No one expected that in the more than two years of the epidemic, the Philippine economy has bottomed out and rebounded, marking that a country's national strength of sports has also begun to come out of the bear market and begin to emerge in the international sports world.
From the Philippine women's football team that just won the ASEAN women's football championship and was received by the current president, Margot, to the female weightlifter Diaz who won the first gold for the Philippines at the Tokyo Olympics, a change of boxing king Pacquiao shouldered the embarrassing situation of the Philippine sports industry, so that more and more people began to pay attention to this small island nation.
The previous Philippine sports industry is actually a chaotic continuation of the Philippine political system, can not play football to lead the Football Association, can not swim as the leader, the entire sports bureau is layer by layer exploitation, even the heroine Diaz, who won the first gold in the Olympic Games, also intentionally or unintentionally emphasized after winning the gold that her training is basically DIY, and the most important thing to thank is her tenacious self and excellent Chinese coaches.
That's why talking to locals about sports used to revolve around boxing and basketball, and other sports were rarely cared about, because they themselves knew that the International Games were basically not much different from tourism for the previous Philippine delegation.
So how has this embarrassing situation improved dramatically? Xiaobian believes that the reason why the Philippine sports department has less and less power and less interference with various sports and athletes is equivalent to marketing sports, and the free market can have the ability to repair itself.
Since Xiaobian is a basketball enthusiast, here is an example of Philippine basketball.
Friends who have come to the Philippines are quite confused, this country with a serious gap between rich and poor, regardless of whether it is a rich area or a poor area, basketball courts are almost standard, and even a village has a standard field, a pair of pronged slippers can play a few rounds.
With a mass base, the Philippine Basketball Federation simply copied the American basketball training system after the reform, changed the template selected by the sports brigade we know to focus on training, and promoted the league to all parts of the Philippines, making the university a talent reserve base for Professional Players in the Philippines, and for talented players, universities will also provide generous scholarships, so that these players will not be buried for economic reasons.
Then vigorously introduce foreign aid and naturalized players and coaches, the advantage of zero distance in English communication is that local players can really learn things, rather than blowing the whistle and passing the ball in the hands of foreign aid.
Basketball has achieved certain results, other sports have also moved towards professionalism, in a relaxed environment to improve the level of training, naturally will make the same progress.
After the epidemic in the Philippines, the people seem to be more cohesive, especially the athletes who can win glory for the Philippines, in the eyes of the people, it is almost the existence of national heroes, and these huge influences naturally bring various endorsements of merchants to athletes, not only to gain honors, but also to get real money and silver.
With such a benign development, perhaps in the near future, the Philippines will appear one after another boxing king Pacquiao general sports stars, the podium of major events, there will be more Filipino athletes, which is undoubtedly the icing on the cake for the Philippines after the epidemic, after all, the level of sports reflects the strength of the country, generally can not be wrong.
Finally spit a groove, after returning to China has been serving as his son's basketball personal trainer, in this place where the house price makes Filipinos stunned, want to find an empty basket comparable to ascending to the sky, think it is no wonder, how many years have not paid attention to the national team game ...