Who is Zheng Wei, the new coach of the Chinese women's basketball team? Champion coach, Elder of the Three Dynasties

Source: The Paper

Who is Zheng Wei, the new coach of the Chinese women's basketball team? Champion coach, elder of the Three Dynasties, old partner of Zheng Haixia

On May 17, the Chinese Basketball Association announced the 2022 Chinese women's basketball team and the Chinese men's basketball training list. Among them, the women's basketball team officially hired Zheng Wei as the head coach of the Chinese women's basketball team.

From assistant coach to acting head coach to head coach, Zheng Wei's identity has changed three times in one year.

The basketball player, who has been the assistant coach of the national team women's basketball team since 2009, finally stepped into the forefront and became one of the few female head coaches in the Chinese women's basketball team.

So, who is Zheng Wei? Why did you become the coach of the Chinese women's basketball team? Zheng Wei has never left the Chinese women's basketball team from the player to the coach.

Champion Coach

Zheng Wei's entire life resume has always been related to basketball.

Zheng Wei was born in 1963 to basketball players, so she naturally embarked on the road of sports. In 1979, Zheng Wei was selected into the Wuhan troop women's basketball team, and the following year Zheng Haixia was also recruited into the team, after which Zheng Wei and Zheng Haixia became teammates for many years, and the two were also selected for the national team many times.

In 1998, Zheng Wei, who played for the Bayi women's basketball team and the Chinese women's basketball team for many years, retired, but she neither stayed in the Bayi women's basketball team nor returned to her hometown wuhan, but went south to join the Guangdong women's basketball team.

In the great development of Basketball in Guangdong, Zheng Wei has worked as an assistant coach, served as a head coach, and became a women's basketball team leader. In the 2018-2019 WCBA season, she helped the Guangdong women's basketball team defeat Bayi, and finally fulfilled her dream when the team attacked the WCBA championship for the third time. In the 2020-2021 season, Zheng Wei's identity was transformed, leading Li Yueru, Yang Liwei, Huang Sijing and other national players to the north to help the Newly established Inner Mongolia Women's Basketball Team, and finally won the regular season championship with a record of 15 wins and 1 loss.

Subsequently, they defeated the Sichuan women's basketball team and the Xinjiang women's basketball team in the playoffs, helping the Inner Mongolia women's basketball team win the WCBA championship for the first time in history.

This season, in the case of the departure of the three main players of the team, the reinforcement of the opponent Sichuan women's basketball team and the heavy task of the national team, Zheng Wei has reformulated the tactical system and changed from last season's offensive team to a defensive team.

In an exclusive interview with Inner Mongolia Sports, Zheng Wei explained: "We have to use the time of the game to train, and our goal is to play until the finals, so we are going all out for every opponent and improving in the process." ”

In the end, she and the Inner Mongolia women's basketball team won the WCBA championship again. Zheng Wei served as an assistant coach in the Chinese women's basketball team for many years.

Elder of the Three Dynasties

After Xu Limin stopped serving as the head coach of the Chinese women's basketball team due to physical reasons, Zheng Wei became the acting coach of the women's basketball team.

At that time, such a handover did not attract much attention. After all, Zheng Wei is the most senior assistant coach in the Chinese women's basketball coaching team.

Since 2009, Zheng Wei has followed the Chinese women's basketball team to the south and the north, assisting Sun Fengwu, Mach and Xu Limin as three managers, and can be called the "three dynasties elders" of the Chinese women's basketball team.

In March 2009, Sun Fengwu, a famous Chinese basketball player and former national player, became the coach of the women's basketball team, and at the same time, Zheng Wei was also called up to serve as the assistant coach of the Chinese women's basketball team for the first time.

The favor and trust of Zheng Wei made Zheng Wei lead the Chinese women's basketball team to participate in the Fifth East Asian Games 9 months after receiving the call for recruitment. Although the group stage had some twists and turns and lost to the Japanese team, he still led the team to win the championship.

During the period of assisting coach Sun Fengwu, Zheng Wei won two Asian Championship championships and one Asian Games gold medal. At that time, she said in an interview: "I have been a head coach since I retired, and I have been a coach for 10 years. But the transition from head coach to assistant coach is actually a big role change, from the past to me to cooperate with the head coach. ”

In 2013, Australian Mach took over the coaching whip in the hands of Sun Fengwu, and Zheng Wei also remained in the coaching staff. This time, Xu Limin also appeared in the coaching team, which is the first time that Zheng Wei and Xu Limin have joined forces in the Chinese women's basketball team.

According to basketball magazine, as the only female coach in Xu Limin's coaching team, in addition to long-term work and knowledge of business ability, Xu coaching attaches great importance to the temperature that Zheng Wei brings to the team. In the team, she is a Strict Master, but also a confidant big sister, and she is a person who many girls are willing to talk about their hearts.

During the preparation for the Tokyo Olympic Games, in addition to being responsible for the training of defender players, Zheng Wei was also a video analyst of the national women's basketball team, specializing in the video of Puerto Rico, Australia, Belgium and other teams.

After 13 years of assistant coaching career for the national team, Zheng Wei finally came to the foreground and became the head coach of the national team. Zheng Wei coached in the game.

"What are you fighting?"

In fact, before the official announcement that Zheng Wei was the coach of the Chinese women's basketball team, she had already begun to coach the Chinese women's basketball team.

After the end of the Tokyo Olympic Games, immediately after the National Games stage, the then women's basketball coach Xu Limin could not lead the team normally due to the rupture of the Achilles tendon, so he was transferred to the team leader, and Zheng Wei led the "Olympic Joint Team" to the Shaanxi National Games.

At that time, the team was preparing for the Women's Basketball Asian Cup held in Jordan, and the time was tight, and the team had to practice instead of the game. In the end, he averaged 52 points per game against his opponents, ending the National Games trip.

After the game, Zheng Wei said: "The players have just finished playing the Olympic Games, physically and mentally exhausted, need to adjust well, it is not easy for us to win the championship, but it is also necessary." ”

After the Women's Basketball Asian Cup, Xu Limin led the team out, and Zheng Wei returned to the familiar assistant coaching position to continue to help the team. This is the last game task of the Chinese women's basketball team in 2021, and it is also the last cooperation between Xu Limin and Zheng Wei.

At the beginning of 2022, the Chinese women's basketball team is preparing for the World Cup qualification tournament in February, when the Chinese Basketball Association officially announced that Xu Limin will no longer serve as the chinese women's basketball coach for physical reasons, and Zheng Wei will go to Belgrade as the acting head coach.

The chinese women's basketball debut in the qualifiers against Nigeria is Zheng Wei's first coaching as the coach of the women's basketball team. In the third quarter of the game, the Chinese women's basketball team once led by 27 points, and the game has become garbage time, but Zheng Wei is still harsh on the players.

When there were 3 minutes left in the fourth quarter and the Nigerian women's basketball team chased down only 15 points, Zheng Wei called out a timeout and reprimanded the players: "What are you playing, are you releasing water?" ”

Obviously, Zheng Wei paid great attention to the polishing of details, and finally the Chinese women's basketball team won the Three Games in the United States to conclude the World Cup qualifiers. Zheng Wei finally stepped forward.

Lego and yoga classes

After the World Cup qualification match, the Chinese women's basketball team suffered from the epidemic, and Zheng Wei and the coaching staff also tried to adjust the state of the players and the emotions of life.

During the quarantine period after the game, the team never stopped training. Whether at home or abroad, she insists on two exercises every day, but in the high-pressure environment, Zheng Wei also finds ways to enrich the isolation life.

In an interview with the Chinese basketball team, Zheng Wei revealed: "We bought Lego, held online yoga classes, and carried out some game activities after training to try to adjust everyone's life." ”

The quarantine period seems to be sufficient, but for Zheng Wei, she is still busy, and even the Lego puzzle she chose the simplest, "because I am still quite busy, summarizing the game, watching videos, taking notes..."

From the player to the coach to the national team coach, Zheng Wei has never left the front line of the Chinese women's basketball team. Now, she has become a rare female head coach in the Chinese women's basketball team, and the team will start a new journey in the face of the upcoming Women's Basketball World Cup. (Source: The Paper)