When everyone thought that the dust had settled on today's topic, Mi Xingbang put forward a new proposal: "This time the men's team of the World Table Tennis Championships, the confirmed places are Wang Tao, Lu Ning, Ma Wenhua, Liu Guobang, since the fifth place Kong Zhendong everyone disagrees, then we will be empty first." This World Table Tennis Championships in Gothenburg will be the first time for our group of players to participate in the extremely cold climate of Northern Europe, not to mention that Gothenburg is located in northern Sweden, and the climate can be called extremely cold. I suggested that our coaching staff set up a study team to visit Sweden. Let's take a look at how our players have performed in the Swedish league and then we'll decide on a fifth place. ”

Hearing Mi Xingbang's suggestion, the other coaches were dumbfounded. In this era, there is no coaching staff to travel abroad as a way to play. This investigation must be done in real detail.

But what does it mean to vacate the national table tennis team quota and decide after watching the Chinese players in Sweden?

The Chinese team played in Sweden only Zhang Lei and young Kong Zhendong, who were on the verge of retirement.

Mi Shuai means this, isn't it still a disguised request for Kong Zhendong to play in the World Table Tennis Championships?

It's not enough to push a newcomer Liu Guobang? While shouting all day long to push newcomers, saying that the old players are not good, is it insinuating that we old coaches are not good either?

This quota has to be rejected no matter what!

Several coaches were preparing to join forces to oppose it, but Mi Xingbang had already reported the list of coaches who would accompany him on the Swedish tour.

Coach Li, Coach Qin, and Coach Peng are actually the old coaches who are most opposed to Kong Zhendong entering the World Championships list.

On the contrary, Mi Xingbang's lineage, who has vigorously advocated young players in recent years, and Wu Jingping and Yin Xiao, who have novel playing methods, are not on the list.

The people who went to inspect this time were all old coaches who opposed Kong Zhendong's entry into the competition? That should be a real investigation!

Seeing that the coach who went to Sweden to inspect and select players was the main force against Kong Zhendong, the other coaches were appeased.

The next day, Mi Xingbang vigorously set a timetable for the Swedish inspection.

Although the investigation of Mi Xingbang and his party was mainly concentrated in Gothenburg, they also set aside a day for Stockholm inspection.

On this day, it happened to be the day of the second contract city derby between the Wolverines and the Skiers.

A few days later, Coach Zheng told Kong Zhendong the news that Mi Xingbang and his party were going to watch the derby in the same city.

Kong Zhendong was a little excited, but also a little apprehensive, and said to Xiaoli, it was like a parent suddenly had to check his homework one day. To put it more broadly, it's like a soldier who has been training for many days is about to be reviewed by the chief, and the opponent is Waldner, who has never fought in his life.

Hanging up Coach Zheng's phone, Kong Zhendong tried to calm down his psychological fluctuations.

After all, this game is scheduled for late March, and before that, the Wolverines will have to play well against other league opponents and also have to deal with strong opponents in the Champions League quarter-finals.

On March 2, the Wolverine's Champions League knockout opponent was released.

Kong Zhendong almost didn't believe his eyes, he was surprised: "It's not that the game table is wrong, right?" Playing with football? ”

Sispan said on the side: "You read that right, our opponent in the set of questions is the German Bayern Munich team. FC Bayern in Germany is a long-established multi-ball club in Europe. In addition to football, there are track and field, table tennis, tennis, men's volleyball and so on. However, the other categories are all amateur clubs, and the only one who can dominate the league like Bayern Munich Football Club is the champion of the table tennis league, Bayern Munich. ”

Kong Zhendong was curious: "They are the Bundesliga champions, that strength should be very strong, we are the first in the group with four wins, why do we meet such a strong opponent in the knockout round?" ”

Sispan said helplessly: "No way, every year in the table tennis super league when grouping, there will be a group of death." Bayern Munich are really strong, they have the big two Germans, Roscoff and Fitzner, especially Roscoff, who are definitely the top 10 players in Europe. Unfortunately, they are in a group of the first favorites to win the championship, the Belgian Brussels Crown, they have European champion Seifer and the first basic player Primorac. Despite this, Bayern lost by a narrow 2-3 deficit in both rounds of the group stage, so their strength should not be underestimated. ”

On March 11, after comfortably beating the two teams in the middle of the league and the bottom of the table in the early half of the year, the Wolverines landed on a relaxed plane at Munich Airport.

The schedule was tight, so Kong Zhendong and others didn't have time to visit the Bayern football team and the stadium before the game, and rested early in the hotel.

On the morning of March 12, Kong Zhendong and others were led by the staff of the Bayern team to visit the Bayern Multisport Center.

In addition to being able to see the history of the Bayern table tennis team, you can also see the development of other clubs such as football.

After an hour and a half of acclimatization training in the afternoon, the duel between the two sides started at 7:30 p.m. on time.

At seven o'clock, when Kong Zhendong entered the home stadium of the Bayern team, he was almost frightened by the atmosphere of the home fans.

Is this really table tennis instead of football?

German football fans are already known for their hot temper and troublemaking, but after entering the table tennis hall, Kong Zhendong is very uncomfortable when he looks at the excited fans in strange costumes and most of them have oil paint on their faces.

Looking at the surrounding fans who were rising wave after wave, Ben Gesen, who was arranging the lineup, said: "Let's let Sispan play the first game and rush to morale!" ”

Because Bayern has two world champions, Roscoff and Fizner, Bengerson's original plan was to put Sispan in the third singles and win the game safely.

But now seeing such a strong sense of oppression on the scene, if there is no super morale, the whole game will be played with stuffy balls, which will affect Kong Zhendong's performance.

Kong Zhendong took the initiative to say to Ben Gesen at this time: "Coach, let me play the first game, I must get excited as soon as possible." ”

The first game of the game tends to be the most impactful player of the team, which is equivalent to the team's vanguard confrontation, and then the second game is the duel between the main players.

Kong Zhendong asked for the first battle, on the one hand, for Sispan to better arrange the troops. In addition, he felt that if the team lost in the first game under such strong pressure from the audience, it would be difficult for him to mobilize the excitement of the second game.

Kong Zhendong took the initiative to ask for the battle, Bengesen naturally supported, and submitted the list of the first three games of the Wolverine team to the organizing committee of the competition as soon as possible.

After the home team Bayern Munich submits its roster, the matchup table is displayed on the central screen.

Match 1: Kong Zhendong vs Fitzner.

The fans immediately cheered. They have long heard that a Chinese teenager has risen in the group stage of this year's Champions League, and they have all kinds of trash talk such as: "pinch that kid", "beat that kid back to his mother's arms to drink milk" and so on.

Kong Zhendong frowned slightly, and then eliminated the surrounding distractions, and focused on pulling the new ball with Fitzner.

Fitzner is over twenty-five years old this year, but because of his fair skin and handsome face, he gives people the familiarity of a big boy.

No matter once he started to pull, Kong Zhendong still felt that the strength of this Sven big boy was far above him.

At the start of the game, Fitzner started with five goals.

Fitzner moved to the backhand area, his center of gravity was slightly lowered, and his left hand quickly threw the white table tennis ball low, and then his right hand spun sharply to cut the serve with his backhand.

Kong Zhendong is a changeable player with a strong backhand, so the backhand cut serve is also his usual way of serving.

However, looking at Fitzner's serve, it was very different, his right hand crossed a full semicircle, and the table tennis ball spun on the racket for a very long time, very deeply.

The ball spun very strongly and fell sharply over the net.

Kong Zhendong bounced his backhand quickly, but the ball grazed the net, and the low arc of the ball affected the quality of his return.

After the table tennis ball bounces the net, the speed decreases, and the height of the rebound is also higher, forming the effect of rising to the top.

As a world champion, Fitzner has a strong ability to grasp the fighter, quickly get on the stage and draw quickly, and score the first point.

It was just a tentative first point. In addition, the loss of points caused by the ball becoming less threatening after the ball has grazed the net is often regarded as bad luck.

But the German fans ignored this, clapping and shouting desperately, as if Fitzner had won the game.

Listening to the shouts of the audience, Kong Zhendong shook his head slightly. No wonder Germany has never been a blessed place for the Chinese team.

The 1989 World Table Tennis Championships in Dortmund, Germany, was the beginning of China's table tennis Waterloo.

In the tidal shouts of the German home fans, the Swedish team swept the Chinese team 5:9 and won the heaviest men's team championship at the World Table Tennis Championships.

The basic skills of the Chinese players are very solid, but they are inexperienced in such a manic atmosphere.

Although the Dortmund World Table Tennis Championships is the Waterloo of national table tennis, there is precisely the most glorious moment of Fitzner.

It was in the hysterical shouts of local fans that he won the men's doubles championship of the World Table Tennis Championships with Roskoff.

The World Championship champion four years ago is now naturally more vigorous, and only the European Champions Cup is worth conquering in front of him.

Fitzner's second shot was a backhand cut-off serve, but the line of the ball swooped straight and punched Zhendong's forehand far corner.

Kong Zhendong has a straight forehand and returns the ball to press Fitzner's backhand.

Fitzner, on the other hand, seems to be very confident in his backhand skills. Catching the backhandball, I was extra excited.

Fitzner flicked a slash with a fast and high-angle backhand with a small jump, attacking Kong Zhendong's backhand far away.

Kong Zhendong quickly moved sideways and brought the board back.

Unfortunately, it was too passive, and the return was high, Fitzner seized the opportunity again and scored with a strong forehand slash.

With a score of 0:2, the fans at the scene were even more excited, but Kong Zhendong was gradually immune to the shouting. He pressed his body weight down, and at the moment when Fitzner's third serve just crossed the net, he started quickly, and his forehand was lightning forward, and after the table tennis ball just hit the ball, he quickly hit the slash with his forehand, and Fitzner was caught off guard.