Just now, the Asian Volleyball Federation grouped the women's volleyball Asian Cup, and the groupings were as follows:
Group A: Philippines (host), Republic of Korea (No. 3), China (No. 4)
Group B: Japan (No. 1), Thailand (No. 2), Kazakhstan (No. 5), Chinese Taipei (No. 6)
Among them, Australia, Iran and Vietnam will determine the grouping according to the lottery.
Chinese women's volleyball team
Because the schedule of the Asian Cup and the Asian Games is very close, and according to the requirements of epidemic prevention and control isolation, if the Chinese women's volleyball team only sends one team to participate in the Asian Cup held in the Philippines, it will certainly not be able to catch up with the Asian Games held in Hangzhou after two weeks of isolation!
Therefore, there is a high probability that the Chinese women's volleyball team will be divided into one or two teams, with one team going out to the Asian Games to ensure the championship, and the second team participating in the Asian Cup! Wait until the end of the Asian Games and the Asian Cup, and then according to the performance of the first and second teams, select the players to participate in the World Championships at the end of September!
Chen Youquan
There are rumors that the women's volleyball head coach Cai Bin will lead the team to participate in the Asian Games and the World Championships, while the second team head coach will be Chen Youquan of Tianjin, who will lead the second team to participate in the Asian Cup, when he may encounter the real pot justice of the Japanese women's volleyball team!
From the perspective of strength, the second team should be inferior to the first team, many of the team members should be potential young players plus some national team marginal personnel, such as Wang Yifan, Wang Yindi, Xu Jianan, Wang Yunlu, Xu Xiaoting, Sun Haiping, Liu Yu and others, and it is not excluded that Hu Mingyuan and Zheng Yixin will join to ensure the competitiveness of the second team!
In the Asian Cup, the Chinese women's volleyball team will encounter challenges from South Korea, Japan and Thailand! Especially Japan and Thailand will be the biggest threat to the women's volleyball team! You know, China has quarantine requirements, but Japan and Thailand do not, so the players and coaches of Japan and Thailand who attend the Asian Cup are also most likely players participating in the Asian Championships!
Although the strength of the Thai women's volleyball team is not as strong as the golden generation, it also inherits a rapid and changeable style, and it is not easy for the second team to beat them! Coupled with the Japanese women's volleyball team with real pot justice, it is really not easy to play! You know, Cai Bin's first coaching of the women's volleyball team was to lose to the Japanese team of real pot justice!
Wang Yifan
As an old demon in the volleyball arena, Masaru Masaru's on-the-spot command and training is still very handy, and he once led the Japanese team to achieve a good result of the Olympic third place! And Chen Youquan's qualifications are not enough to see, although he led the team to win the league championship, but the Club World Cup has Li Yingying and Zhu Ting, but also the first to last, I have to say that Chen Youquan is really not good at on-the-spot command, although this time the second team has Wang Yifan and other rookies, but this time Chen Youquan is still facing a huge challenge!