Hupu November 5th News On the evening of November 3, in the final of the U18 Women's Basketball Asian Youth Championship, the Chinese National Youth Team defeated the Japanese team 89-76 to win the championship. This is also the Asian Youth Championship led by head coach Cong Xuedi to win the Asian Youth Championship. Three consecutive championships.
As the overlord flower of the Chinese women's basketball team in the past, Cong Xuedi's name once resounded throughout the world basketball world, and the halo of the Olympic runner-up is still shining. After retiring, she coached a professional team and built a club. However, in recent years, she has been rooted in the National Youth Women's Basketball Team, and her wish is also simple: to cultivate some good seedlings for the Chinese women's basketball team.
Before going to the Asian Youth Championship, Cong Xuedi accepted an exclusive interview at the Qinhuangdao Chinese Football School Training Base. She brought her one by one with the bitterness, sweetness and sourness of the national youth team in the past five years.
Seedling cultivation. Long-term training every year
Time flies so fast. From taking over the National Youth Team in 2014 to now, it has been the fifth year - the National Youth Team is one batch in two years, and now it is the third batch taken over by Cong Xuedi.
actually took over the National Youth Team, which was a coincidence. "Before taking over the National Youth Team, I no longer wanted to be a coach, it was too tiring." Cong Xuedi recalled that she had retreated from the position of head coach of the Shanghai Women's Basketball Team for a long time. As for why she stopped doing it, it was because she was physically and mentally exhausted. . "At that time, the Shanghai women's basketball team had no money or foreign players, and the players didn't have much motivation to play in the league - you practiced for a few months, and you played in the league with foreign players, and you always won less wins and lost more, and over time, you lost your energy. . "Although I have suffered countless hardships after walking on the road of basketball, the period of coaching the Shanghai Women's Basketball Team for the second time was the most difficult. "The players train so hard, but there is no reward when they are on the court. They have poor grades and few bonuses. They are all in vain. I am too hard to do ideological work for the players, so I proposed not to do it." After resigning from the head coach of
, Cong Xuedi Working in the Preparatory Office under the Municipal Sports Bureau, I became an "office worker" and had more time to spend with my family. Finally, I lived a relaxing life for two years. However, Cong Xuedi's thoughts had never left basketball. Later, Hu Jiashi, deputy director of the Basketball Management Center, found her, hoping that she could coach the National Youth Team. "At that time, Director Hu said that this job required long-term training. When asked if I was willing, I said I should consider it because I had to listen to the opinions of my family." Cong Xuedi said: "After all, my parents-in-law were old and needed someone to take care of them, and I also want to separate from my husband for a long time and I am afraid that he will have any objections. Unexpectedly, my family is more supportive, and my son also went to the United States to study for college. Since my family is less concerned, I will go out to lead the team again. I have been in this area for so many years."
coaches the National Youth Team, which also makes Cong Xuedi a "migratory bird". Every year, it is basically after the winter training, and it will only be possible to return to Shanghai until the Chinese New Year is over. "The situation is fine this year. After playing the Asian Youth Championship in November, the team may have disbanded first. But in the past few years, the team had winter training every year, and only stayed in Shanghai for two months a year. There were two years or even the beginning of the first lunar month. The training camp started at 8th, and I spent less time with my family. "
heartbroken lack of reserve force
In the position of head coach of the national youth team, Cong Xuedi had a deeper understanding of the predicament of the reserve force of the Chinese women's basketball team: "It's hard to imagine, in At this age of U18, based on the echelons of the women's basketball clubs nationwide, they cannot select 12 fully qualified players. There is really no one to choose. "
Cong Xuedi said that the Basketball Association formed the U18 National Youth Team to fight In the FIBA U series, most of the players were born in 2000, and this is a relatively embarrassing age group because they are not players of the National Games age.
As we all know, the training of women's basketball players is mainly based on the National Games cycle, so those who are not of the National Games age are not very popular, which has also resulted in very few players born in 2000, and it is also for Cong Xuedi The selection of national youth team has caused great difficulties. "I have basically seen it all when selecting people, even high school students, and some students have tried it out. After practicing a few classes, I found that I really couldn't keep up, so I asked them to go back." Cong Xuedi was helpless and was helpless. Say it. There are few people to choose from, but the team members are very mobile, which often forces Cong Xuedi's training plan to change."This group of people started training in November last year, and came and left one after another. There were only three people who really stayed in November until now, including Zhu Dandan, Chen Mingling and Li Bingzhen, and the one who came one month later was '001'. "The "001" that Cong Xuedi mentioned is called Li Yuyan. She comes from Chongqing, which has no professional team and has almost no experience in major competitions. "But relatively speaking, she has good conditions and she has worked harder in training, so she chose it."
Previously, during the National Day holiday, when the National Youth Team was preparing for the Asian Youth Championship, there were only 9 players in total, so they played the full-game confrontation match. At that time, the team's male research coach can only be replaced. "One of the three missing players has not returned to the national team, and two have been admitted to Beijing Normal University. Now they are participating in the competition on behalf of the school," Cong Xuedi explained.
Wish to cultivate more national players
1993, Cong Xuedi founded a basketball club named after herself when she retired; in 1995, she took charge of the coach's seal for the first time when the Shanghai Women's Basketball Team was at a low point, and she worked for 7 years; in 2005, she was again in The Shanghai Women's Basketball Team was ordered when they needed it, and they worked for 6 years... Cong Xuedi has retired for 25 years, but all her energy is still on the women's basketball team. Her wish is to train more national players for the country.
has been rooted in the National Youth Team for 5 years, and Cong Xuedi has been working silently on the barren soil. Today's Chinese women's basketball team has four national youth disciples of Cong Xuedi - the first batch of Huang Sijing , the second batch of Li Yueru , Han Xu and Li Yuan . These people have become the future of the national team. hope.
"The first year she took Huang Sijing, she joined the national team after playing in the 2014 Asian Youth Championship, and did not play with us in the World Youth Championship; the second group of people went up a little more, such as Li Yueru, Han Xu, Li Yuan, etc. , Li Yueru also joined the national team after the Asian Youth Championship; before this Asian Youth Championship, Li Yuan had been promoted to the national team, but now there is really no one, so she can only recall her to win. "Previously Cong Xuedi led the team to win the Asian Youth Championship and the World Youth Championship. She also knew the three groups of national youth teams she led, "The first batch of conditions are the worst, they are all very tall. I didn't expect to reach the top eight of the World Youth Championship. I also won the Spanish team at that time. It's a pity for the second batch. If Li Yueru was not promoted to the national team to play in the Asian Championships, our results in that World Youth Championship should be It will be better, but it should be the national team's needs first; this group of physical conditions are OK, but the basic skills are not good, so it still needs to be well crafted."
When will the Chinese women's basketball team reappear in 1992? Cong Xuedi said: "Only by truly caring for youth training and doing a solid job in training reserve talents in women's basketball can the Chinese women's basketball team regain its glory."
(Editor: Fanmei)
