On January 21, the Malaysian Badminton Federation officially held a press conference to announce the handling decision of Li Zijia, the male single brother of Malaysian badminton. Because Li Zijia had previously submitted a resignation application to Yu Zong, wanted to fly alone and participate in the international competition as a free person, but his move completely angered Da Ma Yu Zong, in this regard, the official decision after a careful decision, gave Li Zijia a penalty decision to ban participation in the international competition for two years, which officially took effect from January 18, 2022. In addition, Malaysia's women's singles rising star Wu Yanli, who announced his withdrawal from the national team last year, was also banned from participating in international competitions for two years.
As the new leader of Malaysian men's badminton, the 24-year-old Li Zijia is in his current year, winning the Championship at the All England Open last year, achieving a major breakthrough, and is known as Li Zongwei's successor and the most promising supernova to win the world championship for Malaysia. But unfortunately, after ending the journey of the World Championships at the end of last year, Li Zijia submitted a resignation application to Da Ma Yu for various reasons, wanting to become a free man, undertaking his own training arrangements and plans to participate in the competition. The reason behind it is still related to some arrangements made by Malaysian officials, which may make Li Zijia feel that he has not got the best training effect and competition arrangements, so he has the idea of flying alone.
But just after Li Zijia submitted his application, there was a Malaysian media analysis, Da Ma Yu will not be easily released, because from Li Zijia into the national team in the past few years, the official has already received millions of dollars in him, in the upcoming key stage, but choose to fly alone, which is tantamount to "betrayal", so the official will carefully consider his situation. In fact, last year, the new leader of Malaysia's women's singles, Wu Yanqin, accidentally left the national team and announced his retirement, which triggered speculation from the outside world at that time. In addition, in the previous Tokyo Olympic games cycle, the two pairs of silver medalists "Double Wei" Chen Weiqiang/ Wu Weisheng and Chen Bingqiao / Wu Liuying, who were two pairs of silver medallists in the men's doubles and mixed doubles of the Rio Olympic Games, flew alone and participated in international competitions as free agents.
The appearance of national team athletes flying alone is really puzzling. However, according to the relevant regulations of the BWF, professional players who want to participate in the relevant tour events under the BWF must participate through the athlete's affiliate association. Therefore, Li Zijia's move this time is a complete anger to Ma Yuzong, and the punishment of banning him from participating in international competitions for two years is indeed too severe. In fact, there are many professional players who are now taking the form of solo flight, including the men's singles world number one, the Men's Singles champion of the Tokyo Olympic Games, Denmark's famous Acelon, who flew solo from the Danish national team, set up his own training camp, and pulled a group of partners together, of which Singapore's Luo Jianyou became the ST World Championship champion at the World Championships at the end of last year. It's just that Li Zijia's encounter this time can only make people feel infinite sympathy, and Da Ma Yu has also fallen into the endless insults and scolding voices of fans and netizens.