players, to have a clear team idea, but also to understand the current situation and development trend of international women's volleyball. In terms of teaching experience, it is necessary to have rich teaching experience and better teaching results. Combined with the above conditions, there are indeed many suitable candidates in the new generation of domestic coaches, but for the "hot potato" position of the head coach of the Chinese women's volleyball team, not everyone has the courage and ability to do a good job, especially in the post-Langping era, to stare at the huge pressure to take over.