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Looking at today's world sports world, when a sport is too serious in the domestic roll, there will be naturalized players, and naturalization has also become a major trend in the sports world. For example, our men's football team has naturalized a lot of Brazilian players, and our table tennis has many players who can't find opportunities in China, and then choose to change their nationality to become a member of the overseas team. Nowadays, the more well-known overseas table tennis legions include Tian Zhixi, Shan Xiaona, Yu Mengyu, Han Ying, Ni Xialian, etc., including Zhang Benzhi and Zhang Benmei and their brothers and sisters are barely half of the overseas legions.
Logically, the original Chinese table tennis players who joined foreign nationality belonged to "technical poverty alleviation", which was to give them results, and it was reasonable to say that they should get better treatment. However, this is not the case, their life overseas is not smooth, and they will be ostracized, questioned and even insulted by their teammates and fans from time to time. Recently, overseas legion members Tian Zhixi, Yu Mengyu, Shan Xiaona and others broadcast live online, talking about some of the difficulties of overseas legions surviving abroad.
South Korea's first sister Tian Zhixi said that South Korea is actually very exclusive, and she did not understand the language when she first arrived in South Korea. Fortunately, thanks to his own language barrier, Tian Zhixi could not understand many bad words. Today, the 30-year-old Tian Zhixi deserves to become a sister of Korean women's table tennis, and with excellent strength and teammates carefully getting along, Tian Zhixi has gained a firm foothold in South Korea. Tian Zhixi is still good, Yu Mengyu and Shan Xiaona are really not easy.
Born in Shenyang, Liaoning Province, Yu Mengyu helped Singapore win the 2010 World Table Tennis Championships team championship. At the Tokyo Olympic Games, Yu Mengyu was the Singapore flag bearer and reached the women's singles final four, playing a pivotal role in Singapore women's table tennis. However, after the group lost to Hungary in 2017, Yu Mengyu was physically threatened by Singapore netizens, and the private messages were also insulted, resulting in Yu Mengyu not daring to read private messages for a long time, until after the Tokyo Olympics. Now, Yu Mengyu has retired, and she finally does not have to worry about encountering criticism and insults from netizens.
Shan Xiaona, a 39-year-old Veteran of Germany, said she had been questioned in person by the club's teammates and former German athletes of the national team and urged to retire. In the eyes of German teammates, the existence of Shan Xiaona has made it impossible for German local athletes to play and occupy the position of others. Shan Xiaona fought back hard, and she was able to help wait for the Olympic medal, which made them shut up.
In fact, if the overseas legion wants to gain a foothold overseas, it is certainly not easy to lie flat. Just as our fans have high expectations for the naturalized players of the national football team, foreign fans will also have high expectations for the Chinese table tennis overseas team, and their hard work and achievements are indispensable. Once it does not meet the expectations of fans, overseas teams will suffer all kinds of doubts, even world champions like Yu Mengyu are not spared.