In all walks of life, there are some people with outstanding personalities and differences.
This type of person is basically not bad, and even the best in their respective fields, but at the same time, in this type of people often like to show that they are different from others.
In other industries, this kind of behavior can be said to be personality, but in competitive sports, especially in Chinese sports, this is disobedience.
Because of the particularity of Chinese sports, obedience to orders in the team is the most important, but there are also some players who just do not obey discipline.
Generally speaking, when encountering a good coach, this type of player can often be adjusted to be the leader of the team, but if you meet a coach who is not so experienced, this type of player will often be played as a model.
The Chinese women's volleyball team is a team that has achieved very good results, and its status in the Chinese sports world is also very important.
However, there are also many "thorny" players in the history of the Chinese women's volleyball team, and today let's walk into the stories of these "thorny" players:
One: Wang Yi
Wang Yi was born in Shanghai in 1973 into a sports family and is 51 years old this year.
Because of her parents, Wang Yi's height developed very quickly at a very young age, and the height gap between her and her peers slowly widened.
In the 80s of the last century, the Chinese women's volleyball team achieved an astonishing five consecutive championships in the World Series, which also made the country begin to set off a wave of volleyball fever.
It was at this time that Wang Yi's parents began to arrange for their daughter to practice volleyball.
It turns out that Wang Yi's talent in volleyball is very high, and she was selected by the Shanghai team within a few years of practicing volleyball, and in 1991, 18-year-old Wang Yi was selected for the national team.
At that time, the head coach of the women's volleyball national team was Hu Jin, who attached great importance to Wang Yi and Hu Jin, and took the 19-year-old Wang Yi to participate in the Barcelona Olympics in 1992.
But in that Olympic Games, due to the injury of Li Guojun, the main attacker of the Chinese women's volleyball team, and the main force to receive Wu Dan to take banned drugs by mistake, the Chinese women's volleyball team only finished seventh.
In 1993, Li Xiaofeng succeeded Hu Jin as the new head coach of the women's volleyball team, and Li Xiaofeng still attached great importance to Wang Yi.
But at this time, Wang Yi's shortcomings have been shown, she is usually impatient, as long as her teammates make mistakes in training games, she will directly complain, and she also feels that she is strong, so she tries to be lazy in training.
In view of Wang Yi's behavior, Li Xiaofeng, who loves talents, decided to kill Wang Yi's bad habits, so as long as Wang Yi is not active in training, Li Xiaofeng will focus on criticizing her.
Li Xiaofeng's original intention was to use this way to make Wang Yi change his lazy style, but who knew that Wang Yi thought that Li Xiaofeng was targeting her, so after being criticized by Li Xiaofeng again, Wang Yi immediately submitted a report to Li Xiaofeng on his application to leave the team.
Wang Yi's approach greatly surprised Li Xiaofeng's expectations, so he talked to Wang Yi twice, but he couldn't change Wang Yi's mind, and Li Xiaofeng had no choice but to report the matter to the leaders of the National Sports Commission completely.
The day after the incident, a leader of the Training Bureau of the National Sports Commission came to the women's volleyball training hall and criticized Li Xiaofeng in front of Wang Yi, thinking that there was a problem with his management.
Not only that, but this leader has always asked Li Xiaofeng to talk to Wang Yi, the most important thing is to leave Wang Yi, although he didn't say it explicitly, but the meaning of the words was to let Li Xiaofeng bow his head to Wang Yi.
As the head coach, Li Xiaofeng thinks that doing this will affect his prestige in the team and is inconvenient for future management, but the leader obviously doesn't care about that.
In the end, the training bureau even came to three leaders at a time to force Li Xiaofeng to talk to Wang Yi, but Li Xiaofeng always refused, even if the tears of criticism by the three leaders came out, he just didn't bow his head.
The last three leaders talked to Wang Yi in person and left her behind.
After that, the Chinese women's volleyball team won the runner-up in the 1994 Hiroshima Asian Games, and the Chinese women's volleyball team only won the 8th place in the Brazil World Championships, so Li Xiaofeng began to be criticized by fans.
In fact, the reason why the women's volleyball team has achieved such poor results is many aspects, but Li Xiaofeng, as the head coach, can only take the blame for him, and finally Lang Ping replaced him as the new head coach of the women's volleyball team.
At this time, Wang Yi's personality was well known, and many people advised Lang Ping to be cautious when using Wang Yi, and Wang Yi's performance at that time was not very good.
At that time, Lang Ping had been coaching abroad for a long time, and she was also very handy in handling the relationship between the players, often giving some small gifts to the players, and talking about her heart from time to time, so the relationship between her and the players was very good, even Wang Yi was very convinced of Lang Ping.
It was in this situation that at the 1994 Atlanta Olympics, Lang Ping led the Chinese women's volleyball team, which was already at a low ebb, to successfully win the runner-up, and Wang Yi's performance was also very good.
Maybe it was the outstanding performance in the Olympics that made Wang Yi's old mistake again, after the national team was disbanded and returned to the Shanghai team at the end of the Olympic Games, Wang Yi was a maverick in the team and showed his superiority all the time.
Wang Yi's behavior, the head coach of the Shanghai team told Lang Ping that in order to kill Wang Yi's arrogance, when the national team was reorganized in 1997, Lang Ping did not recruit Wang Yi for the first time.
But he has always been very concerned about Wang Yi Langping, and he often contacts the head coach of the Shanghai team to understand Wang Yi's dynamics.
In 1998, because Lai Yawen suffered from hepatitis, Lang Ping and assistant coach Chen Zhonghe flew to Shanghai to talk to Wang Yi, saying that now Lai Yawen's hepatitis is serious, and Wang Yi has to take more important responsibilities.
In this regard, Wang Yi said that she would work hard to do a good job, but at that time she was studying in college, and she had to take the exam after a while, and she might enter the national team later.
In this way, in the new women's volleyball training list in 1998, Wang Yi was impressively listed, and neither she nor Lai Yawen, who suffered from hepatitis, entered the team for training for the first time.
Who knew that more than a month later, in the final training stage of the World Championships, Wang Yi flew alone to study in United States universities without saying hello to anyone.
Wang Yi's behavior disrupted Lang Ping's arrangement, and in the end, the Chinese women's volleyball team had extremely poor results in the World Championships, and Lang Ping said in tears after the game that the national team would not hire Wang Yi again.
It was also because of the loss in this competition that Lang Ping's first trip as head coach of the Chinese women's volleyball team came to an end, and Wang Yi did not have much success in his later studies.
Not only that, but because of her previous behaviors, the road of volleyball was also blocked by herself.
Two: Wang Yimei
Wang Yimei was born in Dalian City, Liaoning Province in 1988 and is 36 years old this year.
Wang Yimei has grown tall and long since she was a child, and when she was about 7 years old, she was favored by the swimming coach of Dalian Sports School and began to learn to swim.
After practicing at Dalian Sports School for 3 years, Wang Yimei was recommended to continue learning to swim at Liaoning Provincial Sports School.
At this time, Wang Yimei's height had grown to about 1.75 meters, so the volleyball coach of the Liaoning Provincial Sports School took a fancy to her, and later Wang Yimei changed to volleyball.
In 2000, 12-year-old Wang Yimei entered the Liaoning Provincial Women's Volleyball Junior Team, and two years later, she entered the Liaoning Women's Volleyball Team.
In 2004, Wang Yimei entered the latest training list of the Chinese women's volleyball team, and the head coach of the women's volleyball team at that time, Chen Zhonghe, just wanted Wang Yimei to feel the atmosphere of preparing for the Olympic Games in advance.
After the Athens Olympics, Wang Yimei began to gradually become the main attacker of the Chinese women's volleyball team, but her weight was never controlled.
For professional athletes, there is a strict standard for weight, because if the weight is too light, the ball will not have the power, but if the weight is too heavy, the body will bear too much load, and it is easy to suffer injuries.
Chen Zhonghe was quite fond of Wang Yimei, and after Wang Yimei officially became a member of the national team, he specially told the team doctor to keep an eye on Wang Yimei's weight.
At that time, Wang Yimei's height was 1.90 meters, and according to the calculations of experts, she should have controlled her weight at 92 kilograms, but Wang Yimei weighed 99 kilograms when she first joined the team.
Although the head coach and team doctor repeatedly told Wang Yimei not to eat more to control her weight, Wang Yimei just couldn't control her mouth.
In 2007, when the Chinese women's volleyball team was training for the first time, when Wang Yimei weighed herself, the scale went black, because the maximum value of the electronic scale used at that time was only 100 kg.
Wang Yimei was seriously overweight, which made Chen Zhonghe very angry, and he directly told Wang Yimei that if you can't control your weight, you will roll back for me.
At that time, there was only more than a year left before the Beijing Olympics, and in this grim situation, the team doctor kept an eye on Wang Yimei almost every day, and finally when the Beijing Olympics were approaching, Wang Yimei's weight finally returned to about 90 kilograms.
Wang Yimei's performance at the Beijing Olympics was also remarkable, and the Chinese women's volleyball team finally won the third place, but the relevant leaders were very dissatisfied with this result, so Chen Zhonghe finally resigned.
After that, the Chinese women's volleyball team changed three head coaches in two years, and Wang Yimei at that time had grown into a star in the team, so those head coaches couldn't control Wang Yimei at all.
It is also because of this that Wang Yimei's weight has grown wildly during this period, and after Lang Ping became the head coach of the Chinese women's volleyball team again in 2013, Wang Yimei's name was not included in the latest training list of the national team.
The reason for this is because Wang Yimei was seriously overweight, after which Wang Yimei began to lose weight again, and later her weight returned to the normal standard, but because of age and injuries, she was not able to return to the national team again.
After that, Wang Yimei went abroad to play for a short time, and has been playing for the Liaoning women's volleyball team since then.
After a match between the Liaoning women's volleyball team and the Beijing women's volleyball team in 2018, Zheng Zongyuan, then assistant coach of the Liaoning women's volleyball team, criticized Wang Yimei in public for being lazy and not contributing to the defensive end, which made Wang Yimei very unhappy, so the two clashed after the game.
Zheng Zongyuan is Ding Xia's mentor, and seeing that his mentor was abused by the team, Ding Xia also began to criticize Wang Yimei, which also caused a lot of heated discussions at the time.
Later, as Wang Yimei retired and began to serve as the general manager of the Liaoning team, the impact of this incident slowly faded.
In addition to these things, Wang Yimei was also reported by the media to drink in a bikini on the seaside pool, and once Wang Yimei and several foreign teammates were partying in a bar, and indecent photos were taken and leaked.
Three: Wang Yunrui
Wang Yunrui was born in Beijing in 1996 and is 28 years old this year.
Wang Yunrui's parents are both kayakers, Wang Yunrui has inherited his parents' excellent physical condition since he was a child, and his physical fitness is quite good.
It was probably when Wang Yunrui was 7 years old that she was sent by her parents to the Xicheng District Children's Sports School in Beijing for professional volleyball training.
In 2008, Wang Yunrui, who graduated from the junior sports school, was admitted to the High School Affiliated to Beijing Normal University, and her best friend in this school was the daughter of Cui Yongmei, the head coach of the Bayi women's volleyball team at that time, so Wang Yunrui's goal at that time was to enter the Bayi women's volleyball team first, and then enter the national team.
After entering the Bayi women's volleyball team, Wang Yunrui slowly grew into the main rotation force of the Bayi women's volleyball team, especially in 2014, the new head coach Yu Juemin was optimistic about Wang Yunrui and pushed her to the position of the main attacker.
In this way, Wang Yunrui's performance is getting better and better, and in 2015, she entered the sight of the national team head coach Lang Ping, and became a member of the national team.
After entering the national team, there was a meeting, Lang Ping asked every player to express their determination to say the goal, Wang Yunrui only said eight words: "If you want to wear the crown, you must bear its weight."
Although Wang Yunrui is very ambitious for the future, the Chinese women's volleyball team at that time was full of talents on the main offensive line, Zhu Ting, Hui Ruoqi, Zhang Changning, Liu Xiaotong, Liu Yanhan, etc., Wang Yunrui had almost no chance to play.
When she first entered the national team, Wang Yunrui was full of confidence in the future, but who knew that the reality was so cruel, so her personality became more and more hot, and she had no intention of training.
Looking at this situation, shortly after the start of 2016, Lang Ping was returned to the Bayi team by Wang Yunrui.
In addition, Wang Yunrui also played against the Beijing team again, scolding Zeng Chunlei, the captain of the Beijing women's volleyball team, three times, and was directly warned by the referee.
After the game, Wang Yunrui also said on social media that it was not she who blew up first, it was the other party who provoked her first, and if she continued like this, she would tear the other party apart.
In addition to insulting the players, Wang Yunrui also clashed with the head coach.
At the end of 2016, Wu Yongmei, the "Queen of Back Flight", became the head coach of the Bayi women's volleyball team, and in a game after that, Wang Yunrui said to Wu Yongmei because of the referee's decision, but Wu Yongmei thought that the referee's punishment was very fair, and felt that Wang Yunrui's mentality was not advisable, so she asked Wang Yunrui to write an examination.
For this kind of thing, how could Wang Yunrui's fiery temper endure, not only did he not write the inspection, but also joined other team members to strike and did not train.
In the end, the leaders above thought that Wu Yongmei couldn't control the team members, and directly removed Wu Yongmei.
Later, after Wang Yunrui Bayi women's volleyball team was disbanded, Wang Yunrui moved to the Beijing women's volleyball team, and it was not until 2022 that she was recruited into the national team again by Cai Bin, the new head coach of the women's volleyball team.
In the past few years, Wang Yunrui has been the starter of the national team, but in the final squad for the Paris Olympics, Wang Yunrui was not selected.
In this regard, Wang Yunrui said: "An end point means a new starting point, moving forward, no need to look back, meaningless past, fearless future." ”
Missing the Paris Olympics, for Wang Yunrui, who is already 28 years old, has almost no chance to participate in the Olympics again, but if she could control her temper well, maybe she would have stood on the Olympic stage a long time ago.
The above is the story of the "three thorns" of the women's volleyball team, if you have any different opinions or suggestions, please leave a message in the comment area to discuss!