On the 27th, the Korea Expressway Corporation and IBK IBK Industrial Bank set the score 3-2 (23-25 20-25 25-21 25-20 15-13) at the professional volleyball Dodram 2020-2021 V-League women’s home game held at Gimcheon Gymnasium in Gyeongbuk on the 27th. ) Won the thrilling flipping victory. With 3 games left in the regular league, the Korea Highway Corporation pursued the 3rd place IBK (40.13-15 victory points), who played another game by accumulating 12-15 and 39 points, and was in an advantageous position in the fight for the 3rd place with the last train boarding pass in the postseason. Climbed up.
However, Lazareva’s tears were the hottest topic in the game on this day. Lazareba couldn’t prevent his defeat even though he scored a whopping 43 points, the most in the game that day. It seemed that IBK could easily take the game with Lazareva’s one-man show up to the second set. However, Lazareva, who poured 27 points only in the first half, started to stumble as if he was overloaded with 3 sets and complained of back pain. Lazareva continued to touch his waist and frown during the game, and seemed to be unable to do all he could even when he spiked or blocked.
Nevertheless, IBK manager Kim Woo-jae did not drop Lazareva until the beginning of the 5th set. The mood would have changed a lot if Lazareva gave time to arrange his physical strength in the 3-4 sets, or was just trying to see if he could play in the game while the set score was open until the middle of the game.
However, even after seeing Lazarevah’s physical condition, coach Kim Woo-jae repeated the instruction that if he was sick, he would lose strength and hit the ball. Eventually, the game reached a full set, and it was only then replaced when Lazareva, whose physical condition reached its limit, shed tears while both teams were facing 6-6. Although I do not understand the importance of the game on this day, I cannot be free from criticism for neglecting the basics of player protection, which should be the top priority over performance as a manager.
IBK’s 5th set Lazareva was missing, but domestic players were struggling, but they failed to stop Kelsey, a foreign player from the Korea Highway Corporation from attacking. Eventually, with greed for the performance, the player overworked the player according to the player, and injured both the body and the mind, and nonetheless, the game was given to the game. At the same time, even the manager’s leadership lost trust, so for IBK, too much was lost in one game.
Coach Woo-jae Kim has been the leader of IBK since the 2019-20 season, but after finishing in fifth place in the first year, there is no guarantee that he will advance to spring volleyball this season. It is being evaluated that there is no other tactic or alternative except to drive the ball to Lazarev, so it is crowded at the beginning of the slope.
In fact, this is not the first controversy over Lazarev. Due to the nature of domestic professional volleyball, the dependence on foreign players is similar to that of any team, but IBK has been criticized for being’mole ball volleyball’ as a tactic that only looks at Lazareva too much. In Lazareva’s career, there has never been a case of such an excessive offensive burden, and due to his dynamic playstyle, his physical strength is inevitably consumed faster than other players.
Lazareva suffered a torn abs from the first game in the KOVO Cup last September, but suffered an injury. Later, in an interview with the media, he complained of a physically burdensome situation, but he asked the director several times to take a break, but he confessed that it was not well received.
Eventually, on December 30 last year, there was a controversy about sabotage at GS Caltex. Lazareba scored just two points and an attacking success rate of 11.8% on this day, but they were unable to focus on the game, such as sluggish spikes or not properly participating in the defense. The cause was the loss of composure when Cho Song-hwa, who was the main setter at the time, was absent due to an injury and the breathing with the backup players did not match well. Of course, there were voices pointing out Lazareva’s professional consciousness and mentality, but the more fundamental problem was in the wrong structure that forced excessive overload on only certain players.
Lazareva also shed tears when he was defeated after a full-set battle against Hyundai E&C on the 20th. Of course, it’s not a good scene for a professional player to be too emotionally shaken. However, no matter how much he ran, it was expected that the stress was also great as his grades did not come out. To make matters worse, the manager, who has to protect and manage the players, neglected even the minimum obligations.
In the end, professional sports should be able to impress the fans. Lazareva is likely to leave Korea and return to Europe at the end of this season. What kind of memories will the experience in Korean volleyball remain for Lazarevah in the future? It is still a scene where it is shameful that the old-fashioned volleyball culture, which rationalizes the abuse of players or scams, is connected to the greed for the performance.
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