Chapter 314: New Cuba, Old Friend
The head coach of the Brazilian women's volleyball team, Thiago, praised the women's volleyball team of the Republic with great excitement in an interview with the media after the team advanced to the quarterfinals, calling them the righteous division of women's volleyball and a well-deserved champion-level team.
I have to say that after experiencing the group stage of this World Championships, the Brazilian women's volleyball team has no resentment towards the Republic women's volleyball team at all, on the contrary, now the Brazilian women's volleyball team and their domestic fans are full of gratitude to the Republic women's volleyball team.
Wang Lei's words before the match between the Republic women's volleyball team and the United States women's volleyball team made the Brazilian women's volleyball team and fans extremely excited, although the host team does have its own problems, but anything can happen in the game, no one dares to guarantee that the American women's volleyball team will break out in the game at that time, and more importantly, even if the American women's volleyball team loses the game, as long as they can win two games in the game, they can also ensure their promotion.
But in the end, the U.S. women's volleyball team did not disappoint the Brazilians, and their players and everyone joined forces to kill the team's current head coach, Stephen? Plum.
Now the Brazilian women's volleyball team relies on the strength of the Republic women's volleyball team and the "help" of the American women's volleyball team to successfully advance to the quarterfinals, not only their coach Thiago sighed in his heart, but even the players themselves are not without similar feelings, and they are even more grateful to the Republic women's volleyball team, especially Ma Dongmei, who played extremely well in the game with the American women's volleyball team.
Ma Dongmei conquered the Brazilian fans with a very wonderful performance, perhaps because of the relationship between the two teams, which made the Brazilian fans sneer at the Republic women's volleyball team, but after this match with the American women's volleyball team, the fans and even players of the Brazilian women's volleyball team praised Ma Dongmei in various ways, and even reached the level of praise.
After the group stage of Group A, the four places for advancing to the quarterfinals were determined, and the Republic women's volleyball team dominated the group with seven consecutive wins, and they were also the only fans who could win all the group games in the group stage of the World Championships in the past two decades.
In addition to the Republic women's volleyball team, the other three teams in Group A are considered to be narrowly qualified, they are Serbian women's volleyball team, Brazilian women's volleyball team and Netherlands women's volleyball team.
On the second day after Group A, the group stage of Group B was also fully concluded.
In the end, the scheming Italian women's volleyball team got their wish and became the second in the group, avoiding an early meeting with the Republic women's volleyball team, and the more innocent and younger Cuban women's volleyball team became the first in Group B.
In addition to these two old powerhouses, the other two teams in Group B that advanced to the quarterfinals are the Polish women's volleyball team and the Korean women's volleyball team.
There are a lot of Eastern European immigrant players in the Polish women's volleyball team, their achievements have grown rapidly in recent years, and the promotion of the Korean women's volleyball team is not unexpected, they have a natural advantage in this World Championships, that is, physical fitness, the climate of the Denver plateau is a test for many teams, and the physical strength of the Korean women's volleyball team is not worried about this.
The World Championships are more intensive than other competitions, and after the group stage, the sixteenth match day is considered a little rest, after all, the group stage of Group B ended the day before, and it is impossible to start the eight-in-four match immediately without any rest time.
With the hosts' elimination from the group stage, the World Championship has finally begun to subside after all kinds of ups and downs, and at the same time, the attention of local fans has decreased much, and only the fans of the teams participating in the knockout stage will continue to pay attention to this competition.
However, with the stronger performance of the women's volleyball team of the Republic, there are also more Oriental fans who have begun to pay attention to the World Championships, in the past, only fans who particularly love volleyball will pay attention to games like the World Championships, but now not only fans, but even many ordinary people are also paying attention to the World Championships and the performance of the women's volleyball team of the Republic, because the current women's volleyball team is really a team that can really represent the glory of the Republic, although the official is still very dissatisfied with the women's volleyball team, especially Wang Lei, but in the people, Especially in the online group, the women's volleyball team and Wang Lei have a huge reputation, and they are looking forward to the women's volleyball team can play their morale and style in this World Championships.
On the seventeenth match day, the World Championships eight into four matches began, and the two groups each fought each other according to the group stage rankings, and the opponent of the women's volleyball team of the Republic was the Cuban women's volleyball team that had not played each other for two or three years.
The Cuban women's volleyball team is a traditional powerhouse in the world women's volleyball world, they have been using their own physical style of play, the players' physical fitness is amazing, the explosiveness and bounce are outstanding, and the discipline of Cuban players is really much better than that of South American players, although there is still a gap with European and Asian players, but this is enough to make them a strong team in the world women's volleyball team.
In the eighties and nineties of the last century, the Cuban women's volleyball team has been competing with the Republic women's volleyball team for supremacy, and the Republic women's volleyball team at that time also adopted a small and fast style of play, although the Republic women's volleyball team has always had a super main offensive tradition in the main offensive position, but at that time it was more as a feint means, when the Republic women's volleyball team emphasized more on the offense and defense in the secondary offensive position.
The two teams won and lost each other in that era, and at the same time gradually declined after entering the new century, but the women's volleyball team of the Republic completed self-renewal in the second half of the first decade of the new century, began to rise again, and became the hegemon of the women's volleyball team again, while the Cuban women's volleyball team has always been difficult to win the championship, and their conservatism has never kept up with the pace of the times.
However, the current Cuban women's volleyball team is very similar to the Republic women's volleyball team, both of which are mainly young players, and the style of play is also quite similar.
Although the players of the two teams are not known, the Republic women's volleyball team still has a few players who have a certain reputation in the world volleyball world, and the Cuban women's volleyball team is basically all newcomers, but the leaders of the two teams and the officials of the volleyball federation are very familiar.
Due to the international situation, Cuba and the Republic of Cuba still maintain good relations like the time and space of the earth, and the two countries have cooperated a lot with each other, especially in sports and cultural exchanges, so they can be regarded as new "old friends".