体坛英语资讯：FIVB president expects Chinese women to continue medal-winning run_娱乐

体坛英语资讯：FIVB president expects Chinese women to continue medal-winning run

"As for the men's Chinese team, you have big potential. The Chinese players are some of the tallest in the world, more or less like the Russians, so you have potential," Graca said. "The problem is to put in the heads of the players the idea of professionalism, the commitment with the sport, to train, train, train, that's the only word I know for those winners: it's work, work, work."

Following his meeting with Gou Zhongwen, director of China's General Administration of Sport, on Tuesday, Graca revealed that the FIVB would continue to work closely with the Chinese Volleyball Association to make the sport more popular in China.

"You have won the gold medal in the women's competitions and we must come here to develop volleyball to the whole country and mainly to children in schools," he said. "That's my mission here and I made a program with the minister exactly to try to develop not only the excellent level of volleyball but to spread volleyball all over the country."

With the FIVB striving to make volleyball the "No. 1 family sport in the world," Graca was very confident in the development of the sport in China.

"In China, you still have the spirit of family and volleyball is the sport that you can bring your children, your mother and the fiance of your daughter together," he said. "There is no struggle, no touch, no combat. It is the sport of peace, and that's what we need in the family."

"I am quite sure that for China volleyball will fit very well in schools. It's the only sport that women and men can play together, without hurting each other, because there is no contact, no violence, and the children can play."