Bidding farewell to the Lang Ping era, the Chinese women's volleyball team is now preparing for the busy 2022 new season.
This year, the national team schedule is quite intensive, starting from May, the National Women's Volleyball League, the Asian Games, the World Championships and other major events have followed.
According to the latest schedule released by the Figurative Conference, the final of the Asian Games and the start of the World Championships are only about a week apart, and the women's volleyball national team under Cai Bin is facing a lot of pressure.
Recently, the FivestIvano Figurative Conference officially confirmed the detailed schedule of the 2022 Women's Volleyball National League and the Women's Volleyball World Championship.
Starting from May, the Chinese women's volleyball team will go to Turkey and the Philippines to participate in the sub-stations of the National Women's Volleyball League Ankara and Pasay in more than a month. The Chinese women's volleyball team will face old rivals such as the Netherlands, Turkey, Italy, Thailand, the United States, and Japan.
It is worth mentioning that in view of the current situation in Russia, the FIVB has cancelled the third race scheduled for July in Ufa, Russia, and the competition will choose another date and location.
For the Chinese women's volleyball team, the national women's volleyball league is the most important training opportunity before the Asian Games.
On July 24, after the end of the National Women's Volleyball League, the national team will immediately enter the "Asian Games Time". On September 8, the first match of the Asian Games women's volleyball team began.
Head coach Cai Bin made it clear after taking office that in the 2022 Asian Games, the Chinese women's volleyball team will go all out to win the championship. For the women's volleyball team, which has been at a low point since the Tokyo Olympics, the Asian Games is also the best opportunity to achieve a turnaround.
However, because the final time of the Asian Games women's volleyball team is very close to the start time of this year's World Championships, in order not to affect the collision of these two major competitions, the International Volleyball Federation finally scheduled the women's volleyball World Championship to start on September 23, which is only about a week away from the final time of the women's volleyball Asian Games, so the national team is likely to send two sets of people to play.
According to the schedule, this year's Women's Volleyball World Championship will end on October 15.
At present, the national team is conducting intensive training in Ningbo Beilun, and head coach Cai Bin has drawn a training roster of up to 67 people in order to prepare for the intensive schedule, including Ding Xia, Gong Xiangyu, Li Yingying and other former Tokyo Olympic team members returning, and recruiting many young players to enter the national team.
It is worth mentioning that Zhu Ting cannot return to the national team in the short term due to a wrist injury, Zhang Changning will not be able to return until July as soon as after undergoing surgery, and the former Zhu Yuan Zhang's three ace combinations are currently only Yuan Xinyue.