2003 🇨🇳 China vs South Korea 🇰🇷 🏐 Women Volleyball 🏐 FIVB World Grand Prix

1995-98 China team led by Lang Ping, Chen Zhonghe was the assistant coach by that time. Since 2001, Chen was appointed as head coach until 2008. Chen was the trainer in national team since 80s. He had been part of the Chinese squad for more than 20 years.
China got champion in World Cup 2003. It was 17 years after China title the champion again. Each position was quite strong in 2003. Lots of players were good at reception, serve, attack, block, dig. China didn’t have super star like Zhu Ting by that time. Via this series, you can see what “team work” meant for.
Post-Match Commentary :
China won almost all matches in 2003, the only matches they lost were vs Brazil and Russia in Grand Prix preliminary round. Lost to Brazil made China almost cannot enter final 6. But end-up Brazil lost to South Korea unexpectedly and the Brazilian coach was fired and Guimarães was appointed afterwards.
Korean squad used 'zero-error' tactics. Serves were safe and attack very carefully. If blockers there, they just pass the ball safely to opponent court. What they played was sneaky volleyball. In 1st set, this tactics worked fine. Chinese kept making mistakes made the score very close. But China adjusted in 2nd set and #8 Zhao Ruirui (22yo, 1.97m) and #7 Zhou Suhong (24yo, 1.82m) were unbeatable in this match. Korea unable to defence both of their attacks. In 2nd set, Korea tactics didn't work as their 1st pass were too bad and they lost very quickly. However, this Korean squad had won Brazil 3:0 days after.