At present, the Chinese women's volleyball team is preparing for the third week of the World Women's Volleyball League in Bulgaria, and the first two weeks of 8 games have won 5 wins and 3 losses and accumulated 16 points to temporarily rank sixth in the standings, such results can not let the Chinese women's volleyball team have the slightest relaxation in the third week, because a little carelessness is very likely to fall out of the top eight positions.
Judging from the 8 games that have ended, the Chinese women's volleyball team has started high and low, starting with three consecutive wins, especially the successive victories over Turkey and Italy, two Olympic top 8 teams, so that the outside world has great hopes for the new Chinese women's volleyball team, and the fans have also expressed a positive attitude towards Cai Bin's coaching ability, because in the first three games, Cai Bin reversed the unfavorable situation on the field through effective substitutions, and finally won the victory. However, this good situation has not been continued, the first week of the fourth game against the Thai team suddenly beat the Chinese women's volleyball team back to the pre-liberation, the secondary attack is not the biggest problem exposed.
After the match against Thailand, many fans missed Yan Ni, the meritorious deputy attacker of the Chinese women's volleyball team. Yan Ni, known as the "North Great Wall", chose to retire after the end of last year's National Games, when the age of retirement was more than 34 years old. Yan Ni can be called a late player, thinking that in 2013, when Yuan Xinyue, who was less than 17 years old, became famous in the World Junior Championship and was recruited into the national team by Lang Ping, the 26-year-old Yan Ni at that time was still a marginal player of the national team.
As the saying goes, gold will shine sooner or later, in 2014, Yan Ni entered the national second team, and with her strong performance, helped the Chinese team finally win the Asian Cup championship, while Yan Ni was selected for the best team, she was also awarded the MVP of the event, so far she got the trust of Lang Ping and gradually became the main secondary attack of the national team. After that, with the Chinese women's volleyball team won the 2016 Rio Olympic Championship, in 2015 and 2019 and won the World Cup twice, especially in the 2019 World Cup, the 32-year-old Yan Ni played 10 games for the Chinese women's volleyball team, scoring a total of 83 points, of which the net block scored 34 points, "North Great Wall" is indeed worthy of the name. The Chinese women's volleyball team defended the title with 11 wins and only lost 3 innings, and Yan Ni also won the title of the best secondary attack of the event at the age of 32, it is no exaggeration to say that the Chinese women's volleyball team at that time had the existence of Yan Ni, which gave the team a lot of confidence.
Now in this World Women's Volleyball League, 25-year-old Yuan Xinyue became the captain of this Chinese women's volleyball team, but obviously played a little tight in the game, and did not play its due strength, the back flying slam ball did not score, the net was full of loopholes, often let the other side borrow hands to score, even in the game against the Japanese team, head coach Cai Bin directly said that the deputy attack led by Yuan Xinyue did not reach out at will in front of the net, and at that time many fans missed Yan Ni very much.
And just recently, Yan Ni publicly spoke out on social media, Yan Ni said: "In the international arena, mainland athletes have worked hard and bravely, with the heroic responsibility of 'mission on the shoulders, struggle with me', let the world see the new era of Chinese athletes open and confident, the courage to surpass the will quality." Although Yan Ni is doing publicity for the Olympic Day, this passage can indeed give great encouragement to the current Chinese women's volleyball team to a certain extent, and many netizens have left messages below, showing that they miss Yan Ni too much, which makes people look very moved.
I hope that the Chinese women's volleyball team can carry forward the spirit of the older generation of women's volleyball team that works tenaciously and never gives up, although the team has encountered certain difficulties at present, but as fans, we are still full of hope for the Chinese women's volleyball team, hoping to bring greater surprises to the outside world in the future games!