[People s Daily]Lang Fuels the Fans, Group B Jumps to Heat

People s Daily. Nov. 30, 2009 08:07

Reporter: Li Changyun

Hebei was defeated at 0-3 at home by Guangdong Evergrande. Although the audience have already known it s a marginal match that Hebei couldn t win, their applauses were thunderous and continuous not only to the home team.

Lang s arrival made the once cold stadium heated abruptly. A worker on the scene said that there was few audience even for Hebei s Group A matches in the past. Although a ticket costs 50 yuan for the match, the number of audience present is nearly 4000 conservatively, for which we haven t been prepared.

I m really happy to see so many sports fans here and I hope that the focus is not only for Evergrande but for other teams of Group B and Group A so that we can improve the standard of our league to provide more exciting competitions. I think that I m doing a very interesting work. Lang said after match.

Hebei degraded from Group A last season, which also is one of the two teams of these 17 teams without a company name attached to it. Maybe for the survival of the team, four leading players of it transferred to Guangdong Evergrande and Guangdong Taishan Jianlong respectively this season.

It is not surprising that the powerful Guangdong Evergrande defeated Hebei with limited strength when it lost four leading players. While Evergrande also demonstrated some problems due to its new birth. Lang said, After all we only spent two weeks in running, which is far from enough. We had too many errors and our cooperation needs to be further improved. I hope we can have better performance in the next games. To reach the goal into Series A, we must go all out for it since we have several powerful rivals.

This season Lang s Evergrande was born out of the blue, heating the ever silent Group B league of national women s volleyball. It was that, for the match between Guangdong Evergrande and Fujian Ximengbao in 1st December, the organizer had to cancel some of the tickets for worry about the over-heated concern on Lang.

Other results of Group B this round are, Fujian beat WIPE at 3-0, Guangdong Taishan Jianlong defeated Yunnan Xiye at 3-2 in a pre-arranged match.