While people are full of expectations for Li Yueru's upcoming WNBA trip, news comes out on domestic social media. Although she expressed her willingness to return to China to participate in national team training and national team competition in advance, chinese basketball association contacted the player's mother team and made it clear that she did not agree with her plan to go to the United States. According to the regulations, the signing of foreign exchange contracts between athletes and overseas clubs shall take effect after being approved by chinese basketball association.
According to media analysis, considering that the China women's basketball team has important competition tasks such as the Hangzhou Asian Games and the Australian Open Women's Basketball World Cup this year, chinese basketball association's attitude is to suggest that Li Yueru go abroad to compete next year. After all, 23-year-old Li Yueru has grown into a core player of the national team after five years of experience. In the World Cup qualifiers in February, she helped China advance to the women's basketball team and was selected as the best team in the division. However, although Li Yueru is very important to this country, the Basketball Association's decision to refuse players to study abroad this year still caused a lot of controversy. Some people even compared this matter with the involvement of the Basketball Association when Wang went to play in the United States.
In fact, it is understandable that athletes want to climb to a higher stage. On 20 19, chinese basketball association also promoted his national team teammate Han Xu to join the Freedom Team. So why do they object to Li Yueru playing in the United States now? The key issue is the task of the national team and the irreconcilable time.
The new season of WNBA will start in May and end in mid-August. The women's basketball competition of Hangzhou Asian Games will be held from September 6th to 12, and the Australian Women's Basketball World Cup will start on September 22nd. The Asian Games and the World Cup are of great significance to the women's basketball team in China. Traditionally, teams usually prepare for training one month or more before the game. This means that if Li Yueru is allowed to play in the United States, she needs to meet the national team in early August at the latest. That is to say, under China's current epidemic prevention and control policy, Li Yueru must return to China in early July at the latest and start medical isolation. Of course, this must be based on the premise that she can avoid the risk of flight fuse and leave the United States as scheduled.
To take a step back, even if Li Yue can get to the United States before the new season, the local epidemic control efforts and standards are far from those in China, and it is difficult to guarantee the health of the players themselves. After all, the China women's basketball team who participated in the World Cup qualifier in Belgrade in February just had the experience of staying in Belgrade for nearly a month before returning to China because some members of the visiting team tested positive for nucleic acid. Therefore, from chinese basketball association's point of view, not agreeing with Li Yueru to play in the United States is also a protection for herself and the national team, and she is advised to play abroad again next year.
After understanding the attitude of the Basketball Association, Li Yueru responded on social media. She is very grateful to Chicago Sky for its treatment and support for its participation in the Asian Games and the World Cup. However, due to the retention of the leaders, she decided to stay at present, and said that the country has cultivated itself, and now it is time for her to grow up and repay the country. I have to say that although Li Yueru's trip to WNBA this year is really regrettable, as she said, it is actually a judgment of personal interests on national interests. At present, Li Yueru will devote herself to new training and competitions. As for her dream, she can wait at the age of 23. I also believe that Yao Ming, president of the Basketball Association, who knows the difficulty of playing abroad, will not make a decision to stop the younger generation from pursuing their dreams.