The Chinese Taipei men's volleyball team set off for Bahrain to reach the top 4 of the 2025 Asian Men's Volleyball Nations Cup

The Chinese Taipei men's volleyball team, which is mainly composed of the training team for this year's World University Games, has set off to Bahrain to prepare for the 2025 Asian Men's Volleyball Nations Cup from June 17 to June 24, with the goal of reaching the top four.

The Chinese Taipei men's volleyball team departed for Bahrain

The Asian Cup of Nations, formerly known as the Asian Volleyball Challenge Cup, has been renamed again this year, and the teams that win the Asian Cup of Nations will directly qualify for next year's Asian Volleyball Championship.

The Chinese Taipei men's volleyball team was listed in the second tier of the Asian Nations Cup before the draw, the preliminaries were good, and Pakistan and the Philippines were in Group C, avoiding Qatar and South Korea, which are the highest ranked in the first tier, and Pakistan, which also belongs to the first tier, is currently ranked 49th in the world, and the Chinese Taipei men's volleyball team, ranked 45th in the world, is the highest ranked team in Group C, and the top 2 in the group can advance to the top 8 single elimination rounds.

After the baptism of the Asian Men's Volleyball Champions League, which was previously regarded by head coach Huang Hongyu as "Olympic-level intensity", he believes that through the last match in the Asian Champions League, the players have the opportunity to play against world-class opponents, and at the same time, they can also adapt to the skills and tactics of various Asian regions in advance.

Different from the lineup for the Asian Champions League, the Chinese Taipei men's volleyball team welcomed Zhang Yusheng, a heavy gunner who has been in Japan for many years, to join, so that the team's offensive weapons are more upgraded. Huang Hongyu pointed out that Zhang Yusheng's joining must be a positive plus for the team, but this is the first time that the team has cooperated with Zhang Yusheng and played with his predecessors.

Huang Hongyu revealed that for this competition, he also specially gathered the players and told everyone to play happily, don't put too much pressure on themselves, and enjoy the game, which is what these young players should have at this stage, and at the same time, they should also enlarge their goals, and this competition hopes to enter the top 4 as the standard.