Meet her mentor Jiang Tianbao, from an unknown teenager to an Olympic runner-upFor Zhan Shuping, learning basketball is not only talented, but also diligent and hard-working
Born and raised in Dalian, Zhan Shuping has the cheerful temperament of a Northeast girl, but what makes her unique is that she has been taller than her peers since she was a child.
Perhaps it was fate, these two advantages happened to be needed by basketball players, so when she was in junior high school, she was discovered by the basketball coach of the local sports school and started her own basketball training.
When she was 12 years old, Jiang Tianbao, the head coach of the women's basketball team of the Shenyang Military Region, was looking for basketball talents, and when she saw Zhan Shuping at the sports school, she immediately thought that this girl would definitely make a difference in the future.
It is worth mentioning that Jiang Tianbao is the only female major general in the basketball world!As a result, 12-year-old Zhan Shuping became a member of the military basketball team and received personal guidance from Jiang Tianbao.
However, at that time, she was not outstanding in terms of technique except for her height, and whenever she saw her teammates shining on the court, she also hoped that she could become a star on the stage in the future.
While her teammates are resting, she trains;She trains while her teammates watch a movie;While her teammates were sleeping, she was still training, and she had to practice hundreds or thousands of times just with the ball.
Those days were very difficult, but Zhan Shuping kept thinking in her heart, "I will definitely be able to do it, I will work hard", such days are not months, but years.
At the age of 18, she was selected for the national youth women's basketball team for the first time and successfully stepped to a new level.
It wasn't until six years later that she moved to a new stage and entered the national team, which also meant that she would face new challenges.
Because in her first year with the national team, she participated in the Olympics that year, and although she didn't get a chance to play at the time, she was only a substitute, but she still took every game seriously.
That year, the performance of the Chinese women's basketball team was not good, and it could even be said to be very poor, at this time Zhan Shuping was determined to let the international basketball world see the strength of the Chinese women's basketball team!Finally, the opportunity came after 4 years, and Zhan Shuping became the core player of the team and had the opportunity to play.
It was her first and last Olympics in real time.
In the game, with the efforts of her teammates, she successfully won the runner-up, which truly let the entire international basketball community see the strength of the Chinese women's basketball team.
However, a few months after the tournament, she missed a lot of games due to injury, especially the 1994 World Championships, and was forced to retire.
After retiring from the army and becoming a coach, Zhan Shuping is full of determination to persist and struggle
At the age of 30, she was not depressed, but chose to go to the Institute of Physical Education to study and acquire more professional knowledge.
Her hard work paid off, and under the recommendation of her mentor Jiang Tianbao, she successfully entered the women's basketball team of the Shenyang Military Region as an assistant coach and became the main candidate for the next head coach.
While gradually stabilizing in her career, she married her long-time boyfriend Fu Wei, and the two had a happy family life.
The next year, they welcomed the birth of their son Fu Hao, which added more joy to her life.
However, when Fu Hao was less than a few months old, Zhan Shuping received the task of serving as the head coach of the women's basketball team of the Shenyang Military Region.
Faced with the choice of children and basketball, she did not hesitate to give her son to the care of her in-laws and focus on her career.
This period of gruelling lasted for 17 years.
At that time, the composition of the team was not ideal, the young were too young, and the older ones were very old.
But Zhan Shuping did not back down, she formulated a detailed training plan for the players, and strictly controlled every detail.
She accompanied the team members to train day and night, while her son Fu Hao could only grow up next to his grandparents.
It wasn't until her husband retired in 1999 that Fu Hao could return to her parents.
Her husband became the person who silently supported her behind Zhan Shuping and devoted more energy to the family.
In the past few years, Zhan Shuping has led the team to win championships and runners-up repeatedly, such as the National League A championship in 1999 and 2000.
However, no one can juggle career and family at the same time, and Zhan Shuping is no exception.
Fu Hao had the impression that his mother almost didn't pick him up from school.
However, when Fu Hao was 6 years old, Fu Wei passed away unexpectedly, and they had only been married for 8 years.
In the face of huge changes, Zhan Shuping has no time to be sad, because her players are still waiting for her guidance.
After taking care of her husband's affairs, she returned to the team to direct training and achieved excellent results for several years in a row.
Four years later, Zhan Shuping met her second marriage.
The unmarried male referee became a matchmaker and treated his son as his own, which touched her
At first, Zhan Shuping did not plan to remarry and start a new family, she planned to spend the rest of her life with her son.
However, Yue Lao arranged an unexpected fate.
In the 2007 competition, she met basketball referee Jiang Tongbiao by chance.
Since both of them work in basketball, they have had many opportunities to come into contact.
At that time, Jiang Tongbiao was 39 years old, 4 years younger than Zhan Shuping, but he admired this "female coach" very much and liked it.
Despite this, Jiang Tongbiao has a firm attitude, he is sure that he likes Zhan Shuping, and says that he will treat her son well.
At first, Zhan Shuping rejected him.
However, as the contact at work continued, Jiang Tongbiao insisted on pursuing Zhan Shuping, and Zhan Shuping slowly discovered that this man was not bad.
Eventually, after consulting their son, they officially decided to be together.
When Fu Hao was 11 years old, they formed a family, and Jiang Tongbiao took the initiative to leave and come to Zhan Shuping's side to live together.
In daily life, Jiang Tongbiao not only takes care of Zhan Shuping, but also cares about Fu Hao.
It can be said that Jiang Tongbiao made up for Fu Hao's regret that he did not have a father's love.
What touched Zhan Shuping the most was that Jiang Tongbiao took the initiative to say that they would no longer have children, and Fu Hao was their son.
Zhan Shuping was very moved by Jiang Tongbiao's move, and she burst into tears when she saw Jiang Tongbiao's concern for her son.
While she was busy leading the team to train and participate in competitions, Jiang Tongbiao took care of the young Fu Hao, did laundry, cooked, and bought gifts, which were incomparable to Zhan Shuping.
Zhan Shuping later stepped down due to illness, where she had served as the coach of the Shen women's basketball team for 17 years, but after a year off, she accepted the position of head coach of the Xinjiang women's basketball team.
In 2018, she served as the head coach of the Bayi women's basketball team.
Currently, Zhan Shuping continues to develop her career in basketball and serves as the coach of the Shanghai women's team.
Just in the last few days, she has led the team to competitions!
As a senior editor, I would reply that Zhan Shuping, as an athlete, has lived up to everyone's expectations and achieved outstanding results
As a coach, she is more attentive and has led the team to achieve good results many times.
Maybe only as a mother, Zhan Shuping felt a little guilty in her heart.
But fortunately, Fu Hao and his stepfather get along very happily, and the relationship between the two is like that of biological father and son.
Fu Hao also praised Jiang Tongbiao many times on social **!In September this year, Zhan Shuping was successfully inducted into the list of nominees for the Chinese Basketball Hall of Fame.
Now, she has a successful career and a happy family, I hope she can continue to lead the team to achieve more brilliant achievements, and I also hope that Fu Hao can make persistent efforts to win glory for the motherland!