When the national football team sent "as many" as 3 or 4 naturalized players to the field, many fans also "cursed and grinned" and said something like "it does not represent Chinese football". But what would they have in mind when they knew that there were 15 naturalized players in the national ice hockey team (25 in total)?
2019 is known as the "first year of naturalization" of Chinese football, and since this year, foreign players such as Li Ke, Hou Yongyong, Delgado, and Axon have been naturalized by the national football team. Among these naturalized players, there are both Chinese players, mixed-race players, and pure foreign-blood "crooked nuts", whose naturalizations have passed the formal review of FIFA.
Although naturalized players are a new thing for Chinese football, it is not surprising for our neighbor, Japan, which began to naturalize foreign players twenty or thirty years ago (not to mention the current Japanese men's basketball team).
In the past, when Japanese football was not very strong, they naturalized the Brazilian player Ramos, and it was Ramos who led the Japanese team to win the first Asian Cup in history, and then there was the first wave of "football fever" in Japan.
Naturalized foreign players are not ashamed (other countries will also naturalize continental soldier table tennis players), especially when the sport is in an absolute weakness, it is more necessary to introduce high-level foreign players to promote the growth of local players. And the national ice that participated in the Beijing Winter Olympics, they also naturalized 15 foreign players, the strength is so great that it can be said that the national football team is beyond expectation.
This Year's Beijing Winter Olympics, the national ice was divided into group A, the same group of opponents for Canada, the United States and Germany, not surprisingly, the national ice basically locked the bottom of the group position. Originally, according to the rules of the Winter Olympics, the national ice was not eligible for the group stage, but considering the identity of the host of the national ice, the Olympic Committee and the International Ice Hockey League still gave a pass card.
Therefore, the national ice into the Winter Olympics this time is also "back door", although the naturalization of as many as 15 foreign players, the overall strength of the national ice and those traditional strong teams is still a big gap (the strength of women's ice is better, they also have naturalization).
I think that as long as he or she wears a jersey printed with a five-star red flag and plays for China, whether he or she is a local player or a naturalized player, he or she deserves the recognition of our countrymen, so let's cheer them on together.
List of 25 people attached to Guobing:
Forwards: Ye Jinguang (Captain), Wang Taylor, Fu Jiang, Fu Shuai, Luo Jia, Jian'an, Wei Ruike, Ying Rudi, Yan Juncheng, Zhang Zesen, Zhong Wei, Guo Ning, Xiang Xudong; Defenders: Jack Kelios, Ryan Spree, Yuan Junjie, Liu Jie, Dennis Osipov, Zheng Enlai, Chen Zimeng, Yan Ruinan, Zhang Pengfei; Goalkeepers: Jeremy Smith, Oban Yongli, Han Pengfei