Compared with the first leg of the World League in Turkey, the performance of the Chinese women's volleyball team in the Philippines is terrible, and both the players on the field and the head coach Cai Bin have been questioned. In particular, the latter's on-site command and substitution scheduling not only disappoint the fans but also see the future of the women's volleyball team. After winning and then losing against the Japanese women's volleyball team, especially in the 4th set, it was actually played with a humiliating score of 8:23, and the calls about the coach Cai Bin's dismissal came and went. The Chinese women's volleyball team encountered difficulties on the field, and there was also bad news in the domestic volleyball arena off the field.
The chinese volleyball association officially posted a telegram of condolences on social media on June 23, and Li Yaoxian, a former well-known coach of the Chinese women's volleyball team, died of illness at the age of 87. Although it has almost nothing to do with the current Chinese women's volleyball team, this is undoubtedly a huge loss for Chinese volleyball, after all, Li Yaoxian has brought many glorious honors to Chinese volleyball, and is an extremely important part of the history of Chinese volleyball, the most important thing is to cultivate many famous players for Chinese volleyball, especially to make the Chinese women's volleyball team stand at the top of the world to lay a good foundation.
Li Yao, a native of Hebei, was first selected for the national team in 1953, and finally with his outstanding strength and performance on the field, he became the main core of the Chinese men's volleyball team in the 60s, leading the team to play a good record. After retiring from the army, he transformed into a coach, and during the period of coaching the Hebei women's volleyball team, he cultivated Li Guizhi, Su Huijuan, Zhang Xiaohua and other female ranking players for the Chinese women's volleyball team, and his personal coaching ability was also unanimously recognized, so he became the manager of the Chinese women's volleyball team.
After the departure of Zhang Rongfang, the coach of the Chinese women's volleyball team, was pushed to the head coaching position by Li Yaoxian, who had thought that this would become the biggest black spot in his career. Led the defending champion Chinese women's volleyball team to the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games, the Chinese women's volleyball team that had been smooth all the way was swept by the former Soviet Union at 0:3 in the semi-finals, especially the first game directly played a humiliating score of 0:15, which also directly became the fuse for Li Yao to leave class.
After all, for the fans at that time, the Chinese women's volleyball team was not allowed to fail, and the Chinese women's volleyball team as the world champion was the spiritual pillar of domestic fans, and such a painful defeat was simply unacceptable, and even the fans once regarded Li Yaoxian as the biggest "sinner" who lost. Under pressure and helplessness, Li Yaoxian could only resign and then let Hu Jin serve as the coach of the Chinese women's volleyball team, but it was still difficult to make the problematic women's volleyball team rise.
It is also from this point that the Chinese women's volleyball team fell into the bottom, and failed to win any world championship for more than ten years, so it is the darkest section in the history of the Chinese women's volleyball team. After many years, fans realized that the decline of the Chinese women's volleyball team at that time was not because of Li Yaoxian, but because the old players in the team did not obey the management, resulting in problems within the team, so that the team's record plummeted. Moreover, Li Yaoxian's technical and tactical playing style is very outstanding, and it can be said that he was at the forefront of the world in the international volleyball arena at that time, but in the end he "backed the pot" to leave the class, which will also become the biggest regret of his career.