2000 🇨🇺 Cuba vs China 🇨🇳 🏐 Women Volleyball 🏐 FIVB World Grand Prix

After 1998, China and Brazil standard was dropping. Lang Ping left and Brazilian players getting old. Being an audience perspective, it was quite boring for most of the games during 1999-2000. But Cuba and Russia still maintain the highest level in volleyball history. These two teams if time travel to nowadays, they can still beat any teams. This series mainly for older volleyball fans for memories sake. I not intend to upload any 2000 games initially. Cuba, Russia, South Korea are only teams I recommend to watch. Especially South Korea, 99-00 was their peak with all 170-78 height players. Post-Match Commentary : This was a semifinal match. From the second week of the 1996 World Grand Prix until 2001, the Chinese team had not defeated Cuba. This was the legendary Cuban team’s final match against China. After Lang Ping left in 1998, the Chinese team’s performance steadily declined. Years later, the players said there were problems with the management at the time. You could see the same group of players, but under different coaches, their performance was very poor. The Chinese team lost to Cuba twice in the qualifiers. In this match, the Chinese team trailed 0-2. Both sets were won by margins of less than 20 points. In the third set, the Cuban team made errors, likely due to fatigue from playing against China. This allowed the Chinese team to win the set, narrowing the score to 1-2. In the fourth set, the score was 35-33. However, the match lacked intensity throughout. Player No. 17, Yin Yin (26 years old, 1.84 meters), played exceptionally well, keeping the score very close. However, I believe the main reason was that the Cuban team played with ease. The Golden Dream Team has been training together for four years. Their teamwork is nothing short of perfect. They only make occasional mistakes, and they are confident in defeating weaker teams like China.