On February 26, Beijing time, the national table tennis officially announced an important decision - after the resignation of coaches such as Huang Haicheng and Chen Xuan, the national table tennis coaching team began to expand its scale, adding 2 senior people to participate in coaching, they are the 2017 Asian Championship champion Cui Qinglei, and Zhong Jinyong, who has coached Zhang Jike and the South Korean team: Congratulations to the two first!
Zhong Jinyong is an old coach in the Chinese table tennis world, who coached Zhang Jike more than a decade ago - most of the current fans have "bound" Coach Xiao Zhan with Zhang Jike, in fact, Zhang Jike has been led by Zhong Jinyong for a long time after returning to the provincial team and returning to the national team, and this period of time has played a very important role in his later rise.
After this, Zhong Jinyong was invited by the South Korean table tennis team to coach abroad, when he was once misunderstood as a naturalization to South Korea, and later everyone learned that this was a decision made by the Chinese Table Tennis Association to help South Korea, and after the contract expired, Zhong Jinyong also refused the request for high-paying employment and immediately returned to China to work, which also made many people praise.
After returning to China, Zhong Jinyong began to assist yin Xiao, the former coach of the national table tennis men's team (also the mentor of Liu Guoliang, Kong Linghui and Zhang Jike), to participate in the work of cultivating young players, and when Liu Guoliang and the national table tennis officially announced the establishment of the national youth training team, Zhong Jinyong was successfully elected as the head coach of the national youth team, and the head coach of the national junior team was Cui Qinglei.
Born in 1989, Cui Qinglei, along with Ma Long, Zhang Jike and Xu Xin, is a table tennis player of the same era, who has worked as a sparring partner in China for a long time and is the behind-the-scenes hero of the Chinese team's victory. It is precisely because of his hard work and high achievements that before retiring, he also got a valuable opportunity to participate in the Asian Championship and won a gold medal, which was very honorable to win the title of Asian champion.
Zhong Jinyong and Cui Qinglei, one is the manager of the national youth team, the other is the manager of the national junior team, and now both are recruited by the national team to coach, we can clearly see that one of their next tasks must be to pay close attention to the training of young players, which can also be seen that Liu Guoliang and other table tennis associations and team leaders attach importance to the cultivation of reserve forces.
Of course, as mentioned before, the recent national table tennis coaching team has indeed appeared a certain shortage, many non-main players can only get together under the door of a coach, and like the Olympic champion Sun Yingsha even appeared for 4 months without a head coach, so it is inevitable that the national table tennis expansion of the coaching team.
Finally, I wish Zhong Jinyong and Cui Qinglei can live up to their high expectations and continue to contribute to their new posts: come on, two!