In the blink of an eye, Han Jian has passed the year of Hua Jia, and he still remembers the 1982 Tang Cup final, he bravely defeated Lin Shuijing and Pang Ge, and scored 2 points alone, making a contribution to the Chinese team's victory over the Indonesian team that won seven consecutive championships. Han Jian later lost his bid for head coach of the Chinese badminton team, and soon after he went to Malaysia as head coach.
Han Jian
Han Jian was quite successful in Malaysia, leading the team to win the Thomas Cup in 1992, and he was knighted by the Sultan of Malaysia as a national warrior. At that time, many people thought that he led the Malaysian national team to victory over the Chinese team, which was a betrayal of the motherland. But Han Jian believes that sports is always a competitive activity that transcends national boundaries and should not be given political significance.
The Malaysian Badminton Association has always had the experience of hiring foreign teachers, and has previously coached the national team with Fang Kaixiang (transliteration, China), Yang Yang (China), Han Jian (China), Chen Changjie (China), Frost (Denmark), Park Jufeng (South Korea) and Chen Feng (Indonesia), making outstanding contributions to the Malaysian men's team for a long time to remain in the world's top ranks.
In fact, when the Malaysian team won the Thomas Cup, the audience jumped up to celebrate, and only the three coaches from China, Han Jian, Yang Yang and Chen Changjie, were still sitting on the stool. In 1997, Han Jian withdrew from the Malaysian national team, but still lives in Malaysia, and with Li Yongbo about to leave, Han Jian also expressed his views on the matter, calling it a "soft landing".
Yang Yang
Han Jian said that it means "decent dismissal"; there are only two options for coaches, one is to step down decently, and the other is to retire or go into business, no longer involved in sports circles.
As a former teammate, Han Jian's words are still very sharp. He said: "Li Yongbo reigned for 24 years, there are merits and deeds; merit, when he took over that year, Chinese badminton was a time when the results were in a mess, but I think that Chinese badminton fell into a trough at that time, not because of the rise of other countries, at that time, the professional badminton countries were mainly China and Indonesia, Japan was not yet." Therefore, at that time, it was more of a problem of Chinese badminton itself, especially the whole structure and management problems. ”
Li Yongbo and Tian Bingyi
Han Jian said: "After Li Yongbo took office, the chaos above and above were well integrated, and the chaos was rectified, and the entire badminton coach and players were connected and united," As for Li Yongbo's passing, he believes that it is mainly reflected in the lack of crisis and creativity, so that it has evolved into such a situation as today. He said: "I remember that in the 80s we participated in the All England Tournament, at that time the women's singles had Li Lingwei, Han Aiping, the All England Women's Singles played to the top 8, there were 7 Chinese players, the semi-finals were arranged, like now the All England Finals Women's Singles did not see Chinese players, it is incredible." ”
Li Yongbo likes obedient coaches, which everyone knows very well, and Han Jian believes that to some extent, this can make the team unite, but from another point of view, it shows the ills of no creativity and sense of crisis. Too obedient, not innovative enough, and often obedient people, business ability is not strong enough; you see, the good players of our time Yang Yang, Zhao Jianhua, Chen Changjie and Sun Zhian, etc., who have ever been national team coaches?
Bear National Treasure
For this change of people, Han Jian believes that it is a good thing in the long run. "A new coach needs 8 to 10 years to produce results, you see Liu Guoliang of table tennis, who has been working for so many years and has slowly retired from the front of the stage, Lang Ping's position adjustment, is also a good example."
It has been almost 30 years since Han Jian left China, but his feelings for Guo Yu have never diminished, and the meritorious old man hopes that this team can continue to be strong.