After the Chinese women's volleyball U18 and U20 won the Asian Championship, the young age group competition will usher in the U17 World Championships, the competition was held in Lima, Peru on August 17-24, the Chinese U17 women's volleyball team was divided into Group B, the same group includes Turkey, Thailand and Ecuador, in order to prepare for the World Championships, head coach Zhao Yong led some of the players of the appropriate age to return to the U17 training base non-stop after the U18 Asian Championships to meet with the remaining players and continue training. Zhao Yong led the young players to win the U17 Russia Invitational Tournament, and then led the U18 Women's Volleyball Asian Championship to win the championship, and the preparation of this U17 women's volleyball team and participate in the Russia Invitational Tournament, the U18 Asian Championship lineup is very different, in order to better cope with the World Championships, Zhao Yong led the U17 women's volleyball team to warm up before the game, to participate in the Shanghai Rising Star Volleyball Championship, this time the competition started on July 22, the opponent is Viet Nam, Thailand, Korea, France, Brazil, Canada six national youth teams plus the sea youth team, It can be said that for the U17 women's volleyball team, it is a skip-level competition to challenge the high-age team, and then let's talk about Zhao Yong's U17 women's volleyball team.
Head coach Zhao Yong
This U17 women's volleyball team retained the main auxiliary attack Chen Xiaohui and Guo Zhongnan who went to participate in the Russia Invitational Tournament, substitute main attack Huang Qingge, substitute second setter Zhu Zhan, substitute free man Zhang Shitong, and also brought back the main attack Huang Yuexin and Sun Hongyun, the second setter Zhang Zixuan, and Yang Shuming to bring back, and then added Jiangsu main attack Chang Zixin, Shanghai deputy attack Song Ziyuan, Sichuan second setter Wang Yibo, Shanghai pick up Jia Jingya, Shanghai free man Li Mingjing.
U16 Asian Championships best: Yang Shuming, Li Mingjing, Chen Xiaohui
Due to age problems, Zhai Yurui, Wang Aoqian, Shen Jiayi, and Song Jiayi, who shined in the U18 Asian Championships, could not participate, especially the main attack Zhai Yurui, she has a strong jump, smashes are also very powerful, and the start is bold, and the Asian Championship final played well to contain Japan's U18 counterattack, and made great contributions to the Chinese team to win the championship; And the U18 championship main assistant attackers Wang Aoqian and Shen Jia are good at attacking and blocking, giving a good share to the side attackers, her absence has caused a great loss of team strength, and the free man Song Jiayi's one-pass defense has performed remarkably in the U17, but the strength of Shanghai free man Li Mingjing is also good and can be made up. Shandong teenager Zhang Jinghuiru, who formed an offensive echo with Zhai Yurui at the U17 Russia Invitational Tournament, also performed well, but the injury before the game prevented her from participating in the U18 Asian Championship and the U17 World Championship, and at the U19 National Championship in April this year, the deputy attacker Si Jingyu, who performed well in the Shandong U17 women's volleyball team, was also not selected for the U17 team because of injury.
Now the strongest U17 teams in China are Shanghai and Jiangsu, so this time the U17 women's volleyball team Shanghai selected 5 people, and Jiangsu selected 4 people. In March, the U17 National Championship, Jiangsu U17 women's volleyball team almost overturned the powerful Shanghai U17 women's volleyball team, and finally lost 2:3, among which the three players who played the best in the team were Chang Zixin, Chen Xiaohui and Guo Zhongnan, U17 four main attackers, Huang Yuexin bounced well, and the offense was also good, but a pass was too bad, Sun Hongyun could pass a pass, and the offense was not too bad, and the gap was too big compared with the heavy artillery in the U16 Asian Championship last year, and it may also be that the injury affected the state. Chang Zixin has a height of 190, will she make up for the offensive firepower of Zhai Yurui's absence, we can also look forward to it, if the offensive pass can be played, her future potential is greater, after all, she has a height advantage. And whether Huang Qingge can grasp the opportunity and strive for more playing time is also crucial.
The three deputy attackers are all 190 height, among which Chen Xiaohui performed very well in last year's U16 Asian Championships and the domestic U17 Championship, her game temperament is very good, and she also dares to start, running actively, Guo Zhongnan is young and old, she is in the Jiangsu women's volleyball team, and the ability to beat Tang Jingxia, the third deputy attack of the U18 Asian Championships, has become the main auxiliary attack of the Jiangsu U17 women's volleyball team, which shows that her spirituality and potential are greater, and they and the main setter Zhang Zixuan are both from Jiangsu, which can be said to cooperate tacitly and it is easier to play tactical offense. Song Zijiao was dug up from Taiyuan No. 15 Middle School in Shanghai. She was very violent in the middle school competition, and it will be interesting to see if the performance of the three can surpass the performance of Wang Aoqian and Shen Jiayi U18; The setter position is both U18 Asian Championship setters, the passing organization is very decent, Zhang Zixuan's secondary attack is better, but there are also defects, that is, the passing response and the main attack are sometimes not very accurate, Zhu Zan came off the bench in the Asian Championships, and the passing is not too far from the main setter Zhang Zixuan, and the U17 age is also a relatively talented two setters; Receiving position, Yang Shuming can be said to be the core attacker of the U17 and U18 age groups, last year's U16 Asian Championship final saw her smash the ball, the strength is not very large, often defended by Japan, this year's U18 Asian Championship her strength has obviously increased, and her body has also lost weight, which is more conducive to her bounce, she is the largest offensive firepower of the U17, when the Chinese team fluctuates in a pass, she can also withdraw to receive a pass, and as her substitute should be more embarrassing, because there are few opportunities to replace her, Her substitute is Jia Jingya from the same parent team; The libero is Li Mingjing and Zhang Shitong, Li Mingjing performed more prominently in the U17 National Championship, she was also the best libero in the U16 Asian Championship last year, Zhang Shitong from Hebei participated in the Russia Invitational Tournament with the team, although it was a substitute, Zhao Yong can keep her again in the U17, may also be optimistic about her ability.
Tomorrow Shanghai Rising Stars Volleyball Championship starts, U17 women's volleyball will face France U22 youth women's volleyball team, Thailand U21 youth women's volleyball team, Brazil Baolu U21 youth women's volleyball team (there are 5 Brazil U21 national players in the team), how the players can perform, let's pay attention to tomorrow's game!
22 July, 16:30 China U17 vs Hokoku U22
23 July, 16:30 China U17 vs Taiguo U21
24 July, 19:00 China U17 vs Baxi Baoyu U21