The 2019 Women's Volleyball Asian Championship will start on August 17. The Chinese women's volleyball team has not yet revealed the list of 14 players in the Asian Championships, officially. Lang Ping continues to lead the team in Beijing. For the Chinese team, they also have a more important task, that is, the FIVB Women's Volleyball World Cup held in Japan in September. In the last Asian Championship two years ago hosted by PHI, the Chinese team strategically abandoned it due to the schedule conflict with the National Games. In the end, only the 4th place was won (JPN won Gold; THA the Silver and KOR #3). Now in 2019, South Korea holds the first women's volleyball Asian Championship. They will try hard to win the championship for the very first time. Throughout the 19 times the events were held, the Chinese team won 13 championships, the Japanese team won 4 times, and the Thai team won twice.
The South Korean women's volleyball team is going out this time to win the Asian championship after the failure in the Olympic qualifying competition. They are trying to win the Asian Championship at home to earn the prestige for the team. Of course, they are also trying to boost morale, because there is only one ticket left for the Tokyo Olympic Games in the Asian Confederation, and the South Korean team hopes to be on their own. They wish to join China and Japan in the Tokyo Olympic Games.
The South Korean team has its strongest line-up in the Asian Championship, we can see their big desire for winning the trophy here. The KOR team also knows that its greatest opponents in Asian championship are China, Thailand and Japan. Japanese team will not spend too much effort in Asian Championship because they are preparing for the World Cup. The Thai team is inferior to the host team, therefore the biggest obstacle for host in this championship is the Chinese team. They hope Lang Ping will give up the Asian Championship strategically again, so that they can have better chance to win the championship. But this time, the KOR's dream seems to be falling short, for the eventual line-up of the Chinese team is not a weak one.
Liu Yan-han did not make the Chinese roster list in the Olympic qualifying tournament, but she has always trained with the NT team. She watched the matches in the stadium during the IOQT women's volleyball matches in Ningbo. She also went back to Beijing to train after the NT squad returned to Beijing. Long ago, it was reported that Liu Yan-han, the main attacker of the Chinese VNL team, would compete in the Asian Championship. The reason why she didn't play in the Olympics qualifying tournament was to look at the Asian Championships. It's said that Lang Ping hoped that Liu Yan-han would once again win the prestige in the Asian volleyball. Liu Yan-han in the last Asian Cup was a great star in Asia.
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Chinese roster as posted by the TwoCityTrails - a PHI volleyball blogger
And the Chinese Taipei team
# dontjudge I was impressed watching them.
