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preface
With the end of the Asian Games, those athletes who have worked hard for this grand event for a long time have naturally ushered in their leisure time.
However, not everyone has such treatment.
For example, Yao Ming, the chairman of the Chinese Basketball Association, has recently been questioned because of the recent poor performance of the men's basketball team, and has fallen into a resignation storm.
Another example is Wu Yanni, who has been sentenced to foul three times this year, and has also been exposed to a lot of black materials.
Of course, there are those who have been criticized, and there are also those who are full of honor.
For example, Zheng Wei, the head coach of the Chinese women's basketball team, is quite popular, and everywhere she goes, I don't know how many people want to ask for an autograph.
So, why is Zheng Wei loved by so many people?
Heroes at the Asian Games
At the 2023 Asian Games, there were really a lot of moths that made the Chinese people regret.
For example, in the men's table tennis competition, Du Kaixuan, Huang Zhenting, Lin Yunru, Chen Siyu and many other good players were eliminated by foreign countries without even winning the final.
For example, Wu Yanni, a talented sprinter who was pinned on high hopes by the Chinese people, not only was sent off again for running away, but also dumped her opponent after the race, and also snatched the glory of her teammate Lin Yuwei, which caused a lot of abuse.
Of course, the Chinese men's basketball team is also a hot spot, but unfortunately, it is not good news.
In the final, the Chinese men's basketball team was defeated by the Philippines and Jordan in an almost crushing manner.
For a while, doubts and accusations poured in, and even the chairman of the men's basketball team Yao Ming, who was once loved by the Chinese people, was also deeply caught in the whirlpool of public opinion.
But fortunately, although Wu Yanni missed out on the medal due to violations, Lin Yuwei, who is also a Chinese athlete, won the championship in one fell swoop.
Although the Chinese men's basketball team did not perform well, the Chinese women's basketball team was quite competitive, passing all the way and defeating the Japanese women's basketball team with a narrow victory of 74 to 72 in the final, achieving the feat of winning the Asian Games women's basketball team for seven consecutive championships! What a long face for the countrymen!
Therefore, after the game, before the national team issued a reward, the club led the women's basketball team to the Asian Games head coach Zheng Wei, players Li Yuan, Pan Zhenqi, Zhang Ru, each of whom issued 200,000 bonuses in recognition of it.
And the Sichuan women's basketball team was not to be outdone, Wang Siyu, Han Xu and Li Meng also received a huge red envelope of 500,000!
It's a real pleasure.
I think that in the next holiday time, these athletes can usher in a happy holiday with their families.
As for Zheng Wei, he has become a hero who has fought with countless people, and he will be treated like an empty alley wherever he goes.
This is not on October 15, 2023, Zheng Wei, dressed in casual clothes, just stepped into a 4S store with her husband to buy a luxury car, when a large group of reporters and the public watched.
Reporters interviewed the famous marshal, and the crowd stepped forward to shake hands with her and take photos for autographs.
Zheng Wei, on the other hand, generously left a number of signatures, took her husband and the selected Audi, and left under everyone's gaze.
So then again, what kind of past does Zheng Wei, a famous basketball coach who made a splash after the Asian Games, have?
A sports girl who is not outstanding
Speaking of which, Zheng Wei's resume before switching to a coach is not exciting, and it can even be called lackluster.
Zheng Wei was born in Wuhan in 1963, because she was different from ordinary people in height and physical fitness since she was a child, and she had a soft spot for basketball.
Therefore, since elementary school, Zheng Wei joined the school's amateur basketball team, performed quite well, and shined in several provincial middle school competitions in junior high school.
Therefore, when Zheng Wei was 16 years old, she was recruited by the women's basketball team of the Wuhan Army.
In the army, Zheng Wei has undergone six years of training, and although she has worked hard, she has not had many outstanding records for various reasons, and she has not even participated in several decent competitions.
In the international environment at that time, Chinese sports teams rarely participated in foreign competitions.
And in the late 70s and early 80s of the 20th century, it was also a period of economic transformation and difficulty, and all localities were busy with reform and transformation, and they did not have much energy to engage in competition.
Therefore, Zheng Wei can only be hidden by the snow?
Even in 1985, with the reshuffle of the Chinese women's basketball system, the Wuhan women's basketball team was canceled, and Zheng Wei almost ended her sports career early.
Fortunately, Zheng Wei was very contentious, and was successfully favored by the Bayi team with her excellent performance and entered the Bayi women's basketball team.
But after coming to the Bayi women's basketball team, Zheng Wei still did not have any outstanding performance.
The only thing worth commending is that in 1994, Zheng Wei participated in the World Championship with the Chinese women's basketball team that year and won the runner-up.
In 1998, 35-year-old Zheng Wei announced her retirement and left the arena.
It can be said that in Zheng Wei's nearly 20-year racing career, Zheng Wei is almost a useless hero.
It is clear that Mingkong has a strength, but he has never been able to show his strength on the field, and such an encounter is unbearable for any professional athlete.
So, after retiring, how did Zheng Wei become a famous women's basketball coach?
Famous marshals appear
In 1998, Zheng Wei officially said goodbye to the court, but did not say goodbye to basketball.
In fact, in that year, Zheng Wei was already invited to participate in the Guangdong women's basketball team as a coach.
Since you can't let yourself compete for gold in the arena, let your students complete regrets instead of themselves!
In line with this concept, Zheng Wei really worked hard during her time coaching the Guangdong women's basketball team, from reforming the selection system to personally visiting the door to find good seedlings.
From urging athletes to train hard to in-depth research on tailor-made training methods for athletes.
With Zheng Wei's unremitting efforts, the Guangdong women's basketball team finally ushered in a qualitative leap.
In the 2001 and 2002 National Women's Basketball Competition and League, she won the third place consecutively.
Since then, the Guangdong women's basketball team has long ranked among the top three women's basketball teams in all provinces in the country, which can be regarded as a strong team, and has also shined in many foreign games.
For example, in 2019, before Zheng Wei bid farewell to Guangdong, under the leadership of Zheng Wei, the Guangdong women's basketball team won the championship in the 2018-2019 WCBA season!
After completing this game, Zheng Wei went to Inner Mongolia to serve as the head coach of the women's basketball team.
Don't say, before Zheng Wei's arrival, the ranking of the Inner Mongolia women's basketball team in China was not very good, and in the 2019 WC BA competition, it only ranked tenth, which is already a rare good result.
But with the efforts of Zheng Wei, the Inner Mongolia women's basketball team quickly ushered in an explosive period, and in October 2020, the Inner Mongolia women's basketball team beat the Hebei team with an absolute advantage of 103 points to 59 points!
Subsequently, in the 2021 WC BA competition, the Inner Mongolia women's basketball team completed an extraordinary performance and won the championship! and was awarded the title of Star Team Coach by WC BA.
After these two matches, no one doubted Zheng Wei's strength anymore.
Subsequently, in 2022, Zheng Wei was invited to Sichuan as a women's basketball coach.
In the 2023 Hangzhou Asian Games, most of the main players of the Chinese women's basketball team are from the Inner Mongolia women's basketball team and the Sichuan women's basketball team, and are veterans trained by Zheng Wei.
Of course, such an excellent talent as Zheng Wei, in addition to being hired by various local teams, the national team will naturally not let go.
As early as the 2009 East Asian Games, Zheng Wei served as the head coach of the Chinese women's basketball team.
And in that game, the performance of the Chinese women's basketball team was also quite eye-catching, losing strong opponents all the way and successfully winning the championship.
Therefore, in many international events such as the London Olympics, the Brazil Olympics, the Tokyo Olympics, and the Asian Women's Basketball Championship, Zheng Wei, who is still the head coach in Guangdong, almost all appeared on the coach list.
From this, it can be seen that Zheng Wei's status in the Chinese women's basketball team is high.
The time has come in 2022, after Zheng Wei led the Chinese women's basketball team to the final of the World Cup with three wins in three games.
Zheng Wei was listed in the list of five coaches of the Chinese Basketball Association national team and officially became the head coach of the Chinese women's basketball team.
And Zheng Wei did live up to expectations, in the World Cup that year, Zheng Wei led the Chinese women's basketball team to win the runner-up.
In the Asian Cup before the Hangzhou Asian Games, Zheng Wei led the women's basketball players to win the championship and won everyone's recognition with absolute strength.
However, although she has achieved a lot of glory, Zheng Wei has always been a very sober figure.
After the Asian Games, when a reporter asked whether the current development level of the Chinese women's basketball team could be regarded as the world's top level, the famous coach did not hide his illness and powder himself, but said very frankly:
In my opinion, the current training system for young athletes in China is far from perfect.
In recent years, the reason why the Chinese women's basketball team has been able to achieve continuous success is largely to catch up with the good times, and basketball geniuses such as Han Xu, Li Yueru, Li Meng, Wang Siyu and Yang Liwei have appeared successively.
In a word, the development of China's women's basketball team still has a long way to go.
Although this remark is a little too modest, it also shows that Zheng Wei is dedicated to the long-term career development of the Chinese women's basketball team.
epilogue
The first half of Zheng Wei's life was quite boring, with no dazzling achievements, and she was not able to show her might on the field and become a sports athlete admired by everyone.
But he was lucky to find another way to realize his dream after leaving the arena and worked hard for it.
In addition to those talented athletes, the Chinese women's basketball team also needs excellent coaches like Zheng Wei who are dedicated to the public.