In short, it was infuriating that whenever you watched his videos, he was always trashing Wang Yi. But if you wanted to argue back, it was hard to do, because what he said was objectively true.
He had simply picked out one small mistake Wang Yi had made and analyzed it from every angle.
It left people feeling irritated, but there was nothing they could do about it.
That day, Wang Yi didn't eat in the school cafeteria with the coaches.
Instead, he invited more than ten current and former coaches from the school, including Principal Xu and Wang Jianhua.
Together with Pan Hongtao, they went to the school's reception room.
Then he had some food brought in, and everyone chatted as they ate in the reception room.
There were too many people in the cafeteria, so it wasn't a suitable place to talk.
As they spoke, Wang Yi briefly introduced Coach Pan Hongtao to the other coaches. Everyone already knew Pan Hongtao, of course.
But Wang Yi focused on explaining Pan Hongtao's training methods, especially how much importance he placed on honing the players' willpower during training. That was something Huali could learn a great deal from.
The coaches had heard a little about this before, but hadn't paid it much attention. Now that Wang Yi had emphasized it, they, too, thought the approach sounded quite good.
Wang Yi took a bite of braised eggplant and said,
"So I think Coach Pan's method of honing the players' willpower is well worth learning from. We should hire him as a part-time coach and have him teach one or two classes a week at Huali. What do you all think?"
A relatively young coach said, "Why hire him part-time? Just have Coach Pan come here as a visiting coach. It's not