With the World Women's Volleyball League approaching, the official website of the FIVB announced the participation list of the first competition of each team, among which the Chinese women's volleyball team will participate in the following list:
Main attack: Li Yingying, Wang Yunwei, Zhonghui, Du Qingqing;
Secondary attack: Yuan Xinyue, Wang Yuanyuan, Yang Hanyu, Gao Yi;
Second setter: Diao Linyu, Xu Xiaoting;
Contact: Gong Xiangyu, Zheng Yixin;
Free people: Wang Mengjie, Ni Xuanwei.
It is not difficult to see from this list that this is already the strongest team that the Chinese women's volleyball team can discharge under the existing conditions, which shows how much attention Cai Bin attaches to the first game.
In addition, it can be seen from this list that almost all of the selected players are veterans, and there are no real young players selected. Even the youngest Ni Fanfan, who has reached the age of 22 and has participated in the World League with the team as early as 2019, is no longer a young player, let alone other older players. Originally, competitive sports were determined by final results, and the age of the participating players was basically irrelevant, but in view of the current situation of the Chinese women's volleyball team, the training of young players can be said to be imminent, so fans especially hope that young players will be trained in competitions such as the World League with relatively little performance pressure.
However, since Cai Bin became the head coach of the Chinese women's volleyball team, he has brought the style of a set of lineups in the Jiangsu women's volleyball team to the Chinese women's volleyball team. Not only do young players have few opportunities to play, but even substitutes rarely come off the bench. What is even more puzzling is that young players like Wu Mengjie and Wang Yifan in the true sense obviously have strength and potential, but they can't even enter the list. So how can the Chinese women's volleyball team talk about development and have a future! You must know that players such as Zhu Ting, Zhang Changning, Yuan Xinyue, Gong Xiangyu and other players in the Langping period are already the new force of the team at Wu Mengjie's age.
As a senior head coach, Cai Bin naturally knows the importance of reserve force training, so in a recent interview, he publicly stated that he would list the training of young players as one of the main tasks, and choose the opportunity to give young players the opportunity to exercise in this World League. As a result, there were no real young players in the first World League roster. This not only disappointed the fans, but also raised the crisis of trust in Cai Bin again. So did Cai Bin really break his word this time? It is too early to tell.
First of all, due to the postponement of the Tokyo Olympics, the Paris Olympic cycle was shortened to three years, disrupting the original preparation rhythm of the Chinese women's volleyball team and compressing the preparation time. As a result, the Chinese women's volleyball team has to re-find a balance between obtaining results and training young players, and try not to delay both. Under such a premise, the probability of young players getting the opportunity to play must have been reduced to a certain extent, so there is now a situation where young players rarely have the opportunity to play, which should not be Cai Bin's intention, and he is also powerless.
Secondly, what has been announced now is only the list of participants for the first tournament of the World League, and there are many more competitions to come, and these sub-stations are either in the home country or in neighboring countries that are very close to us, and it is convenient to deploy troops at any time. In addition, what Cai Bin said is also to give young players opportunities, so it cannot be ruled out that Cai Bin will send young players in the next few games.
Based on the above two points, it is obviously too early to determine Cai Bin's broken word, and everything will not come out until the end of the World League. However, the author personally believes that Cai Bin will definitely do what he says and will not break his word.