In January 2006, Liu Guodong was invited by the Singapore Table Tennis Association to serve as the head coach of the Singapore Table Tennis Team. Before he took office, he had told his brother Liu Guoliang , who was currently the head coach of the national table tennis men's team, that he wanted to make the Singapore team the strongest competitor of the Chinese team. In fact, Liu Guodong has indeed built a powerful women's table tennis team and helped Singapore, which has missed the Olympic medal for 48 years, win the medal. It can be said that Liu Guodong has played a great role in promoting Singapore's table tennis. However, what is surprising is that when Liu Guodong's contract expired, Singapore did not retain him. What happened?
Speaking of which, Liu Guodong was originally a table tennis player. The reason why he plays table tennis is entirely because of his father Liu Zhansheng .
Liu Zhansheng loves table tennis and his skills are also very good. When he was young, he was very eager to be a table tennis player. But the family believes that playing table tennis is not a proper job, so he blocked his dream very resolutely.
Because his dream did not come true, after Liu Guodong was born, Liu Zhansheng put his dream of being a table tennis player on his son. Therefore, when Liu Guodong was only a few years old, Liu Zhansheng began to train him to play table tennis.
Later, his younger brother Liu Guoliang also came to life. Since childhood, Liu Guoliang has also developed a keen interest in table tennis. As a result, Liu Guoliang also picked up the racket to practice the ball.
Don't think Liu Guoliang touched the racket 2 years later than Liu Guodong, but his talent is high, whether it is ball sense or understanding, he is better than Liu Guodong. Therefore, when Liu Guodong was still training hard for the provincial team, Liu Guoliang had been tuned into the national team.
After that,Liu Guoliang, who was young, rose rapidly and quickly became a number of world champions.
At that time, Liu Guodong also joined the national table tennis team. However, he was not selected for the national table tennis team because he played well, but when he saw his younger brother achieved good results, he clearly realized that he might not be a world champion after playing for a lifetime. In that case, what is the point of continuing to fight in the provincial team? Therefore, with his good skills, he went to the national team to practice women's table tennis.
Actually, being a sparring partner is really doing a wedding dress for others. Even if the sparring athlete becomes the Olympic champion, that seems to be the coach's credit, and almost no one mentions the sparring name.
But Liu Guodong has an extra layer of mind. When he is doing sparring, he carefully observes how the coach trains the athletes, and when he is doing sparring, he often helps the female players to correct their mistakes. Over time, he has accumulated a lot of experience as a coach.
In 1996, after Liu Guoliang won two gold medals at the Atlanta Olympics, the happy Liu Guodong chose to retire and left the national team. However, although he ended his sports career, Liu Guodong still made table tennis his career because of his love for table tennis.
In 2000, with the support of his parents and younger brother, Liu Guodong founded the Beijing Guoliang Table Tennis Club. Entrepreneurship is always difficult. Even Liu Guodong's club has "migrated" several times before finally settled in Xi'an, which can be regarded as stabilizing his career. He also started his coaching career from that time.
Liu Guodong has very high demands on himself. In order to improve his skills, he always follows at his own expense when the national team goes abroad to play games and observes how coaches from other countries coach. At the same time, he is very humble and often asks the coaches of the national table tennis team about training and team management issues. This kind of pragmatic attitude, let Liu Guodong learn a lot of experience.
is the so-called "strictly trained apprentice", Liu Guodong not only brought out rookies like Malone and Hao Shuai , but he also led the team to win multiple championships in the league. Just like this, Liu Guodong became a famous coach, and his fame got him the attention of the Singapore Table Tennis Association.
At the beginning of 2006, after several discussions, Liu Guodong decided to take over as the head coach of Singapore table tennis.
Actually, Liu Guodong had already gone to Singapore to learn about the Singapore table tennis team. He found that the strength of the men's team is far from the best teams in the world. Although the women's team has strong players like Li Jiawei and Wang Yuegu , the discipline of the entire team is very loose and there is no pressure that athletes should have at all.
Obviously, the Singapore table tennis team is not a good team. Despite the pressure, Liu Guodong agreed to the invitation of the Singapore Table Tennis Association. So he told Liu Guoliang that he wanted to make the Singapore team the strongest competitor in China.
You should know that after decades of development, the Chinese table tennis team has led the world in strength and technology. In international competitions, the champion is always won by the Chinese table tennis team. Liu Guodong especially hopes to make some achievements to prove his worth. At the same time, it put pressure on the Chinese team, and put pressure on his brother Liu Guoliang, making the Chinese team better and better.
After taking charge of the Singapore team, Liu Guodong decided to start with the reform of the women's table tennis team. On the one hand, he instituted strict discipline and at the same time extended the training time each day; on the other hand, he recruited soldiers everywhere,In order to enhance the strength of the team, a famous player like Feng Jiawei was dug from Japan at that time.
In order to improve the team's strength, Liu Guodong can also endure hardship. He usually lives in the men's team dormitory, eating and living with everyone. He did this in order to understand everyone's situation and mental dynamics, so that he could adjust the rhythm of training at any time.
At that time, Liu Guodong had the biggest opinion, and he was still a member of the women's team. Because Liu Guodong hates iron but not steel, he reprimands them at every turn and places extremely strict demands on them. Therefore, everyone is very resistant to Liu Guodong. However, because Liu Guodong is the head coach, everything is up to him, so although everyone feels wronged, they have to act according to his requirements.
Not to mention, after a period of devil training, the performance of the women's team has improved significantly. In the 49th World Table Tennis Championships in 2008, the Singaporean women's team actually reached the final, and Li Jiawei was still in the final, defeating the Chinese star Guo Yue , which shocked the Chinese team in a cold sweat. In this way, the Chinese table tennis team has a new understanding of the Singapore women's team and indeed regards Singapore as the biggest threat to the Chinese women's team at that time.
The Singapore women's team members were also surprised by their results. Since then, the Singapore women's team members have completely changed their views on Liu Guodong and replaced them with unlimited trust.
In the same year, Liu Guodong led the Singapore women's team to the Beijing Olympics and still made it to the finals in the women's team, facing the Chinese women's table tennis team. Although it was still a bit inferior in the end, it won the women's team runner-up. You know, Singapore has suffered from a shortage of Olympic medals in 48 years. Therefore, after the Singapore Women's Table Tennis Team won the runner-up, the people of Singapore were all happy, and even the Prime Minister of Singapore personally called to congratulate him.
Afterwards, Liu Guodong led the Singapore women's team several times in international competitions and won many medals. Under his leadership, the Singapore women's team also ranked among the best teams in the world.
In addition to training the Singapore women's team into the Tiger Wolf division, Liu Guodong also has his own way of training the men's team. That is to continue to bring male players to China to train with the famous players of the national table tennis team. Due to frequent training with famous players such as Ma Lin and Hao Shuai, the strength of the men's team has quickly reached the top 8 in the Olympic Games from outside the 30th in the world.
It can be said that Liu Guodong single-handedly promoted the development of Singapore's table tennis program. Even after the Singapore team continued to achieve good results, the Singaporeans also set off a craze for table tennis.
However, after the Beijing Olympics ended, Liu Guodong's contract period also came to an end.
Surprisingly, the Singapore Table Tennis Association issued a contract extension that was unacceptable to their meritorious head coach Liu Guodong. In the new contract, Liu Guodong's power is divided. However, Liu Guodong believes that it is very difficult to lead a good team if he is not given the right to manage the team. As he could not reach a consensus with the Singapore Table Tennis Association, Liu Guodong finally chose to leave. The Singapore Table Tennis Association did not make any move to retain.
Now, Liu Guodong is the head coach of the Hong Kong table tennis team. The results of the Hong Kong team are relatively average. However, I believe that with the training of a successful coach like Liu Guodong, the Hong Kong team will certainly achieve good results in the near future.
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