After 1986, many of the "successful" old female volleyball players at that time retired one after another, and most of them chose to embark on the career path. Lang Ping, on the other hand, chose to study in the United States. Without hesitation, she embarked on the distant road from "zero", locking all the awards and trophies of the "world champion" in a hut in Beijing.
Her first job in the United States was as an assistant coach for the varsity team at the University of New Mexico. Later, she joined the Modina club and became the first Chinese to land in Italian volleyball.
In 1995, Lang Ping was invited to return to China to coach, and many friends advised her not to return, for fear that she would break her halo if she missed it. She thanked her friends for their kindness, but she had a more open-minded and strong self in her heart. She said: "With 8 years of overseas life experience, I have stepped on the ground one by one as a world champion, stepping on it very steadily, and I have long lost the burden of five consecutive championships, but everyone is still taking five consecutive championships seriously." ”
Lang Ping, who is the coach of the Chinese women's volleyball team, "works 24 hours a day", and she herself admits that she is "too heavy!" Which team member has not improved much in technology, or which team member is in a bad mood, I will be distressed, especially distressed." Finally, one day, when she suddenly stopped running all day, she suddenly realized that she had been separated from her daughter for a long time, and a strong feeling of longing hit her heart.
Atlanta 1996, Olympic Games. Lang Ping led the Chinese women's volleyball team to the United States. Bai Lang, who has not seen her mother for more than a year, ran like a deer and pounced, and the mother and daughter hugged their heads and cried...
At the Atlanta Olympics this year, the Chinese women's volleyball team won the silver medal, which is a remarkable achievement. Many people advised Lang Ping to accept it when she saw it, and her daughter also tried to let her mother accompany her all day. But the leadership of the State General Administration of Sports wanted Lang Ping to stay, and Lang Ping's heart was very conflicted, but she eventually persevered.
In 1984, the Chinese women's volleyball team won the Olympic championship for the first time in the 23rd Olympic Games
After leading the Chinese women's volleyball team to win the runner-up of the World Championship and the Asian Games champion in 1998, Lang Ping had to bid farewell to the Chinese team due to physical reasons.
After 2009, at the invitation of Guangzhou Evergrande Group, Lang Ping became the head coach of Evergrande women's volleyball team. In April 2013, Lang Ping was impressed by the sincerity of the Chinese Volleyball Management Center and once again decided to become the coach of the national team when the Chinese women's volleyball team was at a low ebb.
Lang Ping's return brought hope to the Chinese women's volleyball team, which at that time did not have the absolute strength of the world's number one, and it was Lang Ping who led a group of cute girls to quickly climb to the top of the world in a very short time. In the 2014 Italian Women's Volleyball World Championship, the unpromising Chinese women's volleyball team actually reached the top six from 24 teams, and the Chinese team may be eliminated at every moment. In the end, an incredible miracle played out in Milan, and Lang Ping led a team without absolute strength to win the world runner-up. Lang Ping proved himself once again.
In preparation for the 2016 Rio Olympics, Lang Ping dared to lose in some competitions to train the team and dared to hire newcomers. However, before the 2015 Women's Volleyball World Cup, many people could not participate due to injury, and Lang Ping commanded a set of remnants to go to Japan to play. On September 6, 2015, the Chinese women's volleyball team defeated the host Japan women's volleyball team 3:1, completing a historic victory, with 11 wins, 10 wins and 1 loss, accumulating 30 points to the 2016 Rio Olympics, and winning the World Cup, returning to the top of the world after 11 years.
On August 21, 2016, Lang Ping led the Chinese women's volleyball team as the head coach to defeat Serbia with an aggregate score of 3:1 and won the Rio Olympic Championship.
In March 2017, Lang Ping once again served as the head coach of the Chinese women's volleyball team. In November 2017, Lang Ping became the president of China Volleyball Academy.
In October 2018, Lang Ping led the Chinese women's volleyball team to defeat the Dutch women's volleyball team 3:0 and won the third place in the 2018 Women's Volleyball World Championship.
On January 6, 2019, Lang Ping was appointed as a member of the Chinese Olympic Committee. In July, she led the Chinese women's volleyball team to a 3:1 victory over the Turkish women's volleyball team and won the third place in the finals of the World Women's Volleyball League. In September, she led the Chinese women's volleyball team to win the Women's Volleyball World Cup with a record of 11 victories.
On August 2, 2021, in the final round of the women's volleyball group stage of the Tokyo Olympics, the Chinese women's volleyball team won 3:0 against the Argentine women's volleyball team, and the end of this match meant the end of coach Lang Ping. Subsequently, Lang Ping officially said goodbye to the Chinese women's volleyball team who has been coaching for 8 years, and the phrase "goodbye Director Lang" is the most difficult to say in the hearts of the women's volleyball girls.
The Chinese women's volleyball team facing the Argentine women's volleyball team was the curtain call of Lang Ping's coaching career, and the girls of the women's volleyball team bowed to Lang Ping hand in hand. They couldn't hold back their tears and hugged Lang Ping tightly. Although Lang Ping failed to lead the Chinese women's volleyball team to advance to the group stage of the Tokyo Olympics, Lang Ping is still a proud existence in the hearts of fans. Whether it is the era of players or coaches, the report card given by Lang Ping is already the best proof.
Lang Ping is the head coach of the Chinese women's volleyball team who carries the high expectations of the Chinese people, and she is also an ordinary woman, a wife, and a mother. But in volleyball, she never easily reveals the weakness that a woman can have, and she has used her strong will to carry the expectations of hundreds of millions of people for a team with special feelings.
"I want to rest!" Lang Ping, a woman who never admits defeat, temporarily let go of the dream she had been chasing for 48 years with regret.