Beijing time on October 12, 2014, in the semifinals of the 2014 World Women's Volleyball Championship, China faced host Italy and won 3-1 after four sets of fierce fighting, following 1998 to reach the final again.
1981 Pop Record: women's volleyball team wins title to make the country proud
In the evening of Nov. 16, 1981, the third Women's Volleyball World Cup began with the final, with China facing hosts Japan. Amidst the deafening chants of the home fans, the Chinese women's volleyball team won a hard-fought 3:2 victory. When the last ball landed, the girls cried tears of joy. Some Chinese people in front of their radios and televisions became excited, and some Beijing residents and students gathered in Tiananmen Square and chanted "Long live China, long live the women's volleyball team!" all night long.
The next day, the front pages of almost every newspaper in China were devoted to the women's victory. A commentary in the People's Daily, titled "Learning from the Women's Volleyball Team, Revitalizing China -- China Wins," said, "If we use the spirit of the Chinese women's volleyball team to carry out modernization, why worry that modernization can't be achieved?" The significance of this matter has risen to the height of inspiring the national spirit and promoting comprehensive construction -- not the Chinese women's team won, but China won; if this continues, it will be followed by a big win and a total win.
The game award ceremony has not yet finished, the National Sports Commission, the All-China Sports Federation, the All-China Federation of Trade Unions, the All-China Women's Federation and other units of congratulatory telegrams have been to the team. The congratulatory telegram conveyed the decision of the senior management to award the women's volleyball team the honorable title of "National New Long March Commando Pacesetter" and "National '38' Red Flag Collective Pacesetter"; and to become the "National Heroes". The "national heroes" of the women's volleyball team returned home from Japan, and the national leaders personally went to the airport to meet them. A sports team in that material scarcity in the era of such honor and treatment, that weight in today's people can not imagine.
The People's Daily reported on Dec. 5 that the Chinese women's volleyball team received 30,000 pieces of congratulatory letters, telegrams and various souvenirs, and Lang Ping alone received more than 3,000 pieces. Teachers and students from Taiyuan Mechanical College in Shanxi province even sent a nearly two-meter-long plaque with the words "Revitalize China" written in gold.
People's Daily also opened a "learning women's volleyball, see action" column, the image of the women's volleyball players on stamps, calendars, but also out of the commemorative coins, commemorative medals. So the magical things in the media one after another: "a factory worker watched the deeds of the women's volleyball team, every day, early morning and late at night, carefully operated, the class output every day exceeded the plan"; "a coal miner watched the women's volleyball game, consciously add voluntary shifts, day after day, overproduction"
Lang Ping's image of the women's volleyball team on stamps, calendars, commemorative coins, medals. /p>
Lang Ping in his autobiography "Passionate Years" in this way to describe the situation at that time: "Playing has been completely not our own personal things, personal behavior, but the national event, I do not belong to myself. The women's volleyball team is a flag. The momentum of the women's volleyball team revitalized an era, and she was the symbol of the 80s." The first half of this paragraph is completely true, the second half is overstated, but also can be seen from the Chinese women's volleyball team and the "women's volleyball team spirit" at that time is indeed incomparable scenery.
Decline in the 1990s: After winning the 10th World Women's Volleyball Championship in Czechoslovakia in 1986, the Chinese women's volleyball team began to fail to make ends meet, with the earlier generation of famous players such as Lang Ping and Liang Yan retiring one after another, and then losing to the Soviet Union's women's volleyball team in the semifinals of the 1988 Seoul Olympics, winning only the bronze medal. China failed to defend its title at the 5th World Cup in 1989 and the 11th World Volleyball Championship in 1990, losing to Cuba and the Soviet Union in the finals and finishing second.
Lang Ping, who was hired by the Chinese Volleyball Association (CVA) as the head coach of the Chinese women's volleyball team in 1995, led the team out of the historic low point, winning the silver medal in the Atlanta Olympics and the second place in the 13th World Women's Volleyball Championships, but she was unable to lead the team to regain the world title, so she announced her resignation in 1998.
During the 1990s, the Chinese women's volleyball team, despite the emergence of a number of outstanding players, such as Lai Yawen in the secondary attack, Xu Xin in the primary attack, and Qiu Aihua in the secondary attack, was only the runner-up in four of the three major women's volleyball world championships during the period 1990-1998, which coincided with the Cuban women's volleyball team's creation of an eight consecutive championships of the superpower dynasty.
In 2000, under the leadership of coach Hu Jin, the Chinese women's volleyball team in the Sydney Olympics in the last eight, the Chinese women's volleyball team after the defeat, the Chinese Volleyball Association appointed in the Chinese women's volleyball team had served as a 20 years of accompanied by the coach Mr. Chen Zhonghe as head coach.
In 2001, Mr. Chen Zhonghe was determined to reuse the newcomers, in addition to gradually eliminating the previous generation of women's volleyball players, but also promoted a lot of potential newcomers, such as Liu Yannan, Feng Kun, Zhou Suhong, Yang Hao, Zhao Ruirui and so on, and as a result, China's women's volleyball team under the leadership of Mr. Chen Zhonghe, the World Grand Champions Cup in Japan, which is the Chinese women's volleyball team for more than a decade to win the world-class official competition championships. However, due to the nature of the World Grand Champions Cup is intercontinental cup, the traditional status is difficult to be compared with the three women's volleyball world championship tournament, so it did not cause too much repercussions in the country.
Chinese women's volleyball: on the starting point of revival2014-10-15 People's Daily Overseas Edition
Beijing time in the early morning of October 13, China in the World Women's Volleyball Championship final 1:3 loss to the United States, after 16 years again won the World Championship runner-up. From the 2004 Athens Olympics reversed Russia to win the gold medal, China's women's volleyball team has not appeared in the world's three major competitions (World Championships, the World Cup, the Olympic Games) final stage for 10 years.
For the Chinese women's volleyball team, this is a long-lost runner-up, but also a timely and appropriate runner-up. After experiencing the pain of the "world's second-rate" and the pain of the old and the new, the Chinese women's volleyball team has stood on the starting point of the revival.
The replacement of the old and the new has been completed quietly
In the final of the 1998 Women's Volleyball World Championship, the Chinese team lost to the flourishing Cuban team, and the head coach at that time was Lang Ping. Unlike today's women's volleyball team, the Chinese women's volleyball team has won the World Cup and Olympic Games runner-up in a few years' time, and the main players such as Lai Yawen and Sun Yue are also in their prime. Today's Chinese women's volleyball team is a "kid in charge", participating in the 14 players in 9 people are "after 90", the average age of the 16 in the World Championships is the smallest.
It is such a young army, hard and tenacious into the final. Less than 20-year-old attacker Zhu Ting became famous, selected as the best lineup of the World Championships; only 17-year-old Yuan Xinyue in the case of teammates injured to bear the brunt; captain Hui Ruoqi, Wei Qiuyue, Xu Yunli and other "veterans" have become the backbone of the team - Chinese women's volleyball team's future years of the main lineup has been shaped!
The Chinese women's volleyball team's main lineup for the next few years has taken shape.
In 2013, after Lang Ping took over the Chinese women's volleyball team, she put forward the concept of "big national team", and through the expansion of the training lineup, more young players entered the national team, but it is difficult to avoid the transition pains of the transition of the old and the new - the Asian Championships in September of last year, the Chinese team lost to Thailand and South Korea, and only won the fourth place; the Women's Grand Prix, the Chinese team lost to Thailand and South Korea, and only won the fourth place. Only the fourth; women's volleyball Grand Prix, two losses to Japan, the finals of the dispatch of substitutes - this makes Lang Ping and the Chinese women's volleyball team encountered a variety of questions.
This time, the Chinese women's volleyball team finally proved themselves.
In an interview after the match, Lang Ping said: "Nowadays, volleyball requires more physical strength and quickness, and the season is so long that six or seven people will not be able to do it. We have to strengthen the training of the substitutes." Although a runner-up is not enough to dispel all the controversies, the youngsters have accumulated experience through the competition, which makes people optimistic about the future of the Chinese women's volleyball team. Two major achievements are worth looking forward to: 21 days, 13 matches, the women's volleyball girls rely on tenacity to fight down one by one, this runner-up came true. Especially in the four conversations with Brazil, the United States, Italy, the three strongest and the two fierce battles with the Dominican Republic, the Chinese women's volleyball team saw the gap and gained confidence.
2015 Women's Volleyball World Cup and 2016 Rio Olympics - the next 2 years, the young Chinese women's volleyball team is also facing two big test. Through this World Championship, Lang Ping said, "I saw more strong teams. Including some second-rate teams, the progress is very fast, there is no team you can just play to play, really few."
From the performance of the World Championships, the Chinese women's volleyball team and the U.S. team and Brazilian team still have a certain gap, but and the Italian team is equal. Compared with Japan, Russia and other European teams, the Chinese women's volleyball team still has the ability to confront, if the field play normal, the hope of winning is great.
Analyzed from the age of the Brazilian and Italian teams, the old and new transition is not smooth, the two competitions next year still need to be supported by veterans; the United States team with the Chinese team, as young players, the rising momentum is obvious. In the World Cup and the Olympic Games, these three teams will still be the biggest rival of the Chinese women's volleyball team, and from a longer perspective, the Chinese women's volleyball team has entered the peak of the "opportunity period". However, the revival of the Chinese women's volleyball team still need to solve the shortcomings in the pass, serve, defense and other aspects of the young players in the stability and experience of the game still need to be sharpened. As Lang Ping said: "If we are still like this two years later, it's not progress or retreat. Must see their own shortcomings, to speed up the pace of progress. Now there are too many strong teams, in the future we have to see who is progressing faster."
Three big ball here the scenery is unique
Just concluded the Incheon Asian Games, the Chinese army did not have three big ball gold medal, but considering that the Chinese women's volleyball team is the second-tier team to fight, the outside world still have confidence in the women's volleyball team with a brilliant tradition. The outstanding performance of the World Championships also consolidated the dominant position of the women's volleyball team as the premier in the three major balls.
In the trough never give up, in the struggle to revitalize. It is the generation of women's volleyball girls inherited the "spirit of women's volleyball", so that the Chinese women's volleyball team in the world volleyball world new and old, the pattern of change in the process of always standing in the ranks of the strongest countries, but also "women's volleyball complex" passed on to the new generation of fans. However, in order to avoid the cyclical ups and downs brought about by the change of the old and the new, what needs to be changed is not only the selection mechanism of the players, but also the ecology of the volleyball development. From the development process after the 2004 Olympic Games, it is not difficult to see that excellent coaches can improve the level of the team for a period of time through intensive training and other means, but it is impossible to solve the problem of the whole system. Without enough reserve talent, even the best coach can hardly succeed, and the reality of the development of the three major balls has fully illustrated this problem.
Back to the clichéd topic of the law of development of the three major balls, with the effect of excellent results, improve the level of the domestic women's volleyball league, so that more young players through the youth training system to be cultivated and selected, so as to send a steady stream of excellent players to the national team, the women's volleyball team and the three major balls sustainable development of the reason. The Chinese women's volleyball team as a revitalization of the three big ball "model", the development of the subconscious, the responsibility is unshirkable.