September 24 news, Wang Jiawei and Lang Ping, the Chinese volleyball world in the 80s and 90s of the last century two iconic figures, the two are also many years of friends, the 2015 Women's Volleyball World Cup won the championship, is already the company's boss Wang Jiawei was happy to re-award the women's volleyball team 5 million, and now he reviews the details of this story for the first time.
Group photo of Lang Ping, Wang Jiawei and others
At that time, when Lang Ping, the 17-year-old beijing team leader, was selected by yuan Weimin, the head coach of the women's volleyball team, to join the Chinese women's volleyball team, the 22-year-old Wang Jiawei was already the first handsome man in the Chinese sports world. Wang Jiawei said that at that time, they were in the same training hall and noticed the "iron hammer" of the strong slam, but at that time, the two did not have much communication, until they both experienced staying in the West and returned to their motherland as the head coach of the men's and women's volleyball team, and they became good friends.
At the 1996 Asian Games in Thailand, after the Chinese women's volleyball team took the lead in defeating the South Korean team to win the championship, Lang Ping specially led the women's volleyball team members to cheer for the men's volleyball team, and Wang Jiawei also led the men's volleyball team to defeat the South Korean team to win the Asian Games gold medal. The men's and women's volleyball teams both won the championship, and the two young marshals Wang Jiawei and Lang Ping also became good stories.
Wang Jiawei, Lang Ping and Chen Zhonghe
Since 2001, Wang Jiawei, who has put down the Chinese men's volleyball team coach, has been engaged in investment in energy, petroleum and other related industries, and is currently the chairman of Shanghai Bokun Investment Co., Ltd., and his other identity is one of the investors of Newland Oil and Gas Company, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the oil and gas company is Kyrgyzstan Continental Oil and Gas Co., Ltd. The former "Prince of Volleyball" has become an "energy tycoon".
Doing business is very successful
Although he successfully changed careers, he has always been concerned about volleyball. In 2011, the Chinese women's volleyball team won the third place in the World Cup, the whole team gathered in Ningbo Beilun Base to celebrate the achievement, Wang Jiawei in his personal name to reward the women's volleyball girl 2 million yuan. Before the 2012 London Olympics, he once made a bold statement, "If the Chinese women's volleyball team can win a medal in London, I still have a heavy prize." "Unfortunately, the Chinese women's volleyball team failed to advance to the final four.
On the night of the last round of the Women's Volleyball World Cup on September 6, 2015, Wang Jiawei and his friends were having dinner, and someone said that there was a women's volleyball final tonight, so everyone immediately turned on the TV to watch the women's volleyball game. The Chinese women's volleyball team won the championship in the last round with a 3-1 victory over Japan.
As soon as the game ended, Wang Jiawei immediately called Lang Ping, who had just finished attending the press conference, "I asked her, 'When will you return to China?'" She said, 'I'll go home tomorrow.'" I immediately said, 'I'll invite you to dinner the night after tomorrow, do you think it will be okay?' She replied to me, 'How can I just eat?' I said, 'Of course there's something else'. She immediately asked, 'Really?' I said, 'Really! And she asked, 'How much?' I said, 'No less than 500...' and she was overjoyed,' and I announced it to the team at once. '”
Lang Ping was cheerful, and Wang Jiawei was domineering. Probably Lang Ping told him that the women's volleyball team was only available on the evening of the 8th, so Wang Jiawei booked a place in the Kunlun Hotel in advance. On the evening of the 7th, Wang Jiawei and two other friends had dinner, and when they talked about this matter, they were also very excited, and also said that they wanted to meet with the girls of the women's volleyball team and support the Chinese women's volleyball team with practical actions.
On September 8, Wang Jiawei specially hosted a banquet for the women's volleyball girls who returned from victory at the Kunlun Hotel in Beijing, he made a big "check" sign, he and his wife rewarded the women's volleyball team with 3 million yuan, and the other two friends were 1 million yuan. He said: "I was so happy at the time! ”
Sponsored the women's volleyball team 5 million
Wang Jiawei admires the coaching of his old friend Lang Ping, although Director Lang has always been very low-key for the world championship results, indicating that he is competing for the top 6, and for the upcoming women's volleyball world championship Wang Jiawei boldly predicted, "The women's volleyball world championship that opens next week, the Chinese women's volleyball team has absolute strength to rank among the top three." ”
As for Lang Ping's beloved disciple Zhu Ting, the female ranking coach Chen Zhonghe once commented, "Before, we always said that there was a Lang Ping in 60 years, but now I see a good player like Zhu Ting, which is indeed once in a hundred years." ”
Wang Jiawei commented, "Zhu Ting is a talent that cannot be met in 30 years, much stronger than Lang Ping at that time!" This is not only an affirmation of Zhu Ting, but also a compliment to Lang Ping, after all, there is no Bole Maxima where there will be a place to play.
Lang Ping and Zhu Ting