Malaysian Badminton Star Lee Zii Jia Hires Huang Daming as Head Coach, Leaving Hong Kong Team in Awkward Position

[Sports News]Malaysian badminton “one brother” Lee Zii Jia’s team suddenly announced today (23rd) that it has invited the famous Malaysian coach Huang Daming to be its head coach. It means that Huang Daming, who took over the men’s singles in Hong Kong last year, will terminate his contract early and return to China to coach after 7 years of absence. When interviewed by Malaysian media, he thanked the Hong Kong team for being willing to let go and accept new challenges. Ng Ka Long, Hong Kong’s chief badminton representative, said bluntly that “I haven’t fully believed this fact”, and also called Huang Daming’s decision “put us in a very embarrassing situation”.

The 55-year-old Huang Daming served as the coach of the Malaysian national team from 2003 to 2011. He transferred to Indonesia to coach in 2012 and returned to the Malaysian national team from 2013 to 2016. After that, he went to Scotland to teach until January 2019. The men’s singles coach of the South Korean national team, later served as the head coach of the singles team, and also became the head coach of the women’s singles talented girl An Seying.

Coach Huang Daming led the South Korean women’s team to win the Uber Cup last year, and chose to leave the team to join the Hong Kong team. He coached five players in the men’s singles group, especially helping Ng Ka Long and Lee Cheuk Yiu to prepare for the Paris Olympic cycle. He said at the time that Hong Kong has its own team. To give full play to the space, he even threatened to lead the two into the top ten in the world. In fact, after Huang Daming took over, Ng Ka Long and Lee Cheuk Yiu both improved significantly.

However, Lee Zii Jia, who is currently participating as a free agent, suddenly announced the appointment of Huang Daming as the head coach. Thoughts also need timing and fate, and I am very happy today, and I finally got this opportunity.” He also said that he and Lee Zii Jia have the same goal, and they are both heading towards the Olympic gold medal. The contract between Huang Daming and the Hong Kong Badminton Association will expire at the end of June for one year, “Thank them for their willingness to let me go, so that I can terminate the contract and accept new challenges.”

Regarding Huang Daming’s early departure, Hong Kong Yu’s “first brother” Ng Ka Long responded on his personal social media: “I believe many fans have seen the news announced by the Malaysian player Lee Zii Jia’s team on social media that coach Huang Daming will become his head coach. This also means that the head coach of the men’s singles team of the Hong Kong team is currently vacant. Everyone has their own ambitions. Coach Huang chooses to resign and take up the post to coach players from his country. We have no right to stop him. But when he is only three years away from the Asian Games Leaving us and joining the team of one of our main rivals at this point in time with only a year or so left in the Olympics puts us in a very awkward position. Although I was more than a week ahead of everyone Knowing the news, but not fully believing the fact until now.”

“However, we should also have enough experience to deal with various emergencies. Hong Kong athletes will never give up easily. We can only continue to equip ourselves and try our best to strive for good results on the field.” Ng Ka-long tomorrow (24th) In the first round of the Super 500 Malaysia Masters, they will face Irish golfer Nguyen Ri, while Lee Cheuk Yiu will take on China’s Li Shifeng. As for the two pairs of mixed doubles, Tang Junwen/Xie Yingxue and Li Jinxi/Wu Zhirou will also attack separately.

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