Your favorite coach

Hello guys,

Mister Wang Dayong, coach of the Belgian national team for many many years and most of all the man who helped JM Saive to become N°1 and to win nearly everything between 1993 and 1994.

My bud Brian Pace can be my coach any day. :)

kakapo wrote: Mister Wang Dayong, coach of the Belgian national team for many many years and most of all the man who helped JM Saive to become N°1 and to win nearly everything between 1993 and 1994. Belgium also won a lot of titles in the nineties with Mister Wang. This guy is well known in China and everywhere. He has always remained faithful to Belgium and JM Saive but I'm sure he could have helped a lot of other talented players if he had wanted.

Indeed Coach Wang is one of the best of all time.

He is credited as one of the earliest to bring Chinese technique and training method to the West.
He was also labeled a traitor until recent years where he has become a Chinese hero - A Chinese that bought pride to Chinese people for work done on a foreign soil.

There was times where Coach Wang stayed in Saive's apartment - to give him extra training, so they stayed together.

Saive respect the coach and ask him to sleep on the only bed in the small apartment, but Coach Wang insist Saive - who requires to train the next day to use the bed, while Coach Wang would sleep on the couch.

It become not just a Coach/Student relationship, but more like a Father and Son, is what I heard


Edited by ZApenholder - 10/14/2014 at 6:40pm

Great thread! My favorite coach is Liu Guoliang and jörg rosskopf! Because both were awesome players! 

What to you guys think is the most important property for a coach to have? 

Li, coach of wang nan, zhang yiling, and li xiaoxia,
is probably a good one since he helped them win
all 3 big events (zhang twice). Let's see whether
he can make zhu yuling win all in the future.

Lot of great coaches listed here, but I'm amazed Stellan Bengtsson hasn't come up yet. Former world champion, coach to Persson, Waldner, and Maze, among others. I would have to rank him as one of a handful of best ever.

ZApenholder wrote: kakapo wrote: Mister Wang Dayong, coach of the Belgian national team for many many years and most of all the man who helped JM Saive to become N°1 and to win nearly everything between 1993 and 1994. Belgium also won a lot of titles in the nineties with Mister Wang. This guy is well known in China and everywhere. He has always remained faithful to Belgium and JM Saive but I'm sure he could have helped a lot of other talented players if he had wanted.  Indeed Coach Wang is one of the best of all time. He is credited as one of the earliest to bring Chinese technique and training method to the West. He was also labeled a traitor until recent years where he has become a Chinese hero - A Chinese that bought pride to Chinese people for work done on a foreign soil. There was times where Coach Wang stayed in Saive's apartment - to give him extra training, so they stayed together. Saive respect the coach and ask him to sleep on the only bed in the small apartment, but Coach Wang insist Saive - who requires to train the next day to use the bed, while Coach Wang would sleep on the couch. It become not just a Coach/Student relationship, but more like a Father and Son, is what I heard