I believe many netizens will see such questions. Which of the two sports figures, Yao Ming and Son Heung-min , has achieved higher achievements in Asia? One is a Chinese. He entered NBA as the No. 1 pick at the age of 23. Yao Ming made brilliant results in Rockets and was also inducted into the American Basketball Hall of Fame. He is also the first basketball player in Asia to win this honor. No one in the Chinese can surpass it. Son Heung-min is a Korean. At the age of 30, he won the Golden Boot Award in Premier League , creating Asian history and becoming the first Asian scorer king in 's five major leagues . I believe many fans will also think that it is more difficult for Son Heung-min to win the Golden Boot Award. Moreover, the 30-year-old Son Heung-min is still growing up. He has become a phenomenal athlete in Asia and can be said to be a role model for Asian and global football players to learn from.
Personally, I think there is not much meaning to compare football with basketball. Yao Ming’s success in the field of basketball is not to be said. He has enhanced the influence of Chinese basketball around the world, allowed more people to understand the Chinese men’s basketball team, and also enhanced the exchange of sports and culture between China and foreign countries. Moreover, Yao Ming is funny and humorous. He can understand the culture that Americans like, can communicate and talk freely in English without hindrance, and will also convey the charming culture of the East to American media and players, allowing everyone to see the wisdom of a big man.
42-year-old Yao Ming has retreated behind the scenes and has become the leader of Chinese Basketball Association . But to this day, Yao Ming's popularity remains on the basketball stage. But we can clearly see that it is difficult for the Chinese sports world to discover an excellent athlete like Yao Ming again. Because there is no active Chinese athlete in the world's No. 1 NBA basketball league. The same is true for football. Among the five major leagues, there are very few Chinese players. Judging from age and performance, Wu Lei and will not have the chance to become Son Heung-min.
So where is the problem behind this? Many people will think it is a problem in youth training and league. Football and basketball are the same, and youth training is the most powerful guarantee. If you hope that these two sports will continue to improve, you must pay attention to youth training. But then again, youth training must have seedlings, and no one is willing to play football. Who will go to youth training? You can’t just catch people from the road and train them? So for this aspect, if parents can make more and more children spontaneously fall in love with the football basket. I think this is a difficult thing. Only by solving this problem and developing the quality of youth training well can the achievements improve.
Don’t forget, behind the success of Yao Ming and Son Heung-min in the sports world, they all support and cultivate their parents. Yao Ming's father is 208cm tall, his mother is 188cm tall, and both are basketball players. Yao Ming has the excellent genes of his parents and has amazing talents in playing basketball. Yao Ming, who has liked basketball since elementary school, is like a fish in water. With the help of his parents and the sports school, Yao Ming quickly entered the Shanghai Shark Youth Team for training, practicing hard for 10 hours a day, training for 6 days in one week without any storm, and losing 40 kilograms in a month. This is behind the success.
It is worth mentioning that Yao Ming’s wife Ye Li gave birth to Yao Ming’s daughter in a hospital in Houston, USA in 2010. Many fans also wished Yao Ming and hoped that he would consider having a boy with his wife to inherit Yao Ming's genes. Not long ago, there was media news that Yao Ming’s wife generously stated when she participated in an event: Her daughter is a little lonely and the relationship between brother and sister is irreplaceable. This sentence is also regarded as Yao Ming and his wife are planning to have a second child.
