In the early morning of October 16th, Beijing time, the 2022 Women’s Volleyball World Championships came to an end. Serbia defeated Brazil 3-0 in the final to successfully defend its title. Captain Boskovich scored 24 points and won the MVP title after the 2018 World Championships. China’s women’s volleyball team ranks behind Japan in the world and has already handed over the first place in Asia. After Zhu Ting and Zhang Changning left the team, China Women’s Volleyball Team entered a period of alternation between old and new, and it was urgent to replenish fresh blood and rebuild its glory.
Serbia deserves the summit.
From the beginning to the end of this World Championships, Serbia has shown its unique super strength. In the end, Serbia defeated Brazil’s women’s volleyball team in three sets in the final, and successfully defended its title with a total victory of 12 games.
During this World Championships, the competition for the No.1 position in the women’s volleyball team in the world became fierce, with four teams, the United States, Brazil, Italy and Serbia, successively topping the list. After all the rankings were decided in the World Women’s Volleyball Championships, FIVB updated the world rankings, and Serbia’s ranking points increased by 12.05 points, ranking first in the world with a total score of 393 points. Italy, Brazil, the United States and Japan ranked second to fifth, while China ranked sixth.
Serbia’s women’s volleyball team entered the world stage in 2006 and became stronger after the Beijing Olympic Games. Since 2009, the Serbian women’s volleyball team has won three consecutive championships in the European Volleyball League in three years. In 2011, the Serbian women’s volleyball team won the third place in the World Women’s Volleyball Grand Prix. In the same year, the Serbian women’s volleyball team won the historic championship in the European Championship and entered the ranks of the top volleyball teams in the world.
During the Rio Olympic cycle, the Serbian women’s volleyball team made personnel adjustment, and a group of young players such as mikhailovich and Boskovich were discovered to join the team. At the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, Serbian women’s volleyball team once lost to China in the group stage, but in the final, they lost to China women’s volleyball team led by Lang Ping 1-3 and won the runner-up.
A hundred flowers blossom in the battle of style
This World Women’s Volleyball Championship is also a stage for each team to show their respective styles of play. Serbia’s women’s volleyball team insisted on European masculinity for many years, and held high and fought high in this World Championships, once again defending its honor. Serbia’s success also proves that there is no champion play in the world of women’s volleyball at present, and the best play is the one that suits you.
Boskovich’s MVP
With the increase of the number of Serbian women’s volleyball teams participating in international competitions, the technical style of the team is becoming more and more perfect, and the attack power and defense ability of the main attack and response are becoming increasingly prominent. In this World Championships, in the semi-final between Serbia and the United States, the United States team collided with Serbia’s European masculinity by virtue of its comprehensive use of physical quality and skills, as well as its strong attack style in Europe and America and its fast attack in Asia. In the end, Serbia’s attack power and defense ability were superior, crushing the American team’s quick play.
In the selection of the best lineup in the World Championships, Serbia, Brazil and Italy took the best positions. Among them, the best main attacks are Gabi in Brazil and Sheila in Italy; The best deputy attackers are Carroll of Brazil and Danesi of Italy. Among them, Carroll blocked 57 times in the previous 10 games, which also broke the record set by Brazilian player Taysa in the 2014 World Championships. The best response was Boskovich of Serbia, and Derca and Pusic of Serbia won the title of best second pass and best free agent.
China women’s volleyball team needs to come back.
In contrast, China’s women’s volleyball team ranks first in the world after the Rio Olympic Games, and now it’s sixth in the world, losing its first place in Asia, and it’s going through a painful period of alternation between the old and the new. Without strength as the foundation, carrying forward the spirit of women’s volleyball team becomes an empty talk.
During the Tokyo Olympic cycle, China women’s volleyball team has a good staff reserve and age structure. However, during the Tokyo Olympic Games, with the injury of Zhu Ting, the main force, the whole team was greatly affected. After the Olympic Games, Zhu Ting and Zhang Changning left the team for surgery and physical reasons, which made the China women’s volleyball team enter a new round of adjustment period.
Compared with China’s women’s volleyball team, which fell out of the first group in the world rankings, the Japanese women’s volleyball team, which took the initiative to turn old into new, will shine brilliantly in the 2022 season. On the national team level, the Japanese women’s volleyball team has defeated China many times this year, and their style of play has become increasingly mature and their cooperation has become more tacit. It is no accident that Japanese women’s volleyball team surpassed China women’s volleyball team to regain the first place in Asia at the World Championships.
From the former number one in the world to now losing the number one in Asia, China women’s volleyball team can only wait for the moment of rising through constant adjustment. After taking office, Cai Bin made targeted adjustments to the skills and tactics of China women’s volleyball team. During this year’s World Women’s Volleyball League, the China women’s volleyball team couldn’t keep up with the Japanese women’s volleyball team in the confrontation. Since then, during the Asian Cup and Asian Youth Championship, the youth team of China women’s volleyball team has lost to the Japanese team continuously, which also sounded the alarm for China women’s volleyball team. If you don’t advance, you will retreat. China Women’s Volleyball Team needs to learn from the world’s advanced style of play, integrate its own advantages, and embark on its own development path again.
Text/Beiqing Sports Chu Peng
