After Zhu Ting successfully returned to the Chinese women's volleyball team, there was a voice in the market, that is, "Will Yao Di be far away?" In fact, it has been a while since Yao Di was called to return to the national team, especially after the end of the league, when she was the best setter. So, will Yao Di return to the national team like Zhu Ting?
The simple answer is no. Why are you so sure? Because the situation between the two is very different. There are two reasons why Zhu Ting can return, one is that her own strength is enough, and the other is that there is a shortage of team personnel. In the second half of the Serie A league, Zhu Ting's competitive state has returned to its peak, and the success rate and efficiency of smashing the ball have reached about 50%.
In such a state, she also has the capital to return to the international arena. In the past few years, Zhu Ting's refusal to return was also due to the fact that her injury had not recovered and she could not help the team achieve good results, but now she has no such concerns. For the national team, Li Yingying has not had a suitable candidate for the main diagonal attack, Wang Yunrui only has one pass, Wang Yizhu and Wu Mengjie are strong and weak, Zhang Changning is still trying to recover, and only Zhu Ting is the most suitable diagonal for Li Yingying at this stage.
On the other hand, Yao Di's situation is not enough of his own strength, and there is no shortage of people in the setter position of the Chinese women's volleyball team. Although Yao Di won the best setter in the league, her strength did not reach the level of spotlessness, that is, she was not higher than the other setters. And her tactical style does not meet Cai Bin's requirements. According to Cai Bin's standard for setters, "fast" is more important than "stable", and only fast passing can tear apart the blocking of European and American teams.
Yao Di is relatively lacking in "fast", she belongs to the second setter of "seeking change in stability". It can also be found through the league and the Club World Cup that when a pass is in place, Yao Di can still play a multi-point flowering attack, but when a pass is unstable, Yao Di's weaknesses will be infinitely magnified. The three setters Diao Linyu, Xu Xiaoting and Ding Xia selected by Cai Bin all belong to the "fast-changing type", not the stable type. In addition, Yao Di's passing stability is far inferior to that of senior sister Wei Qiuyue, and he can't get every ball in place.
Now the setter of the Chinese women's volleyball team has been fixed, the main force is Diao Linyu, and the substitutes are Ding Xia and Xu Xiaoting. There is also a suspense about the Olympic quota for the second setter, that is, who will be the substitute between Ding Xia and Xu Xiaoting. If you rashly choose Yao Di, the technical and tactical play of the women's volleyball team will be reorganized, the setter is different from the main attack, the main attack is faster to integrate into the team, the setter is the core of the organization, and it takes a lot of time to run in tacit understanding, although Yao Di is a veteran of the national team, but each coach has his own style.
It is worth noting that the Chinese women's volleyball team has always kept Zhu Ting's No. 2 jersey, and Cai Bin also mentioned many times in an interview that the door of the national team is open to Zhu Ting at any time, but the number worn by Yao Di has changed hands. This also shows that Cai Bin did not consider wanting Yao Di to return to the national team. Lang Ping said before that "fans have the preferences of fans, and coaches have the needs of coaches". Cai Bin designed a fast-changing system, and Yao Di did not meet the requirements of the system, so he could only hate it.