Guoyu has slipped, it has also been brilliant. Behind these brilliance are the hard work of countless excellent coaches.
For example, the well-known Tang Lao Tang Immortal Tiger has cultivated Olympic champion Lin Dan and Fengyun combination for Guoyu.
and Guoyu has some excellent coaches who have been suppressed and depressed, such as our protagonist Li Mao today.
Li Mao fell out with Li Yongbo in his early years because of his coaching philosophy, so he has not been able to appear in Guoyu's coaching staff, but in fact, his coaching resume is still very bright.
Li Mao, born in Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province in 1958, was also a first-class men's singles player when he was young. Because of his unique training system and skills in men's singles, he also successfully coached Guoyu after his retirement. .
When coaching, most of the readers were either still babies or just fell to the ground, so few people have heard the name of Li Mao. Although
is not as good as Tang Lao, but Li Mao cultivated world champions such as Dong Jiong, Sun Jun, Chen Gang and so on.
As a senior coach of the same generation as Li Yongbo, he used to be the right-hand man of the latter, and he is known for his brotherhood. At the end of 1993, the Chinese badminton circle had a big change. Young athletes such as Li Yongbo, Li Mao, Li Lingwei and Tian Bingyi joined the Chinese badminton team. Li Yongbo was then the deputy head coach of the national team and Li Mao was the men's singles head coach.
In Lausanne, Switzerland in 1995, the Chinese team won the Sudirman Cup for the first time in a weak situation. Later, Li Mao's disciples Dong Jiong and Sun Jun began to take turns ranking first in the world, and Luo Yigang ranked fourth. Chinese men's singles began to dominate the world.
Everything went so smoothly, the national feather began to improve and gradually became stronger. Li Mao never thought that this was just the beginning of his wandering badminton-in the next few decades, he would have to move between several badminton powers in Asia. He has always said that he wants to return to China to teach, but Li Yongbo, the emperor of the Li dynasty, refused to agree.
After the 1998 Bangkok Asian Games, Li Mao announced his departure from the Chinese national team. At this time, Li Yongbo was already the head coach of the national team. Speaking of the reasons for his resignation, Li Mao said: “There is no balance between good and evil. Many things about Li Yongbo are unimaginable. The gold medal covers everything.”
A series of negative rumors about Li Yongbo were heated, such as arranging handicap and deducting bonuses. No one knows whether it is out of nothing or the truth. A report by Xinhua News Agency on April 12, 1999, "The official statement of the Chinese Badminton Team that Li Yongbo has not been corrupted" is the official statement on the matter.
Since the head coach Li cannot be brought down, he must leave. So you see Li Lingwei, Li Mao and other members of the core coaching staff have all left the badminton team.
Where to go? As a person who relies on badminton for food, Li Mao continued to choose to coach. The first stop is South Korea.
If Li Mao brought out the Chinese world championship with the team's credit, then he brought out Li Xuan and Sun Shengmo Park Sung Hwan without any doubt as a personal achievement, without any water.
In 2003, Lee Hyun-il defeated Chen Hong in the final of the Su Cup and made the first contribution for the South Korean team to regain the 10-year-old championship trophy. Sun Shengmo is South Korea's closest to the men's singles Olympic champion. He won the runner-up in Athens and was once ahead of Taufik in the game.
is such an excellent coach, Malaysians can't help but "get it". Under the guidance of the expert Li Mao, Malaysia's No. 1 men's singles Li Zongwei has gradually moved from a top player to a top player, becoming a badminton superman like Taufik and Lin Dan, ranking first in the world.
At the beginning of 2006, Li Mao returned to coaching the South Korean team as the national team singles head coach. After the 07 China Open, Park Sung-hwan eliminated the favorite Lin Dan in the first round, causing a sensation.
No matter how good his coaching performance is, Li Mao never forgets that he is Chinese. I have been the head coach of South Korea for so long. I can't speak Korean, so I can only show and coach. I am jokingly called the "dumb coach". When Li Mao first went to South Korea to coach, the contract conditions were very attractive. If you do or not, both parties only need to notify 10 days in advance. "I valued this point before agreeing to sign, because from the bottom of my heart, I don't want to stay in Korea for a long time."
And his former brother Li Yongbo has become a stumbling block on his coaching road. After Li Mao left the national team, his struggle with Li Yongbo did not end, and even intensified.
Li Mao once confessed in person: "When I first went to South Korea to coach, he negotiated with South Korea in the name of the Chinese Badminton Association and asked the South Korean team not to hire me. The same was true when I coached in Malaysia."
Li Mao has expressed his willingness to return to China to coach more than once, but he has been blocked. However, after the 2016 Olympics, Li Yongbo dismissed get out of class, and Li Mao finally ushered in a turning point.
In 2019, Li Mao, who was in the sixtieth year of the year, was invited back to Guoyu to guide Chen Long. Li Mao, who has been wandering for half his life, will play for the country again and will bring the Chinese men's singles to the Tokyo Olympics to launch a full impact.
And in the following games, we were delighted to find that Chen Long had a breakthrough in play, perhaps Li Mao's return can really bring us surprises.
