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The training camp of the new Chinese women's volleyball team has ended for one week, and the players selected for the big list will also enter the team's plan to build a lineup. As the operational center of tactics, the selection of personnel in the second pass position is particularly interesting.
During the Tokyo Olympic cycle, the Chinese women's volleyball team has carried out several personnel selections in various positions, but unlike the people who come and go from other position players, the Chinese women's volleyball team has been relatively stable in the use of the second pass position. In most of the competitions of the Tokyo Olympic cycle, the Chinese women's volleyball team in the second pass position is a combination of Ding Xia, Yao Di and Diao Linyu. In the game where the team sent the main lineup to play, Ding Xia's main second pass position was very stable, Yao Di and Diao Linyu respectively undertook the task of substitute second pass in different games, and in some of the main lineup rotation games, Yao Di and Diao Linyu each got some main play opportunities. Considering that the second pass position not only requires the player to have sufficient excellent technical ability, and the cooperation with the on-field attacker is also very important, so including the Chinese women's volleyball team, the vast majority of teams for the use of the second pass candidate is relatively fixed, unless there is an unexpected injury or an absolutely eye-catching rookie, most teams rarely replace the second pass frequently.
From the current situation of the Chinese women's volleyball team, although the age of Ding Xia, Yao Di and Diao Linyu in the Paris Olympic cycle will have passed the thirty-year-old mark, for the second rumor, they are still in the golden period of their sports careers, and from the two levels of technical ability and experience on the field, they are still the leaders of the domestic second pass position. The two domestic events after the Tokyo Olympic Games, the Shaanxi National Games and last season's Volleyball Super League, Tianjin and Suzhou were both champions and runners-up, and Liaoning also won a third and a fourth place, which also showed from one side that the three second passes maintained a good level of competition. However, due to the impact of injuries, Yao Di asked the national team coaching staff for leave and did not participate in the previous Chinese women's volleyball training camp. Among the many second-pass players who participated in the training camp, Ding Xia and Diao Linyu are undoubtedly the popular candidates for the second pass of the main chinese women's volleyball team in the new cycle, among which Ding Xia, who has participated in two Olympic Games and a number of world championships, will be better in terms of field experience. For the veteran, maintaining good health may be the biggest issue today.
Compared with Ding Xia, Diao Linyu's previous international field experience will obviously be lacking, but she and Wang Yuanyuan, Yang Hanyu, Gao Yi and other young secondary attackers have no chance of cooperating, not to mention that many side attackers, including the main force to receive Gong Xiangyu, are Diao Linyu's Jiangsu teammates, so in the cooperation with the attackers, Diao Linyu will even have a slight upper hand. In addition, in terms of age, Diao Linyu, who will be exactly thirty years old by the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, is in the absolute golden age of second-pass players in this Olympic cycle, which will also become a major advantage for her in the competition for position.
In addition to Ding Xia and Diao Linyu, the rest of the second pass players who participated in the training camp almost all had little experience representing the adult team of the Chinese women's volleyball team, among which Cai Yaqian of the Shandong women's volleyball team and Xu Xiaoting of the Shanghai women's volleyball team had a slight advantage in the league, both born in 1998, they are also the leaders of the second pass reserve force of the Chinese women's volleyball team. For Cai Bin, who has always been good at cultivating second pass, if these young people can emerge malleable talents, they may also be given more opportunities to compete, after all, enough healthy competition and the gradual replacement of new and old are more conducive to the long-term development of the Chinese women's volleyball team.
Cai Yaqian (right)
Similar to the position of the second pass, there is also the position of the free man, the possibility of the Chinese women's volleyball team in the Paris Olympic cycle in this position is not very likely, in addition to the Rio Olympic champion Lin Li, who has faded out of the field, Wang Mengjie, the main free person of the Chinese women's volleyball team in the Tokyo Olympic cycle, and Ni Feifan, Wang Weiyi, who has appeared in the World Women's Volleyball League and some Asian events, will still be a popular candidate for the chinese women's volleyball team in the new cycle. Among them, the young player Ni Feifan is undoubtedly the most anticipated one, although the opportunities obtained in the first team in the last Olympic cycle were limited, but with the national youth to compete in the World Youth Championships to win the best free man, but also proved the development potential of the "post-00s" young player.
Compared with Ni Feifan, Wang Mengjie and Wang Weiyi, who were also born in 95, do not have an advantage in age, but for the position of free people, they are still in the golden age of their careers, as long as they control no major injuries, age will not become an obstacle affecting their competitive level. However, at present, they all need to prove themselves with a more convincing performance in the international arena.
Due to her unsatisfactory performance at the Tokyo Olympics, Wang Mengjie has been widely questioned by public opinion in the past period of time, last season's Volleyball Super League, she also rotated with another free person Song Xinyu in the Shandong Women's Volleyball Team, the best free person in the 2019 Women's Volleyball World Cup is now starting again after physically and mentally needing to adjust. The main free agent of the Shanghai women's volleyball team, Wang Weiyi, although she has been playing in the domestic arena for many years, has few opportunities in the national team, and after the lack of top foreign assistance such as Jin Softjing and Larson, whether she can still maintain the standard in the league in the first pass link also needs more international competitions.
Wang Weiyi