The training camp is just the beginning, the Asian Games World Championships are the highlight! Women's volleyball head coach Cai Bin said so

The Chinese women's volleyball elite training camp has been training for more than a month at the Ningbo Beilun Training Base. Cai Bin, who officially became the head coach of the new Chinese women's volleyball team on the third day of the Chinese New Year, took the first step since taking charge of the coaching was to organize this unprecedented elite training camp.

The second time he took charge of the Chinese women's volleyball team, Cai Bin attached great importance to the spirit of the team members. Xinhua News Agency

Bootcamp is just the beginning

On February 17, the women's volleyball elite training camp opened the curtain. The selection and formation of a new national team training camp in a new way is the first time in the history of Chinese women's volleyball training - 71 players have entered the talent pool, including almost all the outstanding players of the current first-line sports team. This is also a kind of inheritance of the concept of "big national team" of Lang Ping, the former coach of the Chinese women's volleyball team.

For a long time, the Chinese women's volleyball team has carried out annual training in the form of directly announcing the training list, and it is the first time that the way of forming a coaching team and selecting team members with two-way selection is the first time. 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.

As the head of the training camp, Cai Bin, 56, emphasized that the spirit of the team should be enhanced through the training camp, ideological and political education should be strengthened, and physical training should be strengthened. More than a month after the opening of the camp, the training camp players have been decreasing, which is also the prelude to the release of the new Chinese women's volleyball team big list. Cai Bin hopes that more athletes will broaden their horizons and increase their insights by participating in the training camp training, and at the same time bring the excellent training style and advanced training methods of the national team and the inheritance of the spirit of the women's volleyball team back to the local team.

The Asian Games World Championships are the highlight

For Cai Bin, the main goal of this year is to strive for the Hangzhou Asian Games to win the championship and the women's volleyball world championship to be among the best. It can be seen that this year's Chinese women's volleyball team will mainly prepare for these two international events. It is worth mentioning that the fans of the women's volleyball team should gradually adapt to the Chinese women's volleyball team without Zhu Ting, Zhang Changning and others, because it is expected that soon after, Zhu Ting will undergo surgery abroad, and postoperative recovery is a big problem. Zhang Changning gave up the 2021-2022 women's volleyball league season, and will hold weddings in Hangzhou and Nanjing in May and June this year, and she has not trained for a long time, and how the competitive status is a question mark. However, Zhu Ting and Zhang Changning are still in the national team training roster, because the ultimate goal of the Chinese women's volleyball team under Cai Bin is the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.

In this case, the Chinese women's volleyball team is bound to have new people to join this year. Cai Bin led the team to pursue comprehensive technology and tenacious style, so the Chinese women's volleyball team without big stars is more worth looking forward to. What kind of performance the new women's volleyball team will have on the field can also reflect the ability of the new manager to a certain extent.

The 2022 World Women's Volleyball League, which was originally scheduled to start on May 31, is the debut battle of the new Chinese women's volleyball team. At that time, there will be 16 women's volleyball teams participating. The competition lasts for three weeks, with the Grand Finals in mid-July. For this event, Cai Bin will definitely deploy different lineups to prepare for the competition throughout the year.

The 2022 Women's Volleyball Asian Cup will be held in Quezon, Philippines from August 21 to 29, with a total of 10 teams participating, and the Chinese women's volleyball team is in Group A with South Korea, the Philippines, Iran and Vietnam. However, compared with the long-standing Asian Championships, the history of the Asian Cup is not long, due to various international competition time conflicts, and the level of the event is not very high, the teams often send youth teams to participate, and the Chinese women's volleyball team may also rotate the lineup to participate.

Spirit must have

If the Asian Games champion is the passing line, then the world championship is the high score line. Cai Bin is well aware of the position of the Chinese women's volleyball team in the hearts of the Chinese people, and will face various huge challenges in the future, but since he has assumed this responsibility, he must forge ahead.

The Women's Volleyball World Championship is the world's top competition, and striving for good results is the goal of the whole team. Unlike recent World Championships, this tournament no longer determines the final six and then a single round robin to determine the final four, but directly plays the quarterfinals, semi-finals and finals. The World Championships were held in the Netherlands and Poland from September 23 to October 15.

A total of 24 teams participated in the World Championship, Group A was the Netherlands, Italy, Belgium, Puerto Rico, Cameroon and Kenya; Group B was Poland, Turkey, Dominica, South Korea, Thailand and Croatia; Group C was the United States, Serbia, Germany, Bulgaria, Canada and Kazakhstan; and Group D was Brazil, China, Japan, Colombia, Argentina and the Czech Republic. Under the background of the epidemic, in order to reduce traffic exchanges, the organizing committee decided that the top four groups A and D in the upper half of the district formed Group E of the round of 16 rematch, and the top four of Group B and Group C in the lower half formed the round of 16 rematch Group F, and the group E and F would no longer cross each other, and would be held separately in the Netherlands and Poland until the final was held in the Netherlands.

The Chinese women's volleyball team will compete for the right to the final with brazil, Japan, Italy, the Netherlands and other strong teams in the first half of the region, while avoiding strong teams such as the United States, Serbia and Turkey before advancing to the final. Among them, the Chinese women's volleyball team may encounter Brazil or Italy in the quarterfinals, no matter which opponent will be a hard battle.

As for the idea of forming a team, "the future is definitely a team that combines old, middle and young, which is not only about the present, but also about the future." But one thing should be clear, that is, in the spirit, in every training class, to grasp the spirit of the women's volleyball team, grasp the quality of training. Cai Bin said, "The team members are not particularly skilled in techniques and tactics, and the feelings are excusable, but the spirit must be there, and our determination to turn around must be there." ”

However, there are various problems in the Chinese women's volleyball team, and the world's strong women's volleyball teams are improving their strength. This time, he took over the banner in the hands of the world famous handsome Lang Ping, and the pressure on Cai Bin could be imagined. Cai Bin said bluntly: "I personally will also consider this issue, but the interests of the motherland are supreme. pressure! People from all walks of life have pressure, in the position of the head coach of the Chinese women's volleyball team, I will be more attentive, will be more considerate of the national level, and do a good job. ”

Source Beijing Daily

Journalist Kong Ning

Process Editor Wu Yue