Xu Limin responded to the outgoing national women's basketball coach: grateful fate, coming to Japan for a long time

On January 6, the Chinese Basketball Association released the latest edition of the List of China's National Women's Basketball Training Teams, along with the news of the departure of head coach Xu Limin, "Due to physical reasons, Xu Limin no longer serves as the head coach of the national women's basketball team, and transfers to the executive commissioner of the Olympic preparations, continuing to play for the construction of the national team." This means that the Era of Xu Limin of the Chinese Women's Basketball Team has come to an end, but it does not mean that the positive impact that Xu Limin has brought to this team has disappeared.

As the coach of the Beijing women's basketball team, after leading the team to win the WCBA championship for the third time, Xu Limin stood out from the competition in March 2017 and officially took up the position of head coach of the Chinese women's basketball team. From the beginning of taking over the team, he attached great importance to the management of the team, the construction of the team soul and the construction of ideas. Military training, watching the flag raising, team expansion, and re-embarking on the Long March are all specific measures for him to forge the team.

What is even more valuable is that although he is in the position of head coach, he can calmly realize the generation gap between himself and the players, and then think in a different position, starting from the thoughts and dispositions of young players, communicate with them as much as possible, and pioneer the introduction of psychological coaches into the team. In training, Xu Limin personally worked hard, worked tirelessly, and put the interests of the team first. In late April last year, the national women's basketball team was transferred to Foshan to prepare for the Tokyo Olympic Games, and during a team training, fatigue accumulation led to a rupture of the left Achilles tendon, but in order not to affect the team, he chose conservative treatment, thus missing the best treatment time. Throughout the Tokyo Olympics, he dragged his legs and gritted his teeth to lead the team to compete.

During Xu Limin's tenure as the head coach of the Chinese women's basketball team, the performance of the Chinese women's basketball team has risen steadily, but what is more commendable is that under his planning, the national team has successfully achieved rejuvenation, and a large number of players born around 2000 have been given the opportunity to enter the national training team for exercise, of which Li Yuan, Li Yueru and Han Xu have grown into the absolute main force of the current Chinese women's basketball team.

His boldness is also reflected in the use of college players. Starting from Shao Ting, the national women's basketball team in the Xu Limin era has always had no shortage of college players, which not only increased the selection of materials for the Chinese women's basketball team, but also allowed the college player group to gradually step onto the big stage of the Chinese women's basketball team. In the Tokyo Olympic cycle, Song Kexin, Liu Yutong, Shi Xiaoye, Zhang Yi and other college players have been selected for the national training team, and in the latest 18-member list of the national training team, Wang Lili, who represented China in the tokyo Olympic three-person basketball game and won the bronze medal, and Tang Ziting from Beijing Normal University, are also players who came out of the university. In terms of supporting and encouraging players to play in overseas high-level leagues, Xu Limin is also fully supportive, doing his best to create opportunities and conditions, all of which have won him trust and respect in the team.

Five years have passed like a white colt, and Xu Limin's words in an exclusive interview with reporters at the beginning of his term of office are still like yesterday: "Since you take office, there is a risk of leaving class, which is the law of this cause." Now, due to physical reasons, he has to choose to leave, and the national women's basketball team he single-handedly built for the 2024 or even 2028 Olympic Games has not yet been able to achieve the ultimate wish he made at the beginning of the team, which cannot but be said to be a pity. The moon has clouds and sunshine, and people have gathered and dispersed, which is difficult to complete. However, it is believed that coach Xu Limin will continue to spare no effort for the cause of the Chinese women's basketball team after serving as the executive commissioner of the Olympic preparations. He himself also wrote in response to the reporter's WeChat: "Grateful fate, come to Japan for a long time." ”