Situation of Volleyball

Let�fs take a look briefly at the women�fs world grand prix running at this time (as of mid-July 2005). Japan won 4 matches and lost 2 matches as of July 3. I would like to analyze this result in my own way.
Firstly, the Spirit (Mental Capabilities) of Japanese players, in other words, their consciousness and motivation has reached enough level to win this championship, because the environment for every match in Japan has reached the world top level, and that is never worse than that in Brazil or in Italy.I mean to say that the Japanese TV station as a media put special emphasis on this championship more than NF (each national federation), and its televised stage effects surely have an positive impact on the mind state of Japanese players and coaches.
In the meantime, a problem arises, which is psychological pressure on Japanese players and coaches.
Due to this pressure, they are prepossessed with some idea like �gLoosing the match is not acceptable for us�h or �gWe should show our best performance all the time�h. Accordingly, there is no doubt that this psychological pressure causes a physical problem. As you know, the tournament is carried with home and away principle. Despite this, dozens of Japanese TV clew go to any country where the Japanese team goes, and the Japan�fs matches are always broadcasted at the golden time. Consequently, these faces definitely put much pressure on the Japan national team. I repeat again that the Japanese TV station is putting unusual emphasis on the tournament as if it is the Olympic games or the football world cups. It is a great satisfaction to have their cooperation for the volleyball. If possible, I wish them to continue their support for our sport. Anyway, a psychological impact on a team put by an environment might be a field which has not been studied before.
Since this is the following year of Athens Olympic, most of the teams participate in this tournament with alternation of generation, and I can say that each team has little data for each opponent. In my opinion, the keys and aims for this tournament in this time should not be how to build up team system, tactics, strategies, but how to strengthen physical aspect and accordingly mental / psychological aspect. What can I say more? The reason is that there is not enough data to organize strategies for the match between new generation teams. Therefore, there is no team to participate in the tournament aiming to build up team system, tactics, and strategies (of course I think they analyze opponent such as opponent�fs offense trend, defense system, and so on during match). I will refer to team system, tactics, strategies, and game plan in the next article.

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Posted by sayed hassen at 2005�N12��18�� 09:59