In the 1970s and 1980s, Wang Jiawei, who was known as the "first flying man" of the volleyball world, was a household name.
Wang Jiawei, who was 193 in height, was not only famous at that time, but also had extraordinary charm, flowing hair, handsome face, and world-renowned front-flying back flying technology, making him the dream lover of thousands of young girls.
Although Wang Jiawei achieved remarkable results during his time in the team, due to injuries and other reasons, Wang Jiawei, who was on a par with Lang Ping at the time, finally retired.
So what did Wang Jiawei do after retiring?
What kind of life is he living now?
The answers have to start in 1984.
Retired life
In 1984, due to unsatisfactory results, the Chinese men's volleyball team was reorganized, and Wang Jiawei, who was 29 years old at the time, could not be re-selected for the national team due to factors such as age and injury, so he retired.
After Wang Jiawei retired, considering his previous contributions, the Sports Bureau arranged for Wang Jiawei to study in the Fudan Journalism Department, hoping that Wang Jiawei would be able to make some light and heat in sports journalism after completing his studies.
After going to Fudan, Wang Jiawei was also diligent and studious at the beginning, but in the process of learning, Wang Jiawei found that he could not let go of the volleyball he had in mind, and he wanted to fight on the volleyball court more than to report on volleyball.
Although the days were not what Wang Jiawei wanted most at that time, he could only do what he wanted in front of him without new opportunities.
While studying journalism at school, Wang Jiawei, who had broken up with his girlfriend due to the "Oolong Incident", accidentally met a new love.
At a friend party in 1984, Wang Jiawei met actor Deng Xing.
At that time, Deng Xing, who had starred in films such as "Overseas Naked Child" and "Peacock Princess", became a popular little star by relying on his beautiful appearance and superb acting skills, and was even pursued by Zhang Tielin.
At the party, the two men looked at each other, not only talked happily, but also had a tacit understanding when they danced together.
After the dance, Wang Jiawei very gentlemanly sent Deng Xing home on a motorcycle.
After six months of acquaintance, the two fell in love.
At the same time as meeting love, Wang Jiawei's long-cherished volleyball career has also emerged new opportunities.
While Wang Jiawei was studying journalism, a Japanese fan Kitamura approached him and said that he could arrange for Wang Jiawei to go to The Japan Sport University to study volleyball.
After thinking about it, Wang Jiawei agreed, preferring volleyball to the news.
After completing the formalities for going to Japan, Wang Jiawei went to Tokyo, Japan to study.
Deng Xing was reluctant to let her boyfriend leave, but knowing Wang Jiawei's love for volleyball, she chose to understand, let Wang Jiawei chase his dream, and promised that she would find an opportunity to reunite with him later.
In this way, after retiring, Wang Jiawei once again renewed his relationship with volleyball.
Because of his dream to come to Japan, Wang Jiawei still has to face a chicken feather in reality.
Although he was a former volleyball player, Wang Jiawei did not have much savings, and in order to cover the expenses in Tokyo, Wang Jiawei had to go to school and work part-time as a coach to support himself.
Although the days are hard, but can do what they like, Wang Jiawei is still happy in it.
During his study abroad, due to the lack of rising stars in the men's volleyball team, Wang Jiawei resolutely suspended his studies and agreed to be invited by his mentor Zou Zhihua to return to China to participate in the 1986 Seoul Asian Games.
At the Asian Games, although Wang Jiawei's left index finger was broken, he still relied on his tenacious spirit to win the first Asian Games gold medal in the history of the mainland men's volleyball team with his teammates.
After winning glory for the country again, Wang Jiawei returned to Japan to continue his studies, and it was also this year that Wang Jiawei and Deng Xing met again.
At this time, Deng Xing came to Japan to study fashion design, although due to different schools, the two were in Tokyo and nagasaki, and there was still a lot of distance, but compared to foreign love, long-distance love is always more comfortable.
On April 6, 1987, a year after the same year in Japan, the couple entered the palace of marriage.
After getting married, Wang Jiawei's burden became heavier, not only to study and study, but also to take care of his family.
At this time, Wang Jiawei, who was the coach of ito-Yokado Volleyball Club, did not receive any preferential treatment because he was a volleyball celebrity, but the pressure was even greater.
Talking about that time, Wang Jiawei, who has always been resolute, once sighed in front of reporters: "How much pressure is there?" The team can't play, the first to leave is the foreigner, I have to think about the job bowl all the time. ”
During his time in Japan, in order to keep his job, Wang Jiawei did not have time to take care of his wife even during Deng Xing's pregnancy.
Deng Xing had no choice but to leave her husband and return to Beijing to give birth.
On the third day after the birth of the child, Wang Jiawei made time to return to Beijing to visit his wife and children.
On December 4, 1987, Wang Jiawei, who had rushed back to Beijing from Japan, met his son and named him Wang Qi, in honor of his meeting with Deng Xing in Nagasaki.
After giving birth to Wang Qi for some time, the two returned to Japan to continue their careers.
In order to make her husband less stressed, Deng Xing worked as a reporter at a newspaper in Tokyo to subsidize the family, and Wang Jiawei also worked hard in volleyball to make the coaching team play results and get some bonuses.
After years of hard work, the couple finally settled down in Tokyo.
It was also after Wang Jiawei thought that this would be the case for the rest of his life that the motherland invited him.
The Road of Legends
In the summer of 1996, in order to let the mainland men's volleyball team sail again, the Chinese Volleyball Association, which was determined to reform, launched an invitation to Wang Jiawei, hoping that he could return to China to participate in the head coaching campaign.
At this time, Wang Jiawei has established a foothold in Japan, he is the head coach of the Japanese professional volleyball team, with a large salary, but he still resolutely chooses to return to China to fight for this possible opportunity.
For her husband's choice, Deng Xing still chose to support, she hopes that the family will be reunited, but she also hopes that her husband can pursue his ideals and add another force to the national volleyball cause.
After New Year's Day in 1997, Wang Jiawei sent back a fax of his willingness to participate in the men's volleyball team coach campaign back to China.
On March 2, 1997, Wang Jiawei went to Beijing as the only candidate for the head coach of the men's volleyball team to participate in the qualification evaluation.
Five days later, Wang Jiawei officially became the head coach of the Chinese men's volleyball team and began to coach this team with a glorious history.
When he first arrived at the national team, Wang Jiawei found that the men's volleyball team not only lacked scientific training methods, but also lacked corresponding training equipment, so he spent his own connections to create a more scientific training system and training environment for the team.
Under the guidance of Wang Jiawei, the mainland men's volleyball team has been greatly improved in both the team's technical tactics and the level of personal volleyball, and Zheng Liang and a number of rising stars have also rapidly matured under the leadership of Wang Jiawei, a predecessor, and have become the main cadres.
In the same year after serving as the head coach, Wang Jiawei led the men's volleyball team to show its glory at the Asian Championship and regained the Asian championship that had been lost for 15 years.
The following year, at the 13th Asian Games in Bangkok, the mainland men's volleyball team also won the championship again.
On the road to the re-emergence of the mainland men's volleyball team, Wang Jiawei can be described as indispensable.
Perhaps because heaven did not allow people to be perfect, Wang Jiawei suffered one blow after another.
In the Spring Festival of 1999, Wang Jiawei went to Japan to reunite with his wife and children, but because he was thinking about the mainland men's volleyball career, he returned to China just a week later.
The long-term separation of the two places and the lack of hope for the future made Deng Xing discouraged, and the two divorced.
After the family suffered setbacks, Wang Jiawei also encountered successive setbacks in the volleyball career.
In 1999, the Chinese men's volleyball team, which had achieved good results for two consecutive years, fell into a trough again.
At the World Cup held in Japan, the mainland men's volleyball team did not even enter the top 8 and was directly eliminated.
At the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, the mainland men's volleyball team did not even qualify for the Olympic Games and directly failed.
In this regard, Wang Jiawei, who has been hit by successive blows in marriage and career, has fallen into a trough.
In 2001, Wang Jiawei resigned and no longer served as the head coach of the Chinese men's volleyball team.
After saying goodbye to volleyball, Wang Jiawei decided to start a new career and go to the sea with a few friends to do business.
For the days after leaving volleyball, Wang Jiawei used the word "fate" to describe,
"People are looking at which circle you are in, not that in 2001 I left the national team to do business and started doing this, at the beginning I did everything, such as the simplest, our team drew lines on the highway, and also introduced various real estate, all at once did five or six years, nothing was achieved, and now I remember paying tuition. And at first it was silly, I believed what others said, but I had to go through this step. ”
Wang Jiawei in the first few years of business can be said to have suffered enough, not only to do what to lose, but also to be deceived by friends, suffered great losses.
Although he planted many heels, Wang Jiawei learned a lesson in these things, he slowly understood the doorway of the business, and began to work on energy projects.
At the beginning, Wang Jiawei started from energy storage, invested in some oil depots to serve the energy industry, which allowed him to earn start-up funds, and then he began to develop other energy projects from the layout of oil depots, slowly developed, and finally he became a partner of listed companies.
While developing his career, Wang Jiawei once again gained love.
After becoming acquainted with the oil business, Wang Jiawei and Liu Huaqing's eldest daughter Liu Chaoying talked more and more speculatively, so they gradually fell in love, and in 2006, wang Jiawei, who was 51 years old at the time, married Liu Chaoying.
After becoming a family, Wang Jiawei did not forget the hard work in his career, and the shareholding of Rongsheng Heavy Industry completely established himself in the business world after an acquisition.
In 2014, Rongsheng Heavy Industries acquired a 60% stake in a wholly-owned subsidiary of Newland Oil & Gas in Kyrgyzstan, and Since then Wang Jiawei has become an oil tycoon with a net worth of more than 100 million.
For this acquisition experience, Wang Jiawei still feels very hard to recall.
"We took the initiative to find some partners, the oil field invested for about a year and ten months, three shareholders are mainly responsible for investment there, and I myself went to Kyrgyzstan six times before and after to negotiate with local government officials." The local bottleneck is that Kyrgyzstan was separated during the former Soviet Union, and the oil and gas resources are very good, but they are not born at the right time. ”
After gaining a firm foothold, Wang Jiawei, who had been crawling all the way, had his own understanding of business.
"Fame is actually useless, once you come in, everyone knows, the specifics can't be said, people will not take the initiative to let you do business, but at the beginning there is no need to introduce." 」
For the difference from volleyball to business, Wang Jiawei said with a smile: "It's all the same, isn't it the same when the ball is lost?" You can't always worry about winning a game and being praised by others, and you can't always think about losing a game. ”
Today' current situation
In the business struggle, Wang Jiawei has not forgotten his love of volleyball.
In 2011, the mainland women's volleyball team won the third place in the World Cup, and Wang Jiawei was very happy after learning the news, so he directly took out a 2 million reward to the mainland women's volleyball team in his personal name.
In 2015, the mainland women's volleyball team further won the World Cup championship, this time Wang Jiawei took out 5 million as a reward, and promised that if the men's volleyball team can win the Asian championship, he will immediately reward 4 million.
Although the men's volleyball team failed to get this money due to poor results, Wang Jiawei's concern for the mainland volleyball career is obvious.
For his previous behavior of re-awarding the women's volleyball team, Wang Jiawei also talked about interesting things during the period.
"The outside world has always said that I am out of 5 million, in fact, 3 million, and the rest is out of my friends."
On September 6, 2015, the mainland women's volleyball team defeated Japan to win the championship, when Wang Jiawei was having dinner with his business friends in Beijing.
After seeing the women's volleyball team win the championship, Wang Jiawei immediately called Lang Ping to congratulate, although because of the interview, Lang Ping did not receive the phone call at the first time, but then immediately returned the call back.
After some greetings and congratulations, Lang Ping jokingly said: "You don't just congratulate, but also show some expression." ”
After hearing this, Wang Jiawei laughed and immediately promised to give the women's volleyball team a reward of 5 million.
After hearing this, the two friends present also expressed their intentions.
After some deliberation, the 5 million rewarded to the women's volleyball team became Wang Jiawei 3 million, and the other two were 1 million.
2 days later, on the night of the triumphant return of the mainland women's volleyball team to Beijing, Wang Jiawei and two friends arranged for the whole team of the women's volleyball team to receive the wind at the Kunlun Hotel in Beijing, and sent a check for 5 million yuan.
In his later years, Wang Jiawei was not only concerned about the achievements of the mainland volleyball career, but also the personal situation of the players.
During Wang Jiawei's tenure as the head coach of the men's volleyball team, Zheng Liang, a member of the men's volleyball team, was a cadre of the men's volleyball team that achieved excellent results.
At a height of 2.01 meters, he bounced to a high energy of 3.72 meters, and was called the tallest jumper in Asia at that time.
Zheng Liang, who is also the deputy attack of the men's volleyball team with Wang Jiawei, has received a lot of guidance from Wang Jiawei during the team, and the two have also formed a deep mentor-apprentice friendship.
After retiring from the army, Zheng Liang was not as smooth as Wang Jiawei, but suffered a major disaster, and in 2016, he was tortured by spinal cord disease, and his condition became more and more intense after that.
In 2019, Zheng Liang completely lost his mobility due to spinal cord lesions, and could only lie in bed for a long time, and even urinating could only rely on a urinary catheter.
After learning that his former beloved disciple's condition was so serious, on March 2, 2019, Wang Jiawei took Zhou Jian'an, Wang Hebing and other main players of the men's volleyball team from Beijing to Hangzhou Chengdong Hospital to visit Zheng Liang.
After seeing that his disciple was tortured, Wang Jiawei encouraged his disciple to fight against the disease while taking out 100,000 pieces to treat him.
Facing the beloved disciple, Wang Jiawei said excitedly: "Didn't the captain say that he used to cheer for our entire team game, and now he is cheering for himself." Hope for a speedy recovery and everyone blesses him! Come on, I'm sure it will be cured. ”
Although he has been away from volleyball for a long time, Wang Jiawei has never forgotten Chinese volleyball.
In addition to helping the mainland volleyball career as much as possible, Wang Jiawei's later life is actually no different from that of ordinary old people.
He will fall due to mobility problems and will recite his wife's careful care.
After being hospitalized for stomach problems in 2018, Wang Jiawei smiled happily in the face of the interview and said: "My wife reminds me every day that I take medicine on time and am not allowed to drink alcohol. ”
Today, Wang Jiawei is 67 years old, because of his poor health, he has long since quit the business, handed over the company's business to others, only took dividends, and took his wife to travel around the world.
Wang Jiawei is very satisfied with his current life, and when he talks about it, he smiles, "Life is very good, very fulfilling, very complete, very happy." ”
On June 13, 2022, in the World Men's Volleyball League Brazil station, the mainland men's volleyball team defeated the Brazilian men's volleyball team that fought locally 3-0 by a large score, and many netizens sighed: "I haven't seen Wang Jiawei in decades after the era!" "The last time I watched the men's volleyball match seemed to be the period when Wang Jiawei was a coach."
Wang Jiawei once represented the symbol of volleyball in an era on the mainland, the former old coach is now enjoying his old age, and now the mainland's volleyball pride is also winning glory for the country, which is undoubtedly lucky.
Sources of information:
China Times "Former "Volleyball Male God" Wang Jiawei Turned Around in Amazement and Became a Capital Tycoon"
Xinmin Evening News "From a famous paiping general to a Confucian businessman Wang Jiawei's life goal has no end"
The Surging News "Former Chinese men's volleyball player Zheng Liang spinal cord lesion paralysis, in order to treat the disease he launched an online fundraising"