The athlete's birthplace is this hot spot.
The genes of this land run in his blood, with at least one of his parents having roots here.
At least one of his ancestors was bred in the soil of his hometown.
After turning 18, he has lived in a foreign country for five consecutive years.
FIBA's naturalization policy has gradually raised concerns over the Chinese men's basketball team's successive setbacks on the court.
FIBA's naturalization rules are as follows:
1. National Basketball Teams participating at the FIBA national level may have one player who has acquired the nationality of that country after the age of 16, up to a maximum of one naturalized player who has not previously represented his/her nationality at a world level.
2. Players who acquired the nationality of their country before the age of 16 are not considered naturalized players.
FIFA does not have a limit on the number of naturalized players who can play, and as long as the naturalization requirements are met, it is okay to have all naturalized players in the starting lineup.
In basketball, naturalized players have a greater chance of affecting the outcome of the game due to the smaller number of players on the court.
Given the disruptive impact of naturalization, FIBA plans to relax the number of naturalizations to two for each national team.
The naturalization policy introduced by FIBA is obviously more lenient compared to FIFA, which is known to the world.
Just as the Chinese men's basketball team, the face of only naturalized players of Asian opponents has appeared to be unable to do, once the opponents and then increase the number of naturalized players, the Chinese men's basketball team's naturalization of the road seems to have been inevitable.
In a sense, FIBA basketball today is a full embrace of globalization.
Two, the departure of Yao Ming and the influx of naturalized players has changed the landscape of Asian basketball. The Chinese men's basketball team seems to have no possibility of returning to the Olympics other than naturalization.
Looking back, Yao's emergence has allowed China's long-standing basketball problems to continue for 20 years under the cover of light.
However, Chinese basketball continues to dwell on the past, seeing Zhou Qi as the new savior.
However, from the 2019 Men's Basketball World Cup on home soil in the best draw group exit, to last year's Du Feng national team in the Olympic qualifiers, this year's World Qualifiers and the Asian Cup of the consecutive poor performance, we see that the Chinese men's basketball team, now, in addition to Zhou Qi, the other positions have all become a short board.
The Chinese men's basketball team has reached the point where there is no one available at point guard or at the three position who can hold the ball, and there is no possibility of any improvement, other than naturalization, for at least the next five years.
Nowadays, no one is talking about returning to the Olympics in Chinese basketball, because with the current player lineup, they don't even have the possibility of making it to the finals of the Asian tournament, not to mention the Olympics proper.
Third, the expensive and unsuccessful naturalization campaign in the Central League soccer has raised questions about the naturalization policy in Chinese basketball.
Guangzhou Evergrande spent 900 million RMB to develop players for the national team.
However, this expensive campaign of naturalization ended in failure, leaving a mess in its wake.
The grand narrative of golden dollar capital has pushed Chinese soccer into the abyss.
Even if the Brazilian second team is invited to enter the World Cup, or even enter the knockout rounds, Chinese soccer may still become the laughing stock of the world.
Just look at the scene in the midfield league now and you can see how much the bubble bursting has hit Chinese soccer.
The result of foreign aid dependence and naturalization dependence, surprisingly, is to make Chinese soccer farther and farther away from Chinese fans.
Naturalization is not a cure for China's soccer problems.
The expensive and unsuccessful naturalization campaign in Chinese soccer has raised questions about the naturalization policy in Chinese basketball.
For naturalization in Chinese basketball, there are two biggest problems facing it right now.
The first is whether the older naturalized players will bring much of a fighting chance to improve.
Secondly, whether naturalization in basketball will replicate the failure of China's soccer naturalization movement again in a new wave of frenzy.
The fact that Chinese soccer has ultimately turned into a farce proves that naturalization is not the key to solving the problem.
For Chinese soccer, which has accumulated a lot of problems, what they need is not a painkiller, but a good medicine that can cure the problem at root.
The biggest reason we criticize Chinese soccer is not their poor results, but the fact that they simply don't deserve what they earn.
The high incomes of China's sports and cultural stars are exactly what the mature-minded Chinese people disdain them for.
All their arrogance actually reveals a serious lack of rules.
And naturalization in Chinese soccer is at best a headache and a footache.
Fourth, the fact that the naturalization movement of Chinese soccer has caused such a huge controversy actually reflects how Chinese people rationally treat the issue of winning and losing in competitive sports.
Gu Ailing's stunning performance at the Beijing Winter Olympics allowed the Chinese to find collective confidence in ice and snow sports for the first time.
Forty years after the economic takeoff, too many Chinese, still harbor a serious Olympic complex, and they see sports as an important part of raising eyebrows.
When we finish leveling our eyes to the world, we will realize that the meaning of sports actually lies in participation, and the so-called gold and silver medals are actually not that important.
The strong sense of championships among Chinese fans nowadays shows that they still live in the era of planned economy.
China's de-Olympianization still has a long way to go. The Chinese are now as obsessed with results as old rural women are with their children, and they need to understand the importance of visible happiness versus illusory greatness.
In fact, the biggest problem with China's competitive sports moving towards professional sports is that it has always valued winning and losing, and has never taken the initiative to entertain the public.
As for the Chinese public's entertaining consumption of China's big ball results now, it's actually an unintentional mistake by Chinese sports practitioners.
When will Chinese fans be able to rationally face the ping pong overseas corps, face Zhang Ben Tianhe and Zhang Ben Zhijie, at that time, they will be qualified to comment on the naturalization movement of Chinese soccer.
The fierce opposition and strong favor now seems like classic populism anyhow.
Sports never exist in isolation.
Five, the Chinese men's basketball team naturalization of the news continues to show that only performance theory has become the biggest enemy of Chinese basketball.
There are some topics that celebrities have not touched on, but I can speak freely without fear.
Tokyo Olympics women's soccer tournament, China's women's soccer team from before the departure of the clinical change of generals, and then Jia Xiuquan's harsh command led to a series of defeats, let us see the women's soccer team's green and yellow.
And then after China's women's soccer team won the women's soccer championship at the National Games as a combined team, the major local sports bureaus' see-sawing has shown us the biggest problem with China's competitive sports.
That's the achievement-only theory, which has become the biggest enemy of Chinese sports.
From age falsification to youth match-fixing incidents to the Chinese women's soccer team warming up for the Games at the Tokyo Olympics, it eventually zoomed out to the point where national interests gave way to small, decentralized individuals.
The naturalization of the men's soccer team has illustrated the reticent nature of Chinese soccer.
And the Chinese basketball's Central Leagueization has revealed more problems.
Is Chinese basketball for all or for a few.
Achievement-only theory is also the biggest enemy of Chinese basketball.
Honestly, naturalization in Chinese soccer and Chinese basketball doesn't mean anything to the common man.
Because these two major programs still may not be able to get their act together after the fog of naturalization.
One of Hedgehog's lyrics says it all:
It's not the night that's black, it's the long loneliness
Look at the darkness beneath your feet, look at the stars above you.
All things in this world can be hoped for, but true love is the most fleeting.
What is lost is never returned, and what is eternal is now returned.
Flag-waving enthusiasm, with the light of day fading away
The world's sad and happy dramas are played day and night.
