On the night of the first night of the Chinese New Year, the national enough to lose 1-3 to Vietnam, adding a wave of blockage to the hearts of the people of the whole country, especially in the case of Alain, Luo Guofu and Jiang Guangtai, the three naturalized players all started, and in the just-opened Winter Olympic Games, the Chinese ice hockey team, which also has many naturalized players, is also highly anticipated.
In this Winter Olympics, the Chinese men's and women's ice hockey teams have used a large number of naturalized players, and the number of them even exceeds half of the big list, including 25 men's ice hockey teams, including 15 naturalized team members, and 23 women's ice hockey teams, including 13 naturalized team members. In summary, there are a total of 48 members of the Chinese ice hockey team, and there are as many as 28 naturalized players, which is far greater than the number and proportion of naturalized players in the national football team.
Careful netizens will find that the Chinese ice hockey team that went to the Beijing Winter Olympics this time, most of the naturalized players in the men's and women's teams are Western faces, with standard European and American looks. Surprisingly, however, most of them have Chinese ancestry, some of them are descendants of immigrants, and some of them are from adoptive families, which is very different from the pure Brazilian naturalized players of the national football team.
According to relevant statistics, only 4 of the 15 naturalized players of the Chinese men's ice hockey team are not of Chinese ancestry, they are Jack Kelios, Ryan Sprout, Dennis Osipov and Jeremy Smith. Among the 13 naturalized members of the Chinese women's ice hockey team, only Rebecca and Miller have no Chinese ancestry.
Many netizens are more reluctant to naturalize foreign athletes, believing that the sports of the Chinese team should be participated in by Chinese, but in the context of the rapid development of the sports industry, the way naturalized foreign players participate is undoubtedly a "shortcut" to improve project performance in a short period of time and help local players accumulate competition experience, and its role is far from the simple results we can see.