As the saying goes, the iron battalion is a soldier of flowing water.
The achievements of the Chinese women's volleyball team have gone through generations of ups and downs, but the spiritual connotation of the girls' all-out and tenacious struggle continues.
The times are progressing, and the society is also developing continuously, but the feelings of the Chinese people for the women's volleyball team have not changed at all.
When it comes to the Chinese women's volleyball team, it is necessary to mention the "iron hammer" Lang Ping.
The height of Lang Ping's achievements is a peak that is difficult to surpass in the history of the Chinese women's volleyball team.
She is also the only person in the world who is both a player and a coach, as well as an Olympic and World Cup champion.
Lang Ping
However, in her coaching career, she also left some regrets.
More than ten years ago, a talented women's volleyball team in the team led by Lang Ping did not quit and went to the United States for further study.
This sudden accident suddenly disrupted everyone's plans.
In front of the camera, Lang Ping also cried bitterly because of this, and the national team publicly announced that she was permanently removed.
Few people know that there was once a talented women's volleyball team named Wang Yi in the national team.
She is a rare pride in the eyes of Lang Ping, and once tried to hold her in the core position of the women's volleyball team.
If it weren't for the mistakes she made later, maybe Wang Yi would have become the next female ranking stream.
Wang Yi
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Wang Yi was born in Shanghai in 1973.
Wang Yi's parents are also well-known local sports athletes.
Under the influence of her parents' professional environment, Wang Yi has also loved sports since she was a child, and is especially good at ball games.
Inheriting his father's excellent genetic conditions, Wang Yi looked much taller than others at a young age.
At the age of ten years, Wang Yi's height has reached a height of nearly one meter nine.
At the age of twelve, Wang Yi was favored by the Shanghai women's volleyball team and officially began her professional volleyball career.
Wang Yi is indeed very talented in volleyball, and her performance in the club is also very good.
Not long after, Hu Jin, the head coach of the women's volleyball national team at the time, also took a fancy to Wang Yi and recruited her into the national team.
The training intensity of the national team cannot be compared with Wang Yi's previous nature in the club.
Overall, Wang Yi's personal skills are still very good, and her height of 1 meter 89 is also an innate advantage for her.
The secondary attack is Wang Yi's strong point, although the results of the competition have fluctuated slightly, but she has also played very steadily in every big and small event.
As a player who plays a fast attack in the position of the second set, Wang Yi not only has a fast shot, but also has a flexible and changeable tactic on the field, and the netting and defensive techniques are also very sharp, which can be said to be a rare talented women's volleyball team in China at that time.
Wang Yi's personal goals are clear, and in the national team, she also quickly found her own core position.
With superior talent and stable performance, Wang Yi has also accumulated a lot of competition experience in major competitions and grown rapidly.
After that, Wang Yi also successfully seized the time and opportunity, and twice represented the Chinese team in the Volleyball World Cup and the Olympic Games in Barcelona.
In these two competitions, the national team also clearly saw Wang Yi's strength and advantages, so it was more important to her.
It was also from that time that after many famous players in the Chinese volleyball world announced their retirement, the performance of the Chinese women's volleyball team fell into a trough in an instant, fell into a situation of green and yellow, and encountered Waterloo many times on the field, and China's international ranking fell wildly on the field.
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Since then, for many years, the position of the head coach of the Chinese women's volleyball team has been frequently changed like a hot potato, but it has not made much splash.
The results of the Chinese women's volleyball team in those years have been very unstable, so the results are unwilling to accept for Chinese, and many people have put forward the idea of changing coaches for the Chinese women's volleyball team.
At that time, Lang Ping was coaching in the United States and achieved remarkable results, and it was also surprising to hear that the Chinese women's volleyball team played this result.
In her opinion, the strength of the Chinese women's volleyball team is far more than this, and somehow it has fallen to such a point.
At the World Championships in São Paulo, Brazil, the Chinese women's volleyball team only won the eighth place, which is the worst result of the Chinese women's volleyball team since the glory of the five consecutive championships.
At that time, such a gray situation made the position of chinese women's volleyball team manager dare not be taken over, and there was no suitable person in China who was able to take on this heavy responsibility.
Under this situation, Lang Ping's former mentor, Coach Yuan Weimin, personally found Lang Ping.
First, Lang Ping is a veteran member of the first generation of China's women's volleyball team and has been in the battlefield for a long time.
Second, Lang Ping herself also has rich coaching experience and ability, and it is undoubtedly the most suitable choice for her to lead the Chinese women's volleyball team.
Yuan Weimin went to talk to her and hoped that she would return to the motherland.
At that time, Lang Ping had already made an outstanding achievement in the United States, and at that time, her annual salary in the United States was about 200,000 yuan a year.
If you go back to China, it means that everything has to start from scratch.
But in her eyes, only the volleyball career of the motherland makes her feel more precious.
At that time, the situation of China's women's volleyball team was not optimistic, and perhaps only by winning the championship again could the Chinese people's perception of the women's volleyball team be reversed.
When Lang Ping took over, this team was no longer the strong squad it once was, and Lang Ping was also facing pressure from all sides.
After examining the overall level of this team, Lang Ping found that the basic ability of the players in attack, speed and endurance was very poor, and almost all of them had to start from scratch.
At this moment, she urgently needed to recruit a new blood.
At this time, Wang Yi in the team also attracted Lang Ping's attention.
Judging from the time and seniority of enlistment, Wang Yi is a down-to-earth newcomer.
But among this group of people, Wang Yi's explosiveness and speed are very good in all aspects.
Although there is a slight lack of experience in the field, this does not prevent Wang Yi from being a highly malleable genius.
When Lang Ping first took over the Chinese women's volleyball team, in front of the camera interview, she bluntly said that the goal was to lead the Chinese women's volleyball team to win the medal of the next Atlanta Olympic Games.
In terms of Wang Yi's strength at that time, she was qualified enough to represent the Chinese women's volleyball team to participate in the Olympic Games.
But her overall level was only a second-level offense, and there was already a main player in the second-level offensive position at that time.
As a "newcomer" who has not been in the woods for a long time, Wang Yi naturally cannot replace the position of the old player immediately, and can only take a step back as a substitute role.
At that time, Lang Ping gave a rather pertinent analysis and evaluation of Wang Yi's performance ability.
Lang Ping took a fancy to Wang Yi, and even tried his best to persuade the team to put Wang Yi directly into the position of the Olympic women's volleyball team.
Wang Yi rose directly from a substitute to a player on the court, working with another famous female volleyball player Lai Yawen.
I have to say that Wang Yi, as the main player of the secondary attack, her performance on the field is also very good, and there is almost no shortcoming in technology.
In a 1995 World Cup, Wang Yi directly blocked the attack of Barbara, the world's first main attack at that time, which is still fresh in people's minds today, and many Chinese people directly call the Chinese women's volleyball team "successor".
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During that time, Wang Yi also received countless flowers and applause because of her achievements.
That was lang ping's first time as the coach of the Chinese women's volleyball team, and Lang Ping became Wang Yi's Bole.
In the face of Wang Yi's remarkable and wonderful performance, who does not praise Lang Ping's casting vision as "one in a thousand miles".
Since then, Lang Ping has carefully cultivated Wang Yi and focused on cultivation, so that she can continue to play her stable performance in the women's volleyball team, so as to inject more fresh blood and energy into the Chinese team.
"When I was abroad before, I have always paid attention to the competition situation of the Chinese women's volleyball team, what are the characteristics of each of them, what are the shortcomings are more or less understood, I first saw Wang Yi when I saw this girl I noticed her, her fast and accurate character and strength is exactly what our Chinese women's volleyball team needs."
It is true that Wang Yi's passion and enthusiasm on the field can ignite every audience in the field, and her own talent and love for volleyball is beyond doubt.
I remember when Wang Yi was first recruited into the national team, she was also ecstatic in her heart, and she also looked forward to a beautiful future for her future career planning.
Wang Yi's teammates mentioned that her performance when she first joined the national team was also very inspirational.
She was only in her twelfth year when she first joined the national team, but her tenacity and fierceness in training were no worse than those of us veteran players.
At that time, in addition to completing the tasks assigned by the coach, she also arranged a unique set of training content for her shortcomings.
The same type of ball she was able to practice on the court for hours on her own, and we never saw her idle anyway.
Since Lang Ping returned to coach, the Chinese women's volleyball team seems to have a needle in the sea, not only the girls' technology is getting more and more sophisticated, but even the self-confidence that was frustrated on the field has also been found, which is also a great comfort for the old coach of the women's volleyball team, Yuan Weimin.
The women's volleyball team is the classic memory of generations of our countrymen, and persuading Lang Ping to return to China is also our helpless choice.
She would have had a better development and career in the United States, and returning here would be tantamount to letting her start at zero.
But she told me that she was a talent cultivated by the motherland, and whenever any country needed her, she would return to the motherland without hesitation.
Now that she is back, the hope of the Chinese women's volleyball team is also back.
Wang Yi is a very talented women's volleyball player, and Lang Ping and I are very optimistic about her ability.
Wang Yi's efforts and talents are in everyone's eyes.
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However, this is only one side of Wang Yi's personality.
Objectively speaking, Wang Yi's ball skills are good, known as the genius women's volleyball team, but unfortunately this genius has the biggest shortcoming, that is, he has a bad temper and does not obey discipline.
In the usual training, the requirements of the coach are always relatively strict, and what the players need to do is to obey the coach's command and arrangement.
Long before Lang Ping took the position of head coach, Wang Yi under the field had long been frequently rumored to be in disagreement with former coach Li Xiaofeng.
Since Wang Yi emerged at the Olympics, the praise and applause have also made the girl a little impetuous.
Li Xiaofeng
This made Wang Yi feel that her self-esteem had been greatly hit, and she finally decided to leave the national team.
In order to frustrate Wang Yi's vigor, Lang Ping directly changed Wang Yi from the position of deputy attack to a free man.
Lang Ping's original intention was just to let Wang Yi correct her attitude and thoughts, so that she could find the right position for herself.
But this approach has backfired.
At that time, Lai Yawen, another stalwart in the Chinese women's volleyball team, was diagnosed with severe liver disease by the hospital and had to be hospitalized for a long time to recuperate, and the women's volleyball team fell back into a low tide period.
The women's volleyball team lacked talent at this time, and there was no suitable candidate for the position of the deputy attacker, so Lang Ping once again set his sights on Wang Yi.
At the beginning of that year, Lang Ping went to Shanghai to find Wang Yi and talked with him once.
In the face of Lang Ping's warm expectations, Wang Yi also verbally promised that Lang Ping would return to the national team to participate in the training.
But Wang Yi also made a request at the time that she should continue her studies at university.
This requirement means that when the players are training, Wang Yi has to study, and may miss the team's training or competition.
You know, volleyball training is a whole.
In addition to individual competence, the cohesion and tacit understanding of the team are also very important on the field.
At that time, there were many unfavorable factors in the situation of the women's volleyball team, in order to unify the ideas of the team members as soon as possible, Lang Ping also agreed to Wang Yi's request.
At the same time as attending school, Wang Yi also joined the local volleyball team.
However, until the day of the training, Wang Yi still did not appear in the team.
Originally, Wang Yi had promised something good, but in the end she rebelled, and even did not quit and went directly to the United States for further study.
Wang Yi's move directly caused everyone's anger.
She was only 25 years old that year, which was the most spirited age in 1998, but Wang Yi went to the United States at such a critical juncture for the country.
This sudden act of opening the skylight directly threatened the strength and plan of the entire women's volleyball team, and the national team also announced that Wang Yi was permanently removed from the national team.
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In fact, Wang Yi has been preparing for the relevant matters of going to the United States since she withdrew from the national team.
Since quitting the Chinese volleyball arena, Wang Yi has gone to California to start her study trip and has never appeared in front of the public again.
For the next four years, she studied business administration alone at the University of Damour Notre Dame in Belmont, California.
Wang Yi's volleyball level is unquestionable, when she also participated in the NAIA National College League as a school representative and was selected for the league's best team for two years.
During her time at school, she also excelled in her cultural classes.
In just four years of college career, Wang Yi has won the dean's award and the university's outstanding athlete scholarship four times.
Today, Wang Yi is an assistant coach of the PUS University women's volleyball team in the United States.
Although she ended her career as an athlete, Wang Yi has also been engaged in volleyball, which she loves.
China's contemporary talents are emerging, and Lang Ping has once again won the championship after coaching the Chinese women's volleyball team again.
What Lang Ping did that year was not actually aimed at Wang Yi personally.
In the context of the environment at that time, Lang Ping personally faced various pressures from the outside world.
As a coach, her only mission is to make the Chinese women's volleyball team change, improve, and even win the championship.
In this process, she must ensure the professional ability and personal quality of each player in the team, and on the field, often some inconspicuous details may become the key point of the headwind.
Sports has always been one of the key areas of development in our country, and every athlete who enters the national team must have a high sense of collective honor and belonging in addition to his extraordinary talent.
Wang Yi's selfish and willful behavior has directly hurt the collective interests of the Chinese women's volleyball team and the face of the country.
If Lang Ping is too tolerant of Wang Yi, it is also unfair to other players in the women's volleyball team.
Wang Yi, who was prosperous at that time, is now middle-aged, and I wonder if she has ever regretted her act of breaking her word?
Nowadays, looking back on the past, it is still necessary to look forward and wish the Chinese women's volleyball team better and better.