In March 2022, a rumor suddenly appeared on the Internet that Liu Guozheng and Ma Lin were newly appointed as the coaching team leaders of the national table tennis men's and women's first teams, and then they were widely spread, and many people were misunderstood, thinking that Liu Guoliang and the national team were ready to replace the old and new in the leadership team.
So is that really the case? Fake! Because Liu Guozheng and Ma Lin were already the coaching team leaders of the men's and women's teams as early as 2019, if so, what is the "latest appointment"?
As we all know, from 2017 to 2018, there was a major adjustment in the national table tennis coaching team, Kong Linghui, Liu Guoliang, Qin Zhijian and Ma Lin left the coaching team, and as a result, the men's team first let Wu Jingping manage for a period of time, and then changed to Liu Guozheng temporarily took charge of Shuaiyin in 2018; the women's team has always been led by Li Falcon.
On December 1, 2018, Liu Guoliang returned to the front-line leadership position as the chairman of the Chinese Table Tennis Association, while Qin Zhijian and Ma Lin also officially returned, and the national team coaching staff arrangement also underwent major changes.
On February 25, 2019, the Chinese Table Tennis Association held a media briefing on the release of the strategic system for the Tokyo Olympic Games and the establishment of the national team's coaching team in 2019, and then announced the new coaching team list, of which Qin Zhijian re-served as the coach of the men's team, Liu Guozheng became the coaching team leader of the men's first team; Li Falcon officially served as the head coach of the women's team, and Ma Lin was the head coach of the women's first team.
In addition, Chen Zhenjiang is the coaching team leader of the men's second team, and Yan Sen is the coaching team leader of the women's second team - these are all information that can be publicly found on the Internet: how did the appointment three years ago become this year?
At present, some netizens seem to be unaware of the appointment three years ago, but seeing that the Table Tennis Association wrote in the "Selection Measures for Table Tennis Projects to Participate in the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games (Draft for Comments)" in early March this year, Liu Guozheng and Ma Lin were the coaching team leaders of the men's and women's first teams, so they mistakenly thought that they were only recently promoted.
But now it's safe to say: there's absolutely no such thing. It can only be said that the manager of the national table tennis coaching team and the leader of the first team have a very stable structure and have not changed in three years, as for the so-called recent actions, there is no need to spread false rumors.