There are many controversial athletes in China's sports circle, and Li Yongbo is a typical example. He's a good athlete. He has retired as a coach and has led countless teams for 24 years. But Li Yongbo is very strong and very controversial, and can be said to be a good and bad head coach. Now that he's retired, what else can he do? 61 years old, a little fat, he once opened a company abroad, planted durian, and now has returned to China to be his own owner.
Li Yongbo is a talented athlete who had a momentum as a teenager and won many men's singles titles with Tian Bingyi. Li Yongbo also won a precious medal in Barcelona in 1992, which shows his high level. And when he retired, he also became a coach smoothly, his style is very tough, and he also attaches great importance to the training of young players, so he can successfully serve as the head coach of the national team.
When he became a coach, he demanded more from the players. She won the women's singles title in '96, breaking her international "zero". At the World Championships in '97 he won 3 gold medals and in the Uber Cup in '98. At the 2000 Sydney Olympics, the Chinese team won a total of four championships. At the Athens Olympics, the Chinese team won three championships, which was a very bright performance. In the Chinese sports world, Li Yongbo's position has also reached its peak.
Since then, he has been in excellent form, reaching his peak in 2012, winning five gold medals in London and completing the Grand Slam. Even in the following competitions, they won quite a few first prizes, and in Rio, they did very well. It was not until 2017 that Li Yongbo stepped down from the position of the national team and stepped down from the position of the national team, serving as the vice minister of the National Sports Commission and the vice president of the National Athletics Association.
However, Li Yongbo did not stay in this position for long, and it didn't take long for him to resign. In Li Yongbo's view, being a coach is the most suitable, 24 years of coaching career, he has won countless honors, brought out Lin Dan, brought out Chen Long, brought out Fu Haifeng, brought Gong Zhichao, and achieved brilliant results.
Li Yongbo's achievements are certainly impressive, but they are also quite controversial. First, because his management was too strict, and secondly, because during his tenure as a coach, there were some financial problems within the team, and he also turned a blind eye to his relationship, plus he frequently attended various entertainment and business activities, and even some negative news, so the criticism of Li Yongbo has never stopped. But fortunately, Li Yongbo's personal record is very good, and his team is also very good, which does not matter.
After retirement, Li Yongbo also had a 360° change, and he decided to start his own business. He took a fancy to this at the beginning, so he invested a large amount of money in his own business, and he was very happy. But it didn't take long for Li Yongbo to decide to return to sports. After he returned to China, he established a badminton team, which became famous and his achievements were there, and now the club is thriving.
Li Yongbo, who is 61 years old and slightly fat, is still very busy, taking orders and orders, plus his acting career, everything is going well. In this way, he can spend more time with his loved ones, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.