[앵커]
Our women’s volleyball team, which was evaluated as the weakest, but advanced to the semifinals, continues tomorrow (the 6th). The team they will face in the quarterfinals is the world’s strongest Brazil. Captain Kim Yeon-kyung compared the Olympics to a ‘last dance’. After confirming the semi-finals, the remaining two matches were also called the semi-finals and finals. It’s about going beyond whoever your opponent is.
First, reporter Park Jin-gyu analyzed the quarterfinals in advance.
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When they put Turkey to sleep in the quarterfinals, Kim Yeon-kyung predicted the next game like this.
[김연경/배구 국가대표 : 4강 또 그 이상 결승까지 두 경기가 앞으로 남아 있기 때문에 그것까지 잘 마무리를 해서…]
No matter how strong my opponent was, I was determined to go through the semifinals to the finals, but I met Brazil on the way to the finals.
Brazil, who is ranked second in the world and is challenging for the third Olympic gold medal following the gold medal at the 2012 London Olympics, is similar in height to ours, but plays fast volleyball and high volleyball with jumping power.
We are on a six-game winning streak without ever losing at the Olympics, and we have already met volleyball once.
The match that was remembered as Kim Yeon-kyung’s no-look spike, which completely deceived the opponents, was different from then and now, even though they failed to win even a single set.
Kim Yeon-kyung says that no matter how strong the opponent is, the ‘desperateness’ for victory will determine victory or defeat.
[김연경/배구 국가대표 : 이제는 물러설 곳이 없잖아요. 정말 한 점, 한 점이 중요한 승부가 될 거고, 그 한 점을 누가 정말 더 가져가려고 노력하고 그 간절함이 들어가야…]
Although they are inferior to their opponents with 18 wins and 45 losses, Brazil lost even a single set to us at the 2012 London Olympics.
At that time, there was Kim Yeon-kyung.
[김연경/배구 국가대표 : 지금이 최고라고 하면 런던올림픽 때 언니들한테 혼날 수도 있기 때문에… 그런데 죄송하지만 지금이 좀 더 나은 것 같기도 하고…]
Moreover, this time, Park Jung-ah, who came out as a solver in every match.
Hyo-jin Yang, who will face the height of Brazil, Hee-jin Kim, who erased all question marks after knee surgery, and Ji-young Oh, a libero throwing her whole body on the court, stand up.
This Olympics boasts a one-team, with all 12 athletes competing.
The national team members changed a lot due to the school violence incident in women’s volleyball earlier this year, but they became a stronger team in a short time by playing in the Olympics.
Serves look important to rock Brazil.
Like Eun-Jin Park’s serve, who defeated Turkey in the last five sets of the quarterfinals, a preemptive attack to confuse the opponent is required.
