Motivation, Effect and Practical Direction of Naturalization of Foreign Football Players in China

Naturalized foreign players have been an important part for many countries to develop their own football.Chinese football naturalized foreign players help not only build a sport power, develop sport industry and build a football culture with Chinese characteristics, but also adapt to the development trend of international football, learn from the successful experience of Asian football powers and "break through Asia".Naturalized players can improve the international competitiveness of Chinese football in a short period of time, gradually make up the structural shortcomings of sports in the construction of a sport power, promote both the prosperity of Chinese league and development of sports industry.The arrival of naturalized players will produce a certain "catfish effect", which stimulates the "survival" instinct of local veteran players, promote the growth of local young players, attract more teenagers to join football game, and consolidate the youth training system in China. In the process of naturalizing foreign players, China should maintain the stability of the nationality law, adhere to the basic principle of "one person, one nationality", promote the three naturalization models to work together, stress the cultivation of cultural identity of naturalized players, strengthen the top-level design and carefully select naturalized objects.