Dark skin, thick lips, large white teeth, and small curls of curls on his head. At first glance, it was clearly a standard black man, but as soon as he spoke, it was authentic Mandarin, even Hangzhou dialect. Ding Hui, a former member of the Zhejiang men's volleyball team, was also a member of the Chinese men's volleyball national team, the first mixed-race child in the history of the Chinese men's volleyball team, and the first "black man" in the Chinese national brand team. Today, the "star" Ding Hui, who once had high hopes, has faded out of the field and continued her academic journey.
Ding Hui, born on June 24, 1989 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, is 1.85 meters tall and weighs 80 kilograms. Ding Hui grew up in Hangzhou, his father is South African, and his mother is an authentic Hangzhou native. From an early age, he lived with his mother and grew up in a single-parent family. As for his father, Xiao Hei only heard that it seemed to be from South Africa, the rest did not know, and he did not want to know, Xiao Hei had never seen his father. A reporter once asked him a question about his father, "Which country is your father from?" In response, he still expressed the forbidden area that he did not want to touch - "this (about the father) or do not ask." ”
In the media's portrayal, Ding Hui's father had left before she was born. When his father left, Ding Hui did not follow his mother's surname, "He hoped to be able to follow his father's surname, so he followed his ideas," according to Ding Hui's mother. However, Ding Hui's emphasis on the process of growing up is: "I am Chinese, grew up in China since I was a child, and I don't want everyone to pay too much attention to my appearance." ”
From the age of 10, Ding Hui began to practice volleyball, in 2003, his physical condition and competitive level are quite outstanding, he was selected into the Zhejiang youth team, and then grew into the main free man of the Zhejiang men's volleyball team to compete in the National Men's Volleyball League, and the next year he was selected for the national junior team at that time. As early as when Ding Hui was still playing in the Zhejiang Second Team, he was evaluated by Yu Bo, the coach in charge at the time, as "the feel is the top in China". Beginning in 2006, Ding Hui joined the first team with Chu Jingyi, Bian Hongmin and Zhu Guilong of the same age, and then he quickly occupied the team's main free man position. In 2007, Ding Hui was selected for the U19 national youth team and helped the team to win the best result in history as the main player in the World Youth Championship.
In fact, Ding Hui was weak and sick from childhood, in order to enhance his physical fitness, Ding Hui's mother was determined to send her son to practice sports, but when she was a teenager, Ding Hui was not keen on volleyball, but basketball, Jordan and Yao Ming were his favorites. But when Ding Hui was 9 years old, he was still very thin, had no muscles, and had no confrontation on the basketball court, so Ding's mother began to do her son's thought work and play volleyball according to the coach's wishes. The sensible Ding Hui did not cling to it, and has had an indissoluble relationship with volleyball since then. Although he is not interested in volleyball, the little black sports talent with black characteristics is naturally very high, and in just 4 years, he has been promoted from a sparring team member all the way to the main selection team of the Zhejiang team.
On April 13, 2009, the Chinese Volleyball Association announced the new Chinese men's volleyball team 18-person roster, in addition to retaining the 8 main players of the Beijing Olympic Games, there is a newcomer who is particularly concerned, he is head coach Zhou Jian'an, a 20-year-old Chinese-African mixed race ding hui from Zhejiang. It is precisely because this special skin color player entered the national team that Ding Hui was truly recognized by the public for the first time and became the focus of media pursuit, and also made the Chinese men's volleyball team a rare news hotspot for a period of time.
Nicknamed "Little Black", Ding Hui is a free man on the field, and can be selected for the national team, proving that his technical level is not ordinary, and squatting on his side legs to catch the serve is his classic action. As the absolute main force of the Zhejiang team, Ding Hui plays an irreplaceable role. According to statistics, when he was not on the field, the scoring rate of the Zhejiang team was less than 30%. During the 2009 Shandong National Games, Ding Hui represented the Zhejiang team and won the fifth place with her young teammates. But unfortunately, after being selected for the national team training roster, Ding Hui was not selected for that year's Asian Championship. However, after that, in the new men's volleyball national team training roster that year, Ding Hui was selected again.
During the national team, Ding Hui did not participate in world-class competitions, and more often than not, he returned to the provincial team. But in August 2012, Ding Hui's exodus incident made "Little Black" come into focus again. Ding Hui did not quit from the Zhejiang men's volleyball team, and even left the Zhejiang men's volleyball team that had played for seven years without discussing the treatment of leaving the team, left Hangzhou, where he had lived for twenty-three years, and went to California to study and study.
In fact, on August 15, Ding Hui had already left Hangzhou to reach the United States and began her own study abroad trip. Nor is it a decision to leave abruptly with a hot head. In the middle of the league last year, Ding Hui had already revealed to the Zhejiang men's volleyball team that she wanted to study abroad. At that time, the Zhejiang men's volleyball coaching team and their superior management department, the Big Ball Department of Zhejiang Sports Vocational and Technical College, had the opinion that they would consider his idea of studying abroad, but considering that another small free man had left the team, I hoped that he would go after playing the 2013 National Games. At that time, whether Ding Hui's IELTS test could pass was still unknown, so the two sides agreed to wait until the results of the IELTS test came out in May this year to discuss it. But what everyone did not expect was that in August, even without negotiation, Ding Hui left the Zhejiang men's volleyball team in a way that almost gave up all the treatment of leaving the team, giving up the identity of the Chinese men's volleyball national team who still had the opportunity to be selected.
In April of that year, when Ding Hui was still preparing for the IELTS exam in New Oriental, he once said that the treatment of the Zhejiang men's volleyball team he was in should be considered good in the domestic men's volleyball team, as the main force in the team, there were more than 80,000 in the year, which may be worse than the Shanghai men's volleyball team and the Beijing men's volleyball team, but it is not less in the country, but such a life makes him most desperate is that he can't see the prospects. "I've been to the national team, like me to play honestly until I retire, the best mix is to give a coach in the team. When the time comes, I want to do something else, and when I am older, the age of study has passed, and I am not willing to live like this for the rest of my life. Ding Hui said at the time that he understood the idea that the team wanted him to play a complete pleus and then go again, but he did not want to miss this opportunity, because "some opportunities that are missed will never be met." ”
But after four months away, Ding Hui returned and returned to the Zhejiang men's volleyball team to continue to fight for the former parent team. At 22:00 on December 18, 2012, he returned to his home in Hangzhou from Irvine Valley College (IVC) in California, USA, and fully prepared for the men's volleyball preliminaries of the National Games in March next year, which also brought hope to the Zhejiang men's volleyball team in the trough. Ding Hui, who returned to the Zhejiang men's volleyball team, trained with the team to adapt not long ago, and participated in the men's volleyball league with the team and helped the team successfully relegated. In order to prepare for the 2013 Liaoning National Games qualifiers, Ding Hui also fully devoted herself to the team, and in the main game of the National Games, the Zhejiang team with average overall strength only won the eighth place.
Ding Hui outside the arena is also a very filial child, and his filial piety often moves his mother. Ding Hui's mother, Yu Jianxiu, said, "We often talk on the phone, as long as I hear my voice on the phone is not right, or I inadvertently say that I am a little uncomfortable, he will ask the coach for leave, saying that my mother is unwell and wants to go back to see." "The requirements in the team are usually more stringent, especially when they go out, but as soon as they hear that Ding Hui wants to go home to see her sick mother, she will also let her go."
Although there was no father around since childhood, according to Ding Hui's mother, Ding Hui and her father had contact through the ocean, but because of the time relationship, the father and son could not meet. "His father has been back two or three times, but Ding Hui is either training in the national youth and junior teams, or playing in the league, and it is difficult for the two people to meet together." But this did not affect the idea of Ding Hui and her father to meet, Yu Jianxiu said: "Ding Hui said to wait for the ball to go over there (South Africa) to see." In fact, in addition to His appearance and blood, Ding Hui has African characteristics, but he has the personality of a good Chinese boy in his bones.
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