TEAM COMPOSITION

GUD / Guangdong Evergrande

Team manager	QIU Aihua
Coach	LANG Ping
Assistant coach	LI Yong
2nd assistant coach	LI Tieming
Doctor
Physiotherapist

	No.	Name	Lastname	Shirt Name	Birthdate	Height	Weight	Spike	Block	Country
	1	Juliann Christine	Johnson	Johnson	25.11.1989	188	85	320	307	USA
	2	Ting	Zhu	Zhu T.	29.11.1994	198	78	327	300	CHN
	3	Nan	Wang	Wang N.	13.08.1984	181	67	305	295	CHN
	4	Ying	Wei	Wei.Y	07.03.1989	177	65	295	290	CHN
	6	Junjing	Yang	Yang J.J.	15.05.1989	190	70	308	300	CHN
	7	Martina	Guiggi	Guiggi	01.05.1984	187	80	317	240	ITA
	8	Chunlei	Zeng	Zeng C.L.	03.11.1989	187	67	315	315	CHN
L	9	Xian	Zhang	Zhang X.	16.03.1985	168	57	290	280	CHN
	10	Megan	Easy	Easy	15.10.1988	191	80	320	297	USA
	11	Yunli	Xu	Xu Y.L.	02.08.1987	195	85	325	306	CHN
C	12	Ruoqi	Hui	Hui R.Q.	04.03.1991	192	78	315	305	CHN
	15	Ting	Wang	T. Wang	09.11.1984	187	68	315	305	CHN

C=Captain L=Libero

Team profile

Guangdong Evergrande prominently established a strong but technically equipped image in the history of China Volleyball League. The club team is the first professional volleyball club and is being supported by a large real estate group from Guangzhou, China.

Since its establishment in 2009, the club caught everyone’s attention through its independent operational methods, which promotes self-sustainability and development that laid a strong base for its coaches and players.

In its debut season, the club swept the second division of the Chinese women’s volleyball league that promoted them to play in the league’s first division the following year. In 2010, they became the top favourites as they dominated the regular season but only finished second behind club team Tianjin.

Its budding rivalry with Tianjin continued in 2011 when they faced each other in the semifinals. Guangdong Evergrande emerged as winners in this encounter and denied Tianjin of its finals appearance after decades of dominating the Chinese league. Evergrande eventually won the title and became the fifth team to win a title in league history.

Evergrande gathered some of the world’s top players and the best Chinese players – forming an invincible arsenal – that left a mark in the minds of the media and the entire volleyball community.

An impressive list of players was presented each season. Top players from USA such as Logan Tom, Nicole Fawcett, Kim Glass, Christa Harmotto and Nicole Davis have played for Guangdong Evergrande in different seasons.

Solid hitters Carolina Costagrande, Katarzyna Skowronska-Dolata, Wilavan Apinyapong and Jovana Brakocevic, have once been part of the Evergrande lineup. Its remarkable lineup of local players included Olympic gold medallists Feng Kung, Wang Lina, Yang Hao and Zhou Suhong, have pioneered the club team’s climb to its current inspiring prominence.

Evergrande perpetuate this winning formula at the FIVB Women’s Club World Championship as Americans Juliann Faucette and Megan Hodge, and Italian middle blocker Martina Guiggi grace this season’s squad. A core of Chinese national team players Shen Jingsi, Yang Junjing, Zeng Chunlei, Xu Yunli, Hui Ruoqi, Shan Danna, and the young powerhouse Zhu Ting will join Hodge, Faucette and Guiggi in their rousing quest for supremacy in international club level.

Coach profile

Lang Ping’s decorated career as a player may long have ended but the respect from her peers thrives as her coaching career flourishes year after year. Lang is at the helm of coaching the China national team and club team Guangdong Evergrande.

As a national team player, Lang won gold medals at the 1984 Olympic Games, the 1982 World Championship and the World Cup in 1981 and 1985. Lang became one of the top athletes of her generation – selected as China’s ‘Top Ten Athletes of the Year’ from 1981-1986 and ‘World Top Ten Athletes of the Year’ in 1985.

She then took coaching duties in 1995 and guided China to a silver place finishes at the 1996 Olympics and the 1998 World Championships. In 1999, Lang coached in the Italian professional volleyball league, winning the Championship and the ‘Coach of the Year’ award multiple times.

She became coach of the USA National Team in 2005, leading them to a silver medal at the 2008 Olympics and later that year became a coach for a club in the Turkish volleyball league.

Since Lang’s return to China in 2009, she has led Guangdong Evergrande to numerous achievements such as being promoted to the first division of the China volleyball league until winning the league championship in 2011-12 season in a short span of time.

Guangdong Evergrande competed in the Asian Women’s Volleyball Club Championships in 2013, took the top podium and the earned the right to represent Asia in the FIVB Women’s Club World Championship.

Her countrymen and volleyball fans celebrated her appointment as coach of China’s national women’s volleyball team in April 2013. Lang’s presence and her knowledge of the sport was a positive occurrence for the team as they placed second at the FIVB Volleyball World Grand Prix.