On July 16, Beijing time, the semifinals of the 2023 Women's Volleyball World League Finals were held as scheduled, and in the first matchup, the Chinese women's volleyball team defeated the Polish women's volleyball team 3-0 (25-18, 25-23, 25-23) and advanced to the final of the World Women's Volleyball League for the first time. In addition to the results, the special clothes of liberator Wang Mengjie in this competition have also become the focus of attention.
Wang Mengjie
The game jersey announced before the game, the Chinese women's volleyball libero shirt is white this game, because the Chinese women's volleyball team has lost many times wearing white jerseys, so it is widely believed among fans that wearing white jerseys is unlucky, affecting the victory or defeat of the game, and more and more forming a consensus, such as the child's college entrance examination, the mother wears other clothes instead of the cheongsam waiting for the consensus such a consensus. After the match started, libero Wang Mengjie wore a striped jersey, and it was a jersey that had not been seen in previous matches. Some fans thought that the team listened to everyone's opinions and replaced the white jersey, and there were other sayings, and there were many discussions.
Wang Mengjie wearing a "white jersey"
Actually, the answer is no. After the tournament organizing committee announced the color of each team's game jersey, the participating teams could not change it after the start of the game, and if it was changed at will, it was suspected of violating the law, so there was no replacement of white jerseys. The actual reason is that starting in 2022, the FIVB has formed a partnership with a non-profit organization called LKTBF to promote awareness of equal rights through the influence of volleyball. Operation Equal Jersey is a step in this cooperation, and as "ambassadors", some players will wear "equality jerseys" in the World Volleyball League women's volleyball and men's volleyball finals. And Wang Mengjie was actually selected as an event ambassador and wore the "equality jersey".
Operation Equality Jersey poster
In fact, there were a total of four ambassadors in the semifinals, in addition to Wang Mengjie, the other three were Stiesák, the receiver of the Polish women's volleyball team, Washington of the US women's volleyball team, and Vargas, the receiver of the Turkish women's volleyball team. Not surprisingly, on July 17, the Women's Volleyball World League championship and runner-up finals and the third and fourth finals will be played in "equality jerseys", which players are still unknown, will there be changes? See.
Stieschuk, Washington, and Vargas in the "equality jersey"
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