Recently, the Japan Volleyball Association announced that the head coach of the women's volleyball national team, Kumi Nakata, will officially leave his post on August 31. With a high profile in office and a dark departure, the iron lady Nakata Kumi's national team coaching career ended. After four years in charge, the deepest impression she left on the fans was the unwilling tears after repeated failures. What brought to the Japanese women's volleyball team was one defeat after another, and there was not a decent result in the international arena, even if it was the third place.
Nakata Kumi began coaching the Japanese women's volleyball national team on April 1, 2017, and in the past four years, Nakata Hashimi has led the team to win the fifth place in the 2017 Grand Champions Cup, the fourth place in the 2018 Asian Games, the sixth place in the 2018 Women's Volleyball World Championship, the fifth place in the 2019 Women's Volleyball World Cup, the fourth place in the 2021 Women's Volleyball World League, and the tenth place in the Tokyo Olympic Games. Don't say that in the world arena to win gold and silver, that is, in Asia, Nakata Kumi did not bring good results to the Japanese women's volleyball team, such a performance is difficult to convince the public, and it is difficult to explain to the volleyball association, fans, including themselves, so Nakata Kumi's resignation from the Tokyo Olympic Games after playing the last game is doomed.
Once, the Japanese women's volleyball team is also the world's top team, known as the Oriental Witch, playing all over the world invincible, but with the development of world volleyball technology, tall, power-type play occupies the mainstream, the Japanese women's volleyball team's small fast spirit playing style gradually lost its power, in the face of the high point of the European and American teams to attack vigorously, their blocking is getting more and more difficult, the effect is getting worse and worse, and the competitiveness has plummeted.
For a traditional strong team, the biggest problem of the Japanese team is the difficulty of selecting materials, the height of the players is generally shorter, the European and American teams, including the Chinese women's volleyball team more than 1.90 meters of the team to grab a big hand, the Japanese team does not have a single one, so that the threat of the net mouth is much smaller, plus the teams are now playing very fast, the defense is also very hard, for the Japanese team's technical and tactical characteristics are very well understood, so the Japanese team is quite difficult to play. If there is no breakthrough in the selection of materials, the future road of the Japanese women's volleyball team is still difficult to go, therefore, the responsibility for poor results is not all in Nakata Kumi, if you give her a Zhu Ting, I believe that Nakata Kumi will not leave the class so quickly.
Although Nakata Kumi did not bring the Japanese women's volleyball team to good results, her professionalism and sense of responsibility are admirable. After losing each game, the expression is solemn, the pressure is great, especially after losing to the Chinese women's volleyball team several times, covering her face and crying makes people sigh, a strong woman in her 50s, if it is not for the responsibility and commitment in her heart, who is willing to shed tears in front of the world, Nakata Jigami is too difficult. Putting aside her achievements, she also excavated and cultivated potential team members such as Koga Sarina, Masayuki Ishikawa, Ai Kuro, and Akira Tsukii, laying a solid foundation for the new Japanese women's volleyball team to turn around.
Stepping down from a light body, no longer need too much pressure to shed tears, no more anxiety and depression, thank you Nakata Kume for bringing the volleyball fans touched and unwilling, the future, may you be safe and smooth, easy and worry-free!