With the internationalization, marketization and increasing professionalization of sports competitions, many players in the world have been naturalized by other countries and become players with foreign nationalities. There are many such examples in the NBA, such as Carman who joined the German nationality and Nowitzki became a teammate to play the World Series on behalf of German basketball in order to play international competitions. Then there is Ibaka's Spanish citizenship and has played international competitions for Spain. Such behavior is not exaggerated if it goes through the normal procedure, because players like Carman and Ibaka may not be able to play international competitions for the rest of their lives if they do not pass this way.
Li Mingyang
To some extent, players communicate in sports careers in this way, which is also good for sports development. However, if a player betrays his team and country through some improper means, or even black-box operations, then such behavior is disgraceful. The player I talked about with you today, I believe everyone must know that her name is Li Mingyang, and she is now renamed Sugiyama Miyuki.
Li Mingyang, female, born in 1994 in Jilin, height 1.96 meters, was once a player of Beijing Shougang Club. Li Mingyang was the main center of the national youth team at that time, when she was 16 years old, that is, in 2010, at the U17 World Youth Championship, Li Mingyang served as the team's main center, defeated the then strong Spanish team, Li Mingyang got 17 points and 12 rebounds, and finally the national youth women's basketball team won the bronze medal, equaling the best result in history. After this competition, Li Mingyang never returned and lost contact.
Li Mingyang in the game
It turned out that Lee Myung-yang had been poached by a Japanese club that belonged to the Japanese League, and one of the club's ministers, Akihiro Sugiyama, had adopted Lee Myung-yang as his adopted daughter and renamed her Sugiyama Miyoki. In May 2012, Li Mingyang also acquired Japanese citizenship. According to statistics, before Li Mingyang, there were many players who were naturalized, but it is the first case that Li Mingyang did not quit.
Subsequently, the Chinese Basketball Association sent a letter to Japan asking for help in finding Li Mingyang, and the reply was that Japan did not have the information of Li Mingyang's registration. After that, the Chinese Basketball Association appealed to FIBA, and finally FIBA awarded the Japanese Basketball Association 25,000 Swiss francs, and the Japanese basketball club paid a fine of 20,000 Swiss francs to the Chinese Basketball Association. FIBA can identify Li Mingyang as playing for the Japanese club, but also has to pay about 2 million yen in compensation to the Chinese Basketball Association. As a result, Li Mingyang successfully naturalized japan.
The tall man in the middle is Li Mingyang
As soon as this matter was exposed, it caused an uproar in China. At that time, Li Mingyang's head coach Li Xin reacted particularly fiercely, scolding Li Mingyang as the scum of Chinese basketball, and for a time many people expressed their views, and only a very small number of people thought that this was Li Mingyang's personal behavior and would not be condemned. And Li Mingyang's mother's statement seems to be untenable, she believes that the reason why her daughter wants to do this is to protect herself, Li Mingyang is injured, and her club does not care, Li Mingyang is very cold, she supports her daughter's approach.
Obviously, Li Mingyang's mother's statement is untenable, even if there is an injury, or want to become a naturalized player, it can completely pass the formal procedure, why play disappear. We know that Japanese teams have absorbed a large number of Chinese naturalized players in recent years in order to improve their basketball level. There are already men's basketball teams Wei Xin and Zhang Tianjie, and women's basketball players Li Shasha and Zhao Xi have been naturalized by singing.