Zhang Xiaoya, a 29-year-old world champion former national player of the Chinese women's volleyball team, left a message on the social platform after the 9-12 qualifying match of the National Games, "Wind and rain, all kinds of nostalgia, happy graduation"! Especially the four words of happy graduation, Zhang Xiaoya seems to imply that she is about to retire from active duty. Zhang Xiaoya once followed the Chinese women's volleyball team to participate in the 2015 World Cup and won the championship with the team. Although she rarely played in the game, the Chinese women's volleyball team can return to the top of the world with her share of credit, at least one more world champion title in her career.
Zhang Xiaoya is the national player of the Chinese women's volleyball team, who was selected into the national girls' volleyball team as early as 2009, and entered the second team of the Chinese women's volleyball team the following year, officially becoming a member of the Chinese women's volleyball team. Helplessly, the Chinese women's volleyball team in the London cycle is in a declining stage, and Zhang Xiaoya has not developed much. Until 2013, when Lang Ping re-coached the Chinese women's volleyball team, Zhang Xiaoya and Yan Ni grew up during this period and gradually participated in international competitions. It's just that at that time, the Chinese women's volleyball team had Xu Yunli and Yang Junjing 2 major deputy attack main forces, even Yan Ni was a substitute deputy attacker, Zhang Xiaoya naturally could not rank.
However, on the eve of the 2015 World Cup, Xu Yunli's injury has not improved, and Zhang Xiaoya went to the World Cup as a substitute deputy attacker. Although she only played a few games, Zhang Xiaoya became the world champion with the team. In fact, on the eve of the Rio Olympic Games, Lang Dao also wanted to investigate Zhang Xiaoya, but she did not perform well in the Swiss women's volleyball elite competition, so she lost the qualification for the Rio Olympic Games. Since then, Zhang Xiaoya has gradually left the national team and has never been selected for the national team training list again. Throughout the Tokyo cycle, Zhang Xiaoya was mainly active in the Volleyball Super League and thai leagues. In the 2019-2020 season, Zhang Xiaoya played for the Thai Chonburi Club, and his teammates at the time also received Sun Jie, the main force of the Shandong women's volleyball team.
In the preliminary round of the National Games, Zhang Xiaoya played for the Sichuan women's volleyball team in the case that the injury had not fully recovered, and finally won 3 wins and 1 loss in the qualifying stage, helping the Sichuan women's volleyball team to get the 10th place in the National Games. Although the performance of the Sichuan women's volleyball team is not good, Zhang Xiaoya did her best to complete the task of the mother team. It should be known that Zhang Xiaoya could have not participated in the preliminary round of the National Games, but considering that the Sichuan women's volleyball team did not have a core main force, Zhang Xiaoya still made a decisive comeback with an injury, which is the persistence of a veteran.
Now that Zhang Xiaoya has released happy remarks about graduation, it is clear that this is her last National Games, and it is possible to retire early. However, Zhang Xiaoya is only 29 years old, and she still has the opportunity to participate in the league in the future, and does not rule out continuing to represent the Sichuan women's volleyball team in the Volleyball Super League. Zhang Xiaoya's height conditions in China are not outstanding, but when it comes to the Thai league, it is a rare high secondary attack, and it is also the favorite player of Thai clubs. Even if she does not play on behalf of the Sichuan women's volleyball team, Zhang Xiaoya can continue to join the Thai league in the future and increase her income.