"I would be annoyed if I went back 20 years and people called me a beautiful woman, but then I didn't pay attention to these things at all, and how good it was to live my own life." Sui Feifei is mentioned at any time in addition to her skills is her appearance, she rarely laughs when playing, arrogant and calm, so she is called "Ice Beauty".
She started her national team career at the age of 18, was elected MVP of the Women's Basketball League at the age of 23, and became the second Chinese player to sign for the WNBA at the age of 26... Her resume is good enough, the Asian Championships, the Asian Cup, the WCBA, the National Games have won the championship, if Yao Ming was the pillar of the men's basketball team, then the women's basketball team is Sui Feifei.
But such a player officially retired at the age of 30, she has been living a low-key life, even if she becomes the bayi coach, she once said: "I see more things on the Internet, I don't know myself." ”
She has also been caught in the whirlpool of public opinion, a photo almost exhausted her years of accumulated passers-by, and she replied lightly: "The cleaner cleans himself." She tried to keep a low profile with herself, and when she quit the center of basketball, Sui Feifei's name still shines.
At a Qingdao primary school sports meeting, Sui Fu'an, the head coach of the Shandong youth team, sat on the rostrum, and the coach who had trained Gong Xiaobin, Ji Minshang, Lu Xiaoming and other Shandong basketball celebrities was busy looking for good seedlings for his team.
At this time, on the track of the 4X100-meter relay, Sui Fu'an saw a runner sprinting at a flying speed, "Hey, this kid is running well, who is it?" As a result, the bystander reminded: "This is your girlfriend!" ”。
Sui Feifei was born to be a material for practicing sports, her father Sui Fu'an was a coach, and her mother worked at the Shandong Sports Center, just the afternoon when her father noticed her sports talent, in fact, she had never systematically learned basketball. Until the age of 15, he opened the basketball enlightenment in the Jinan Army Youth Team, when her parents did not want her to lean on professional athletes, they knew the hardships of engaging in sports, "My father showed me a good school, Luoyang Foreign Chinese College, and later I began to play basketball, and I also hoped that I would have a specialty, so that I could go to college." ”
But some things, talent is unstoppable, in 1995 she entered the national youth team, in the Asian Youth Championship, the Chinese women's youth won the championship that has not been touched for 7 years, just from here, that generation of women's basketball began to shine, the most outstanding two of them are called Miao Lijie, one is called Sui Feifei, these two together supported the first 10 years of the 21st century belonged to the Chinese women's basketball team.
A year later, she was recruited into the national team by Ma Yuenan, at this time it was only 4 years before she systematically studied basketball, it can be said that Sui Feifei's career began as a history of genius birth, and then her fame originated from a rout.
In the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, the Chinese women's basketball team stopped qualifying, the young Sui Feifei and his teammates cried and bid farewell to their first world championship, and it was also the year that Gong Luming became the coach of the women's basketball team, he began to fully use new talents, Sui Feifei, Miao Lijie, Chen Nan and other names began to write a new chapter in the women's basketball team.
2 years later in the World Championships, the Chinese women's basketball team with this group of young people as the team won the sixth, but this result is not the best in Asia, the old rival South Korea team entered the final four, the Asian women's basketball pattern of the year is the confrontation between China and South Korea, but the Koreans are slightly ahead, their core is Zheng Xianmin, who plays in the WNBA.
In the 2002 Busan Basketball Gymnasium, the Asian Games women's basketball final began, and the two sides played between China and South Korea.
Throughout the three Asian Games in the 90s, the Chinese women's basketball team reached the final three times, but lost two to South Korea and one to Japan, and the women's basketball team in that period ushered in the highest light of winning the silver medal in Barcelona, but there were also three times the lowest valley of Asian kings.
That Asian Games final women's basketball girls are inevitable, the first three quarters of the game is also in the control of the Chinese team, when the fourth quarter began, the Chinese women's basketball team has led by 10 points, but just in this is south Korea as the host of the "traditional skills" launched, the referee is more and more towards South Korea, Miao Lijie five fouls, the women's basketball team suddenly confused, with Zheng Xianmin a single play, instantaneous kung fu, the women's basketball team from leading 10 points to 7 points behind.
At this time, Gong Luming called a timeout, and Sui Feifei, as the captain, cheered his teammates: "The spirit of our women's basketball team is never to give up, we just want to win, we have to win at their doorstep!" ”
She then scored seven straight points to equalize, scoring 12 points in the final 4 minutes. In the end, the score was fixed at 80:76, the women's basketball girls took the Asian Games gold medal back after 16 years, and Sui Feifei, who was in danger and became more and more courageous, became a hero, and probably few people knew that she had a hypoglycemic attack before the game, until she poured a few sips of rock sugar water before she was put on the battlefield.
Returning to China with the gold medal, she was elected as one of the top ten athletes in the country, the most popular women's basketball player in the league, the most influential women's basketball player, the SportsMan athlete award, and was awarded the second class merit by the General Political Department of the people's liberation army of the Chinese, and was elected the WCBA regular season most valuable player.
"We are a collective, no matter what results we have achieved in the past, they are the result of the joint efforts of the whole team, why do I alone get so many honors?" Why give me all those awards? Really, I don't think I'm that good at all. In the face of all personal honors, she seemed a little sincere and afraid.
The 2004 Athens Olympic Games for this young Chinese women's basketball team is also a big test, and the key battle with New Zealand is related to whether the group can break through, although Sui Feifei alone scored 21 points and 9 rebounds, but Chen Luyun and Chen Nan's injuries made the women's basketball team almost collapse, and the last 6 seconds were killed by the opponent, and the group stage was eliminated.
Sui Feifei cried and said to the camera: "In the past four years, we have practiced desperately, and we have practiced so hard in order to gain something in the Olympic Games. She did her best in that game, averaging 15 points and 5.3 rebounds per game, which could not lead the women's basketball team to break through.
Before the Start of the Olympic Games, she had problems with her cervical spine, facing a tight schedule cycle, and each appearance was a tribulation for Sui Feifei, so that she insisted on taking painkillers later, otherwise she could not sleep.
In 2005, Sui Feifei went to the United States to play, she signed with the Sacramento Monarchs to become the second person to land in the WNBA after Zheng Haixia, at that time there was already a standing Chinese giant Yao Ming in the American basketball industry, he said: "I hope her achievements do not exceed me, otherwise I have no face, but in the end, it is still up to Sui Feifei to grope more." ”
It should be known that at that time, Chinese players in the United States were basically inside, and Sui Feifei, who played as a small forward, only left 5 appearances in one season, averaging 1.4 points per game. At that time, the monarch was a strong team in the league, for the National Games, she and Miao Lijie did not even play in the playoffs, but at the end of the season, the monarch won the championship, and the two of them won a championship ring, and to some extent, their achievements did "surpass Yao Ming".
Also during this period her foot injuries became more and more serious, the entire 2006-2007 season she could not even do a week of systematic training, in 2006 and 2007 she was almost recuperating from injuries, which made her miss the contract extension with the Monarch team, but the then coach Maher at home has been waiting for her to recover, 2 years of no systematic training, sui Feifei in the 12-man roster of the 2008 Olympic Games is still a trump card that Maher relies on.
He also thought of making a strange move for Sui Feifei, the first game of the group stage was more powerful Spain, Mach put Sui Feifei in the position of big forward, and the Chinese women's basketball team won the opening red by speeding up the offensive rhythm and improving the oppressive defense by speeding up the offensive rhythm and improving the oppressive defense.
"There were 10,000 people singing the national anthem before the game, the scene was very shocking, my parents were also there, we didn't want to lose." They made their way to the final four to set their best results since 1992, and the bronze medal-fighting women's basketball girls had hoped to win a medal.
Years later, looking back on that game, many people's feelings are still - regret.
The score between the two sides has been tightly clenched, and at the most critical moment is the stage for the superstar to shine, and the spotlight of that game is The Russian naturalized player Becky Harmon, who tore at the Chinese team's defense line again and again, "I think everyone has a chance, especially when the score is glued, their defenders hit us too hard." Looking back on that game now, Sui Feifei is still full of regret.
After the Olympics, Sui Feifei had to face a very cruel problem, her legs could not support her dream of riding the basketball court, although she was only 30 years old, the word retirement had entered her life.
The 2009 National Games matched the People's Liberation Army against Liaoning, which was Sui Feifei's last game as a basketball player.
"It was my last game and I have no regrets." Fans at the scene put up banners saying "Sui wind is flying, Fifi is the strongest". This final has long been filled with sorrow because of Sui Feifei.
16 points, gold medal, she used this way to put a successful end to her 17-year career, when the whistle sounded, she gave the audience a soulful military salute.
"Looking at the enthusiastic fans in the stands and the familiar teammates around me, I suddenly realized that this would be the last game I played as a player, and the tears were disobediently swirling in my eyes, and I endured for a long time before I didn't shed."
An era is over or a new era is beginning.
The day after she retired, she transformed into the head coach of the Bayi women's basketball team, she grew up watching her coach father training, thinking that being a coach was too hard, she once swore that she would never be a coach, but when the task was issued as a soldier, it was a natural duty.
30-year-old leading a team that is not weak in China, the young Sui Feifei ushered in a new challenge, her father gave her a whistle, she blew the second half of her basketball life.
Severe is the evaluation of this young marshal by many Bayi players, once the whole team did a full-court slide, one player almost reached the bottom line, and sui Feifei said: "This time does not count, start again." "The player had to start all over again from the bottom line with tears in his eyes.
In her first season, she took the Bayi team to the second place in the regular season, and although she did not win the championship, she was awarded the best coach of the season at a young age, saying that her first season was not a success, "As a new coach, I am still a new blank sheet." This season, I feel like I haven't done a good job in the physical adjustment of the players and hopefully we'll start all over again next year. I will try to build the team into the Asian women's basketball team's defensive counterattack, fast and flexible characteristics. ”
However, at this time, because of an incident, she became the "target of everyone", and at the WCBA All-Star Game dinner in March 2010, Sui Feifei attended as a guest, during which she led the team to frequently toast to leaders at all levels. However, from the photos at the scene, what is even more eye-catching is her dress: a red and white sports sweatshirt, and a Japanese flag on the upper right side of the front of the dress.
It was this photo that once exploded on the Chinese Internet, some people said that Sui Feifei's motives were not pure, some people said that it was unintentional, in the face of all the gossip, she only replied to the reporter through a text message: The cleaner cleans himself.
In 2016, he resigned as the coach of the Bayi team, and with the emergence of foreign aid from the women's basketball team, the Bayi women's basketball team faced the same dilemma as the men's basketball team, and it was difficult for the Bayi team to reproduce the glory of the invincible division in the past. Four years later, the Chinese Basketball Association released the article "The Chinese Basketball Association Pays Tribute to the Bayi Men's and Women's Basketball Team", confirming that this team that was once extremely brilliant in the Chinese basketball world was dissolved, and the Bayi men's basketball team and women's basketball team eventually became history.
In the year of resigning as the bayi coach, some people rumored that she was because of marriage, but after many years, she still did not see her other half, Sui Feifei still lived a low-key life, and her relationship with Wang Zhizhi was rumored to be popular, but in the end, the golden boy and jade girl of the Bayi team were confirmed to be the "wishful thinking" of the fans.
She has been silent about her private life, and her friend Li Xiaoxia said: "I feel that she does not want too many people to know her." In 2018, she became a visiting professor at Sichuan Normal University, with the rank of colonel and civilian regimental rank.
"I'm used to being alone, what other people say doesn't affect me, this is my biggest characteristic, I just want to do what I want to do, once I identify one thing, I will focus on the end." 」 When basketball is not the whole of life, Sui Feifei learned to accept another self, as a women's basketball feat, she brought the women's basketball team to the peak of another glow, she broke into the Chinese basketball arena in the name of genius, the teenager became famous, broke into the United States, but was injured, retired at the age of retirement, she must have regrets and reluctance, but when she was in danger, she would become the most reliable player in the team, she was the Chinese women's basketball team of that era.