Source: The Law Evening   2009-12-01

Guangdong Evergrande from Group B has been causing another round of “women’s volleyball heat”, while the National Team is turned into a neglected “blind point” in the hot wave.

In the Group B league of National Women’s Volleyball held at 7:30 tonight, Evergrande commanded by Lang Ping will encounter Fujian in Xiamen. Since Fujian’s supervisor is Chen Zhonghe, the former coach of Chinese National Team, this competition is also called “another He-Ping battle.” It does not become the focus of media, but sells out the tickets.

In contrast, when Chinese National Team led by its coach Cai Bin went for the East Asian Games in Hong Kong yesterday, almost no media r volleyball fans went to see them off. The show of the National Team was totally stolen by Evergrande.

Coldness for Chinese National Volleyball Team

The final competition this year, but with no care.

Yesterday, Chinese National Women’s Volleyball Team started off for the East Asian Games. But it received almost no concern, in the past whenever the National Team started off for international games, reporters would wait in the players’ flat and the Capital Airport to see them off.

The National team led by Cai Bin lost its championship two months ago. Since then, both Cai and his team have had the least popularity.

After the National Game, the re-buildup Chinese team had hard exercises in closed environment in Zhangzhou and returned to Beijng for final preparation. The national media seems to actively “cooperate” with the National Team’s silent way and almost no report is done about it.

Although its major rivals-Korea and Japan won’t participate in the East Asian Games, it is the last major competition this year, which is a test of Cai Bin’s position as coach of the team and also a good opportunity for a turnover. But it raises no concern from the media.

This morning when the report input key words “Chinese Women’s Volleyball” and “East Asian Games” through web searching engine, he got about 28,300 results which were mainly the news about the lineup three days ago.

Official Voice

Evergrande Causes Fever in League, Management Becomes Confident

With the star effect from Lang Ping and her “golden generation”, Evergrande Volleyball enjoys a perfect popularity. Meanwhile this team cast a fever over the league like a catfish. The heated market and increasing focus from media enables the Volleyball Management to be confident of the development of volleyball at home.

Yesterday the reporter learnt from League Department of Volleyball Management of National Sports Bureau that, ever since Guangdong Evergrande announced its participation of the league of Group B, the telephone in the office has been a hotline for media who inquired about the list of teams, booklet of order, schedule and media application, which made the department so crowded for the first time in these years.

It is also learnt that the number of media for interview certificate of the league has been no more than 20 in the past, but the Department has already handled nearly 100 documents in this season.

From the view of volleyball league development, it is undoubtedly a good thing if the league can take advantage of Evergrande’s star effect to re-attract volleyball fans into the stadium.

The Heat of Evergrande Volleyball

Battling in Group B with CCTV’s Live Broadcast

Invitation of the “iron hammer” Lang Ping to coach, quick agreement with great effort with national players of “golden generation”-Feng Kun, Zhou Suhong and Yang Hao after the National Games, comfortable living conditions for the players…there are so many topics of Evergrande and so many reasons for fans and media to follow the stars.

Last weekend, the airborne Evergrande arrived in Baoding, Hebei province, whose first show in the league attracted 4000 sports fans to crowd the platform and more than 100 national media to report on the scene After its first victory, Evergrande’s competition against Fujian is pre-heated. At least six media from Beijing alone will go to Xiamen for interview and CCTV Sports Channel will also broadcast it live.

In the past, Chen Zhonghe and Lang Ping were the coaches of Chinese Team and American Team respectively, so their encounters were called “He-Ping battle”. But now Chen is the vice director of Fujian Sports Bureau and Lang the coach of Evergrande. It adds to the highlights of the competition today that they meet again but with different identities.

As is disclosed by the organizer, due to worry of the over-heated game, tickets for the ten front lines are cancelled to maintain the safety and ensure TV live broadcast.

This morning the reporter input keywords “Evergrande Women’s Volleyball” and “Fujian” through web searching engines and got about 44,800 results, of which more than 100 are today’s information. While a number of articles focus on the match and heat “another He-Ping battle”, they also raise their topic to the height of “Evergrande is the contributor to professional volleyball”.