Today to bring you - the pioneer of the national table tennis era, Li Furong.
In 1952, the state put forward the call for "developing sports and enhancing the people's physique". Since then, the young new China has set off a wave of mass sports. Under the material conditions at that time, table tennis, which did not require much financial investment, became a favorite sport, and many children began to receive table tennis training from this time, and Li Furong of Shanghai was one of them.
From athletes to coaches to leaders, Li Furong not only brought many honors to New China, but also actively reformed and innovated, and constantly created the glory of national table tennis.
Li Furong was a famous table tennis player in China in the 1960s.
With the same period zhuang Zedong, Xu Yinsheng, Zhang Xielin, etc., the prestige was well-known at home and abroad, and each athlete had a veritable nickname.
Zhuang Zedong (Little Tiger), Xu Yinsheng (Zhi Duoxing), Zhang Xielin (Magician), Li Furong (American Man plus Bomber).
He was personable, pushing left and right, and the power of the ball was thumping on the floor, which was the origin of the bomber.
Chinese table tennis has flourished for decades and is inseparable from him.
Li Furong, born in Shanghai in 1942, is the world champion with outstanding achievements in the history of national table tennis in the past, and he is also a well-known meritorious coach and the pioneer of the era of national table tennis.
Nowadays, Teacher Li Furong has passed the age of old age and is enjoying the joy of old age.
For this founding figure of table tennis, do you remember him?
I believe that after reading this article, you will have a more objective and comprehensive understanding of him.
At the Spring Festival Gala 37 years ago, two table tennis world champions, Li Furong and Zhang Xielin, were invited to play the exhibition match live, which seems a bit new now.
The two players selected are also very representative, Li Furong and Zhang Xielin are famous table tennis players in the 60s, as athletes have won many world championships, as coaches have also achieved remarkable results.
Zhang Xielin nicknamed oriental magician, a straight board long rubber cutting ball can be said to be amazing, in the 27th, 28th World Table Tennis Championships defeated almost all the masters of Japan, for a while the Japanese table tennis "talk about Zhang color change", and even a reporter said that both Shenglin and He Shengmu famous words. "Lin" refers to Zhang Xielin and "Mu" refers to two Japanese national hands.
Li Furong is a famous dare to fight and is known as the beautiful man of the East. At the 28th World Table Tennis Championships held in Yugoslavia, after Li Furong won the championship, he was actually surrounded by many local female fans, and he did not let him get out, which was also a good story for a while.
Why play table tennis on spring evenings? Now analysis, mainly related to the environment at that time, 1984 can be said to be China's "new sports" year, this year is also the first time that New China decided to participate in the Olympic Games (1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games). At that time, before going on stage to perform, the host Ma Ji also specifically asked Li Furong how the Olympic Games were preparing. As a result, Li Furong replied that we worked hard to fight (well).
Li Furong was born in Shanghai in 1942.
Former Chinese male table tennis player, he has represented the national team in five World Table Tennis Championships and won a total of 4 World Table Tennis Team Championships.
In 1958, Li Furong entered the national table tennis training team, in 1961 the 26th World Table Tennis Championships was his first time to participate in the international competition, the fledgling he played very well, together with his teammates for the Chinese team to win the World Table Tennis Championships men's team championship, followed by the 27th, 28th World Table Tennis Championships, Li Furong won the World Table Tennis Championships team championship for two consecutive times, thus achieving the World Table Tennis Championships team triple consecutive championships, the 31st World Table Tennis Championships in 1971 was his fourth World Table Tennis Team Championships. In fact, his singles strength is also very strong, from 1961 to 1965 three consecutive World Table Tennis Championships have reached the final, for various reasons he has been relegated to the runner-up three times.
Lee Fu Rong - The originator of the tackle stomp.
Many people have the same feeling: Li Furong has a "stage type" in the game, which is powerful enough. When he came out on the field, he stood in front of the table, and the momentum was intimidating. When playing, he always has his eyes wide open, the tiger is staring, and his two feet stomp on the floor when attacking, and the strength to fight and kill has made many opponents timid before fighting.
In the past, the veteran of Chinese table tennis did not stomp his feet, but starting from Li Furong, he stomped his feet every time he attacked, and his stomping feet did not deliberately create a sound, but because when the forehand attacked the ball, the arms and waist were forward, at this time, the center of gravity of the left foot also naturally stepped forward with the shift of the center of gravity of the body, and the force when the foot landed on the ground could produce a kind of help to the attack. Therefore, Li Furong's habitual stomping of his feet invisibly enhanced the power of the forehand attack, and it was no wonder that when he killed with his forehand, it was like a million jun thunder pressing down on him. I remember that a few times when he was practicing in the ball room on the single-storey floor on the second floor of the Beijing Gymnasium, he stomped through several holes in the floor, and its explosive power could be imagined.
The 32nd World Table Tennis Championships in 1973 was Li Furong's fifth and last participation, and he only competed in singles.
At this time, he was eliminated early after his peak period, and after the World Table Tennis Championships, he retired, and he succeeded Xu Yin as the head coach of the Chinese men's table tennis team and then became the head coach.
Since 1974, Li Furong has changed from an athlete to a team coach, leading the Chinese team to become a "winning army", and won the men's and women's team championships in the 1975 and 1977 World Table Tennis Championships.
However, in the 35th World Table Tennis Championships in 1979, the national table tennis lost the men's team championship and two individual championships. Li Furong, who was the head coach at the time, encountered the most difficult moment, "If I can't win the championship in the next competition, I will automatically step down." ”
But just when everyone was ready to fight a turnaround battle, Li Furong fell ill, and was even suspected of stomach cancer for a while. Despite this, he was a pioneer in training and completed training with the team.
"Some players have a little cold and can rest but have to go to the sidelines and help pick up the ball, which shows that everyone is a team, you are part of the team. Winter is minus 10°C, and we insist. ”
As the former director of the training bureau, Li Furong has to manage not only table tennis, but also badminton, swimming, gymnastics, weightlifting, athletics and so on.
Li Furong promoted many young coaches during his tenure, such as Cai Zhenhua of the table tennis team, Li Yongbo of the badminton team, Huang Yubin of the gymnastics team, and Zhou Jihong of the diving team, who are the coaches who have created several "dream teams" for the Chinese sports world.
Cai Zhenhua recalled this period of time in "Table Tennis World" magazine: "At that time, I was the youngest head coach, and in the most difficult time of the men's line, Director Li always gave me confidence, but also gave us human, material and financial support and guarantee. ”
"When there are some problems, he also tries his best with the team to solve them, and even mobilizes the strength of the national table tennis community to help the men's team tide over the difficulties."
"I feel that he is not only from the perspective of leadership, but also with the responsible mood of the elders, does not want me to eat the losses he has suffered before, make the same mistakes, and hope that I can achieve career development and personal growth at the same time, which also makes me very moved."
In other sports, Li Furong can also use his deep understanding of the laws of competitive sports to make the right decisions.
He had gone to Shanghai to watch a diving competition before the Athens Olympics, and found that Hu Jia's two movements were difficult but not stable enough, so he personally talked to Hu Jia and suggested that he choose to play a stable action by himself. Everyone will be skeptical about this, but the results of the Olympic Games prove Li Furong's "old calculations".
After the 1981 World Table Tennis Championships, Li Furong resigned as the head coach of the men's team.
After experiencing multiple identities, what remained unchanged was his love, attention and support for table tennis, until 2004, when Li Furong no longer served as the deputy director of the State General Administration of Sports and retired, during which he witnessed the whole process of the Chinese men's table tennis team from peak to trough and then to the peak, of which he contributed greatly as a leader and decision-maker to the cause of Table Tennis in China.
Li Furong from the player to the coach to the decision-maker, he has done a very good job in each role, in fact, he was still an idol star when he was a player, he was personable and good-looking, playing and tiger, foreigners gave him an elegant name called "Beautiful Man Plus Bomber". In the present, it is a top traffic sports superstar, no less than the current Zhang Jike.
Li Furong: Over the years, I have brought many athletes, and in my impression, Guo Yuehua and Cai Zhenhua should be my most proud disciples.
When I was a player, I was a world champion, and when I became a coach, my goal was to develop a world champion. Table tennis is a sport with a unique regularity and periodicity. Being a coach means that you don't have holidays, your family and relatives can't take care of it, and you have to be with the athletes from the morning exercise to the night when the lights go out.
Take Cai Zhenhua's growth, the first time I met him in the national team, I found that he had obvious advantages and disadvantages. Good temperament, technical characteristics, and willing to fight, if the training is successful, this child can become a big instrument. Of course, at that time, cai zhenhua's shortcomings were also more obvious, and there were common diseases of excellent athletes in life, which were more lazy. Technically his backhand is weaker. I pay attention to stimulating his good temperament, so that he dares to play a murderous role in the game, good at playing with his brain, especially in the backhand to be bold, not afraid of wolves before and afraid of tigers. Later, Cai Zhenhua was called "Fierce Zhang Fei", and I was still very happy to hear this nickname, which was also in line with his personality and playing style.
The management of the lives of outstanding athletes should be strict. Once, I went to knock on Cai Zhenhua's door, he came to open the door after half a day, and as soon as I saw a large group of people in the house and the windows were open, I knew that they were smoking. So I said, "It's useless to open the window, you open your mouths one by one; the smell of smoke still can't run away." "Later, people who smoked were punished for running laps and writing reviews.
(Cai Recalls that when Mr. Lee was head coach, he was the most demanding.) "Coach Li has a serious gastrointestinal problem, but he insists on leading the team to exercise early every morning. Sometimes we are very tired, really don't want to move, see Li guidance like this, I think there is not much to say. ”
The greatest glory of Li Furong's coaching career is that he led the team to win all the gold medals at the 36th World Table Tennis Championships. Previously, in the 35th World Table Tennis Championships, China only won one mixed doubles championship. ）
Now Li Furong has been away from the front line for many years.
He said: "Now that I am retired, I prefer a slower life, and my biggest wish is to have a happy family." ”
Li Furong - Xu Yinsheng and Li Furong, the two commanders of Chinese table tennis.
For half a century, Xu Yinsheng and Li Furong from Shanghai have been like brothers in The Chinese table tennis scene. In the 1960s, they fought side by side to achieve the highest honors for the Chinese team, and later, they became the head coach of the national team and then ascended to the highest positions in the national sports leadership body.
Xu Yinsheng and Li Furong have invisibly become the main and vice commanders of China's table tennis.
For more than 30 years, they have been working hard for the cause of table tennis, and have made great contributions to the Chinese table tennis and the world table tennis.
Please don't forget that there is a meritorious figure in the history of national table tennis and even in the cause of Chinese sports, his name is: Li Furong! Hats off to the old generations!
I wish him happiness and health in his old age.
Next article, for you to reveal the table tennis Gemini Li Furong, Zhuang Zedong, 28 years after the reconciliation of the anecdotes.
Li Furong and Zhuang Zedong are similar in age, also acquaintance with teenagers, known as table tennis "north and south two young generals", after the national team met, the two saw each other, sympathetic, and soon became good brothers.
Graduates: August 25, 1940 - February 10, 2013
Unfortunately, the many competitions and championship competitions on the court did not make them feel a little suspicious, and in the era of the 1960s and 1970s, the friendship between the two finally broke.
Until September 2002, the 62-year-old Zhuang Zedong plucked up the courage to write a short and sincere apology letter to 60-year-old Li Furong and others, quoting Lu Xun's poem at the end of the letter, and said affectionately: "In our lifetime, I hope to continue to do some work for the cause of table tennis, and I hope to get your sincere guidance and support in this regard." The brothers are in the midst of the robbery, and they meet each other and laugh and take revenge. ”
After receiving the letter, on October 30 of that year, Li Furong and Xu Yinsheng, who had not been in contact with Zhuang Zedong for many years, appeared at the unveiling ceremony of Zhuang Zedong Table Tennis Club at the same time to unveil the cards for the former good brothers and warmly welcome the return of Zhuang Zedong. 40 years ago, Zhuang Zedong, Li Furong, Xu Yinsheng once won the top three in international competitions, but also formed a lifelong friendship, and now Huafa has been born, experienced the turmoil, they broke the barrier with a peaceful attitude, shook hands and made peace, and made up for the regrets in their hearts.