"Coach Li, long time no see!" Yu Liwei stretched out his hand to Li Zhizhong with a smile on his face.

"Yu Liwei?"

In the rest area of Hedao City, Li Zhizhong called the other party's name in surprise after seeing the person who suddenly came to greet him. Then he greeted him, shook his hand, and said with a smile, "I haven't seen you for a long time, it's been six or seven years, I remember that the last time was in the national high-level coach training class." ”

"That's right, Coach Li's report on the physical training plan for young athletes is still fresh in my memory." Yu Liwei said with a hearty smile.

"Coach Yu, you're holding me in high esteem." Li Zhizhong shook his head again and again, and then asked, "I heard that you are now transferred to the national track and field team?" ”

"Last year, now I am the deputy head coach of the track and field team, focusing on youth training." Yu Liwei said his position in a big way, his face was as usual, and there was no smug look in his words.

But even so, when Li Zhizhong heard that the other party had been appointed as the deputy head coach of the national track and field team, a trace of bitterness flashed on his face.

The two had a brief encounter in the past, when they were almost returning from overseas training and wanted to show their ambitions. After the reopening, after the Los Angeles Olympics in 84, the gap between China and the world's first-class level, coupled with the large-scale study abroad tide in those years, there are a group of people in the sports system who really went abroad to learn a lot of experience. There have been good and bad, and large-scale scandals have erupted, but there are still some things to learn.

It's just that Li Zhizhong hit a wall again and again after he came back, and he barely had many opportunities to play what he had learned, and finally was seconded in the name of a physical fitness coach in the Hedao badminton team after several tosses, and stayed for many years. Although there were some achievements during the period, in the end they still deviated from the original intention of track and field at the beginning, and it was not until Shen Guoying recommended Su Zu to the Hedao City team this time that he really tried to take a step.

And Yu Liwei has almost had a smooth journey, starting from the assistant coach of the People's Liberation Army's track and field, step by step, to the position of deputy head coach of the national track and field team.

"It's not easy, Yu Liwei, you can get to where you are today. No more than us, wasted all these years. Li Zhizhong sighed lightly and cleaned up his mood.

"Coach Li, you are too modest, you have cultivated a very good talent." Yu Liwei meant something, looked at Li Zhizhong and smiled lightly.

Lao Li has been in the sports system for so long, and he immediately heard the meaning of the other party's words, snorted, and didn't pick up the conversation for a while, but looked behind Yu Liwei, "I don't know who this is?" ”

"Let me introduce you. One of the leaders of the organizing committee of the competition, Director Nian Fengzhou, is also the leader of our Athletics Association. Yu Liwei introduced.

"I said you Lao Yu, what kind of leader am I, just run errands." Nian Feng gestured at Yu Liwei, turned his head to Li Zhizhong and said politely, "Coach Li, you have been famous for a long time, and I have always heard that you have unique insights in physical fitness training, and you are a master in this area in China. ”

"Hello, Director Zhou." Li Zhizhong smiled lightly, and reached out to shake Nian Feng.

"Deputy, deputy, Coach Li, don't be polite, just call me Lao Zhou."

A few people gossiped and talked about the old days.

Yu Liwei looked at Li Zhizhong and Gu Zuoyan, he didn't answer several times, and simply went straight to the topic, "Coach Li, I came here this time, you may have guessed the purpose." You sprinters of the Hedao City track and field team, Su Zu, I personally am very optimistic about him and want to invite him to join the national team for further training. ”

Li Zhizhong's expression was a little complicated, on the one hand, he wanted the athletes he trained to be favored by the national team, and on the other hand, he still didn't want Su Zu to enter the national team so early.

There has always been such a contradiction between the national team and the local team, the national team wants to attract outstanding local talents to the national team for training, and the local team is often quite resistant to the national team's poaching move. finally cultivated an athlete, and hoped to be able to give more honors to the place, but he was crossed by the national team.

And this matter can't be reasoned, from the perspective of athletes, to be able to enter the national team, not to mention the treatment conditions, just being able to win glory for the country is already a very high honor, and it can also go on the international stage, this kind of attraction is not something that a local team can give.

But in this case, the athletes' achievements again are separated from the local team, and the original local coaches do not enjoy too many benefits. But sometimes there is no way, this is a superior unit, and the local team itself has the obligation to send and train talents for the country.

Li Zhizhong has been up and down for many years, and some things have actually been seen lightly, but it is not easy to cultivate an excellent athlete, and suddenly someone comes to grab it, and it is impossible to say that it is not awkward.

And this kind of thing is not a one-time decision, after a while, he said: "Coach Yu, you came here a little suddenly, our coaching staff training plan has just been formulated, I am afraid that we have to sum it up, and we also have to report to the leaders of the city's competition management center." ”

"Of course." Yu Liwei nodded, he didn't think about sending people in a word, athletes who can produce results are not like treasures in which team. After a little explanation: "Coach Li, it's not that I can't believe the training level of the local team, the main thing is the youth training project I am focusing on now, the Athletics Association has opened a new high-level reserve talent base in the southwest, and there is an urgent need for high-level talent reserves in this regard. ”

Speaking of the back, Yu Liwei also laughed.

"If this is the case, the fact that an athlete can enter the national team is also a recognition of our work." Li Zhizhong replied very seriously.

While several people were talking, Su Zu returned to the rest area after finishing the men's 100m final.

As soon as he walked over, he saw Li Zhizhong beckoning to him, "Su Zu, come, introduce these two guests to you." ”

Li Zhizhong casually opened a bottle of water for Su Zu, and he introduced, "This is Coach Yu Liwei, the deputy head coach of the national track and field team, and this is the leader of the Athletics Association, Director Zhou. ”

"Don't don't, Coach Li, just introduce Lao Yu, I don't need it, I'm just an outsider." Before Yu Liwei could speak, Nian Feng waved his white fat right hand and waved his hand again and again.

"Coach Yu, Director Zhou." Su Zu opened his mouth to greet the two.

"Su Zu, well, let's call you Xiao Su, you ran very well." Yu Liwei glanced up and down, with a bit of scrutiny, but there was a smile on his face.

"In this way, Coach Li, I still have something to do with Zhou, so let's go first and come back to visit."

Seeing Su Zu appear, Yu Liwei got up and said goodbye, some things can be said to the coaches and athletes, but it is not good to speak directly in front of the two.

It's the same coach, sometimes you have to be respectful of each other.

Just after Yu Liwei and Nian Feng left, Su Zu took a small sip of water to moisten his dry throat, and saw Li Zhizhong stunned.

"Coach, it's not simple, I didn't expect you to know people from the national track and field team."

Su Zu didn't expect that this visit between the two had something to do with him for a while, but he simply thought that Li Zhizhong's relationship network was not simple, and he secretly sighed, Lao Li's relationship in the sports system is not simple.

"You wipe your sweat and get dressed." Li Zhizhong came back to his senses, threw a towel to Su Zu again, and waited for Su Zu to wipe his sweat indiscriminately and change into a dry short sleeve, before he said with a bit of solemnity: "Did you hear the name of the person who came just now?" The deputy head coach of the national track and field team, people are not here for me, they are here to invite you to the national team. ”

Regarding this invitation information, Li Zhizhong didn't plan to hide or shirk it, and besides, Su Zudu had already seen someone just now, so he simply said it directly, so as not to have any thoughts in the athlete's heart in the future.

"Hmm." Ancestor Su nodded, and then listened to the second half of the sentence, and was stunned for a while.

"Invite me to the national team? So fast! ”

Su Zu didn't dare to think for a while, what kind of temptation is it to enter the national team and become an athlete with a national name? !

But the news came too suddenly!

Su Zu also thought that he would definitely enter the national team one day, but he never expected to be invited so soon. According to the information he has learned before, athletes generally do not rise to the top in the domestic arena and win various awards, championships, National Games, etc., in order to attract the attention of the national team. Send an invitation to the training camp, observe further, and finally measure the level of the athlete and whether he can stay in the national team.

How did you expect to send an invitation to join the team so soon?

How difficult it is to get into the national team, I have heard about this topic I don't know how many times.

The athletes who can be selected are the best of the best, with extraordinary talent, and they are the best among hundreds of millions of people in China.

But all of a sudden, it really fell on him, and Su Zu was still a little surprised.

"What, don't believe me?" Li Zhizhong looked at Su Zu's reaction, but he was happy and laughed, "Do you still think you are an ordinary athlete?" Oh, the champion of the National Track and Field Grand Prix is already the one with the highest level of sprinting in China. ”

It's not that Su Zu reacts slowly, but that he doesn't know enough about the current level of 100-meter sprinters in China, and at this point in time, it is far from five or six years or ten years later.

At this time, there are very few people in China who can run at the international level of 10.25 seconds. Almost no one even got the Olympic B standard. In the 2,000-year-old Sydney Olympics, no one qualified for the men's short track event.

His age, his results, are enough to be noticed.