On March 17, 2022, the Asian Volleyball Federation announced the results of the 2022 Women's Volleyball Asian Cup at its headquarters in Bangkok, Thailand, and the Chinese women's volleyball team was in Group A with the South Korean team, the Philippine team, the Iranian team and the Australian team. Not surprisingly, the chinese women's volleyball team's winning opponents are Japan, Thailand and South Korea.
The 2022 Women's Volleyball Asian Cup will be held in Quezon, Philippines, from August 21 to August 29, with a total of 10 teams participating, and the first stage is divided into two groups, each with 5 teams. This year's Asian Cup will begin with a group round robin tournament, where the group seats will be determined, and the top 4 teams in the two groups will be cross-knockout, followed by semi-finals and final competitions.
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The Asian Volleyball Federation pre-grouped the seedings for this Asian Cup, and then Iran, Australia and Vietnam participated in the snake arrangement. Group A: Philippines, Republic of Korea, China, Iran, Vietnam, Group B: Thailand, Japan, Chinese Taipei, Kazakhstan, Australia.
Compared with the long-standing Asian Championships, the history of the Volleyball Asian Cup is not long, and like the Asian Championships, the Volleyball Asian Cup is also held every two years. All along, due to various international competition time conflicts and the fact that the level of the competition is not very high, the teams often send youth teams to participate.
The new coach of the Chinese women's volleyball team has been determined to be Cai Bin, and the new Chinese women's volleyball team has not yet been established. At present, the large-scale Chinese women's volleyball elite training camp is still being carried out at the Ningbo Beilun Training Base. This training camp is a necessary procedure and necessary link for players to be selected for the national team, and the purpose is to select and reserve talents for the women's volleyball national team. This training camp will be strictly assessed and will send outstanding talents to the national women's volleyball training team. After the Tokyo Olympics, the Chinese women's volleyball team is in a period of alternation between the old and the new. In 2022, the Chinese women's volleyball team will participate in the World Women's Volleyball League, the Asian Cup, the Asian Games and the World Championships. Due to the conflict in the timing of various international competitions, the possibility of the Chinese women's volleyball team participating in the competition is not excluded.
In terms of strength, the favorites to win the Asian Cup are still China, Japan, Thailand and South Korea. After the end of the Tokyo Olympic Games, the number one star of the South Korean women's volleyball team, Kim Soft-gyeong, is gradually getting older and does not necessarily participate in the Asian Cup, and the ban of Lee Jae-young and Lee Do-young is bound to accelerate the pace of personnel updates for the South Korean team. However, the South Korean team has the ability to occupy the top four.
It is now too early to analyze the prospects of the Chinese women's volleyball team to win the championship, because the lineup is still uncertain. Thailand is certainly one of the favourites to win the title. With the retirement of the "golden generation" of the Thai women's volleyball team, the whole team has completed the replacement of the old and the new, Aye Chala Phong, Cha Chuang, Pingpi Chaya, Popon, Hataya, Tadayao have taken over, and the thai team's defense and small, fast and spirit characteristics are still outstanding. If the Thai Volleyball Association selectively participates in the competition and sends all the main players to participate in the Asian Cup, the possibility of winning the championship is not ruled out.
The 58-year-old Masayoshi Makoto came out of the mountain again and re-coached the Japanese women's volleyball team. The Japanese women's volleyball team Koga Sarina, Ishikawa Masayuki and others are in the year of the fight, and Masayoshi Manabe will also introduce new players to join the Japanese women's volleyball team. Similarly, how well the Japanese women's volleyball team performs in this Asian Cup depends on the strength of the lineup they send.
It is reported that the Chinese men's volleyball team will not participate in the 2022 Men's Volleyball Asian Cup competition that will be held in Taipei, China from August 7 to August 14.