Not every athlete will be properly rewarded and placed in the case of achieving impressive results for the glory of the country. In the last century, the Chinese badminton team had such an athlete whose strength was comparable to Lin Dan, and the awards of large and small sizes could be said to be soft, but it was such a meritorious athlete who was treated fairly and insulted by people in the later stage when he retired in the later period. What's going on? Who is he? What happened then?
Lin Dan believes that everyone knows it, his strength is obvious to everyone, before he retired, he was the first man in the world's men's singles, but the strength we want to talk about today can compete with Lin Dan, and may even be stronger than Lin Dan's strength. He is Yang Yang, who is known as the "King of Kings" of the "Four Heavenly Kings" of Yutan. Yang Yang believes that many younger fans do not know him too well.
Yang Yang, who loved sports as a child, showed high talent in the sport of badminton, entering the provincial team at the age of 15 and the national team at the age of 20. After entering the national team, Yang Yang is like opening a plug-in, invincible, and his personal ability has also been released to the extreme. Even Liu Banggao and Hong Zhongzhong, who were feather masters, were once defeated generals under Yang Yang. He not only won all four titles in the Soup Cup, World Championships, World Cup and All England, but also became an unprecedented Grand Slam winner. Yang Yang also relied on his own strength and honor to be jokingly called "the king of kings" by fans. It can be said that in the late 80s, Yang Yang was a figure who walked sideways in the feather altar. However, Yang Yang, whose strength is comparable to Lin Dan, faced retirement in the later stage, but there was no decent retirement ceremony.
Behind the rule of yutan are countless injuries, and Yang Yang has to choose to retire under the torment of these injuries. But when he said he wanted to stay in the team as a coach after retiring, he was ruthlessly rejected by the international team. Until now there has not been a reasonable outflow. In the national team, which had no place for himself, he had no choice but to take his wife to Malaysia to coach. In this way, a generation of famous players whose careers can be called legends has come to an end. At the warm invitation of the Malaysian badminton national team, the two left their hometown to teach in a foreign country, and Yang Yang, who became the head coach of Malaysia, also gave all his efforts to cultivate this national team that extended an olive branch to himself. In the final of the Thomas Cup held later, he defeated the Chinese team to win the Tang Cup, and it was this game that made Yang Yang bear the reputation of "eating inside and climbing outside".
In the face of the accusations and insults of the domestic public, Yang Yang also had bitterness to say. But what everyone doesn't know is that Yang Yang did not stay in the national team to play for the national team, but that the national team did not have his place at that time! If the national team had left him at that time, how could he have gone to a foreign country and carefully cultivated a good team for foreigners? I don't know what the leaders at that time had in mind not to leave this powerful athlete as a coach, but it was really not a wise choice for him to go to a foreign country to develop, when he wanted to stay, would there be more excellent athletes in the mainland badminton world?
Later, in the case of returning to China, Yang Yang founded a badminton club in his hometown of Nanjing, and for the sake of his beloved career and to train more Chinese badminton players, he did not hesitate to separate from his wife and stay in China, while his wife was still living in a foreign country. Is he really working hard for the badminton cause, can't he be known by more fans?