Almighty Coach

Dai Li felt that the envelope containing the money in his hand suddenly became as heavy as a thousand catties.

"What's the situation? How could someone send me money? What did Zhu Feng's father say just now? It seems to have mentioned the national team?" Dai Li's mind suddenly stopped.

"Uncle Zhu, you just said that you let Zhu Feng join the national team? What's going on?" Dai Li continued to ask.

"Coach Li, I know there are people above you who can speak well in the national team and have the ability to get my son Zhu Feng to the national team. Please help us..." Zhu Feng's father continued.

"Is there someone above me?" Dai Li suddenly laughed, "Uncle Zhu, I think there must be some misunderstanding here? I'm an ordinary coach from a small place like Yuzhou. Who can be above me!"

"Coach Li, you must refuse!" Zhu Feng's father pointed to the envelope, and then said, "I know these are definitely not enough, and you will definitely need money to go to the capital, just tell me how much you need, and I will give it to you tomorrow." You send it over."

"No, Uncle Zhu, you must have misunderstood. I don't have the ability to get athletes to the national team." Dai Li waved his hand immediately, and then asked back, "By the way, where did you hear that?" Say, is there someone above me?"

"It's said in the table tennis team." Zhu Feng's father continued: "They said that you know a lot of people in the capital, and many of them are officials, and you can talk to the General Administration of Sports."

"It's all about who and where!" Dai Li laughed at himself, "If I really had that ability, I wouldn't have to stay here anymore. I would have served in the national team long ago."

"You used to be in the national team!" Zhu Feng's father continued: "They said that you are returning to the provincial team now just to gain qualifications for grassroots work. When you return to Huajing, you will definitely be promoted."

"There are still such rumors? I don't think I have anything to reason with!" Dai Li was a little helpless. He felt that he was being praised and killed for no reason.

"Uncle Zhu, you really misunderstood me. I really don't have that ability." Dai Li thought for a while and continued to explain: "Besides, I was in the national track and field team, not the national table tennis team. If I were a track and field athlete, I still have the ability to introduce them, but for table tennis players, I really can’t do anything.”

Dai Li said, and handed back the envelope containing 10,000 yuan to Zhu Feng's father.

However, Zhu Feng's father felt that Dai Li was too short of money and refused to help. Instead of accepting the envelope, he said, "Coach Li, this is just a little bit of my heart. I know it's definitely not enough. I still have more here." , you wait for me, I'll come back tomorrow!"

"No, I didn't mean that. I really don't have that much ability." Dai Li took the envelope and forced it into Zhu Feng's father's hand.

"I understand, I understand!" Zhu Feng's father made a look of sudden realization, and then turned to leave.

...

Li Dai thought it was a simple misunderstanding, it was just someone's false rumor that there was an oolong, and the matter passed like this, but what he didn't expect was that when he returned to the dormitory the next night, he just opened the room. He opened the door, but saw another envelope on the ground, and he knew it was stuffed in through the crack of the door.

Dai Li opened the envelope. This time it was not money, but a bank card with a note inside. On the note was written the words "Coach Li Dai, please accept it", followed by six numbers, obviously the password of the bank card, signed by Zhu Feng's father.

"Why are you here again!" Dai Li really felt very helpless, but also a little angry. He looked at the corridor outside, but he didn't see Zhu Feng's father.

"As an athlete, if you don't train well and work hard to improve your level, you'll just think about some crooked things. Come on, I'll go to Zhu Feng, return the money to him, and scold him by the way!" Dai Li Thinking of this, he took the envelope and walked towards the athlete's dormitory.

As a coach, Li Dai lives in a single dormitory, while Zhu Feng, as an athlete, lives in a double dormitory.

Li Dai came to the athlete's dormitory building. After asking which room Zhu Feng lived in, he walked over. He knocked on the door, and someone immediately opened the door.

"Coach Li! Why are you here!" The person who opened the door was also a player from the table tennis team, so he recognized Dai Li.

"Does Zhu Feng live here?" Dai Li asked aggressively.

"Look for Zhu Feng, he hasn't come back yet." The other party replied.

"It's already 8:30, why haven't you come back? Did you go to the Internet cafe? Or did you go out to play?" Dai Li frowned slightly.

Self-discipline is an essential quality for professional athletes. Strict work and rest time is also a part of "self-discipline". Under normal circumstances, the rest time of athletes should not exceed ten o'clock in the evening at the latest. It will affect the normal training of the next day. Many athletes go to bed by nine o'clock in the evening.

Counting the washing time before going to bed, the athlete should return to the dormitory at 8:00 p.m. If there are no special circumstances, if the athlete has not returned to the dormitory after 8:30 p.m. I am not self-disciplined anymore.

Hearing Li Dai's question, Zhu Feng's roommate immediately explained; "Coach Li, don't get me wrong, Zhu Feng definitely didn't go out to play, he should practice equipment in the training room instead! Every night, Zhu Feng will give himself For extra practice, you won’t come back until almost nine o’clock. Why don’t you come in first and wait a while, and I’ll call him and ask him to come back early.”

"No need." Dai Li waved his hand: "It's not far anyway, I'd better go find him in the training room."

...

"I practice extra every night. It seems that this Zhu Feng is also a very hard-working athlete! This kind of hard-working athlete uses some crooked methods to send money to the coach in order to enter the national team. This really surprised me." While pondering, Dai Li walked towards the training room.

As expected, the lights in the training room were still on, and people could be seen swaying inside from a distance. When Dai Li walked into the door of the training room, he immediately saw Zhu Feng sweating profusely on a piece of equipment.

"It's really training here." Looking at Zhu Feng's sweaty appearance, Dai Li couldn't help but increase his favorability for Zhu Feng.

As a coach, you will definitely like athletes who work hard. Before, Li Dai felt that Zhu Feng was not serious about training and wanted to take a shortcut to join the national team, but now it seems that Zhu Feng is not such a person.

"Maybe there's something hidden in it!" Dai Li thought for a while, but he thought it's better not to jump to conclusions.

At this time, Zhu Feng saw Dai Li who had just walked in, and he immediately stopped the training at hand.

"Coach Li!" Zhu Feng got off the fitness equipment.

Dai Li took out the envelope from his pocket, and handed it to Zhu Feng with a cold face.

Zhu Feng took the envelope with an embarrassed expression, glanced at Dai Li cautiously, and asked tentatively, "Coach Li, is it not enough?"

Dai Li was so angry that he didn't laugh.

"What do you think?" Dai Li's tone was incomparably cold, and he continued, "Your father is confused, so are you? Do you think the selection of the national team is a joke? Can you get into the national team with money?"

"I..." Zhu Feng looked a bit struggling: "I just want to try, they all said, there are people above you."

"Hehe, even if there are really people above me, they won't help you, at least not for money." Dai Li took a deep breath, and then said: "Don't forget your identity, you are an athlete, if you want to If you want to enter the national team, you should use your strength instead of going some crooked ways!"

"I'm sorry." Zhu Feng lowered his head: "I don't want to do this either, but I'm afraid I won't have a chance. I'm already 20 years old this year. If I can't be selected for the national team, I won't have a chance in my life."

For the selection of the table tennis national team, 20 years old is indeed a senior athlete. In the national table tennis team, many well-known players who can be named by ordinary people are selected into the second team of the national team at the age of 14 or 15. Those who were selected into the national team at the age of 18 or 19 are already relatively young If you are older, if you are over 20 years old, for the national table tennis team, it may lose the value of training. Many first-line players, at the age of 26 or 7, will probably choose to retire if they cannot continue to maintain a good state.

So 20-year-old Zhu Feng, if his youth is placed in other sports, he can still be regarded as a rising star, but in table tennis, where there are many talents, he is about to lose his qualifications for the national team because of his age.

However, Dai Li did not sympathize with Zhu Feng. He said, "This is not the reason for you to use crooked ways. You are not only insulting me, but also insulting yourself and your identity as an athlete."

"I'm sorry." Zhu Feng apologized again, and he obviously knew that he had done something wrong.

"In fact, your strength is already one of the best in our provincial team. Even if you fail to enter the national team, you can still prove your strength in the game. You are still an excellent table tennis player. Although you can't make it The national team cannot participate in international competitions, but they can still participate in domestic competitions. Domestic table tennis competitions are more brutal than international competitions, and they are even bigger. You can also participate in club competitions, and the first place in your provincial team It shouldn’t be a problem to go to the club to play in the Table Tennis Super League because of your identity!" Dai Li continued.

"Coach Li, you don't understand. Entering the national team is my dream, and it's also the dream of three generations of our family." Zhu Feng's tone became a little excited, and he continued: "Actually, our family is also a family of table tennis. My grandfather When he was young, he also worked as a table tennis player, he was a soldier at that time, and he also represented the army and participated in the first National Games.”

"The first National Games? That qualification is old enough!" Dai Li said.

Li Dai has studied in school, and he knows that the significance of the first National Games is extraordinary. It can be said that this first National Games laid the foundation for the domestic sports industry, the system of various domestic sports, It was also established after that. If there is no first National Games, the domestic sports industry may be like India, which only plays cricket with self-satisfaction, but has no achievements in international competitions.

Zhu Feng went on to say: "In that era, there were almost no professional athletes, and there were no professional coaches. My grandfather was also sent by the army to participate in the National Games because of his good table tennis. , Although my grandfather did not get the ranking, he was invited by the National Table Tennis Team."

"But my grandfather was an active soldier at that time, so he gave up going to the National Table Tennis Team, and this incident made my grandfather regret for life, because two years after the end of the National Games, at the 26th World Table Tennis Championships, Our national team won the gold medal for the first time, the men's team gold medal."

Dai Li nodded. Although it was more than half a century ago, the honor of the first team gold medal in the World Table Tennis Championships is enough to make people miss it forever. That time, the national team kissed the Swaythling Cup for the first time , That is something that every member of the national team will remember for a lifetime and be proud of for a lifetime!

However, Zhu Feng's grandfather missed...

Dai Li felt that if he had been himself, he would regret it for the rest of his life.

I only heard Zhu Feng continue to say: "Entering the national team has been my grandfather's lifelong heart knot. Later, he began to train my dad. My dad entered the amateur sports school at the age of seven and began to learn table tennis. At the age of nine, he was selected for the city The youth team entered the city sports team at the age of twelve, and became an athlete of our provincial sports team at the age of fourteen. At that time, our whole family thought that my father would definitely be selected for the national team."

"But just before the national team came to select players, my dad got tuberculosis. Although he was finally cured, he left sequelae. He often had breathing problems. If he exercised too much, he would have pneumothorax. So his journey as an athlete , has since ceased.”

Tuberculosis, called tuberculosis in ancient times, has been a serious infectious disease that has caused death for thousands of years. Many celebrities in history died of tuberculosis.

Since the 1950s, drugs that can fight tuberculosis have been discovered continuously, and the epidemic of tuberculosis has been brought under control. In China, this disease did not have a relatively safe cure until the 1980s.

At that time, the incidence of tuberculosis in China was about 7.10 per 100,000. At that time, more than 300,000 people died of tuberculosis every year. It was not uncommon for Zhu Feng's father to be infected with tuberculosis.

Tuberculosis is a contagious chronic disease. Even with the current medical technology, after being completely cured, tuberculosis will cause calcification in the lungs, which will definitely affect the respiratory system. In the past, when medical technology was not yet developed, there were more sequelae.

For example, Zhu Feng's father, because of the sequelae caused by tuberculosis, would develop pneumothorax due to excessive exercise, which is equivalent to not expecting to be an athlete in his life. When other athletes are tired from training, they go to the cafeteria to have a big meal to restore their strength. When he is tired from training, he is pulled to the hospital to inhale oxygen. In this case, any training team dare not accept it, let alone go to the national team.