Nationality: Canada
Sports: Curling
Position: currently the head coach of the China women's curling team
Praise: the person who injected spirit into China's curling
Achievement:
In March p>28, as the head coach of the China curling team, it was held in Vernon, Canada.
In November 28, she led the women's team and the men's team to win the championship at the 28 Pacific Curling Championship held in New Zealand. This is the third time that the women's team won the championship in succession, and the men's team won the championship in succession for the second time < P > In 29, they led the China women's team to win the runner-up in the 29 Pacific Youth Curling Championship and the women's curling champion in the Harbin Universiade; South Korea Gangneung Women's Curling World Championship champion
11: 2! China's female "pot" girl simply won the runner-up Russian team in Turin Winter Games, held her head high and advanced to the women's curling final of the 24th World Winter Games, and at least "locked" a silver medal, which will be China's best achievement in the collective event of the World Comprehensive Winter Games.
The people on the slideway are all gone, and a middle-aged man with a crew cut is still sitting in the spectator stand on the sidelines, holding a telescope and staring at other teams' games, absorbed.
He is Canadian daniel rafael, the head coach of the China Women's Curling Team in this Universiade. In every competition, Daniel always likes to affix a Chinese character "Dan" with official script style after the coach's signature "Daniel Rafael" on the appearance list.
The history of curling played by Europeans and Americans for hundreds of years in China is less than twenty years, and it was only six or seven years ago that China people owned their first national team. Relying on the national system and the development "shortcut" of going abroad for training and playing more games, China's players made rapid progress. In the 27 World Championships, the girls of the women's team won the fifth place.
In this Universiade, Daniel mainly leads the women's team, while in normal times, both men's and women's teams are in charge. Under the concerted efforts of him and the Chinese coach, the level "acceleration" of the women's team and the men's team in China improved. First, they achieved the best results in the history of the second and fourth place in the 28 World Championships, and then they both won the Pacific Curling Championship. The women's team, in particular, has already firmly grasped the precious ticket to the Vancouver Winter Olympics, and this will be the first time for them to knock on the door of the Olympic Games.
"In September, 27, we were looking for foreign teachers. The previous three foreign teachers and the team didn't adapt very well. At that time, I met Daniel by chance and asked him to try out the team for a month. Daniel and the China team got along well in life, work attitude and work level," Li Dongyan, the leader of the China team, told reporters.
Daniel said that it was fate that he came to China. "At that time, a candidate could not come to China for some reasons, so I came over for him."
In this way, Daniel, who has been practicing curling for 4 years and has been teaching for more than 2 years, once led the champion team in Quebec, Canada, came to China on the other side of the Pacific Ocean from the distant land of maple leaves.
Daniel said that in his native Canada, curling is second only to ice hockey. In Li Dongyan's words, curling in Canada is like table tennis in China, and "the champion of the provincial team will be the world champion".
Curling is an intelligent sport that needs strategizing, and Daniel has brought a fresh curling concept to the China team. "At first, I found that China athletes focused on throwing, brushing ice and other techniques themselves, and their tactical level was not very high. Therefore, I focused on improving athletes' tactical level and teaching them how to play games."
Wang Bingyu, captain of the China women's team, said: "Daniel gives people the impression that when you see him on the court, you will have confidence to win;" On the sidelines, Daniel is a very humorous person. "