The 2022 Women's Volleyball World Championships draw ceremony can be described as a twist and turn, from the end of last year to the present has not yet been carried out. Fortunately, after two reschedulings, the FIVB finally announced the new time and place of the lottery ceremony on its official website. The lottery ceremony will be held at 2:30 Beijing time on March 18 in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Due to the suspension of the Russian Volleyball Association, the women's volleyball world championship has changed from the round of 24 to the round of 23, and it is not clear which team will have the opportunity to replace Russia. If you look at the world rankings, the first substitution should be the Second-rate Croatian Women's Volleyball Team in Europe. The 2022 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championships will be held in the Netherlands and Poland from September 23 to October 15.
The withdrawal of the fierce rival Russian women's volleyball team is a good thing for the Chinese women's volleyball team, because compared with Croatia, the strength of the Russian women's volleyball team is stronger. At the Tokyo Olympic Games, the Chinese women's volleyball team won first and then lost in the group stage, and it was precisely because it lost this key game that it led to the group stage failing to qualify. Although the Russian women's volleyball team's record in recent years is worse than that of the Chinese women's volleyball team, there are still many new stars in their team, which has great potential for upsetting.
On the other hand, the Croatian women's volleyball team, as a second- and third-rate team in Europe, has played in very few international competitions, and there are only a few big stars in the team. The number of matches between the Chinese women's volleyball team and the Croatian women's volleyball team is not much, the most recent one was in the 14th World Championships, where the Chinese team won 3-0 against the opponent and also played a fantastic start of 8-1. The goal of the Chinese women's volleyball team at this World Championship is to "strive to be at the top". Although no specific ranking is given, the author feels that holding the top 6 is the bottom line.
At present, the Chinese women's volleyball team is still in the stage of team member inspection, and Cai Bin has not announced a new women's ranking list. Such a slow team pace also makes people look anxious. After all, according to the previous practice, the Chinese women's volleyball team generally began to train and prepare for international competitions after the end of the year, and there were very few cases of training in March. As the new manager, Cai Bin should assemble a squad as soon as possible to prepare for this year's international competitions.
As far as this year's World Championships are concerned, the Chinese women's volleyball team still needs to face a major test, that is, physical fitness. Due to the similarity with the Asian Cup and the Asian Games, especially the Asian Games and the World Championships are only 1 week apart, how players can distribute the physical fitness between the two competitions has become the key to achieving good results. It is reported that the Chinese women's volleyball team will continue the model of 1 team and 2 teams, does that mean that 1 team competes in the World Championships and 2 teams compete in the Asian Games?
Of course, all this will not be known until September. The format of the World Championships is very complicated, extremely testing the overall strength of the team, in addition to the main lineup, the substitute lineup must also have a certain ability to play, otherwise it is easy to cause the situation that the main players are not physically supported in the later stages. I hope that the Chinese women's volleyball team can achieve good results at the World Championships. For more exciting content, come and follow Volleyball GoldenEye