From August to now, after more than three months, until last Friday, the Chinese Taipei Badminton Association passed the first stage of selection, and only Lai Jiancheng was competing for the position of head coach.

After the Jakarta Asian Games, the Chinese Taipei Badminton Association also spent a lot of time looking for a new head coach. From August to now, after more than three months, until last Friday, the Chinese Taipei Badminton Association passed the first stage of selection, and only Lai Jiancheng was competing for the position of head coach.

Maybe many people don't know Lai Jiancheng, but I believe many fans know the Jakarta Asian Games badminton women's singles gold medal and the world's number one women's singles queen Tai Tzu Ying . That's right, Lai Jiancheng is Tai Tzu Ying's exclusive coach and Taipei team coach. is awesome! After helping the Asian Games gold medal player become a world player, at only 33 years old, he is expected to serve as the head coach!

Lai Jiancheng was in the same class as Chen Honglin, one of the world's fourth men's doubles players, in the Keelung high school team. However, he ended his playing career in his junior year and then went to graduate school. After graduation, he went to Kaohsiung Middle School to serve as a substitute in sports. 8 years ago, Lai Jiancheng met Tai Ziying for the first time. So Lai Jiancheng started out as a sparring partner and helped Tai Tzu Ying grow up along the way.

At that time, Lai Chien-cheng still resigned to the low salary and stayed in Kaohsiung, accompanying Tai Tzu Ying through the low ebb and evolving into a world football queen. Even Dai Tzu Ying’s father Dai Nankai once said: "Without Coach Lai, there would be no Tai Tzu Ying now. Regarding Lai Chien-cheng's hope of becoming the head coach of badminton in Chinese Taipei, Dai Nankai also said that Lai Chien-cheng's journey from being a substitute and a training partner to becoming Xiao Dai's coach and later winning the Elite Award for Best Coach is quite inspiring and a legendary story. .

Earlier, the 33-year-old Lai Jiancheng has also passed the Badminton Association's head coach selection. As long as he is ratified at this Thursday's training meeting, he will become the youngest head coach in the history of badminton in Taiwan, China. The players also expressed their delight in this. Some players also revealed privately: "Coach Lai has his own ideas about training and planning. He is an action coach. We believe he can do a good job."

It is worth mentioning that there are no young head coaches in the history of badminton. Rare. At that time, badminton player Huang Zonghan became the coaching director of the Malaysian badminton team at the age of 41, and South Korean star Ahn Jae-chang also served as the head coach of South Korea's badminton team at the age of 46. The next young badminton head coach may be this 33-year-old behind-the-ball coach. If Lai Chien-cheng eventually becomes the head coach of Chinese Taipei badminton, his term will start on February 1 next year and end on August 30, 2020, after the Tokyo Olympics.

No matter what the final result is, Lai Jiancheng, who helped Tai Tzu Ying ascend to the throne of the world's top player from sparring partner to coach, has proven himself well.