After entering the second half of March, Kong Zhendong clearly felt that the official members of the capital team seemed to have been beaten with chicken blood, the training intensity increased, and the entire training base was filled with a tense and enthusiastic atmosphere.

Kong Zhendong asked solemnly and strangely: "What's the matter?" There haven't been any major competitions lately, have they? The Chiba World Table Tennis Championships will start next month, and it has nothing to do with them! ”

Solemnly whispered: "I heard my dad say that the deputy head coach of the national table tennis will come to the capital team at the end of the month to inspect, and several large media in the central and capital will accompany him, and when the time comes, the national table tennis coaching staff will announce the list of players to participate in the Chiba World Table Tennis Championships next month, and at the same time I heard that some members of the capital team will be urgently transferred as sparring partners in the closed training camp of the national team. ”

Kong Zhendong was inexplicable: "The game starts immediately, and at this time you are suddenly looking for a sparring partner?" Why did you go earlier? ”

Shaking his hand solemnly and helplessly, obviously he didn't know the inside story.

In Chinese sports in the 90s, there was no press conference model and spokesperson system. Leaders are also embarrassed to organize various media together casually to report information, so it is a common practice for leaders to pass on their thoughts and consciousness by publishing important speeches in important investigations and investigations.

The deputy head coach of the national table tennis team is also the leader, so it is also a common practice to choose this kind of investigation and research to announce the list of participants of the national team to the World Table Tennis Championships to the accompanying media.

On March 24, Li Fugui, deputy head coach of the Chinese table tennis team, led some members of the coaching staff, accompanied by the leaders of the Capital Sports Commission, the Capital Table Tennis Association and the Capital Team, to investigate the athlete training and echelon talent training of the Capital Table Tennis Team.

After all, in the era of national table tennis, every move of the national ball is a major event in the sports world, and in the world of table tennis, the World Table Tennis Championships has the most participating countries and athletes, and it is the highest level of competition and the most gold content, and the World Table Tennis Championships champion is known as the most dazzling jewel in the crown.

Don't look at Li Fugui's cheesy name, but he and 'Zhuang Shen' Zhuang Dongliang jointly created the first world domination of Chinese table tennis in the 60s.

Of course, Li Fugui only played an auxiliary role in it, but the god of Zhuang has been annihilated, so Li Fugui, as the representative of that collective honor, has a very respected status and prestige.

Li Fugui's research, the leaders around him, and the reporters surrounded fifty or sixty people, no less than the top sports stars of later generations.

In the training hall of the official members of the capital team, there are more than 20 table tennis tables in the central area, and in order to give the research team enough space for observation and activities, the remaining dozen table tennis tables are placed in the corners around the training hall.

On more than 20 tables in the center, the main players of the capital team and some powerful substitute players are engaged in fierce confrontation in singles or doubles.

The sparring partners temporarily recruited by the national team this time have both male and female players, so on today's table, there are men's and women's singles sparring, men's and women's doubles sparring, plus mixed doubles combinations, and the male and female players add up to nearly 100 people.

This is already the elite team of the entire capital team.

Kong Zhendong did not go to the central table to join in the fun, but solemnly looked at the corner table and carried out basic exercises without interference.

Kong Zhendong is self-aware, and the national team recruits sparring partners, no matter how talented and potential he is, it is impossible to be selected.

Sparring doesn't need talent and potential, to put it bluntly, the core ability is to endure ~ grass!

Good physical fitness, characteristic technical play, strong imitation ability, and quick combat power are the selection criteria for sparring partners.

At this stage, Kong Zhendong does not have a single element.

Kong Zhendong was practicing on the corner table, but when the corner of his eye swept to a few people who walked here, his calm and waveless state of mind was still turbulent in an instant.

Mi Shuai? How did he end up here?

Mi Xingbang was accompanied by several people at this time, walking towards the young players who were practicing around him.

Under the care of the leaders of the National Sports Commission, Mi Xingbang ended his five-year coaching career in Italy last month and returned to China.

Mi Xingbang, who has entered the coaching staff of the national team, is still in the stage of familiarizing himself with the work, and has not been officially appointed.

Although Mi Xingbang was a star-level world champion when he was a player, almost everyone on the coaching staff of the Chinese table tennis team was a world champion, so he was still a marginal person in this survey.

Accompanying Mi Xingbang to the young players were also two marginal people. Representing the Capital Team is Coach Zheng.

As a returnee coach who dedicated his youth to the Czech Republic in Eastern Europe, he obviously couldn't squeeze in the group of people who accompanied the leader on the inspection, and he had a relationship with Mi Xingbang before, so it was perfect to be arranged to receive Mi Xingbang.

The media representative who accompanied Mi Xingbang and Coach Zheng was Li Jun, who was demobilized from the army and served as the deputy head of the sports outsourcing team of the new Capital Television Station.

Although Li Jun accompanied the leaders on behalf of the Capital Television Station this time, he was also a marginal person in the media circle in front of the 'Central Eighth Congress'.

Unlike Deputy Head Coach Li Fugui, who focused on this sparring selection, the young Mi Xingbang is more focused on the future, and he hopes to cultivate more young stars, just like the wonder boy Liu Guobang who he values in the national junior team.

He hopes that there will be more such young people.

Coach Zheng smiled and said to Mi Xingbang: "Old Mi, our capital team has cultivated a highly talented young star, I don't tell him if I don't tell him!" ”

Mi Xingbang looked at the table pointed by Coach Zheng, and Kong Zhendong and Zheng Zheng were conducting tactical offensive and defensive drills.

Mi Xingbang had seen solemn photos before, and thought that Lao Zheng would not be so unreliable, touting that his son was a genius, so he focused on another child.

This kid looks twelve or thirteen years old, and his body is relatively strong, but at such an old age, he is still practicing the most basic techniques?

At this time, the most uncomfortable thing is probably solemn, Kong Zhendong, who has always been calm and calm, suddenly seemed to be beaten with chicken blood, and eighteen kinds of martial arts took turns.

This feeling is like showing his father a full score test paper and being a complacent child, which is really not like him.

Mi Xingbang was shocked: "The tactical integration ability is really strong!" obviously has such a good physical talent, but he relies on a soft hand to play, which is indeed a talent that can be created. ”

Li Jun had a rare opportunity to build momentum for Kong Zhendong, and he smiled: "Director Mi, this young man's name is Kong Zhendong." You just returned to China, and you don't know about the table tennis exchange at last year's Asian Games. In the exchange competition, the one who picked out the two South Korean Asian Games champions was Kong Zhendong! ”