For the newly formed Chinese women's volleyball team, the most important task in 2022 is not the World Championships, but the Asian Games held at home. Compared with the conservative rankings of the World Championships, coach Cai Bin is ambitious to win the Asian Games, after all, this event is likely to determine whether he can continue to coach.
At present, the Chinese women's volleyball team is actively preparing for the game in Ningbo Beilun, although Cai Bin has not yet selected the national team players, but the team has ushered in a good opportunity to win the championship. This good opportunity is that the strongest opponent, the Japanese women's volleyball team, announced that it will send two teams to Hangzhou to participate in the Asian Games, and the first team will stay in Japan to prepare for the world championships.
Makoto Masayoshi said at the press conference that due to the similar time between the Asian Games and the World Championships, the 39 people who participated in the training will be divided into two, one part to participate in the World Championships and one part to participate in the Asian Games. In fact, the Japanese women's volleyball team gave up the Asian Games to compete for gold, and went all out to fight for the World Championships. In recent years, they have paid much less attention to Asian competitions than China and South Korea, and even some games will use youth teams to compete against chinese and Korean adult teams.
With the Japanese women's volleyball team announcing the use of the second team to participate in the Asian Games, the remaining opponents of the Chinese women's volleyball team are only South Korea and Thailand. The situation on the South Korean women's volleyball side is worse than that of Japan, and after the Olympic Games, Kim Soft-kyung, Kim So-ji and Liang Hyo-jin have all said in public that they will not represent the national team in international competitions and will focus on professional leagues. In addition, the Korean Volleyball Association has not unsealed the ban on Lee Jae-young's Lee Do-young twins, so South Korea can only rely on Park Jeong-eun and Lee So-young to play.
Jin Softjing's status in the South Korean women's volleyball team is heavier than Zhu Ting's position in the Chinese women's volleyball team, in the past 3 Olympic Games, South Korea has not emerged a player who can take over the baton Kim Softjing; Kim So-chi and Liang Xiaozhen are the main secondary attackers of the Korean women's volleyball team, one of them is responsible for attacking, one is responsible for blocking the net. Lee Jae-young and Lee Do-young are known as the hope of the Korean women's volleyball team, but unfortunately, they are now hidden indefinitely due to the problem of "school violence".
The thai women's volleyball team is slightly better than south Korea, they have been upgraded after they missed the Olympics, and sent many of the main attacks of the team to overseas leagues, such as Aye Chala Pong, Cha Chu Ang, Tadaya, etc. are playing in overseas clubs. This wave of players has gradually replaced veterans such as Vilavan in the last cycle and has a certain strength.
However, according to the statement given by the Thai Volleyball Association, the original seven fairies in the new cycle will all leave the team and vigorously cultivate young players, which also means that Nutsara, Primkit and others will also leave. Whether the new player can take over the baton will directly affect the performance of the Thai women's volleyball team. The Thai women's volleyball team is a team that plays fast-changing tactics, and as long as there is a wide range of personnel changes in the team, it will affect the performance of the team.
On the other hand, the Chinese women's volleyball team, although it will form a second team, but from Cai Bin's words, we can know that the Asian Games should play with a team lineup, that is, Li Yingying, Yuan Xinyue, Gong Xiangyu and others will appear. Facing the second team of Japan, the replacement of Thailand and the half-disabled South Korea, the probability of winning the championship is very high.