kurako
Regular Member
How about coaching setup? I see that instead of badminton club, coaches like PJB are all under NBA, does it mean that their salaries are paid by the government? How do the coaches train every member of the national team if all the players play at different clubs (different locations?)?
NBA coaches like PJB will have their salaries paid by the Government. It is difficult for the NBA to exert authority over corporate team players, as the latter are loyal to their paymasters, and the corporations do not always see eye to eye with the NBA. Nevertheless, PJB, at least until COVID-19 struck, successfully prised the players away from their clubs for roughly 150 days per year for training at national camps/international tournaments. This actually worked out well for the corporate teams, because the successes abroad by Bird Japan reflected well on the image of the companies concerned.