When it comes to the naturalization project, the first thing that comes to mind is football, when the national football team allowed foreign teams such as Gaulart, Axon, Luo Guofu and other foreign teams to play for the Chinese team, under the operation of the Football Association and the Guangzhou team, it started a huge naturalization journey. After many years, Gaulart earned several hundred million to return to Brazil, and the Guangzhou team spent 800 million in order to naturalize him, which is staggering. And stars such as Luo Guofuhe, Axon, Allan and other stars are either close to retirement, or their bodies are out of shape and do not meet the selection standards of the national football team, in short, the naturalization policy of Chinese football has almost failed.
However, there are also very successful cases. Gu Ailing, who is of Chinese descent in skiing, was naturalized in 2019, and at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, Gu Ailing, who was only 18 years old at the time, helped the Chinese team win two golds and one silver, making history. In addition to Gu Ailing, there are Liu Shaolin, Liu Shaoang and Lin Xiaocheng in the field of short track speed skating, all of whom have become Chinese athletes and will definitely win gold medals for the Chinese team in the future, because these athletes are at the top level and very strong.
The much-watched basketball program has no precedent for naturalization in the past few decades. However, after Yao Ming is re-elected president of the basketball association, he plans to naturalize some of the better athletes and let them play for the Chinese men's basketball team. In fact, the basketball association originally had the opportunity to naturalize Jeremy Lin, but Jeremy Lin's competitive status declined too quickly, and he was close to retirement, even if he was naturalized, he would not quickly improve the strength of the men's basketball team, and Yao Ming and the basketball association's goal has surfaced, that is, "sledgehammer" Anderson.
Anderson is 30 years old, he is also an NBA star, can play an important rotation on many teams, 22-23 season, Anderson averaged 9.4 points, 5.3 rebounds and 4.9 assists per game, shooting more than 50% from the field and 41.6% from three-point range. With a height of 2.06 meters, Anderson can play power forward and open up space.
Many fans may not know that Anderson also has one-eighth Chinese ancestry. It is reported that Anderson's Chinese name is Li Kyle, his maternal grandmother Marianne Foreman has half Chinese ancestry, Marianne's father Samuel Lee, that is, Anderson's maternal great-grandfather, is a Chinese Hakka family who traveled to Jamaica to make a living and married Anderson's great-grandmother Aegeta Lee there, and then stayed in Jamaica to live, giving birth to Anderson's maternal grandmother Marianne.
A few years ago, Anderson had returned to China to find his loved ones and was warmly welcomed and interviewed back home. According to domestic media reports, nowadays, Anderson misses his hometown very much, and there is another meaning that Anderson wants to play for the Chinese team.
It is worth mentioning that according to the domestic famous Yang Yi, the basketball association is now processing, Yao Ming has stated that if you want to naturalize a foreign player, you need to meet two hard conditions, one is blood relationship, the other is cultural identity, and these two conditions, Anderson meets. Yang Yi also said, "The basketball association naturalization project was actually launched last year and has been held for a long time, and it was promised that men's basketball coach Jordjevic may have naturalized players when the basketball World Cup comes." At least wait until the end of the Timberwolves' season before it is possible to consider getting a passport for Anderson. Grandma Anderson's dad is Chinese and has an eighth-eighth ancestry."
The Chinese men's basketball team lost in the 2019 World Cup, which is also the trough of the men's basketball team. Yi Jianlian is about to retire, and although Zhou Qi is a top insider in Asia, it is still difficult to carry the Chinese team forward in the international arena. With the 2023 Basketball World Cup approaching and the crucial Paris Olympics next year, if Anderson can be naturalized, the Chinese men's basketball team is not only expected to enter the Olympic Games, but may even shine in the Olympic arena.