On February 16, 2022, the National Women's Volleyball Training Camp opened, Cai Bin guided the first audition of players, and as many as 9 athletes in the Tianjin women's volleyball team were selected, unfortunately, captain Yao Di was not included in the list. So, will she still have a chance to play for the national team with her current skills and experience?
Yao Di's career path is generally very smooth, from the national youth, the national youth to the national women's volleyball team, she played all the way up, did not miss any link. When he was a teenager, he was the main second pass, and he also won the honorary title of the best second pass of the World Youth Championship, which can be described as a root and a miao red.
In 2013, Lang Dao selected Yao Di to join the national team for training, and has been around her ever since. In the Rio Olympic cycle, Yao Di was a small setback, as a young second setter, he did not get the opportunity to represent the national team in the world's three major competitions. In the Tokyo Olympic cycle, Yao Di was finally reused and finally showed her strength in the second half of the group stage of the Tokyo Olympic Games.
Back in the domestic arena, this season's National Games and volleyball Super League, Yao Di once again showed her technical ability, Tianjin women's volleyball team under her passing organization, more blossoms, strong to win the championship, she also won the honorary title of the best second pass of this volleyball Super League.
Although it is close to the year of establishment, but at this time, Yao Di, the second pass technology is exquisite, the game experience is rich, coupled with some faults in the second pass talent, Yao Di's call for being selected for the new national team training is very high, and even some fans conclude that she will be the captain of the national team in this cycle and the main second pass. However, the first assembly of the national team in this cycle, Yao Di lost the election, and the Tianjin women's volleyball team sent out substitute second pass Chen Xintong and young second setter Zhang Xinyue.
This time did not be able to participate in the national women's volleyball training camp training, for Yao Di is not the national team door closed since then? Obviously, it cannot be understood so simply, after all, it is only the initial preparation stage of the Chinese women's volleyball national team in the Paris Olympic cycle, and any possibility still exists.
From the perspective of the national team's long-term development plan, it is a necessary process to introduce the old and the new, so Cai Dao has transferred a large number of new people to investigate at a close distance, which is nothing more than to select talents who can be used by the Chinese women's volleyball team now and in the future. Cai Dao once revealed that the first training period of the training camp was about 3 weeks, which also confirmed that the main process is a process of selecting rookies.
Of course, the selection of new talents must also take into account the international competitions that are coming soon, so there are also some mature players entering the training camp. However, the old players do not need to focus on investigation, some players have not been selected for personal reasons, such as Zhu Ting needs surgery and recuperation, Zhang Changning is still in the rehabilitation stage, they are outside the first list.
As a veteran team member, Yao Di also faces some difficulties, such as her physical condition is not very good. In recent years, when Yao Di appeared in the game, she still wore more protective gear, and there were reports that she still needed to take painkillers before the game to be able to insist on finishing the game. If it is true, such a physical condition, it is better to first cultivate the body, and then in the Chinese women's volleyball team need time and space drop. Now the second setter is relatively lacking in good hands, maybe it is difficult for young people to quickly top up, that way, Yao Di is still useful.
In the first training of the Chinese women's volleyball team in the new cycle, Yao Di was not selected, which is indeed a bit of a pity, but this does not mean that she will not have the opportunity to be selected for the national team again. Her ability is there, as long as her body is properly maintained, once the newcomers are not up to standard, she is still very likely to return to the national team and continue to play for the national team.