On February 10, the tenth day of the Chinese New Year, the new year of the tiger has not yet gone, and the new Chinese women's basketball team will have to start a new journey.
Belgrade, Serbia, where the Chinese women's basketball team will officially open the World Cup qualification competition. This is the first game of the Year of the Tiger in Chinese basketball. At the same time, this is related to the qualification of the Chinese women's basketball team to participate in the 2022 World Cup, which is the first competition of the women's basketball girl in 2022, and it is also the "re-departure" of the Chinese girl in the arena.
Three days ago, on the green field, the Chinese women's football team completed a stunning reversal in the final of the Asian Cup, and finally defeated South Korea 3-2 and regained its footing in Asia, staging a moment that made the blood of the people of the whole country boil. That night the whole country rejoiced, and the people of the country were all conquered and moved by this group of sonorous roses. That day was the sixth day of the Chinese New Year, and the Chinese women's football team also brought the best New Year gifts for the people of the whole country in the Year of the Tiger. At that time, the Chinese basketball official sent blessings to the women's football team: "The towel does not let the eyebrows be shaved, and the Chinese girl will never give up!" Congratulations to the women's soccer girls! "Now, it's the turn of the Chinese women's basketball team to go out.
In fact, the day before the women's football girls reached the top, the Chinese women's basketball team had already departed from Shanghai and flew to Belgrade to start their own new journey. Before the trip, the Chinese women's basketball team trained at the Shanghai Chongming Sports Training Base on January 10, and conducted more than three weeks of intense and orderly preparations before the trip.
This is the new Chinese women's basketball team, both the player lineup and the coaching staff, which are different from the rosters of last summer's Tokyo Olympic Games and the Women's Basketball Asian Cup. Meritorious head coach Xu Limin no longer served as the head coach of the Chinese women's basketball team, but transferred to the executive commissioner of the Olympic preparations, and the former assistant coach Zheng Wei became the acting head coach of the women's basketball team.
Compared with the replacement of the head coach, the overall change of the Chinese women's basketball player lineup is not large, can only be regarded as a local fine adjustment, the 14-person player list retains Han Xu, Li Yueru, Huang Sijing, Li Meng, Li Yuan, Pan Zhenqi, Wang Siyu, Wu Tongtong, Yang Liwei and Zhang Ru 10 old faces, they are the main force of the Chinese women's basketball team in these years, representing the women's basketball team to participate in a number of international competitions including the Tokyo Olympic Games, each of which is experienced and experienced, and the most important thing is that most of them are in the year of playing. It is time to shine on the world stage again.
The other four seats of the Chinese women's basketball team joined Wang Lili and Yang Shuyu, two players who performed well in the three-person women's basketball event at the Tokyo Olympic Games, of which Wang Lili returned to the Chinese women's basketball team (who participated in the 2018 Asian Games) and Yang Shuyu was selected for the first time. In addition, veterans Gao Song and Kim Weina also returned to the national team.
Although the training time is slightly shorter, from the perspective of the format and grouping, this will hardly affect the prospects of the Chinese women's basketball team to impact the World Cup. The World Cup qualifiers, with 15 teams participating (Belarus withdrew due to the new crown infection of the players), will be held in four venues in three divisions (Belgrade, Osaka, Washington) (Washington and Santo Domingo). With the exception of the Osaka division, which has only three teams left due to the withdrawal of Belarus, the remaining 12 teams will be divided into three groups of four teams in each group in different divisions.
There are two groups in the Belgrade division where the Chinese women's basketball team is located, and the Chinese women's basketball team is divided into Group B with France, Nigeria and Mali. According to the rules of the schedule, the top three teams in each group will qualify for the World Cup (12 teams in total). In view of the fact that the Chinese women's basketball team does not have Australia (World Cup host) and the United States (Tokyo Olympic Champion) two teams that automatically qualified for the competition, the Same Group of Mali Women's Basketball Team only ranked 40th in the world, the weakest group, and the gap between the Chinese women's basketball team ranking 7th in the world is obvious, for this reason, the Chinese women's basketball team finally ranked in the top three of the group, and it can be said that there is no pressure to qualify for the World Cup.
For the Chinese women's basketball team, the main purpose of this competition is to test its own training effect and run-in lineup, so as to prepare in advance for the Women's Basketball World Cup that officially starts in September this year. Although acting head coach Zheng Wei has been with the team for many years as an assistant coach, and has also coached in the WCBA for many seasons and led the team to win the championship many times, as the head coach of the Chinese women's basketball team, Zheng Wei is still the first time. From the assistant coach in charge of the individual disciplines to the manager responsible for the on-the-spot deployment, the transformation of roles and responsibilities will be a new experience and test for Zheng Wei, and the women's basketball girls also need to adapt to Zheng Wei's tactical system. At the moment of the epidemic, the opportunity for the Chinese women's basketball team to go abroad to compete in recent years has become more and more limited, and it is impossible to warm up with other teams from other countries in China as in previous years, so the World Cup qualification tournament is also more precious for the new Chinese women's basketball team, especially the rare opportunity to compete with the French women's basketball team, which ranks 5th in the world and the bronze medalist of the Tokyo Olympic Games.
Two years ago, it was also Belgrade, and even the match time was almost the same as it is now (February 6-9). The Chinese women's basketball team with the mission won all three games in the third stage of the Tokyo Olympic Women's Basketball Preliminary Tournament, defeating the United Kingdom, Spain and South Korea successively, and directly advancing to the Tokyo Olympic Games, bringing confidence and encouragement to China under the shadow of the epidemic, and showing the strength and style of Chinese girls.
Two years later, the Chinese women's basketball team once again took the task to Belgrade, and in this "blessed land", the women's basketball girl will also start a new journey again. The road is far away, we may not be able to witness the struggle of the Chinese women's basketball team at the scene, but you and I bless and cheer, I believe that the Chinese women's basketball team must be able to feel, because they and we have always "fought together".
Attached: Chinese women's basketball schedule
February 10, 22:00 China Women's Basketball Team VS Nigeria Women's Basketball Team
February 11, 22:00 Mali women's basketball team vs China women's basketball team
February 14, 01:00 France women's basketball team vs Chinese women's basketball team