After a period of explosive growth, naturalized players gradually faded from everyone's view. At the peak there were more than 10 naturalized players, 6 were selected for the national football team and 5 represented the national football team in official matches, which is a relatively high number. With the end of golden dollar soccer in the Chinese Super League, more and more naturalized players left China and even reverted back to their home countries. After a few bounces around the country, only three international players, Jiang Guangtai, Ekerson and Li Ke, are still playing, while the rest of the naturalized players are difficult to return due to age and income issues.
Despite the unsatisfactory domestic soccer environment and the drastic drop in income, there are still some unrelated players who have expressed the idea of playing for China. Meizhou Hakka Sevilla defender Dugalic was recently interviewed by domestic media and expressed his willingness to play for China and is waiting for a call-up from China. No word on Dugalic's thoughts on the subject, and when asked if he would like to be selected for the Serbian national team, he gave a shocking answer, saying frankly that he doesn't play for the Serbian national team and that he's eligible to play for China, and expressing his thoughts on being naturalized.
Dugalic is 30 years old and won't be playing in China until the 2022 season. If he is naturalized, he will be eligible to play for China in 2027, then he will be 34 years old and unlikely to play for the national soccer team. However, Dugaric is indeed a rare good foreigner in the Chinese Super League. In recent years, there have been many Eastern European foreigners in the Chinese Super League. They not only have outstanding strength, but also have strong spiritual attributes, a strong sense of responsibility and dedication. In addition, Dugalic is very self-disciplined. China has a lot of delicious food. He said he has eaten hot pot, local pickled noodles in Wuhua, and even turtle, but he usually eats more specialized food.
If the national soccer team can now form a defensive line of Jiang Guangtai and Dugalic, it will make the national soccer team much more capable of defending, Dugalic is a blade defender himself, he scored four goals and one assist this season, of course, two goals were blown away by VAR, but he can stand up immediately, a trait that makes him very popular. Meanwhile, Dugaric's attendance is so high that he rarely gets injured and is like a steel warrior. This attribute is much better than Jadson.
In fact, at this stage of the national football team can still go the route of naturalization, naturalization does not necessarily need to be super-high wages to attract. Like Park Chi-joo, who joined Wuhan Sanzhen to return to the Chinese Super League, his annual salary soared 25 times from the Portuguese Super League back to the Chinese Super League to 1.5 million euros, which is still within the affordable range of Chinese Super League clubs. At today's annual salary limits, there are still plenty of cost-effective foreigners willing to come, so they don't need much money to naturalize the same. Just like Dugaric's annual salary in Meizhou is not high, but some foreigners don't care about money, so we can attract good foreigners to naturalize at a fairly low cost.
