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"We have had a dispute, but it is not about each other's character, professionally speaking, he is a professional and excellent coach, I thank him for his cultivation!"
Wang Nan
In 2005, table tennis national player Wang Nan mentioned the past coach Li Xiaodong in an interview with reporters.
Many people have heard the story of the athlete who won several championships for the motherland and her coach, Li Xiaodong.
But I don't know what happened in the middle, so that the master and apprentice went to the point of "turning their faces".
And why did Li Xiaodong let his daughter, who is also a table tennis player, enter a foreign country to play for other countries?
Li Xiaodong
After reading this article, you may find something.
The national coach has never been a national player
Li Xiaodong, as a national player but has become a national coach is rare, he has been a coach of Liu Guoliang, Wang Nan and others, is a veritable "coach of coaches".
So how did he get on the road of table tennis?
Li Xiaodong has been smart since he was a child, and table tennis was originally his hobby, but because of his talent, the school's teachers recommended him to Beijing to participate in the selection competition.
Because of this opportunity, Li Xiaodong joined the Beijing junior table tennis team, and since then he has formed an indissoluble bond with table tennis, Li Xiaodong joined the formal training relatively late, compared with the children of the same team, he still has some gaps.
In order to catch up with people who are better than himself, he always practices diligently.
In 1972, 20-year-old Li Xiaodong won his first team championship, he originally thought that he could take this opportunity to be selected for the national team, but the sky did not go as expected, Li Xiaodong did not wait for the notice he wanted.
Li Xiaodong felt very sad about this, but he could only accept that in order to usher in the match point of his career again, Li Xiaodong practiced more persistently, and once a new player was added to the team, and sometimes Li Xiaodong would tutor him some of his own playing skills.
Li Xiaodong (left)
In this process, the leader discovered that Li Xiaodong had the potential to be a coach, and Li Xiaodong began his coaching journey.
Li Xiaodong is an extremely serious person, very motivated to do everything, from player to coach, he has a new beginning, he is determined to explore the potential of the players and bring out as many championships as possible.
Li Xiaodong's brain is flexible, very good at studying playing techniques and applying them to teaching, during his tenure in the Beijing youth team, Li Xiaodong led the trainees to win several gold medals and sent a lot of talents to the national team.
Li Xiaodong (middle)
Li Xiaodong's name also began.
At this time, Li Xiaodong finally received an invitation from the national team, although it was different from his early wishes, but what an affirmation it was to be able to enter the national team as a coach, Li Xiaodong accepted the invitation very happily.
At the beginning, Li Xiaodong trained male players, and as a man, he got along well with male trainees, and the results of his training were quite good, which further stabilized his position in the national team.
After 2000, Li Xiaodong began to transfer to the women's team coach due to job transfers, and unexpectedly, this was the beginning of the "downhill" of his coaching career.
Each of them does not agree with each other
Wang Nan was one of Li Xiaodong's team members and the favorite to win the major competitions at that time.
Wang Nan
According to statistics, Wang Nan has won a total of 24 gold medals since she started playing table tennis in 1992 until she retired in 2008.
This heavy strength is enough to show her strength in the table tennis world, and it is enough to show how important she is to the national team.
Originally thought that transferring Li Xiaodong to Wang Nan's coach produced the effect of a strong combination, but I did not expect that Li Xiaodong, who was like a fish in the men's training team, was "unsatisfied".
Wang Nan is a player with a strong personal style, and has her own opinions on training and skills, and her years of experience in the field have also allowed her to accumulate a lot of experience, although she is Li Xiaodong's student, but her strength is not below Li Xiaodong.
Li Xiaodong has been teaching for many years, and he also has his own training mode, but his model applied to Wang Nan makes Wang Nan very uncomfortable.
Wang Nan has repeatedly put forward his opinions on Li Xiaodong's training mode, but Li Xiaodong has his own insistence, thinking that Wang Nan only needs to improve the practice according to him to achieve good results, to put it bluntly, the two have different concepts.
Because of this, the two have constantly rubbed in daily training, accumulating, and gradually, Wang Nan has a great opinion about this "unreasonable" coach, and Li Xiaodong is also very dissatisfied with this "unwilling to learn" student.
The final result was that Wang Nan, who was originally very optimistic, defeated the South Korean team at the Busan Asian Games two years later, and the shocking defeat hit the entire national table tennis women's team hard, and Wang Nan also proposed to replace the coach.
In terms of results, the coach has a lot of responsibility for the performance of the players.
After all, the coach's job is to let the trainees achieve good results, and the results of the women's team after Li Xiaodong took over were greatly reduced, and Li Xiaodong also believes that he has a lot of responsibility, so Li Xiaodong gave up the position of head coach of the national team.
And because of this matter, Wang Nan and Li Xiaodong have also been in discord rumors for many years.
Appear again to cheer for the woman
In 2016, four years had passed since Li Xiaodong stepped back into the background.
Everyone saw Li Xiaodong again at the Rio Olympics, but he did not sit as a coach, but as a father to cheer for his daughter.
But what is puzzling is that the team that Li Xiaodong's daughter Li Changbing fought for was not China, but Austria.
I thought it would start from when Li Xiaodong was still the coach of the national team many years ago.
Li Xiaodong and daughter Li Changbing
At that time, Li Changbing was actually a trainee of the national team, but compared to Wang Nan's kind of player, Li Changbing's strength could only sit on the "cold bench".
In the national team, which is full of experts, Li Xiaodong believes that it is difficult for his daughter to have a chance to shine.
Coupled with the subsequent fiasco of the Busan Olympics, the disastrous record made him faceless, and Li Changbing, as a daughter, was also under a lot of pressure, and later they simply found another way, so they joined Austria, where the level of table tennis is not too "rolled".
This is the scene of Li Changbing competing for Austria in 2016, and later Li Changbing married an Austrian who is also an athlete, and her life is also happy.
Although Li Xiaodong rarely appears in the public eye, he has not completely separated from table tennis, and he will be invited to some training venues from time to time to guide the teenagers, but in general, he has lived a retired life.
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