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Joan Jane

The former Spanish men's head coach Joan Jane will be back at the poolside and go to the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China as well. As Spanish media reported, Jan￩ has signed a contract for the head coach position of the Chinese women's team and will now lead the Asian representative to the Olympic tournament as well.Joan Jane is well-known in international top waterpolo for years. He coached the Spanish men's senior team from 1993 to 2004 at three consecutive Olympic Games and won three gold medals at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, USA and the 1998 and 2001 FINA World Championships, where were held in Perth, Australia and Fukuoka, Japan. Now he will change to women's waterpolo and a non-European country he does not know much about. It is reported that a squad of 20 to 25 players is to have centralised practices sessions in Tianjin, the hosting city of the 2006 FINA Women's World Cup. Jane knows that it is a pretty difficult job, but "we have to see what can be done in ten months of preparation before the Games." Observers confirmed a remarkable progress of Chinese women's waterpolo in recent past, but criticised that preparations for the Beijing Games started to late achieve a real top result. China finished 14th at the 2007 FINA World Championships in Melbourne, Australia and wrote history at the recent World Junior Championships in Porto, Portugal, when the team even claimed the silver medal. It was the first medal ever for an Asian team in World waterpolo, and one of the Chinese players, Jun Yang, was even chosen best goalkeeper of the 16-nation-tournament.

 

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