The opening of the 2023 Women's Volleyball World League is getting closer. China Sports News recently interviewed Cai Bin, the head coach of the Chinese women's volleyball team, to understand the preparation of the Chinese women's volleyball team.
Judging from the content of the interview, there are several points worth paying attention to.
Point 1: When is departure?
From the perspective of the schedule, the first match of the Chinese women's volleyball team in the 2023 Women's World Volleyball League will be played in Nagoya, Japan, and the first match is scheduled for May 31, which is only one week away.
According to Cai Bin, the Chinese women's volleyball team will go to Japan on May 26 to start the 2023 Women's World Volleyball League. After the Chinese women's volleyball team played the World Women's Volleyball League, it concentrated on preparing for the Paris Olympic Qualification Tournament and the Hangzhou Asian Games.
Number two: which players will have a chance to play in this World League?
At the beginning of this month, the Chinese Volleyball Association announced the roster for participating in the Women's World Volleyball League. There are 23 people on this list. In fact, there are only 14 people per venue in the World League, so some players cannot participate in the World League. The reason why the Volleyball Association announced 23 people is because some candidates are still under consideration.
Later, the Internet broke out the training photos of the Chinese women's volleyball team, as well as a group photo to the "ancient city of Zhangzhou". Only 18 players of the Chinese women's volleyball team really participated in this training. Like Ding Xia and Wu Mengjie never entered the team, Wang Yifan and Duan Fang left later, and Miao Yiwen failed to return to the team in time.
Cai Bin also confirmed this. Only 18 people of the Chinese women's volleyball team trained in Zhangzhou. And the team will not let all these players go to Japan, only 14-16 players will travel. As for which players to play, Cai Bin did not disclose.
The players who played last game were selected from these 14-16 players. Therefore, Cai Bin will definitely arrange the team members carefully.
However, Cai Bin also said that if there is a problem with the player during the game, such as poor condition, or someone is injured, it can still be adjusted. After all, the sub-tournaments of the Chinese women's volleyball team are held in East Asia, and the personnel adjustment is very convenient.
Point 3: Who will be the main squad?
According to Cai Bin's guidelines, there are few substitutions during the game. Some of the main players will take on a lot of competition tasks. So which players will be the workhorses?
Cai Bin said: The main lineup is mainly based on the main framework of the 2022 Women's Volleyball World Championship.
In the 2022 Women's Volleyball World Championship, Cai Bin began to set the main lineup is Li Yingying and Wang Yunbi, the deputy attack Yuan Xinyue and Wang Yuanyuan, Gong Xiangyu, the second setter Diao Linyu, and the free man Wang Weiyi. It's just that Wang Weiyi's performance is too poor, and Wang Mengjie replaced Wang Weiyi as the main force of the team.
Then according to Cai Bin's meaning, Li Yingying, Wang Yunwei, Yuan Xinyue, Wang Yuanyuan, Gong Xiangyu, Diao Linyu, Wang Mengjie will become the main force of the team. It just so happened that these people participated in the training camp of the new national team.
Some people also exposed training pictures on the Internet, thinking that Zhonghui may replace Wang Yunbi and become the opposite corner of Li Yingying. These are just speculations. It is impossible to guess the main lineup from some pictures. Cai Bin let the team train and also wanted to select the best starting lineup.
Cai Bin also said that the bench depth of each position will also be considered.
This is the focus of the training. Cai Bin determined the main candidate. However, these people participated in last year's World League and World Championships, and did not show convincing strength, so they failed to achieve good results. Both events only finished sixth. This is certainly unsatisfactory for the Chinese women's volleyball team, which has won 10 world championships. There are many doubts about Cai Bin on the Internet, and there is no lack of voices asking Cai Bin to leave class.
In order to improve the overall strength of the team, it is necessary to improve the ability of the players, but also improve the tactical literacy. It is necessary to improve the strength of both the main team members and the strength of the substitutes.
During the training period in Zhangzhou, the Chinese women's volleyball team attached great importance to tactical cooperation and conducted targeted training according to last year's problems. At the same time, the team attaches great importance to the training of a pass. Last year, Cai Bin led the team to play, and the high-level jumping of European and American players had a great impact on the one-pass system of the Chinese women's volleyball team. Cai Bin focused on practicing a pass to make the defense more solid.
In fact, the best defense is offense. If our players can also have a good jump, it will naturally impact the opponent's pass. It is a pity that there are very few players in the Chinese women's volleyball team who can jump their hair. In the past, Liu Xiaotong would jump his hair, but he retired. Zhonghui can jump hair, but he is short and not particularly strong in attack and defense. Cai Bin recruited Zhonghui to the team, probably also to see if she could contribute to the team.
Cai Bin reflected that he was very satisfied with the team's training. I hope the team will do well in this year's World League.