The Chinese women's basketball team failed to impact the top four in the Tokyo Olympic Games last year, although there are many regrets, but can only accept this result, a mention of the Chinese women's basketball team, Zheng Haixia can not fail to mention, it is because of her, there is a past Chinese women's basketball glory and peak.
Many people may not know Zheng Haixia in particular, and today Xiaoding uses this article to take you to understand the most real and comprehensive Chinese female giant Zheng Haixia, and how she is now living. Before telling her story, I wanted to summarize the first half of her life with a set poem:
Born in poverty and determined to lead the women's basketball team to create brilliance;
Achievement legend married fans, a lifetime of balls and a lifetime of love.
Zheng Haixia, born in 1967 in a rural family in Zhecheng County, Shangqiu City, Henan Province, her parents are farming for a living, she often helps her parents to work in the field, move things, because the work is very tired, she can often eat a lot, gradually getting taller and taller, the body is getting stronger and stronger.
12-year-old Zheng Haixia has grown to 1 meter 72, her parents often warn her to maintain her nature, to dare to set lofty ambitions, although she was a rural person at the time, but she believed that she would be able to break out of her own piece of the sky, she always believed that people can not be poor.
Because of the good physical condition, Zheng Haixia was selected to the local sports school, formal contact with basketball, because the family is relatively poor, coupled with her height is very high, the feet are very large, she often does not have shoes to wear, sometimes playing ball is barefoot, there are shoes are reluctant to wear, if worn may not have shoes to wear.
Zheng Haixia has always been grateful to her parents because they gave her the best physical condition, and she believes that she must not fail to live up to her talents.
With her extraordinary height and unremitting efforts, Zheng Haixia has been breaking into the national youth team from the local sports school and officially playing for the country, at this time, she feels that the burden on her body is getting heavier and heavier, and the sense of responsibility is getting stronger and stronger.
In 1982, Zheng Haixia entered the Bayi women's basketball team, and the next year entered the national team, when the head coach of the national team, Yang Boyong, formulated a personal training plan specifically for Zheng Haixia, because the head coach felt that zheng Haixia must be an important person who led the Chinese women's basketball team out of the predicament in the future.
In 1984, in the field of the Los Angeles Olympic Games, Zheng Haixia, who was only 17 years old, began to serve as the main center of the national team, and Zheng Haixia, who stood on the stage of the World Series for the first time, did not have the slightest timidity, but showed great vitality and strength, and had a momentum of a newborn calf who was not afraid of tigers.
Her appearance has also really changed the Chinese women's basketball team, she can not only attack, but also be able to defend, although the body looks strong and large, but extremely flexible, skill, shooting, blocking, everything, everything will. She also followed the good results of the Chinese women's basketball team that won the Olympic bronze medal, and many foreign media called her "the Great Wall of the Chinese women's basketball team".
Although the media have pursued her, she has never been proud and slack, and she always keeps in mind the teaching of her parents, that is, to maintain her original intention, to remain humble and enthusiastic.
What is even more surprising is that she can obviously rely on her body to kill the inside line, but in order to make her attack more diversified and make her career lasting, she actively and diligently trains and polishes her various skills, such as back-punching and passing, which for a center athlete, it takes more effort and sweat than others.
Zheng Haixia's outbreak, so that the Chinese women's basketball team has the capital to fight against the European strong team, in various world competitions, we can see Zheng Haixia in the other side's internal line to turn the river upside down, she has become more and more calm, more and more stable, as long as the ball is past half, just need to give Zheng Haixia on the line.
The Chinese women's basketball team has also officially entered the era of Zheng Haixia, in the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games, Zheng Haixia from the original strong playing inside line into a tactical support point of attack and defense, all tactics are around Zheng Haixia, but do not let her play strongly, such an adjustment, not only in Zheng Haixia's playing time can be extended, but also to maximize the strength of other athletes.
This tactic put a lot of strong teams are all confused, the Chinese women's basketball team all the way through the five levels to cut six generals, into the Olympic Finals, and finally Zheng Haixia led the Chinese women's basketball team to achieve a good result of the silver medal, which is also the best result of the Chinese women's basketball team in history, until now, it has not been broken, Zheng Haixia has also become the most efficient player in the women's basketball team.
Because Zheng Haixia's strength is too strong, it was found by the scouts of the WNBA Professional League on the other side of the ocean, in 1996, Zheng Haixia officially landed in the WNBA, and she also became the first player in China to land in the American Women's Professional Basketball League, which also laid a good foundation for the landing of many Chinese players in the future.
Because Zheng Haixia was already at the end of her career at that time, although she did not show her dominance, it also made many foreign athletes worship, among which basketball star O'Neill admired Zheng Haixia, not only because of her skills, but also because of her dominance under the basket.
Years of basketball career, let her accumulate a lot of injuries and pain, coupled with her weight is heavier than others, consumption is higher than other athletes, the impact of injuries made her have to make the decision to retire, since then, Zheng Haixia's era is over, the Chinese women's basketball team has never reached that height.
After Zheng Haixia retired, she also wanted to get married and have children like a normal person, but she was only looking forward to the appearance of the person who was destined to be destined, and finally, a fan who liked Zheng Haixia appeared, he had a crush on Zheng Haixia for more than three years, and Zheng Haixia also had a great interest in this relationship.
Zheng Haixia and her lover Xu Qinghua were married in Beijing in 2010, because of the large number of relatives and friends, they also held wedding banquets in Henan and other places, when the theme of the wedding was "A Life of Sphere", and they also longed for this relationship to be like a lifetime of spheres.
Married for many years, the two did not have children, may be because of physical reasons, may also be because of age reasons, at the beginning the two often appeared together in public, but in recent years, Zheng Haixia's lover has not appeared in public for a long time, the current emotional status of the two is not known.
Last year, Zheng Haixia was also officially inducted into the 2021 FIBA Basketball Hall of Fame, which is not only an affirmation of her basketball career, but also the best proof of her contribution to world basketball, from her walking, it can be seen that her legs are very seriously deformed due to injuries, sometimes in the case of no one to take care of, life is still more difficult, coupled with no child care, it may be more difficult.
Zheng Haixia, the only player in the history of the Chinese women's basketball team to participate in the four Olympic Games, she created her own "Zheng Haixia era", she not only conquered many fans in China, but also conquered many fans on the other side of the ocean, she still said in a recent interview, "Injuries are very painful, but I think for basketball, it is worth it!" ”
She also encourages the current young players to take fame and fortune lightly, and to value the sense of honor and hard work a little more seriously, which also profoundly reveals the fact that many basketball players in the mainland now blindly pursue fame and fortune and ignore honor.
I hope that Zheng Haixia can be happier, her body can be healthier, as a colonel in the army, I also hope to continue to pay her contribution to the mainland's basketball career and army building, and I also hope that Chinese basketball players can learn more from her.
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