The new Chinese men's volleyball team is actively preparing for the battle in Jiangmen, Guangdong. Due to the withdrawal of the Russian team, the Chinese team became the lucky one to enter the 2022 men's volleyball national league. Recently, there is good news that Chinese men have excluded participating in the World League and will go to Chengdu to participate in the 31st World University Games.
Zhang Jingyin confirmed the news in an interview with Zhejiang sports newspaper Sports Daily, he said: "The current training, in order to prepare for the World Men's Volleyball League and the Chengdu Universiade, has been in good shape recently, and I hope to continue it." From Zhang Jingyin's words, we can clearly know that the participation plan of the Chinese men's volleyball team in the first half of the year is the World League and the Universiade.
According to the schedule of the Universiade, the men's volleyball competition will start from June 26 to july 6, and this period of time is just the second and third week of the men's volleyball world league, the Chinese men's volleyball team will go to the Philippines and Poland to participate, so it is difficult to take into account both ends, so the Chinese men's volleyball team is very likely to follow the women's volleyball team to form a national second team and send two groups of teams to Chengdu to compete.
In the second training of the men's volleyball team, Wu Sheng recruited many newcomers, such as Jiang Zhiyuan, the second pass of Sichuan, Qi Jiahao, a free man from Henan, and Dai Haibo, a deputy attacker of Jiangsu, etc. Perhaps these fresh faces joined the team to participate in the Universiade. Sichuan media interviewed two Young Sichuan players who were training in the national team, and the two young generals said bluntly: "We will work hard to let the world see a more wonderful Chengdu." They must also win medals in their hometowns to win glory for the country and glory for their hometown. This also seems to indicate that the Chinese men's volleyball team will form a second team to compete.
In fact, sending two teams to participate in the Universiade has also been around for many years. In the early days, the Chinese Volleyball Association often mixed professional athletes and college athletes, allowing professional athletes to participate in the Universiade as college players. In the notice of the second team of the women's volleyball team that was previously revealed, it was also clearly written that they would participate in the Chengdu Universiade, so in this case, it is not surprising that the men's volleyball team also sent the second team.
The men's volleyball group of the Chengdu Universiade has been revealed, with a total of 14 teams participating. In addition to the host Chinese men's volleyball team, Group A also has South Korea, Poland, Mexico, Brazil, India and the Czech Republic; Group B is Chinese Taipei, Cyprus, the United States, Argentina, Japan, Portugal and Germany. In the last Universiade, the Chinese men's volleyball team ranked first from the bottom, ranking 20th. I hope that this time the Chinese men's volleyball team can be shamed and get good results!