On March 27, 2022, Beijing time, the rumors about the "big change of blood" of the national table tennis coaching team continued to ferment, and various statements circulated on the Internet, saying that after Chen Xuan, the other two world champion coaches Wang Hao and Liu Guozheng had also left the team, and for a time the table tennis circle was set off by thousands of waves, and Liu Guoliang and other leaders of the table tennis association did not respond, so it was even more secretive.
But now it is certain that as of March 7, 2022, Liu Guozheng is definitely not leaving the coaching staff, why do you say so? This is not the author's words, but there are official documents of the Chinese Table Tennis Association that can prove it.
On March 7, the Chinese Table Tennis Association officially announced the "Selection Measures for Table Tennis Projects to Participate in the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games (Draft for Comments)", the content of which must be understood by many people, that is, the selection criteria for singles, groups, doubles and other projects of the National Table Tennis Asian Games have been relevant provisions.
But one thing that many people did not notice is that before the content of the selection criteria, the document also announced the list of members of the "Selection Work Leading Group", of which the leader was Liu Guoliang, the chairman of the Chinese Table Tennis Association, and the 9th place was not someone else, it was Liu Guozheng, and his position was indicated as "the leader of the men's first team of the national team".
So it is certain that on March 7, Liu Guozheng was still the coach of the national table tennis, and the men's team was second only to coach Qin Zhijian, which can also directly prove that at least until this day, Liu Guozheng did not leave. Of course, March 7 is another 20 days away, and we don't know if new changes have taken place.
However, compared with Wang Hao, Liu Guozheng's job transfer is definitely more complicated, because he is not an ordinary head coach, but a team leader who is responsible for a leadership position, so if he wants to leave, the vacated position must be filled. In other words, Wang Hao may be able to leave his job quietly like Chen Xuan, but Liu Guozheng is not so simple.
Born in 1980, Liu Guozheng was once a foreign war hero of national table tennis, and defeated South Korea's famous Kim Ze-so by saving 7 match points at the 2001 Osaka World Table Tennis Championships, pulling the Chinese team back from the brink of being eliminated in the semi-finals of the men's team, leaving behind the reputation of "marrying Liu Guozheng when he marries", so his job transfer is naturally also concerned by fans and friends.
After retiring, Liu Guozheng has been serving as a coach in the national team, and also briefly took charge of Shuaiyin in 2018, and was once regarded as Qin Zhijian's successor, but after Qin Zhijian returned to national table tennis, Liu Guozheng failed to "turn regular", but changed to the coaching team leader of the men's first team. If Liu Guozheng leaves his job with Wang Hao, the coaching team of the national table tennis will be even thinner, and the prospects for the Preparation for the Olympic Games in Paris are worrying.