Source: China Sports News
The 2019 China (Fuzhou) Open Badminton Championships is in full swing. On November 7, the tournament welcomed three heavyweight guests, namely Wang Wenjiao, the former head coach of the Chinese badminton team who was awarded the national honorary title of "People's Model", and Tang Xianhu and Lin Jiancheng, the national coaches of badminton.
At the scene, the three badminton heroes shared with everyone the experience of returning to China when they were young, told the reasons why Chinese badminton has changed from "poor and white" to "the master of the king", and contributed to the development of Badminton in China.
At the age of 20, Wang Wenjiao participated in a friendly match in China, he easily defeated the national quadtathlon champion with a score of 15-0, 15-6, at that moment, although he won the ball, his heart was shaken, and he decided to return to the motherland and revitalize the badminton cause of the motherland. "I lead the team very strictly, as long as I play, I have to play seriously in every game." It is also under the strict coaching of Wang Wenjiao that the Chinese badminton team has won 56 world championships and 9 team world championships during its coaching period.
Inspired by wang Wenjiao, Chen Fushou and others to return to China, a large number of Indonesian overseas Chinese returned to the embrace of the motherland in the 1960s, and Tang Xianhu was one of them. "At that time, I couldn't say Chinese, and I could only write my own name in Chinese characters." The 77-year-old Tang Xianhu recalls the scene of returning to China, which is still vividly remembered. "After returning to China, I gained a lot, and through studying Mao Zedong Thought, I got rid of many problems in my body. We have firmly established the ideal and belief of playing for the country and winning glory for the country, and with ideological armament, the technical level has also made rapid progress. ”
Born in Indonesia in 1939, Lin Jiancheng followed his father back to his homeland in 1952. In that year, he visited Denmark and Sweden with the Chinese badminton team, and successively competed with the European powerhouses Denmark and Sweden at that time, and finally the Chinese team won 34-0, shocking the international badminton world. "Chinese play badminton?" Lin Jiancheng said that when they arrived in Denmark, many people in the local area raised such questions, and eventually they proved with their actions that Chinese not only can fight, but also very strong.
Wang Wenjiao, Tang Xianhu and Lin Jiancheng are the pioneers of China's badminton industry, they have cultivated many outstanding players and world champions, and dedicated their lives to the cause of Chinese badminton. Today, they still pay attention to and care about the cause of badminton in China. "In a high-level game, the key point of the competition is to fight for one breath, it is a spiritual level thing, to play momentum." Tang Xianhu said. "The ideological construction of the team is very important, and the heart of the game must be very confident, even if it is backward, it can be reversed and won." Wang Wenjiao stressed. Chinese badminton has a good foundation, they believe that the current difficulties are temporary, after hard work, I believe that the Chinese badminton team will return to the peak. (Photo by Wei Peiquan, old craftsman)