In the era of the Chinese Super League (CSL) golden dollar, many big names have joined the team, including former CSL champions Guangzhou Evergrande, which is "star-studded". Recently, Jackson Martinez, the famous striker and former Guangzhou Evergrande superstar who won the Chinese Super League title for the team, revealed in an interview that he is ready to return to soccer and restart his career as a player. If Martinez finally manages to make a comeback, he will step on the pitch again after almost three years of retirement.
Prior to this, Martinez had announced his retirement in early 2021 due to an ankle injury, but in recent years, news of his comeback has emerged. The Colombian media recently gave lared in an interview in which Martinez finally revealed the progress of his recent comeback.
I came close to joining Medellin Independence this year, but it didn't work out in the end," Martinez said. "Because at the time it didn't feel good physically. Now I think I'm ready and have no physical problems. I did receive a lot of offers and they invited me to continue playing soccer. I will scrutinize those contracts. Of course, the priority is to ensure my family life. If the invitations will take me away from my family, then I will not choose to accept them." Martinez said.
In fact, Martinez has had at least two chances to come back in the past two years, but they were ultimately denied for various reasons. However, this time around, Martinez rarely reveals that he's holding multiple offers, which is obviously more "reliable" than the rumors of his return the last two times. It seems that after more than two years of rest, the ankle injuries that plagued him in the past are no longer an issue.
Martinez used to be the most valuable player of Guangzhou Evergrande.At the beginning of 2016, he joined Guangzhou Evergrande with a transfer fee of more than 42 million euros, which once created the record of transfer fee of Chinese Super League players. However, in that crazy winter, the record created by Martinez was soon broken by Teixeira, who was worth 50 million euros. Although Martinez's form and attendance at Evergrande did not meet expectations, he became a representative of the "water goods superstar" in the history of the Chinese Super League, as he won the Chinese Super League title with Guangzhou Evergrande.
