Recently, Cai Bin, the new head coach of the Chinese women's volleyball team, led the women's volleyball team members to the Ningbo Beilun Base for training.
As many as 67 members of the training team were trained. And different from the previous training, this time called the training camp, not only 67 athletes, including head coach Cai Bin, assistant coach Chen Youquan and other Chinese women's volleyball coaching team and the number of support team is also as high as 27 people.
According to Cai Bin's guiding concept, the women's volleyball national team athlete talent candidate pool was first established, and as many as 71 players were admitted to the library at that time. Then set up a bootcamp. The training camp is mainly selected from the talent pool, and the team members can also be self-nominated.
Several players did not attend the first training camp for various reasons. For example, Zhu Ting and Zhang Changning did not join the training camp due to injury. Yao Di, Liu Yanhan and others also did not participate in the training camp.
All four were players who competed in the Tokyo Olympics and were still playing in their current years. Zhu Ting and Zhang Changning wanted to heal their injuries, and there was really no way but to miss the training camp. So Liu Yanhan and Yao Di?
I really don't know why Liu Yanhan didn't participate in the training camp. She entered the talent pool and was logically allowed to attend bootcamp. Cai Bin considered respecting the veteran and should also recruit her into the training camp. Liu Yanhan should have proposed not to participate in the training camp for the time being. As for the reason, she didn't say it, and the coach didn't say it, so we can't guess. Most likely, she is confused about the future and makes other plans for the future.
In this training camp, there are about 20 players in the main offensive line. Liu Yanhan was not prominent in the national team, and Cai Bin recruited so many main attacks to the national team, leaving Liu Yanhan less and less space. She should feel it too. She is now obsessed with filming, and she may not know which way she will go.
Why did Yao Di miss the training camp? Recently, Yao Di himself gave the answer. Yao Di said that she still longs for the national team, and communicated with the national team coaching team to show her attitude. But she still hopes to adjust her body and psychology to the best.
It seems that Yao Di also feels that his physical condition is not very good and wants to rest more. At the same time, make adjustments to the body and mind. In the past two years, some players have frequently competed in club and national teams, and have to participate in training on both sides. For those main players, it is indeed a bit overwhelming. This is the case with Yao Di. She missed the National Women's Volleyball Championship last year, just to adjust her body. In the case that Cai Bin just served as the head coach and formed a team for training, Yao Di actually made such a request, which is a bit difficult to understand. One has to worry about her physical condition, as well as her psychological condition.
Yao Di is almost 30 years old, and I don't know how long she can hold on. If she insists on the 2024 Paris Olympics, she will be 32 years old, which is a very old player. If the body is well maintained, it can still be played until that time, if the body and mind are not well maintained, it may be difficult to persist until that day. This is probably the reason why Yao Di missed the first training camp. She is now in bootcamp, and her technical skills are unlikely to improve. If you destroy your body, you will not be worth the loss.
Ding Xia, the main second pass of the Chinese women's volleyball team, participated in the training camp. Will she be able to hold out until the Paris Olympics? Hard!
Ding Xia was born in January 1990 and is 32 years old. By the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, we will be 34 and a half years old. Not many domestic players can stick to this age. This may have something to do with our side of the physique. Even now, Ding Xia's state has declined. Whether it was during the Tokyo Olympics or domestic club events, Ding Xia could not maintain her original state. Probably because she is older, Ding Xia's vitality during the game is not as strong as before. No one can stop the laws of nature, and when you get older, your physical function will decrease.
Ding Xia probably also recognized this problem and deliberately considered other aspects.
Recently, the Liaoning Provincial Sports Bureau issued the "Notice on Announcing the List of Interviewers and Interview Instructions for 2022 Open Recruitment", and the public institutions affiliated to the Liaoning Provincial Sports Bureau are open to outstanding retired athletes and publish the list.
In the list, there is Ding Xia's name. Ding Xia reported that the Liaoning Provincial Sports Development Center, the job category is professional technology, and the post is a volleyball project coach. It seems that Ding Xia intends to declare a coach and will return to Liaoning Province as a coach.
Here is a fact to be understood. The Liaoning Provincial Sports Bureau is recruiting outstanding retired athletes this time, that is, the recruitment must be retired athletes. If Ding Xia wants to be a coach, she can only retire first. Of course, it is not excluded to make a transition and let Ding Xia concurrently serve as a coach as a player. However, I think that once Ding Xia is competitive, it is very likely that she will not play. After all, this is entering a public institution, which is good for her future career development. For Ding Xia, who has entered the end of her career, there is no need to insist on playing.
Then Cai Bin will face a big problem, that is, the national team or no good second setters.
If Ding Xia retires, Yao Di is not in good shape, and he can't stick to the Paris Olympics, who will serve as the second pass of the national team? It is said that the second pass is the brain of a team, and without a good second pass, the game is difficult to play.
Some people may say, then let Diao Linyu serve as the main second pass of the national team.
This is not a good idea. After all, Diao Linyu was pulled up by Cai Bin and is very familiar with both sides of the Jiangsu team. Cai Bin knows the characteristics of Diao Linyu, and Diao Linyu also knows Cai Bin's coaching style. Both sides know the roots, less run-in period. Cai Bin as the head coach of the Chinese women's volleyball team, the early stage will definitely use players he is familiar with. There is nothing to say about this, there is no harm, and there is no cai bin selfishness. No matter who it is, they will use their own familiar methods and use people they are familiar with. In the later stage, Cai Bin will adopt new tactics and use new personnel according to the characteristics of players.
However, in the long run, Diao Linyu is not the most suitable candidate. Diao Linyu is also 28 years old, and when she arrives at the Paris Olympic Games, she will turn 30 years old. Although about 30 years old is the golden age of second-handers, it also has to be divided.
Some second setters do improve their abilities as they age. The second setter is the core figure in organizing the attack and needs to have a certain ability to organize the game. Not only do you need to have superb skills, but you also need to have the ability to read the game, effectively score the ball, and organize an effective attack. As you get older, the more experienced the second setter becomes, the more reasonable it is to know where the ball is going, and the offensive player knows the purpose of the second setter and understands how to attack. This is a few players who have been working together for a long time, and it is very tacit.
Good second setters do grow in ability as they get older, but not every second pass will grow a lot. For example, Diao Linyu, who has played for so many years, also plays the main force in the Jiangsu team, and in the national team, he has more in and more out, and has never stood firm. She has more opportunities to participate in training in the national team, but less opportunities to participate in international competitions. When it came to the important competition, Lang Dao did not let her participate. This can damage the player's self-confidence.
If you often watch the jiangsu women's volleyball team and watch Diao Linyu's game, you can feel that Xiao Diao's self-confidence is not enough. Her lack of energy on the pitch is due to a lack of confidence. A person with a lot of self-confidence has a great aura on the field. She can stir up the emotions of the players. The second setter needs to have such momentum, Ding Xia has it, Yao Di is second, and Diao Linyu lacks a little. This is not difficult to understand. Even if we go out to do things, we are always denied, and our self-confidence is naturally not so sufficient. Diao Linyu is in this situation, the low mood brought to the Jiangsu team, and even played well in the Jiangsu team. Coupled with the fact that the Jiangsu team has not won the championship in recent years, Diao Linyu will lack that kind of championship momentum and it is difficult to become a top second setter.
Now let's see if Cai Bin can adjust Diao Linyu's mentality, adjust the momentum, and raise the domineering spirit. Momentum is something that is difficult to say, and it is easy to say that it is easy. With the team to win more victories, take a few more awards, domineering will come up. It depends on whether Cai Bin can lead the team to achieve good results.
One thing is for sure, whether Ding Xia will still play, whether Yao Di can adjust to her state, whether Diao Linyu can build confidence, Cai Bin must make other preparations. You can't pin your hopes on these three veterans.
One might say, I'm not a little dangerous to sensationalize. How come the three second setters of the East Olympic cycle can't do it all at once?
Not really! The three people are older, and it is possible that it will be difficult to regain the courage of the year. The defeat of Dong'ao hit Ding Xia's old player very hard, and he no longer had the spirit of the past, and he had no motivation to continue to fight, so naturally he would find a way back. If the Liaoning Provincial Sports Bureau had arranged a career for Ding Xia, why didn't she go?
The same is true of Yao Di. It was not easy to be selected for the List of East Olympics, and it was over before I was addicted. How much effort it took her to squeeze into the big list, and she originally wanted to do a lot of work, and it was over. She will also be like Ding Xia, the spirit is gone, it is difficult to pluck up the courage to do another Olympic Games, especially for these older female players. Don't they want to find a stable job for the future? Don't you want to start a family earlier?
Diao Linyu can also insist on it, the premise is to improve her self-confidence. If the adjustment is not good, it will be difficult to contribute to the national team.
If Cai Bin wants to lead the team to achieve good results, especially in the Paris Olympic Games two and a half years later, he must make more preparations.
There are as many as 13 second setters in this training camp, and some players are still worth developing. For example, Xu Xiaoting of Shanghai team played very well in the Volleyball Super League last season, and the quality of passing was very high. Although she was not selected for the best team, her ability cannot be denied. The main thing is to give her the opportunity to participate in some international competitions, and her ability will rise a lot.
Sun Haiping of the Liaoning team is actually not bad. As a substitute for Ding Xia, she did not have many opportunities to play. Last year, Ding Xia played less, and Sun Haiping's chances to play gradually increased. Her performance was still recognized, and some fans even thought it was better than Ding Xia. (Individual matches, of course)
Cai Yaqian of shandong team and Yu Jiarui of Guangdong team also have good performances. Train for a while in the national team to see if you can improve a little more.
Cai Bin's team formation policy is still good, and he has set up a big training camp to let more players train for the national team, and then the best of the best is selected. In fact, this is the same as the big national team advocated by Lang Dao. Training more players is not only conducive to the selection of players by the national team, but also conducive to the development of the league in the future. Those players who participated in the national team, after returning to the league, are much higher than other players. It shows that these players have improved their abilities after training in the national team.
Cai Bin built a large training camp, so that more players can improve their ability and get benefits, which is good for all parties and good for the development of the Chinese women's volleyball team.
I hope that the coaching staff will improve the level of the women's volleyball girls a little, and each position can select high-quality players to form a strong national team, and can achieve good results in international competitions.