Not long after entering 2022, the Chinese women's basketball team has continuously burst into big news, and a few days ago, Zhao Shuang, a former Chinese women's basketball player, announced his retirement. On the afternoon of January 6, Beijing time, the Chinese Basketball Association officially announced the new World Cup training list, Wu Tongtong, Huang Sijing, Li Yueru, Li Yifan, Pan Zhenqi, Yang Liwei, Zhang Ru, Jin Weina, Luo Xintang, Li Yuan, Wang Siyu, Yang Hengyu, Yang Shuyu and other players were selected. Compared with the list of players, everyone pays more attention to the selection of coaches. The head coach of the Chinese women's basketball team has finally changed.
According to the Chinese Basketball Association, due to physical reasons, Xu Limin will no longer serve as the head coach of the Chinese women's basketball team, and Zheng Wei, the former assistant coach of the Chinese women's basketball team, will serve as the acting coach. However, although Xu Limin stepped down as the head coach of the Chinese women's basketball team, he did not leave the basketball field he was familiar with. It is reported that Xu Limin will serve as the executive commissioner of Olympic preparations and continue to contribute to the basketball cause of the motherland.
Xu Limin began to serve as the head coach of the Chinese women's basketball team in 2017, and in the past four years, he has led the Chinese women's basketball team to participate in major international events such as the Asian Games, the Asian Cup, and the Olympic Games, and has better completed various competition figures, helped the Chinese women's basketball team to complete the replacement of the old and the new, and also cultivated potential new stars such as Li Yueru, Han Xu, and Zhang Ru. In addition, he accidentally broke his Achilles tendon during training, but he still insisted on playing in the Olympic Games with an injury, and also won the admiration of many fans.
For many fans, xu Limin's dismissal is undoubtedly a major benefit. Fans who have watched the games of the Chinese women's basketball team in recent years should know that although Xu Limin has a lot of coaching experience, his command ability and adaptability at key moments are very limited. At the Tokyo Olympic Games, the Chinese women's basketball team won all 3 games in the group stage to reach the quarterfinals, but in the quarterfinals, facing the powerful Serbian women's basketball team, the Chinese women's basketball team was reversed by the opponent in the lead and had no chance to reach the top 4. After this war, there were many voices on the Internet calling for Xu Limin to leave class.
In the final of the Asian Cup in early October last year, the Chinese women's basketball team faced the old rival Japan women's basketball team, which was also reversed by the opponent in the lead, regrettably losing the championship. After this game, the news of Xu Limin's dismissal can be said to be overwhelming. Even fans know that Xu Limin's key moment command ability and adaptability are insufficient, how can the officials of the Chinese Basketball Association not be clear? Xu Limin's dismissal this time is ostensibly due to physical reasons, but in fact it is still a problem of his own teaching ability.
And the new acting head coach Zheng Wei has long been the head coach of the Guangdong women's basketball team, and just joined the Inner Mongolia women's basketball team last year to lead the team to win the championship, Li Yueru, Huang Sijing and other people are her generals, she is also a female coach, perhaps she coached the Chinese women's basketball team will be more outstanding than Xu Limin.