In the past 2021-2022 Women's Volleyball Super League, although only the Jiangsu women's volleyball team held high the banner of youth storm, in fact, in this women's volleyball league, in addition to the Tianjin women's volleyball team, Shandong women's volleyball team, Liaoning women's volleyball team and Henan women's volleyball team, most teams have carried out a relatively large-scale replacement of new and old. Under the premise of such a large-scale replacement of old and new, there will inevitably be a large number of young players pouring into the league. However, from the perspective of the age structure of these young players, in addition to blowing up a strong youth storm in the league, it actually exposed the problem of the Chinese women's volleyball team's talent break.
If it is under the normal law of the alternation of the old and the new, this league should be the stage when young players in the 2000-2005 age group first appeared, but from the actual game, we saw the emergence of young players around 2005, and the players in early 2000, in addition to Li Yingying and Ni Feifan, who had already become famous in the women's volleyball league, only Wu Mengjie completed the game as the main player. Players like Tianjin women's volleyball team Chen Boya and Wang Yizhu, and Jiangsu women's volleyball team Sun Yan, Xu Luyao, Yongle and other players rarely have the opportunity to play, let alone those who perform amazingly. Obviously, we have a disconnect with players at this age.
Next, let's look at the current age group of players, the 1995-2000 age group should be the age group of the current year of play, and it is currently whether it is the local team or the national team that is dominated by players in this age group. From the perspective of the national team, Zhang Changning and Li Yingying are the heads and tails of this age group. Yuan Xinyue, Wang Yuanyuan, and Gong Xiangyu were among them. And most of the local teams are also based on players of this age group as the core, it seems to be a prosperous scene of talent, but in fact, if Zhu Ting and Zhang Changning do not return to the team, the entire domestic volleyball arena can not even find a player who can perfectly support Li Yingying's diagonal, and the deputy attack substitute and the replacement are also facing the same problem.
This is because the talent in 1995-2000 also had a break, so the Chinese women's volleyball team in the Tokyo Olympic cycle only emerged a total of two newcomers, Li Yingying and Wang Yuanyuan, and in the Chinese women's volleyball team is still a substitute player. In the competition of the Tokyo Olympic Games, if it were not for Zhu Ting and veteran Yan Ni who really could not move, I am afraid that there would be no chance to start during the entire Tokyo Olympic Games. The reason for this situation is not that Lang Ping does not dare to boldly use new people, but there are really no new people available that can reassure Lang Ping, so she would rather choose veterans Liu Xiaotong and Liu Yanhan than give more young players a chance.
Just imagine, after the Paris Olympic Games, 30-year-old Zhu Ting, 29-year-old Zhang Changning, and even 27-year-old Gong Xiangyu are difficult to stick to the next Olympic Games, should be Li Yingying's generation of players to the top, according to the current situation, whether it is Chen Boya and Wang Yizhu of the Tianjin women's volleyball team, or Wu Mengjie, Xu Luyao of the Jiangsu women's volleyball team, or Chen Peiyan of the Guangdong women's volleyball team, it is difficult to reach the height of Zhu Ting, Zhang Changning, Gong Xiangyu, then only one Li Yingying can drag the team how far can it go?
Perhaps it is to avoid the emergence of this situation, the local teams have pushed the young players in 2004 and 05 to the adult league in advance to experience, in order to make up for the current situation that the chinese women's volleyball team is out of gear in two age groups, and there may be no one to use after the Paris Olympic Games. Although this is suspected of pulling up seedlings and encouraging growth, it is also the best way at present. After all, it is much better to make up for the dead than to be helpless. It can be seen that the youth storm is an expedient strategy to make up for the shortcomings of the Chinese women's volleyball team, and it is a noble act of giving up a small family for everyone, if it is used as a fig leaf, it is obviously an insult to this nobility.