Zhuang Yushan is faced with the dilemma of playing abroad and participating in the national team training, entering the national team is the right way for women's volleyball players, just like the most important stop in life for students to enter the university, entering the national team means stepping into a new stage of career and having the opportunity to participate in the Olympic Games. But there are pros and cons to everything, what if you go to the national team and are not taken seriously, like Wang Yizhu, Du Qingqing, and Chen Peiyan are eliminated? Everyone knows that Cai Bin's national team substitute rarely has the opportunity to play, Du Qingqing and others turned out to be serving substitutes after they went, and Zhuang Yushan is not expected to be very optimistic when he goes to the national team.
The concept of long-term training of the Chinese women's volleyball team was once a successful experience, but the defeat in the Tokyo Olympics shows that no matter how much training you have, it is not as effective as high-level actual combat. Take the United States' main attacker Budge as an example, she used to pass very poorly, and the 2019 World League Finals played the Chinese women's volleyball team's substitute lineup was collapsed, and later became a good protection main attack, which has been verified in the Tokyo Olympics and Wakifu Bank. The improvement of Bucky's back row security is due to the training of high-level leagues. If you have a high level of long-term training, such as the ability of Lang Ping to train the main attacker, it is also feasible. The problem is that the current training level is just like that, like Wang Yizhu who trained in the national team for a year in 2022, and when he returned to the Tianjin women's volleyball team, he lost the position of the main attacker.
So it should be feasible to let Zhuang Yushan go out to play in the Italian league, which is the end of April, and then come back to participate in the training camp. Because the opportunity to go to a high-level league is really rare. However, there are 12 women's volleyball players who have gone abroad to play, and they have all started to play, but Zhuang Yushan has not gone to Turkey or participated in the game, although Zhuang Yushan has made public the foreign team.
There is only one explanation, that is, Zhuang Yushan already knew that he was going to participate in the national team training camp, and after weighing the pros and cons, he had decided to give up playing abroad, waiting for the national team to officially announce the training list, and participate in the national team training camp. By May, he will participate in the World League, show his level and ability, and strive to impress Cai Bin and strive to participate in the Paris Olympics. Participating in the Olympic Games is every player's highest dream, not something that can be measured by money. On the other hand, if you can participate in the Olympics and perform well, you will not have to worry about not having the opportunity to play abroad in the future.
Zhuang Yushan is only 20 years old, although he is only 1.84 meters tall, but he has comprehensive skills, dares to fight in the game, like a little tiger, especially able to drive his teammates, and performs well on the field, especially in smashing the ball with great strength and speed, and has good flexibility and blocking skills. She is very efficient in attack and has been able to rank at the top of several rankings, especially second in the offensive list. In addition, Zhuang Yushan is also very strong in terms of one-pass, and can stably receive six rounds of one-pass, which is one of the best in the national second team. She has a variety of smashing techniques, both strength and angle, and has a strong scoring ability.
Another distinctive feature of Zhuang Yushan is the courage to fight and the enthusiasm for victory. Although height is not her strength, she makes up for it with speed, explosiveness, and agility. Her smash action is fluid, domineering and varied, and she is able to quickly adjust to her opponent's blocking strategy, showing the high level of her game and the intelligence of her play.
Overall, Zhuang Yushan is a young player with all-round skills and playing aura, and her all-round ability and spirit of daring to fight make her unique among athletes of her age and regarded as a potential talent for the women's national volleyball team. The final data of the women's volleyball league in the 2023-2024 season is 819 smashes, 366 points, 114 mistakes, 44.69% smash success rate, 30.77 scoring efficiency, and 4.38 effective scoring index, ranking second in the domestic main attack, only below Li Yingying, surpassing Wu Mengjie, Zhong Hui and Wang Yizhu.
Zhuang Yushan also won the U21 Women's Volleyball World Championship Best Attack and Most Valuable Player MVP on August 27, 2023, it is worth mentioning that she is also another Chinese women's volleyball player who won the MVP of the World Youth Championship after Zhu Ting! Zhu Ting is the MVP and best main attack of the 2013 U20 World Youth Championship, and was quickly called into the national team by Lang Dao after playing the World Youth Championship! So the Chinese women's volleyball team should no longer blindly pursue height, and should give Zhuang Yushan a chance!
Now the opportunity has come, playing abroad and entering the national team, it seems that Zhuang Yushan has made a choice, that is, to give up playing at the Cuneo club in the Serie A league, enter the women's volleyball national team training, and strive to participate in the World League, impress Cai Bin through excellent performance, and strive to participate in the Paris Olympics!