Recently, the Korean Table Tennis Association officially announced the replacement of the head coach of the team, and decided that Zhu Shihe would replace Wu Shangyan and Wu Guangxian instead of Zhu Jingcheng, and would be in charge of the men's and women's table tennis respectively.
These two people are not simple: Zhu Shihe should be no stranger to everyone, the runner-up of the men's singles at the 2003 World Table Tennis Championships, won Ma Lin and Ma Long at the World Table Tennis Championships, and also defeated Wang Liqin, Zhang Jike and other national table tennis main players; Wu Guangxian is not a well-known athlete, but he once coached in the Japanese team, participated in the training of Ito Mimachi, Hayata Xena and others, and the beginning is not small.
Chengdu World Table Tennis Championships still have more than 2 months to start, the South Korean team chose to change the coach at this time, it seems that there is a big move!
Friends who pay attention to table tennis know that South Korea has a strong foundation in table tennis, has repeatedly hit the national table tennis, won the Olympic Games, the World Table Tennis Championships, the World Cup championships, but in recent years the results have not been ideal, especially the Tokyo Olympic Games are even more grainless, the men's and women's teams did not get a medal, which also made the table tennis association top management very dissatisfied.
No, the former men's team head coach Wu Shangyan only took office in January 2021, and was withdrawn in January 2022, if it is said that it has nothing to do with the coaching results, it is estimated that he himself will not believe it.
As for the South Korean women's team, in 2020, when the then head coach Liu Nankui (the first men's singles Olympic champion in history) and the main player Tian Zhixi "will be at odds", Liu Nankui chose to resign for Qiu Jiaocheng (Asian Games men's doubles champion) as the manager, and later did not know when it was replaced by Zhu Jingcheng, but obviously did not exceed two years.
Because the performance of Korean women's table tennis in the past two years is also very unsatisfactory, and Wu Guangxian has been quite successful in coaching in Japan (after all, Ito Mimako and Hayata Hina have now become famous players in the table tennis world), so his value will naturally rise.
It is reported that the Korean Table Tennis Association originally wanted to wait for this year's World Table Tennis Championships and asian Games to change the coach, but the leaders obviously have some eagerness - after all, the results of last year's Olympic Games are really impossible to see, and then tossed, it is estimated that Liu Chengmin's position as the chairman of the Table Tennis Association will also be unstable.
Think of the year when Liu Chengmin, Zhu Shihe, Wu Shangyu "troika" and the national table tennis struggle for more than ten years, and now after everyone retires, Liu Chengmin has continuously reused his good brother as the coach of the men's team, and the result is that Wu Shangyu is not powerful, so can Zhu Shihe create good results? Let's sit back and wait for the New Year's contest to kick off!