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When the Malaysian Badminton Association was recruiting technical coaches, everyone unanimously focused on Li Yongbo, who was temporarily living in Malaysia at this time.
The former Guoyu coach, who used to wear a cape and a loose polo shirt, once again came into view.
Li Yongbo was once a famous meritorious coach in the history of Chinese badminton, and his famous players have occupied an important position in the Chinese Badminton Association.
He took over as coach during an embarrassing period when the national badminton was young and yellow, and threatened: "I want to cultivate 100 Chinese badminton champions." Then he led Guo Yu to hand over a full score answer sheet.
While everyone was discussing that Lee Yong Bo might play for Malaysia, Malaysian officials announced the appointment of former men's singles star Wong Ji Han.
As soon as the news came out, everyone was wondering why Li Yongbo did not take over as the coach of Malaysia, and at this time, a photo of Li Yongbo's land work solved everyone's doubts.
It turned out that Li Yongbo was taking advantage of Malaysia's unique geographical environment to grow durian, and now his durian cultivation business is in full swing.
From a serious coach who is strict with himself and speaks the same thing, to today's durian farmer who has retired to the background and enjoys life, why did Li Yongbo make such a contrasting life choice?
Behind the abandonment of art and martial arts, how strong is Li Yongbo?
Li Yongbo was born in 1962 to a wealthy family in Dalian, Liaoning Province.
Like many Chinese parents who "hope for their son to become a dragon and their daughter to become a phoenix", Li Yongbo's parents attach great importance to Li Yongbo's personal growth and fully support Li Yongbo in exploring his potential and chasing his dreams.
At that time, Li Yongbo could be described as having both martial arts, not only had great talent in sports, but also made small achievements in his singing career with excellent voice conditions.
The advantages of Godci not only brought Li Yongbo a brilliant future, but also made Li Yongbo fall into the prison of choice.
Whether it's sports or singing, both require huge personal dedication and investment.
As far as sports are concerned, if Li Yongbo wants to go steadily and far on this road, he will inevitably have to endure high-intensity training and have no time for daily singing training.
Similarly, as far as the singing career is concerned, no matter how much money is invested, in terms of energy expenditure, it will definitely not be much easier than the sports career.
Li Yongbo's parents considered the overall situation, believing that Li Yongbo could not develop at the same time even if he was proficient in both, and the result of half-heartedness must be that he only learned everything at the surface.
At this time, Li Yongbo was just a teenager, but he had to make a decision that was crucial to his life as soon as possible.
By chance, the actor and the badminton player threw an olive branch to Li Yongbo's family at the same time.
At that time, the profession of actor could be described as glamorous, which made Li Yongbo, who was in adolescence, full of yearning for chasing fashion. But unfortunately, the actor's profession requires Li Yongbo to leave the hometown where he has been living and rush to Guangzhou, thousands of miles away.
After Li Yongbo's parents found out, they couldn't let go of their children to leave the country, not to mention that Li Yongbo was still young at this time, and the consequences would be unimaginable if he was hurt outside.
After careful consideration, the family thought that the actor's career had gone against Li Yongbo's singing career, so it was better to choose to join the Liaoning badminton team, and if you want to sing in the future, you can also do a side job in addition to training.
With anxiety about the unknown future, Li Yongbo came to the badminton team of Liaoning Province.
Although he had been mentally prepared before and knew that his three-legged cat kung fu was nothing, Li Yongbo was shocked to go deep into this master-like environment.
The daily exercise intensity of the provincial badminton team is unimaginable. Not only that, due to the particularity of competitive sports, provincial teams often hold competitions to test the ability of team members. Under the huge pressure of survival of the fittest, Li Yongbo could only grit his teeth and try his best to improve himself.
He trains when others rest, and he trains harder when others train. Li Yongbo carefully accumulated experience after losing every battle with his predecessors, and more than once fell asleep watching the video of the rematch at night.
After such day-to-day almost magical training, Li Yongbo's strength has rapidly improved. Not only did he become more and more favored by coaches in the provincial team, but he also met his lifelong partner, Tian Bingyi.
These two also unknown young players hit it off and chose to win more possibilities for their lives through hard work. After continuous running-in, the two partners have become more and more proficient.
At the 1987 World Championships, Li Tian's combination became famous. Not only successfully won the men's doubles championship of the World Badminton Championship, but also became out of control since then, successfully opening the golden period of the duo's sports career.
After many years on the field, both have left a good reputation in the arena. At the 1992 Olympic Games, the golden partner took home another medal for the Chinese team, which also brought a successful end to their sports careers.
This year, Li Yongbo was 30 years old in sports. Knowing that your physical condition is unsustainable, you can consider providing more development opportunities for future generations. Li Yongbo eventually chose to retire.
Although the golden pair announced their disbandment, the fascinating story of Li Yongbo's athletic career is far from over.
"Raise 100 champions"? Is it exaggeration or strength
A year after Li Yongbo announced his retirement, he resolutely returned to coach Guoyu.
At that time, Guoya was in an embarrassing period of not being able to pick up the green and yellow. The pioneers are nothing more than Li Yongbo's brothers, both of whom are nearly 30 years old and have long since come to an end in their sports careers. And the strength of the younger generation of Guoyu is far from enough, and there is no successor to follow.
For a while, Guoyu was really in a dilemma.
Facing the low atmosphere that has always permeated the team, Li Yongbo knows that the head coach has a long way to go, and is determined to sweep away the haze in everyone's hearts and bring Guoyu back to its previous glory.
He told the crowd: "I will definitely produce 100 world champions." ”
The manager's sworn promise undoubtedly gave the whole team a dose of confidence and regained the courage to chase the crown.
Just as the so-called three armies can be handsome, the horseman cannot win the ambition.
Li Yongbo has always believed that maintaining high morale is the key to winning the sports career. He is calm and diligent in making up for his weaknesses, and concentrates on overcoming the various defects of Guoya.
Since he had no previous coaching experience, Li Yongbo could only grasp the sports characteristics of each athlete by increasing communication with the players. At the same time, he combined his personal experience as an athlete to conclude that increasing the intensity of training is the basis for rapid improvement of personal ability.
For a time, as long as you don't die, the slogan of practicing in death is like thunder. Under such high-intensity devil training, the team members can only grit their teeth and constantly break through their physical limits, and even some team members can dream of the tension of their training in their sleep.
In order to better understand the skills of each team member and help the team members develop their strengths and avoid their weaknesses, Li Yongbo will not only immediately provide guidance when the athletes are training, but also even in the dead of night, Li Yongbo will take advantage of the players' rest to watch the review video frame by frame to look for clues to improve the team's ability.
At that time, Li Yongbo only wore a black cap, dressed in a simple coaching uniform, but his words and deeds revealed the meticulousness of the coach position.
Under his strict requirements, Guoyu's strength slowly recovered, and a group of young generals with outstanding abilities gradually revealed.
In 1996, new athletes Ge Fei and Gu Jun won the gold medal in women's doubles at the Atlanta Olympics, which was also the first Olympic gold medal in Chinese badminton since Li Yongbo took over.
In 1999, Chinese badminton won the Sudirman Cup, and under the leadership of Li Yongbo, the national badminton has won the award for two consecutive times.
The mountains and heavy waters have no way, and there is another village.
Since then, the development of Guoyu has been on the right track, and Li Yongbo's 20-year coaching career has officially begun.
In the end, Li Yongbo fulfilled his promise of "speaking out" with his outstanding achievements in cultivating 92 world champions, and slapped those who looked down on him in the face.
In 2017, the 55-year-old Li Yongbo announced his resignation as head coach of Guoyu.
After Li Yongbo stepped down as the coach of Guoyu, everyone thought that he would still pursue the badminton career that he loved all his life. Who would have thought that he would hear the news that Li Yongbo was growing durian in Malaysia.
Why did he choose to grow durian and not continue to accept the olive branch thrown by the Malaysian official?
Malaysian durian - how pleasant is Li Yongbo's life
We all know that an athlete's athletic career is very short, and the time of his golden peak is short-lived.
Therefore, athletes need to undergo high-intensity training every day to maintain good athletic condition. Even if some athletes step back into the background to become coaches, the enormous physical and psychological pressure is difficult to overwhelm the body.
Now that Li Yongbo is close to the flower armor, if he coaches the badminton tournament again, he will undoubtedly have to bear the ardent expectations of the people of the whole country, and his body is extremely unbearable.
Coupled with his son Li Gen's business is doing well, and the family's financial situation has not been a problem, why not give up this coaching position and give others a chance?
Li Yongbo decided to think about himself once, and finally chose to go to Malaysia to grow durian to cultivate his body.
Malaysia's durian industry is well-known, and the Musang King variety is frequently sold at high prices because of its high quality. It is reported that in 2017, the price of durian per hectare was as high as 150,000 ringgit, equivalent to 240,000 yuan. If the durian industry can really be developed well, its market profits will not disappoint.
With the help of friends, Li Yongbo chose to invest more than 200 acres of durian fields in Kelantan, Malaysia, purchased nearly 1,400 durian trees, and successfully created his own durian kingdom.
Not only that, this new career also enabled Li Yongbo to regain the enthusiasm of life when he was young. Even though he is old now, Li Yongbo still has a sincere heart to chase what he loves and thinks.
After becoming a durian farmer, Li Yongbo still thinks about his badminton career, and he will hang badminton rackets high at the gate of the durian garden as an image symbol of his durian garden.
Although we don't know if Li Yongbo's durian business is doing well, through his blessed body and satisfied expression in that photo, we are sure that his life must be very comfortable.
epilogue
Perhaps because of his infinite love for badminton, Li Yongbo returned to badminton again in 2020 and took the durian business as his side business.
In 2020, Li Yongbo founded an international badminton club in Shenyang, Liaoning Province. Even if he can no longer coach Guoyu, Li Yongbo still has his heart in Guoyu and vows to continue to cultivate talents for Guoyu.
From youth to middle and old age, the years have whitened Li Yongbo's sideburns, but they have not diminished Li Yongbo's half-heartedness to the badminton career.
It is believed that the cause of Guoyu will prosper under the leadership of Li Yongbo, a meritorious coach.
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