Comment: Please give the Chinese women's volleyball team a little patience

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, January 10 Comment: Please give the Chinese women's volleyball team a little patience

Xinhua News Agency reporter Wei Hua

The 2021-2022 season of the Chinese Women's Volleyball Super League has just ended, and the Volleyball Sports Management Center of the State General Administration of Sport has issued an announcement on the selection of the head coach of the national women's volleyball team. Nearly half a year after the "empty window", the coach of the Chinese women's volleyball national team is about to usher in a new owner.

After the Tokyo Olympics, former head coach Lang Ping's contract expired and he left the Chinese women's volleyball team, which had been coaching for eight years. In eight years, Lang Ping has built a composite coaching team, introduced advanced technical and tactical play, reshaped the Chinese women's volleyball team, and helped the team get out of the trough and reach the peak again. From the players to the coaches, from entering the national team in the late 1970s to completing the curtain in 2021, Lang Dao dedicated most of his life to volleyball, and the Chinese women's volleyball team was even more painstaking and dedicated, illuminating the hall of honor of Chinese volleyball with a large and small championship trophy. Although the team's performance at the Tokyo Olympics was not satisfactory, Lang's outstanding contribution to this team cannot be erased.

Due to Lang Ping's huge influence on the team, even in the days when the coach is vacant, there are still voices expecting Lang Ping to change his mind and go out of the mountain again. But no matter how good the manager always has the day to leave office, this is the eternal iron law of competitive sports, comprehensive Lang coaching age, physical condition and the cultivation of Chinese volleyball coach reserve strength and other considerations, the Chinese women's volleyball team's position, it is time to inject fresh blood.

As one of the members of the selection team, Lang Ping will use her professional perspective to advise on the selection of coaches, which also means that she will not return to the national team. But it is certain that even if it is not in the coaching seat, Lang Director will always pay attention to the growth of the Chinese women's volleyball team in the future. She will continue to write about the fate of the Chinese women's volleyball team in another way.

As an ace in the Chinese sports world, the every move of the Chinese women's volleyball national team has attracted much attention from the outside world. During the period when the manager was vacant, the selection of the new coach caused extensive discussion in the media and fans, and even some coaches were included in the "hot list".

Despite the pressure of public opinion, the platoon management center did not make a hasty choice, but considered the long term, listened to opinions extensively during the off-season of the national team, and adopted an open and transparent way to recruit talents in an open and transparent manner in line with the basic requirements of excellent political quality, strong professional ability and clear training ideas.

Judging from the selection of members of the working group, it includes volleyball experts such as Zhong Bingshu, as well as experienced industry celebrities such as Chen Zhonghe, Lang Ping, and Shen Fulin, as well as media representatives and referee experts. This reflects the attitude of the Volleyball Management Center to open up the way of speech and the sincerity of striving to select a head coach who is most suitable for the future development of the Chinese women's volleyball team.

The opening of the coach selection work means that the preparation for the new Olympic cycle is about to begin. In the case of less than three years from the Paris Olympic Games, the new head coach needs to build a coaching team as soon as possible, carry out reasonable personnel changes on the basis of the original player team, clarify the guidance concept, use the limited competition under the epidemic to train the team, and under the guidance of the spirit of the women's volleyball team, show a new Chinese women's volleyball team in front of the world.

As the first successor after Lang Dao's mountain, the pressure on the new manager who is about to take office can be imagined. Coupled with the expectation that the Chinese women's volleyball team will get out of the shadow of the tokyo Olympic Games defeat as soon as possible, it has invisibly added a burden to it. Standing up at such a time requires enough courage and responsibility. For every candidate, we should have enough respect and respect. We should be more tolerant and patient with the eventually elected successor.

haste makes waste. Looking back at the road traveled by the Chinese women's volleyball team, even if Lang Dao took over the team in 2013, the results will inevitably have some fluctuations. We wish the new head coach can calmly face the ups and downs that may occur during the run-in period, strict management and cohesion. We also hope that the outside world can give this new national team a relatively loose growth space, so that the women's volleyball girls can regain confidence in a better atmosphere, and let the spirit of the women's volleyball team shine on the international arena again.