[Guangzhou Daily]Evergrande Volleyball Wins 1.5 million Grand Prize

Source: Guangzhou Daily, 2010-02-02

The news: Last night the great ceremony for Evergrande Volleyball s success into Group A was held in Evergrande Hotel. Congratulations from China s volleyball circles were pouring on the coach and players of Evergrande Volley who marched into Group A with twelve game winning streak in the Group B League of National Women s Volleyball League during 2009-2010 season.

The investor of Evergrande Volleyball-Prof. Xu Jiayin, president of Evergrande Real-estate Group, awarded 1.5 million in cash to the team. As a mysterious guest, the former coach of Chinese National Women s Volleyball Team Chen Zhonghe attended the ceremony, and the present coach Cai Bin has decided to watch the contest between Evergrande and America in Guangzhou Stadium tonight.

Evergrande Volleyball - a History-maker and Cure of Box-office

On January 26, Evergrande Volleyball swept Shandong with 3-0 in the away game during the last round of National Women s Volleyball League, concluding the Group B competitions successfully with historic victories (full victories in the twelve matches with only four sets of loss). Since its establishment in the middle of last year, Evergrande Volleyball has successively made unprecedented records in the Chinese professional volleyball league, and full victory of this team most cared for is the best reward to numerous volleyball fans.

Looking back Evergrande Volleyball s path in this season, there s much to say in summary. First, the investment of Evergrande Volleyball is as much as 20 million, which is almost the total sum of operation and title sponsorship of all the present teams in the Group A League of women s volleyball. It is the big investment that secures the team s surprising performance.

Second, the excellent results come from not only Lang Ping, the world-class coach, but the extra-powerful star-studded line-up . Besides Feng Kun, Yang Hao and Zhou Suhong from the Golden Generation , Lang introduced two foreign aides from American volleyball team of which she was once the coach, which is the historic first in the Group B League.

Davis the libro and Christa the second spiker are quite young, compensating the weakness of the Golden Generation players poor physical power. Last, Evergrande Volleyball becomes the center of extremely broad concern with Lang s return and participation of several national players and foreign aides.

This team branded with Lang s spirit becomes a cure for the box-office of women s volleyball league. Its popularity follows wherever it goes. And both home and away, the audience were full.

Volleyball Elites Gather at the Ceremony and Chen Envies Evergrande

Volleyball elites from nationwide gathered at the ceremony last night. Besides relevant leaders from Volleyball Management Center of State Sport General Administration, Guangdong Sport Bureau and Guangzhou Sport Bureau, the former coach of Chinese national team Chen Zhonghe was also present at the ceremony as a mysterious guest.

In addition, three generations of Oprahs from CCTV came to offer their congratulations. Zhang Bin acted as the host of the ceremony while the 71-year-old famous volleyball narrator Song Shixiong will narrate the Sino-American contest with his disciple Sun Zhengping tonight.

This is Mr. Song s second time of performance after Beijing Olympics, continuing his favor with women s volleyball team. The coach and all the players of American team from across the ocean attended the ceremony last night, offering their good wishes to Evergrande Volleyball. The coach Hugh Maccutcheon said that Evergrande Volleyball led by Lang would absolutely be in a higher level in the future.

First I d like to offer my congratulations to Evergrande Volleyball and Lang Ping. Anyway it is a test both for the team and Lang herself to rise into Group A. Chen Zhonghe, the present vice director of Fujian Sport Bureau, also led Fujian Volleyball in an attempt for Group A, but ended in failure.

When talking about the brilliance of Evergrande s twelve games winning streak, this smiling coach said frankly that he was ashamed, You see, Evergrande has such good achievements while Fujian He enviously admired the strong backup power of Evergrande and hoped that he would lead Fujian into Group A next season.

As to the contest tonight, Chen supported Evergrande, The strength of Evergrande Volleyball is evident and American team mainly consists of young players, so I think Evergrande will win.

Evergrande Volleyball Rejoiced

In the ceremony last night, Evergrande Volleyball became the focus, the players smiling heartily while coach Lang being kept busy throughout the time. Documentaries of the club s progress from establishment to success into Group A were broadcast on the site. Their solidarity and perseverance won continuous applauses and good wishes from the audience.

My players and I are all very happy tonight. This is an honor they win by themselves. And I hope that they can have a good holiday and enjoy a happy get-together with their families. As the heroine of the ceremony last night, Lang could hardly have a taste of the dishes for so many people came alternately to interview and congratulate her.

Feng Kun said frankly that she was lucky enough to cooperate with such a good club and coach and tacit teammates in the past three months. Feng received the 1.5 million prize for the team, disclosing that she would fly back to Beijing for the New Year with her family after the contest tonight.

The two foreign aides from American team Davis and Christa have never had an idea that the celebration last night was so ceremonial. They were excited with the January 21 Guangzhou Daily brought by the reporter, with Big American volleyball girls love Guangzhou in three months on it. Although we know little Chinese and can t understand it, it doesn t matter, we can take it back home to our families and friends. said Davis.

Davis thought a while about the extra prize money and decided to buy a car with it. I ve save some money and I think I can buy a car I want together with the prize money. Although quite a few players of American team-the rival tonight-are her good friends, Christa expressed unselfishly , I m sure to try my best to win for Evergrande, which is what I should do.