After the three heavyweight players of Most Valuable Player, Best Rookie, and Best Overseas Player were awarded, Kong Zhendong finally took the microphone and began to deliver his acceptance speech.

Kong Zhendong took the microphone and looked at the fans cheering for him around him, and at the national team coaching staff and national team teammates who applauded him in the stands, and he tried to calm his emotions.

He calmly said: "Thank you all for accompanying me through my first season in the Swedish league. It's been a fantastic season. All the achievements I have achieved are inseparable from everyone's every shout, not a word of cheering. ”

The audience cheered louder.

Kong Zhendong continued: "This league championship, this MVP, and the best newcomer are the first time in my career that I have won such an award, and this season will definitely be unforgettable for me." But~"

Kong Zhendong turned around here, and the audience was very curious, what would he say about the turning point here?

Kong Zhendong looked around the audience and said loudly: "The Wolverines won the league championship, but our journey this season is far from over. We have the Champions League and the Copa del Rey on the table. The taste of the league championship is wonderful and worth savoring, but what we want to conquer is the sea of stars in the distance! ”

What we want to conquer is the sea of stars in the distance!

Kong Zhendong's ambition immediately ignited the audience. Even those sticks who were hostile to him at first couldn't help but be excited.

After the award ceremony of the league champion, the Swedish league of the 92~93 season officially came to an end.

Kong Zhendong was given nearly a week off, and the first thing he did was to go to Stockholm airport to see off the Chinese team that was about to return home.

The news of the Chinese team's defeat at the World Table Tennis Championships was transmitted back to China together with the report that he won the Swedish League championship, the best player, the best newcomer, and the best overseas player, which diluted the shadow of the national table tennis failure a lot.

The Skiers have been eliminated in the Champions League, so Zhang Lei's Skiers season is officially over.

He did not choose to continue to renew his contract, but chose to return to China.

Kong Zhendong admired him very much. Because of the loss of the World Table Tennis Championships, he could only choose to retire as a coach after returning to China.

In China, a country where table tennis talent is overflowing, domestic champions and ordinary world champions are worthless.

The head coaches of the provincial teams are at least meritorious players at the level of the team champions of the three major majors.

Zhang Lei returned to China as a defeated soldier at the World Table Tennis Championships, and the chance of staying in the national team to coach is zero, and the treatment of returning to the capital team will not be good.

However, Zhang Lei still resolutely gave up the attractive contract extension of the Swedish skiers team, and decided to return to China, fulfill his promise before going abroad, and transfer the authentic European two-sided arc technology back to China.

As soon as Zhang Lei left, Kong Zhendong became a real loner in Sweden, and in addition to a few teammates such as Sith Pan, there was only Madeleine, who often disagreed with him.

Less than a week's rest was fleeting, and Kong Zhendong was soon immersed in intense preparations for the Champions League semi-finals and Sweden's Copa del Rey.

This is the devil's race that follows.

On May 24, the Wolverines will face the Champions League semi-finals, last year's Champions League champions, the Eiffel Tower of Paris.

The Eiffel Tower has the defensive stalwart Elois and the unreasonable first goal king, the forehand attack king Gaiting.

On May 30, the two teams will play the second leg.

Then, on back-to-back May 31, the Wolverines will get close to the Swedish royal family and play the Copa del Rey against last year's league champions Skiers in the afternoon at the Swedish Royal Palace Arena.

The winner will receive a trophy from Her Royal Highness the Crown Prince and Princess of Sweden and will join the Swedish royal family in a celebratory dinner in the evening.

Considering the toughness of the back-to-back games at home, the Wolverines put more energy on winning on the road.

In the two-legged match, the away side must not only win, but also win big.

But in the face of last year's Champions League champion team, in the face of Gai Ting, who just won the World Table Tennis Championships this year and won the first person in the world table tennis world, who has the courage to say that he can win big?

On May 22, the French "Sports Illustrated" made a special trip to interview Gaiting, who had just been crowned king of the World Table Tennis Championships.

As the World Table Tennis Championships, World Cup champion, and Olympic runner-up, he became the closest player to a Grand Slam after Lao Wa.

Because of the innate central thinking of Europeans, they attach great importance to the European Championships, and even rank its status above the World Cup champions.

Therefore, in the perception of Europeans, Gaiting is only a line different from the old tile.

Less than five days after his World Championship triumph in Geiting, the Paris Sportillated interview is at his most glorious moment, so of course he has something to say about the future.

When evaluating the next opponent of the Champions League, the Wolverine team, Geiting said: "The Wolverine team is a young team, they won the Swedish league championship this year, and there is a certain chance factor that proves that Waldner and other national team players, without holding together, the dominance is weakened greatly, which means that Europe and even the world table tennis will usher in great changes, and the change of the table tennis dynasty is imminent." ”

Geiting's words naturally hinted that he would lead the French team to fill the strength vacuum after the decline of the Swedish team and establish a new table tennis dynasty.

When talking about Kong Zhendong's forehand play style called 'Little Gaiting', Gaiting said with a smile: "I have seen several game videos of Kong Zhendong, the technical style of play has not formed a system, and there are many shadows of famous players in the style of play, but he can beat many masters of the Swedish league, I still think it is an accidental factor for new players in the new season." ”

Geiting's remarks were soon reported by other mainstream sports media in Europe, and the headlines of the reports became increasingly shocking and provocative.

"Geting aims for the Champions League champion, and the young Wolverine team is vulnerable! 》

"Gaiting evaluates Kong Zhendong, an unstructured speculator, will be blown up! 》

"Geting bluntly said: The Wolverines won the championship, indicating that the Swedish dynasty has declined and a new dynasty is about to be born!" 》

"Gaiting on the Rise of Kong Zhendong: Marking the Decline of the Swedish Five Tigers and the Weakening of Dominance"

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Gaiting's interview was made headlines by the European media with various eye-catching headlines and spread throughout all sports fan circles in Europe.

In the period of the highest exposure of table tennis in the year just after the World Table Tennis Championships, Gaiting's interview aimed at the Champions League immediately crossed the field of table tennis and became a hot topic for the whole people.

In the expectant and skeptical eyes of everyone, the planes of Kong Zhendong and other Wolverine players landed at the Paris airport.

As soon as he got off the plane, Kong Zhendong was immediately surrounded by European sports reporters.

He is no longer an unknown Chinese player, but the number one fried chicken in the Swedish league, and all the media are expecting his response to Gaiting's remarks.

Kong Zhendong saw that he couldn't break through in a low-key manner, so he simply straightened his bow tie and gave the positive response that the reporters were looking forward to.