[Sports Road News]Malaysian Badminton Association President Mohamad Norza Zakaria confirmed on Wednesday (19th) that world number 7 Malaysian “first brother” Li Zijia had submitted a letter of resignation last Tuesday (11th). Decided to leave the Malaysian national team and become a “free man” and “solo” development, the Malaysian Badminton Association is doing its best to retain.
Recently, it has been rumored that Malaysia’s chief badminton men’s singles player Li Zijia has not made a big breakthrough since he won the All England Championship in March last year, which made the 23-year-old intentional change and leave the Badminton Association of Malaysia to seek a breakthrough. Noosa, who is also the president of the Malaysian Olympic Committee, confirmed the news after presiding over the flag presentation ceremony of the Malaysian Winter Olympics delegation today. , but no matter what, the Badminton Association will make every effort to keep Li Zijia.
Li Zijia was noncommittal about leaving the team when he was interviewed after finishing training yesterday, saying that it was not suitable for him to comment, and everything was announced by the Malaysian Badminton Association, but he emphasized that he was not a “rebellious player” or “rebellious child”: “As a player, what I have to do It’s about training hard and delivering good results in competitions, making the country proud.” It was reported earlier that Li Zijia, who revealed that his current monthly salary in the Badminton Association is only RM8,000 (about HK$14,800), is “solo”. Annual sponsorship fees of up to 4 million ringgits (about 7.4 million Hong Kong dollars).
Li Zijia was born in a sports family. Both his parents were national basketball players. His sister was a former badminton player and his younger brother was a former basketball player. Although he liked playing basketball since he was a child, he was arranged by his parents to play badminton at the age of 5. He was selected for the national team in 2015. . Li Zongwei retired in June 2019, and Li Zijia was regarded as the successor of “Datuk”, but he was criticized by the public and even bullied online. Brother Ma? Not worthy of my current tenth ranking in the world?” My answer: I’m worthy of him!”
As a result, in the All England Championship a month later, Li Zijia defeated the world No. 1 Kento Momota for the first time in the top 8 of the All England Championship. In the final, he defeated the world No. 2 Axelon, becoming the second person after Li Zongwei to win this super 1000 points. The Malaysian player, the champion of men’s singles, lost to Chinese star Chen Long in the round of 16 in his first Tokyo Olympics in July.
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