Text: Exploring the Past and Discussing the Present
Editing: Exploring the Past and Discussing the Present
●○Preface○●
Li Yongbo is the master of Super Dan - the godfather of Guoyu.
As an athlete, he won 6 world championships in a row.
As a coach, he once vowed to win 100 championships for his country.
And when he has won 92 world titles. is about to fulfill his original grand vow.
suddenly chose to retire and soon disappeared from the eyes of the public.
Where did he go after he retired, and how is his life now?
1. Be a "landlord" to grow durian
When Li Yongbo retired, Malaysia immediately invited him and gave him a very generous treatment.
After all, this meritorious giant who led his team to 92 championships is enough to drive the leapfrog progress of a country's badminton in terms of experience and ability.
However, in the face of such generous treatment, Li Yongbo chose to refuse, after all, in his opinion, retiring does not mean that he has to be sorry for his country, he just wants to find a place to realize another ideal of life: freedom and food.
Li Yongbo's love for durian is something that his friends around him know, and he also knows the value of durian and its popularity in the world.
When he visited Malaysia, he stumbled upon the durian here that not only grows well, but also tastes very good, and the nutrition is a little stronger than other places.
He keenly realized that this was the place he had been looking for since he retired.
Soon, with the help of his friends, he contracted hundreds of acres of land in Malaysia and planted tens of thousands of durian trees to become a landlord.
He also gave his orchard a well-known name: LYB Orchard.
And outside the orchard, he used the old buddy (badminton) who had been with him for most of his life as a signpost, as if to commemorate his past love, or to remember his love.
In the days when he was a farmer, he did not give up the career that he had fought for most of his life.
When he is not busy, he will also play badminton with his friends on the farm, drink tea, and watch the growth of his durians on the farm in his spare time, treating them like a badminton in the past.
Eating the durian he grows and playing the badminton he loves with the team is really enviable.
Now he seems to be living an idyllic life in the ancient poems written by Tao Yuanming.
Since Li Yongbo loves badminton so much, why did he give up his role as a head coach when he was about to realize his dream of 100 championships?
2. Legendary players and coaches
Li Yongbo was born in an ordinary family in Liaoning Province in 1962.
Although life is not rich, Li Yongbo's parents are rarely sober and open-minded.
They followed Li Yongbo's interests and hobbies, and when they learned that he liked to play badminton, his parents went out of their way to nurture him and encourage her.
Finally, when he was in high school, he was favored by the Liaoning Provincial Badminton Team, and here Li Yongbo met his lover Xie Ying.
With countless days and nights of hard work and the support of his wife, Li Yongbo's skills have grown day by day.
The emperor lived up to his wishes, and at this time, he met Tian Bingyi, another noble person in his life.
Both are young people with enthusiasm and common ideals, and the two began to emerge under countless run-ins.
At the 1987 World Championships, the two won the World Championships in a competition full of strong opponents, and finally established their dominance. Looking back on the past, as an athlete, Li Yongbo has won 6 world championships.
He and his partner Tian Bingyi were known as the "Four Heavenly Kings" in the badminton world in the 80s
Unfortunately, at the Barcelona Olympics, Li Yongbo suffered a leg injury.
After relying on his willpower and Tian Bingyi to win the gold medal, he chose to retire, fortunately in the second year, because of the development of badminton, he was recruited as the deputy general manager of the national feather.
He put his unfulfilled wishes and love for badminton into these young players.
He once boasted in public that Haikou wanted to win 100 championships for China.
This move caused a huge controversy, some said he bragged, others said he painted cakes
In the face of these controversies, he ignored them and threw himself into his work.
He developed a rigorous and complete training method for the players, and taught them according to their aptitude.
However, their hard work did not pay off quickly, and for two consecutive years, Li Yongbo and her team members did not achieve good results, and even said that they were not as dazzling as the previous results.
People remembered his bold words and mocked him mercilessly.
However, Li Yongbo withstood the pressure, he knew that if he wanted to enjoy the applause, he had to withstand the criticism, and after learning from the pain, Li Yongbo once again made changes to his training.
Finally, in 1995, he led badminton to his first championship, and under his leadership, he won several world championships in a row.
It has also cultivated world-famous badminton players such as Lin Dan and Zhang Ning, and people have slowly changed from doubts about it to expectations.
Everyone is waiting for him to fulfill his promise to help China win 100 world championships.
By 2017, he had won 92 world titles.
When you are about to realize your dreams and ambitions in life.
He suddenly chose to retire, which caused speculation and controversy for a while.
3. Gossip
As soon as the news of Li Yongbo's retirement came out, everyone couldn't help but speculate.
Some people say that he has his eye on the high salary of foreign teams.
Some say he was being treated unfairly.
As the center of public opinion, Li Yongbo has never responded, and the more silent he is, the more curious people feel, and people begin to pick up his past, the 2012 London Olympics.
In order to avoid his players meeting before the final, Lee Yongbo chose to arrange for them to concede the ball in the game, but the South Korean team at this time actually thought the same.
In fact, handicap in the game is a kind of strategy, similar to Tian Ji horse racing, all for the final victory, but unfortunately the teams that both sides want to concede the ball meet together.
The overly conspicuous mistake caused dissatisfaction among the public and the referee team, after all, it was a sportsmanship game.
Everything still has to carry forward the spirit, when the audience can see the problem and make a fuss.
The referee team is naturally not good at turning a blind eye.
So Wang Xiaoli and Yu Yang were banned by the Olympic judges.
And the two also left an extremely bad sensory impression in the audience's impression.
As the head coach, Li Yongbo is naturally not to blame.
At this time, Li Yongbo would not have thought that his previous words would be found and criticized by netizens again.
In 2011, Li Yongbo commented that Li Na had never won an Olympic title, even if she had won this Grand Slam.
But after all, it's not perfect, and if you can win an Olympic title, it will definitely be even more remarkable than it is now.
It was this phrase that caused displeasure among some complacent players and Li Na fans.
They accused Li Yongbo, believing that he had no bearing and that he should bless Li Na instead of saying such hurtful words.
Some people say that he values the Olympic champion too much, and points fingers at tennis that he doesn't understand.
Under pressure, Li Yongbo also replied on the platform.
In fact, as long as a person succeeds, it will inevitably cause some criticism, and many things about Li Yongbo have been proven to be false and untrue information in the end, after all, as a meritorious achievement in the badminton world, he has no reason to do those things at all, more because his achievements have aroused the jealousy of others.
Fourth, a good state of life
Although the days of being a big landlord were leisurely, but he loved badminton, he finally chose to put down the farm that had been two years long, chose to return to China and returned to Shenyang, where his dream began, and opened a badminton club in his hometown Shenyang.
And not long ago, the photo of Li Yongbo appearing at the club's training ground was even more explosive, in the camera, he was smiling, wearing a peaked cap, looking at the young players passing in front of him, at this time he seemed to think of himself and the world champion he had bred.
●○Epilogue○●
From an athlete to the godfather of Chinese, from planting durian to returning to Shenyang, Li Yongbo is admirable that he takes every identity seriously, never lives up to any love, he loves his wife and gives himself wholeheartedly to his players, his entire career is brilliant, even if he bears a period of unwarranted "stain", he is always positive.
Looking at the past of the national feather, the achievements he has achieved when he coached are currently unmatched, but he still owes us 8 championships, and I don't know if there is a chance to achieve it.
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