"Wu Li is no longer here?"
"Going to fight Table Tennis Super League?"
"Abducted by Wang Chao?"
In the Jiangcheng City Team training base, the white-haired and white-bearded Northern Hubei Province table tennis team head coach Jiang Tiansheng faced Jiangcheng City Team head coach Luo Zhihong and asked three consecutive questions about his soul.
He was very angry at this moment.
Because he has been paying attention to the player Wu Li for many years and has designed a complete training plan, he is very optimistic about Wu Li.
Because of his optimism, he did not rush to recruit Wu Li into the provincial team, but let him polish his basic skills to perfection in the city team.
When the provincial team submitted the selection list to the national team this year, he did not fill in Wu Li's name because he felt that Wu Li was a late bloomer. Putting him into a fiercely competitive environment too early would make Wu Li consider tactical system issues prematurely, and instead miss a good time to lay a solid foundation.
If we use the theory of cultivating immortals as an analogy, Jiang Tiansheng believes that ordinary players can only build three or four levels of foundation building, but Wu Li is the kind of person who can build nine levels. Wu Li's other talents are not good, but only foundation building is unparalleled in the world. If this stage of foundation building is missed, this person's special talent will be wasted.
It has to be said that Jiang Tiansheng is still discerning. When the national team came to Jiangcheng City to play in the Open, they had five main players take turns torturing Wu Li. The big bosses of the national team were also watching, not to mention that He Jingping came to Jiangcheng City Team base to retire and watched Wu Li for three full years.
But none of the national team bosses realized how special Wu Li was. Only Jiang Tiansheng could see it.
Just because he saw it, Jiang Tiansheng felt that Wu Li was a rare commodity. He wanted to personally cultivate a World Champion and make it a big satellite.
But now, the person is gone? Was he abducted by Wang Chao to Table Tennis Super League?
What is the difference between this and going directly to the national team? Letting Wu Li fight Table Tennis Super League's various opponents too early will make the child consider the tactical system too early and ignore the basics. This will miss the child's future!
Jiang Tiansheng Can't stand it.
He directly called Spade Q's boss Fan Xiaofan's office and roared into the phone, "If you don't give me an explanation for this matter, I will give you an explanation!"
Fan Xiaofan was confused for a while, and it took a long time to remember, oh, yes, Wang Chao did call him years ago and asked him to sign Wu Li. At that time, he was still puzzled and asked Wang Chao if the signing was a bit hasty.
To be honest, he really didn't take player Wu Li seriously.
After all, he has signed Wang Chao, which belongs to the real dragon. Who can still value the dragon?
Then Fan Xiaofan felt a little aggrieved again.
In fact, Wu Li is free to go wherever he goes. Theoretically, Jiang Tiansheng has no control over it. Moreover, Wu Li came to Spade Q after signing a contract, and he got a high price. No matter how you look at it, Fan Xiaofan, the boss, can be regarded as the most benevolent person. How can you, Jiang Tiansheng, stand up to me?
But Fan Xiaofan dared not say this.
Because Jiang Tiansheng is the head coach of Hubei Provincial Team, but Spade Q is working for Northern Hubei Province. Although there is no direct superior-subordinate relationship between the two parties, Jiang Tiansheng is vaguely regarded as half of his immediate boss.
And Fan Xiaofan knows in his heart that old-school leaders like Jiang Tiansheng usually don't talk about rules and regulations. They prefer to talk about conscience and justice. Jiang Tiansheng is so angry today. It's obviously because Wu Li has touched his sore spot.
Fan Xiaofan naturally does not know how much effort Jiang Tiansheng has spent on Wu Li. He only knows that he must give Jiang Tiansheng an explanation for this matter, otherwise, that man will activate his terrible interpersonal relationships and make Spade Q uneasy.
Don't doubt that Jiang Tiansheng does have this ability, because he made a huge contribution to the Chinese table tennis back then, and he has a very good relationship with the Chinese table tennis coaching staff.
How good is it?
If Jiang Tiansheng insists on doing something, even if Cai Guodong knows that it is wrong, as long as he doesn't go too far, Cai Guodong will still pinch his nose to help Jiang Tiansheng, and even wipe his butt after that.
Lao Jiang is so stupid!
Except for a little bit of power-seeking regarding his son Jiang Long, Jiang Tiansheng is actually a very respectable person.
He was also a national team player when he was young, but due to his limited talent, he failed to become the absolute main force. He was barely selected for First Team. He won some medals in team competitions and doubles competitions with the Huaping team. These honors in non-Chinese associations are certainly worthy of being offered as family heirlooms, but in a place like Huaping, it is basically as if he has not won them.
If we want to make an analogy, his original status was even lower than today's Yan Ping'an, Fang Xiaobo and Zou Zhengyu.
But at that time, the entire Huaping was facing the pressure of Sweden Old Wa, and it did not form absolute dominance in the world. Therefore, the players of Huaping were more united than now. They tried their best to avoid internal friction and twisted into a rope to deal with the outside world.
Later, Jiang Tiansheng grew older, could no longer improve his strength, and completely lost the ability to fight externally. At that time, Chinese table tennis was in the ascendant, and neither Table Tennis Super League nor Table Tennis First Division had taken shape. There was no way to leave the national team to play in a professional league, so he faced the problem of changing careers.
The Chinese Sports Commission still gives preferential treatment to the national team table tennis players, because after all, they have made great contributions to the national honor. At this time, Jiang Tiansheng has two choices. The first is to directly transfer to the national team assistant coach. From then on, he becomes a civil servant-like existence, receiving royal rations, distribution, and no worries.
The second is to choose a nearby first-class university in the imperial capital under the arrangement of the Sports Commission, register for it, get a postgraduate diploma from the university, and then get a job in the relevant department of the Sports Commission, and you will also have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of your life.
But Jiang Tiansheng didn't choose. He took the initiative to submit an application to the then Huaping leaders and applied to become a sparring partner.
At that time, Huaping had just started, and there was no complete and clear role of sparring partner. Players only occasionally imitated the playing styles of foreign players for mutual training.
It was Jiang Tiansheng who was the first to take the initiative to clarify what a sparring partner is and became the first full-time sparring partner himself.
From now on, he will not play any games, and no one will hear his name in the news. He will only stay at the national team base and accompany various players in various styles of targeted training. He will be a true unsung hero.
This application shocked and moved the leaders of Huaping. They talked with Jiang Tiansheng for an entire afternoon, and finally they were convinced by Jiang Tiansheng.
Jiang Tiansheng loves table tennis, but he feels that he is not strong enough and visionary enough to be a teaching assistant. If he tries to become a teaching assistant, he will mislead his students.
As for getting a diploma, he never thought about it because he felt that he could never leave table tennis in his life.
So he eventually became a sparring partner of Huaping, and stayed with him from the age of 27 to 40. Although he was not very strong, he was very proficient in various playing styles, and was especially good at imitating the playing styles of other players. Therefore, the coaching staff of Huaping later unanimously recognized: "Xiao Jiang" is the best sparring partner of our national team, bar none.
He is the longest-serving sparring partner in China Table Tennis Team's history, having been with him for 13 years, and for eight of those years, he continued to imitate Old Wa's style of play. Later, according to people who played with him in the team, he was already playing at least seven points of Old Wa's spirit. If he were to play in the World Series, he might still be able to come back with a few medals at the age of over 30.
But no one in the world knows that there is such a person hidden in Chinese Table Tennis base, and Jiang Tiansheng does not want to tell anyone his story.
The purity of the old-school player is hard to imagine for contemporary young people. He is an unsung hero in the true sense.
He witnessed the establishment of Table Tennis Super League and Table Tennis First Division, and many people once invited him to play in the league, but he refused them all.
It is worth mentioning that the young Cai Guodong once enjoyed Jiang Tiansheng's sparring. At that time, Jiang Tiansheng was already the best sparring partner in Chinese National Table Tennis Team, while Cai Guodong was just a newcomer.
They developed a deep personal friendship.
Later, Jiang Tiansheng was too old and had to retire. In order to appreciate his efforts, the Chinese National Sports Commission and the Chinese Table Tennis coaching staff directly sent him to the position of deputy head coach of Hubei Provincial Team.
Everyone can see that this is paving the way for him.
Sure enough, three years later, the original head coach retired, and Jiang Tiansheng took over directly, and has continued to work for nearly twenty years, until today.
Over the past ten years, he has worked hard and provided a lot of talents to the national team. Until Wang Chao appeared, he began to run into obstacles one after another.
At first, his son Jiang Long got into trouble and bullied Wang Chao, which caused Wang Chao to make a temporary decision and leave the city team to go to Table Tennis First Division.
——Yes, Jiang Tiansheng has always thought so.
In his opinion, if Jiang Long had not forced Wang Chao to have no choice, Wang Chao would have followed the path of city team - provincial team - national team, because this is the right way for China Table Tennis players to advance. As for playing in the professional league, it is something that players who have lost their pursuit do to make money. The goal is not pure enough and the belief is not great enough.
How can making money be more important than bringing glory to the country?
For this reason, after Wang Chao went to Spade Q, he scolded Jiang Long almost every day, so much so that Jiang Long later did not dare to go home for dinner.
Because he was too upset, he indefinitely suspended Jiang Long's qualification to select young talents at the grassroots level every year.
And when Wang Chao shined in the live broadcast, he brought up the old things again and again. Even if Jiang Long was not around, he would call and scold him, which made his wife lose his temper with him several times and ask him who is his biological son.
He is not old and verbose, nor is he naturally talkative. He just feels that it is a pity for a genius like Wang Chao.
This kid can play so well in Table Tennis First Division, so if he joins the provincial team and lays a solid foundation, and slowly develops his skills, will he not be able to go to heaven in the future?
Every time like this, several other coaches of the provincial team would advise him: It's okay, there is Wu Li.
Only when he hears Wu Li's name can Jiang Tiansheng feel calm.
He made an extremely detailed special training plan at the end of last year, thinking that he would call Wu Li into the provincial team in March this year and start special training in person. For this reason, he came to the city team base in mid-February in advance to see Wu Li's current training status.
Then he heard that Wu Li had been kidnapped...
After making a call to Fan Xiaofan, Jiang Tiansheng was still angry. He suddenly remembered that Table Tennis Super League had already started a week, so he quickly found the schedule and found that Spade Q had already played one game and would play another game tomorrow morning.
So he asked someone to find the game video of Spade Q, turned directly to the part of Wu Li, and watched it carefully.
An hour later, he watched the entire video, and his inner anger was uncontrollable.
He found that Wu Li played very poorly and was completely unable to parry against the third order of team Magic City Fire Phoenix.
And the doubles match between Wu Li and Geng Shuai was even more chaotic, with no coordination at all. They fought on their own and were beaten to a pulp.
Jiang Tiansheng has a good eye. He can see that Fire Phoenix Team's doubles team can completely shave Spade Q's head, but at the end of the game, they deliberately let go and gave up a ball.
So Jiang Tiansheng became even more angry.
He had been optimistic about the young talent for three years, and was abducted to the Table Tennis Super League stadium. He had to give up the ball on his first appearance...
He grabbed the mobile phone on the sofa and decided to call Fan Xiaofan again. This time he not only wanted to scold Fan Xiaofan until he was bloody, but also asked Fan Xiaofan to call Wang Chao over, and then... um, have a good chat with Wang Chao.
After all, he was apologetic to Wang Chao, and this time Wu Li was kidnapped by Wang Chao. Strictly speaking, it was the aftermath of Wang Chao being forced to Table Tennis First Division by his son last year.
The veteran is still very polite to talents. He only plans to have a deep talk with Wang Chao.
But before he had time to dial, he found a call coming from Fan Xiaofan.
Jiang Tiansheng answered the phone and said "hello" in a bad tone.
"That's it, Mr. Jiang." Fan Xiaofan spoke cautiously over there, "This year has just started, so Wu Li's competitive state is not that good. In addition, our Wang Chao player has just returned from the port area and has no time to practice doubles with Wu Li, so I guess tomorrow morning's game will be ugly."
Jiang Tiansheng's face turned black.
What's the matter? You called me specifically to tell me that Spade Q not only lost miserably in the first game, but was also planning to lose miserably in the second game?
Can I understand that you are provoking me?
Fortunately, Fan Xiaofan is also a shrewd person. Hearing a slight snort from here, he immediately knew something was wrong, and his tone quickly rose. "But!"
He took a breath, fearing that Jiang Tiansheng would go crazy in the middle, so he spoke very quickly, "But in four days we will play Shandong Province Power Club away from home. You can take a look at it first, and then you can decide whether to deal with me after watching it, okay?"
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