Recently, according to the "Qianjiang Evening News" report, the former Chinese men's volleyball team deputy attacker, who won the Asian Championship championship twice with the team, and the deputy attacker Zheng Liang, who won the gold medal at the 1998 Bangkok Asian Games, was paralyzed in bed due to "spinal cord lesions", urinating on the catheter, and the torture of the disease made the main member of the golden generation of the Chinese men's volleyball team bedridden, and also faced a gap of at least 150,000 nursing staff and medical expenses a year. What was once "Asia's first secondary attack" is now in shape.
↑Zheng Liang Infographic (According to Visual China)
From the mid-1990s to around 2005, the Chinese men's volleyball team, which was mainly structured by the former domestic volleyball hegemon Sichuan men's volleyball team, ushered in the strongest period in history, under the leadership of Wang Jiawei, the Chinese men's volleyball team won the 1997 Asian Championships, the 1998 Asian Games and the 1999 Asian Championships, including Zhou Jian'an, An Jiajie, Zhang Xiang, Zhang Limin, Lu Weizhong, Zheng Liang and other people composed of the "golden generation" Weizhen Asia, this wave of peaks continued until 2008. Zhou Jian'an, as the head coach, led the Chinese team to the fifth place in the Olympic Games, achieving a historic breakthrough.
As an important member of the former "Golden Generation", Zheng Liang was tormented by illness. After retiring from the army, Zheng Liang returned to Zhejiang Sports Vocational and Technical College to continue his volleyball career as a coach. Since 2016, Zheng Liang has occasionally felt some numbness in his legs, but he did not care about the athlete's background, thinking that it was a normal reaction left by his career. At the beginning of 2017, Zheng Liang's condition became more and more serious, it was difficult to walk, and it was even more difficult to go up the stairs. After going to Hangzhou, Shanghai and other hospitals, he was finally diagnosed with spinal cord lesions.
Zheng Liang was once known as "Asia's first secondary attack", with a height of 2 meters 01, he bounced amazingly, touched the height of 3 meters 72, this data ranked first in Asia, even stronger than the height of 2 meters 13 Yi Jianlian, bouncing ability is comparable to the former high jump world record holder Zhu Jianhua. Zheng Liang's former teammate Zhou Jian'an commented on Zheng Liang's ability to the Red Star News reporter: "His physical fitness is very explosive, the ability to stay in the air is particularly strong, often jumping in the air and waiting for the ball, the shooting point is very high, and it is difficult for the opponent to stop him." However, today's Zheng Liang, who is unconscious below the navel, relies entirely on the help of nurses to get out of bed, and lies in bed for more than 20 hours a day. The hands are also numb, and it is almost impossible to write. Urinary to rely on the catheter, and with the help of the catheter to urinary urinary tract infection is easy to cause urinary tract infection, once the urinary tract infection needs to hang saline or eat anti-inflammatory drugs, if not controlled in time will cause fever, so the cycle repeats, "born of this disease, really no dignity." ”
What is even more difficult for Zheng Liang to accept is that due to the special need to order a height booster due to height, the merchants of the shopping platform refuse to accept this customized order until they turn to the TV station program to contact the manufacturer, and finally make a walker that matches the height. According to the "Qianjiang Evening News" report, the real problem in front of Zheng Liang is that there is a gap of 150,000 yuan in nursing and medical expenses a year, even if it is 50,000 yuan of funding, it is not enough to make ends meet, but the Zhejiang Sports Vocational Institute provides him with free care of food and accommodation, and currently lives in a single room on the first floor and is convenient for travel in a wheelchair. In addition, the school also helped him apply for the hardship family allowance, and within the scope of the policy, did its best to help him solve the difficulties in life.
Despite the incomparable brilliant achievements, zheng liang, many people in the "golden generation" of the Chinese men's volleyball team, are ill-fated. The Chinese team in the 1990s relied heavily on the individual attack of the secondary attack, and at that time the Chinese men's volleyball team had the most powerful secondary attack combination in asia - Zheng Liang and Zhu Gang, who were called Yu Liang for a while, Zhu Gang was taller and more balanced, while Zheng Liang bounced better and had amazing attack power. The two take turns on the field, and no one can stop them in the Asian arena. To this day, many old fans talk about the "absolute double pride" of the secondary attack position, and they are still relishing it. Only a jealous talent, Sichuan male ranking general Zhu Gang, as early as January 2001 due to Ma Fang syndrome died. Now, bad luck has befallen Zheng Liang again.
In the year of Zhu Gang's death, two young players were selected for the Chinese men's volleyball team, Lu Fei and Tang Miao, who also served as the second pass, Lu Fei, born in 1979, was 2 meters tall, bounced over people, and won two league championships and a National Games championship for the Jiangsu men's volleyball team together with Lu Weizhong, Shi Hairong and other famous players. Xiao Lufei's 3-year-old Tang Miao plays with passion and has been regarded by industry insiders as one of the few "temperamental" players in China. The two were selected for the national team at the same time and were regarded as "twin stars", but the fate of the two was almost the same as that of Zheng Liang Zhu Gang.
In 2002, Lu Fei withdrew from the national team due to injury, Tang Miao became the main force from the substitute, in 2007, has been an absolute main force, is ambitious to help the Chinese team to achieve good results in the Olympic Games, but with the Shanghai team in Russia to participate in the friendly match, the head fell into the ground during the warm-up activity was diagnosed with a cervical six vertebrae burst fracture with complete spinal cord injury, and has been paralyzed ever since. Lu Fei, on the other hand, died of cardiovascular disease in 2017 at the age of 38. After Lu Fei's death, Tang Miao recalled the scene of the two in the national team on Weibo, full of sad emotions, he said: "In the position of receiving, I can never surpass you, Lu Fei, go well."
Even the income of the men's volleyball team is limited, and even the men's volleyball players who have been playing for a year have chosen to retire in advance in the face of realistic survival problems. Among them, Zheng Liang, who once created a brilliant national player for the Chinese men's volleyball team, now has to worry about medical expenses due to being bedridden.
Red Star News reporter He Pengnan
Edited by Yang Yutong