September 9 is the 51st birthday of Lai Yawen, the leader of the Chinese women's volleyball team and the official of the Volleyball Association. Although the team has been dissolved and head coach Lang Ping has announced that he will no longer be the head coach of the national team, Lai Yawen, as Lang Ping's teammate and player in the 90s of the last century, has long established a deep friendship between the two, and the friendship between them will not be terminated by the departure of one of them.
As a meritorious coach of the Chinese women's volleyball team, Lang Ping is a famous volleyball player in the world, both during the player period and the coaching staff period. During his time as a player, Lang Ping helped the Chinese women's volleyball team win the World Cup and olympic championships, and returned to the national team many times after retiring. Because of the needs of the team, Lang Ping came back to help the Chinese women's volleyball team win the third place in the World Championship; because the team needed, Lang Ping won the world cup and the Olympic runner-up in the first time as the head coach of the national team, only because the Cuban dynasty at that time could not break through. Because of the defeat at the London Olympics, Lang Ping became the head coach of the national team for the second time.
In the past eight years, Lang Ping led the team to win 3 championships, 1 Asian and 1 season of the three major competitions, she advocated the concept of the big national team, successfully cultivated Young players such as Zhu Ting, Zhang Changning, Yuan Xinyue, and excavated Yan Ni, Ding Xia and other late veterans. Although in the curtain call of the Tokyo Olympic Games, Lang Ping and her women's volleyball girls only failed to defend their titles and only won the worst result of the ninth place, but the fans still thanked Lang Ping for his comeback, and even the FIVB also posted praise for Lang Ping as the best female coach who knows volleyball.
Lai Yawen was the captain of the Silver Generation of the Chinese women's volleyball team in the 1990s. Whether it is fighting side by side with Lang Ping, who returned to play for the national team, or Lang Ping, who returned to China as a head coach, as a mentor and apprentice, Lai Yawen is the team's confidant big sister, and almost delayed his marriage for the cause of the women's volleyball team. Especially in the 18 years after giving birth to his son, whether Lai Yawen stayed in the team as an assistant coach or led the team to participate in the competition as a team leader, Lai Yawen's relationship with the women's volleyball team was no less than Lang Ping's contribution to the women's volleyball team.
Vaguely remembering the key situation in which the team fell behind 0-2 in the final of the Athens Olympic Games, Lai Yawen stopped Chen Zhong and the coach's substitution tactics in time, gave the players the latest guidance and help through the short gap of the suspension, and finally completed the reversal with the team to win the championship. This is the first Olympic champion of Lai Yawen's coaching career, and it also makes up for the regret of not winning the gold medal in the three major competitions during his player period, and the picture of Lai Yawen and the players hugging and crying after the game is unforgettable. In the quarter-finals of the London Olympic Games, the Chinese women's volleyball team unfortunately lost to the Japanese women's volleyball team and did not qualify for the final four, Lai Yawen and the team members hugged each other again, but unfortunately this time they left tears of regret.
It is Coach Lang Ping's timely appearance that makes this Chinese women's volleyball team in the trough gradually move towards glory. Two-time World Cup champion and Rio Olympic champion, Lang Ping is always sitting next to Lai Yawen, and the two masters and apprentices control the process of the game and successfully complete the team's goal of winning the championship. Lai Yawen of the Tokyo cycle has been promoted to an official of the volleyball center, but he still does not forget to stick to the women's volleyball training hall and lead the team to create glory again with Enshi Langping.
Now Lang Ping has left the national team, and Lai Yawen is still on the job. Less than 3 years before the Paris Olympic Games, Lai Yawen may stay in the women's volleyball national team as the leader of the team, because she will continue to dedicate her strength to the women's volleyball team that she has played for for half a lifetime with the entrustment and regret of her mentor Lang Ping.