2005 🇨🇳 China vs Germany 🇩🇪 🏐 Women Volleyball 🏐 FIVB World Grand Prix

2005 was the 1st year of new Olympic cycle. Many teams use this year to observe and train their new players in national team. The excitement of this tournament really average, many teams with many new players and skills were bad.
Post-Match Commentary :
12 teams participated in this World Grand Prix and top 6 after 3 weeks preliminary round will enter the final round in Japan. Preliminary round with 4 teams in each pool and round robin to decide the ranking. This was Week 2 game comprising China, Brazil, Poland, Germany.
For Germany, #16 Sylvester was retired and her replacement was #8 Dumler (23yo, 1.81m). #15 Angelina Grün (26yo, 1.85m) became the key player of the team. #17 Birgit Thumm (25yo, 1.84m) still unable to share the responsibility of Grun. #15 did play in Montreux game but she wasn't in the squad for World Grand Prix. I assumed the same reason as Poland to prepare the European Championship happened a month later. Without #15, Germany was weaker compared to Montreux. #11 Christiane Fürst (20yo, 1.92m) was played in the starting lineup since this tournament. For China, the team remained 7 Olympic gold medal players in the team, #2 Feng Kun (27yo, 1.83m), #3 Yang Hao (25yo, 1.83m), #4 Liu Yanan (25yo, 1.86m), #7 Zhou Suhong (26yo, 1.82m) #16 Zhang Na (25yo, 1.8m) were still the core of the team. #1 Wang Yimei (17yo, 1.9m) & #15 Ma Yunwen (19yo, 1.89m) was in the starting lineup. Withotu Grun, the team dropped one level. Attack, defence, blocking was unwatchable for how they played. China used 70% of their real power can still win against Germany.