Explore the pros and cons of wolf farming programs! Should we support the existence of such a plan that poses a threat to national table tennis?
The origin of the wolf breeding program
Veteran national table tennis fans know the allusion of the "wolf raising plan". The "wolf raising plan" refers to a long-term plan put forward by Cai Zhenhua in early 2009 when he took over the Chinese Table Tennis Association, focusing on the future development of table tennis, and is ready to adopt the method of "going out and inviting in" to help foreign table tennis players improve their level. Later, after Liu Guoliang took charge of the Chinese table tennis team, he also inherited and has been promoting the development of this plan.
In fact, before the wolf raising plan was actually proposed, there were already many incidents of similar behavior. Chinese table tennis is second to none in the world, and there are countless outstanding talents. But there are only a few places in the competition, so the competition is very fierce. Due to the existence of other artificial factors such as handicap in the 1980s, it also led to individual athletes leaving the team in order to express their dissatisfaction.
The most reverberating incident was the incident in the 1980s when He Zhili left Japan. Originally, it would have been understandable for athletes to develop abroad. It's just that He Zhili ran away with emotions at that time, not only changed her nationality, married her Japanese husband Hideyuki Oyama, and even changed her own name to Tomoyuki Oyama. When she and Deng Yaping fought fiercely in the final of the Asian Games, they said one sentence at a time: Yossi! It is really difficult for countless Chinese fans to accept. This performance of Tomori Koyama in the competition at that time was exactly the same as zhang Benzhihe's roar today.
I don't know if I was really influenced by Japanese culture, or whether I deliberately made a flattering performance for fans of the country. In short, their behavior is not accepted by Chinese fans. So whether it's Tomori Koyama more than thirty years ago, or Tomokazu Zhang from previous years. Their exodus did not fall within the scope of the wolf-raising plan. Purely personal behavior.
The pros and cons of the wolf keeping program
Due to the fierce competition for talents within the national table tennis, many excellent players have no ball to play. Therefore, the Chinese Table Tennis Association allows some players to play overseas. These overseas players are located in Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Germany, the United States, Belgium, Canada and the mainland's Hong Kong and Taiwan regions.
Among them, fans are familiar with Li Jiawei, Feng Tianwei, Wang Yuegu, Ni Xialian, Li Ling, Chen Weixing and others. In order to be able to participate in the Olympic Games, most of these players have already acquired the nationality of their countries. Their arrival has indeed played a role in promoting the development of table tennis in many countries. In particular, Singapore, where There is the highest concentration of Chinese table tennis players, is like an invisible Chinese table tennis team. Singapore women's table tennis even beat the Chinese team in the team final of the 2010 World Table Tennis Championships to win the championship. At that time, Li Jiawei, Wang Yuegu, and Sun Beibei were all Players who went out in China. It can be seen that the wolf breeding plan is multi-faceted. It can promote the development of table tennis, but it will also threaten the status of Chinese table tennis.
The treatment of overseas players is worrying
There is nothing wrong with leaving the seriously internally rolled Chinese table tennis field to develop overseas. But not all players are happy. Many of the overseas players who are active in the game have expressed the situation of being ostracized. Even Singapore's first sister Feng Tianwei has been repeatedly exposed to various incidents of discrimination. Because the skills of Chinese table tennis players are much higher than those of athletes in their host countries, they will also be hostile to their teammates. They will think that China's past players have robbed them of their chances.
Yu Mengyu, who represented Singapore in the competition, was threatened by some unscrupulous fans in Singapore after shoulder surgery, she said that she was in a very low mood at that time; Yu Mengyu recalled in an interview: "At that time, I just finished the operation, the state declined, resulting in losing points, as a result, many fans in Singapore sent me a text message saying, you are so old, hurry up and get off the field, die"!
In fact, such situations as Yu Mengyu encountered abound. Therefore, players who leave abroad seem to get high salaries, but in fact, they cannot enjoy the sense of national honor of Chinese national table tennis. Although some of the players who have fled overseas have become foreign nationals, they have never forgotten their status as Chinese. There are also some players who do not admit that they are Chinese. Presenting as a foreigner.
For this kind of behavior, Liu Guoliang's brother Liu Guozheng once said to the point: "It is indeed a fact that the competition in national table tennis is fierce, including me also going abroad to coach, but I hope that the "overseas corps" will always remain sober, and I can understand your so-called joining foreign nationality, nothing more than wanting a world competition pass to realize the dream you can't achieve in China"!
"But please remember, you shed the blood of Chinese, and some athletes abroad say that they are not Chinese, and want to integrate into other countries faster, you don't even respect your ancestors, why let people respect you?" Don't think that this will make you successful in pleasing them, everyone knows, just use you to achieve good results"!
The National Table Tennis Wolf Raising Program is a long-term act. Overall, the pros outweigh the cons. I just hope that those players who go overseas, while promoting the development of local table tennis, do not forget to give birth to you and raise your motherland. Do not forget the original intention, in order to achieve success. will be respected.
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