According to today’s statement from the National Basketball Association of the Republic of China, my country has applied to FIBA to change the status of Abbasi’s naturalized player to a player of its own nationality. It has received a letter from FIBA to confirm that Abbasi will not take up the naturalization quota and use local players. It is undoubtedly a great news for the Chinese men’s basketball team to join the national team.
The Eastern Super League championship week has just come to an end. In addition to the P. LEAGUE+ and T1 League regular matches this week, the Taiwanese basketball circle will also welcome the 111 High School Basketball League (HBL) finals, but there is good news in the latest statement issued by the Basketball Association , currently playing for the T1 League CITIC Special Attack, the “Special Attack Black Panther” Abbasi, who grew up in Taiwan although his skin color is obviously different from that of Taiwan’s local ancestry, has been confirmed by the Basketball Association to FIBA from this year. In international competitions, you can represent the Chinese team as a local player and add more firewood to the Chinese team’s combat power.
Mohammad Al Bachir Gadiaga is of Senegalese origin, his father is Senegalese, and his mother is from California, USA. He was born in Japan. He came to Taiwan when he was 8 years old because of his parents’ work. Since then, he has settled in Danfeng Elementary School. Because of language problems, Wei started studying in the first grade of elementary school, so that he was older than his classmates in the same grade in a series of student life from Danfeng Elementary School, Danfeng Elementary School, Taishan High School to Shixin University , This also made him unable to participate in the HBL game because he was overage even though he entered the basketball team training at Taishan High School and was successful in training.
Abbasi Elementary School started to join the taekwondo team and trained all the way to the black belt level. Playing basketball is a private pleasure, but he was recommended to join Taishan High School to practice. Because of his innate excellent physical explosive power, he has made great progress after two years of pondering. Although he was unable to participate in the HBL competition due to being overage, UBA schools already knew that Taishan High School had such a material worth looking forward to, and finally he joined Shih Hsin University, UBA became his first stage in Taiwan, and he also shined in UBA , showing all the training of Taishan High School in the past three years on the UBA battlefield. After Shixin got Abbasi to join, he used their original manpower and recruited foreign students to consolidate the restricted area. In the final, he just lost to the champion National Chengchi University. Abbasi finished as a runner-up in the last year of his UBA career. The statistics for the 109 academic year were 16.6 points, 6.3 rebounds, 2.8 assists, and 1.9 steals. After ending his UBA career, Abbasi entered the newly established T1 League professional basketball league draft, and was named by New Taipei CITIC Special Attack in the first round, starting his career.
However, although Abbasi has lived here for a long time since he came to Taiwan at the age of 8 and speaks fluent Chinese, he did not give up his Senegalese nationality to obtain a Taiwan ID card until 2020, when he was 22 years old. Local players, but according to FIBA regulations, those who fail to obtain the country’s identity card before the age of 16 cannot be regarded as local players of the country, so that when Abbasi puts on the Chinese team jersey for the Asian Cup qualifiers in 2021, he is Play as a naturalized player (i.e. originally a non-nationality player who acquired his nationality through naturalization or any system after the age of 16).
After the Basketball Association inquired about the regulations of the General Assembly, Bai Zhuang Ruixiong, the legislator, ran in the middle and applied to FIBA to replace Abbasi’s naturalized player status with a player of his own nationality after preparing the materials. Today, the Basketball Association stated in a statement, “The Association accepts The FIBA letter confirms that Abbasi no longer needs to take up the naturalization quota, and he is joining the national team as a local player.” This is immediate good news for the Chinese team.
Abbasi averaged 20.7 points, 6.5 rebounds, and 3.6 assists in the first season of the T1 League. He was the top scoring and rebounding leader in the T1 League. He was also selected as the Rookie of the Year and the First Team of the Year. Technically, he is undoubtedly the top player in the T1 League. One of the stars, if you look at the local players in all leagues in Taiwan, he is definitely worthy of being selected for the national team, but he is 188 cm tall and mainly plays the wing position. In terms of size, he is the position with the most abundant talent pool in Taiwan. Of course, Abbasi The strength of Taiwan is definitely among the top few flanks in Taiwan, but if under the previous rules, Abbasi can only play as a naturalized player, which means that Taiwan will lose the opportunity to use the naturalization quota to strengthen the penalty area.
There are currently only two naturalized players in the history of Taiwan. From Davis (Quincy Davis III) to William Artino (William Artino), they are all center forwards. This shows that our country suffers the most in the international arena and needs to use naturalization quotas to reinforce The most important thing is the penalty area. Now Abbasi can become a real local player without the naturalization quota, which means that the Chinese team can use the naturalization quota to strengthen the penalty area and still have Abbasi in the backcourt. The team’s combat power has definitely improved.
Yu Qing, Abbasi has lived in Taiwan for more than ten years, and his communication and life styles are no different from those of Taiwanese. This is why he will give up his Senegalese citizenship to obtain Taiwanese citizenship in 2020, and he has long recognized Taiwan. Now people are not only defined as Taiwanese by law, but also as non-exceptional Taiwanese in terms of international basketball recognition. In fact, from the recognition of mixed blood in many West Asian countries, the Philippines, and Japan in recent years, we can already smell FIBA’s attitude towards 16-year-olds. The attitude of regulations is regarded as a principle, but not an iron law trampled on to death. As long as the country can actively fight for it and put forward convincing reasons, it is indeed possible to increase the possibility of various cases being regarded as local.
In any case, now that Abbasi is officially free from any prerequisites and norms, he is determined to become an unlimited Taiwanese player. In the future, there must be many opportunities for Taiwanese fans to see the Panthers running in the international arena.
Further reading:
Abbasi’s naturalization value does not need to be judged, it is more important to master his “instruction manual”
“T1 League Character Close-up” special attack on Black Panther-Abbasi
The entanglement and struggle of the dual-professional basketball league when welcoming the era of great naturalization
Looking at Taiwan’s future naturalization trend from the perspective of the naturalized player system of Japan, South Korea, and the Philippines
“It’s been called for a long time!” How much can the new naturalized player Atino help the Chinese men’s basketball team improve?
William Artino’s naturalization case is about to turn
[Editor Zhang Zhengbang]
