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Chinese female volleyball team's coach Lang Ping said hard hitting her opponents might be, she said her team does stand a chance to claim final victory in Hong Kong.
The national female volleyball team arrived Hong Kong for the FIVB Volleyball World Grand Prix 2013- HK on Monday. The team had their last training session on Thursday before the first match, which will be held on Friday.
As one of the most decorated persons in Chinese volleyball history, Lang coached the "Chinese female Great Wall" from 1995 to 1998. Before her return to Chinese national team earlier this year, she worked as the head coach of the U.S. national team, and a few other clubs.
As a player, she was the ace spiker who helped China winning three World Champions in a row, thus being dubbed the nickname "Iron hammer".
Lang said her team does stand a chance to win, albeit she does not know much about most of upcoming opponents, such as Czech Republic and Argentine, but she heap praises on Turkey in particular for having a high standard professional league, where she had worked before.
She refused to reveal the starting line up to the media, but she said she will try her best to rotate as many players on the court as possible, as most of the players did not get to play in the previous games.
Since Lang retook the seat of Chinese female volleyball's coach, she has claimed nine victories in a row, bringing the team out of trough.
In the mean time, most of her players, both existing and the past ones, are happy to working with her.
Hui Ruoqi, main attacker and captain of the team, said Lang has prepared well for the team. Her rich experience will be of great help.
Sun Yue used to be the megastar of the Chinese team back in late 1990's, working closely with Lang. She said Lang's strength lies not only in improving the techniques of the players, but more importantly she is good at cheering the team.
"She stresses much on the mentality of her players, using various ways to energize us to fight tooth to nail," said Sun.
However, Wang Yimei, major second spiker of the team, was not certain about the "Chinese female Great Wall" 's way foward.
"I can't tell how we will be," she said, "after we are still fraught with young players. What we can do is to improve through matches."
