People always like to discuss the psychology of motivation speculation, such as mercenaries, money, naturalization of players, the concept of the All China Class mouthpiece, playing with big names, and over-reliance on foreign aid.
But the professionalism of the players, and the energy they convey, is taken for granted.
If Iverson returns to the Chinese Super League, he should only be 34 the day he dons the Chengdu Rongcheng uniform.
His rich experience in the Chinese Super League and the advantage of not taking up the team's quota of foreigners, coupled with the fact that free agency does not require a transfer fee, is a perfect fit for Chengdu Chengdu's need to strengthen its front line.
"Exxon Ends Study Abroad" appeared in the newspapers. Sometimes I suspect this is black humor, but the narrative of the major articles leads me to believe that their analysis is a cry from the heart.
Just a decade ago, when he was still Elkeson, in his first year of first ascending to the Chinese Super League, he won the league's top scorer at the Tianhe Stadium.
That year, Guangzhou Evergrande won the Vulcan Cup for the third time but the AFC Championship for the first time. These fantastic memories weave another absurd and unruly Chinese soccer farce.
With the days of using sports to prove that you are not the sick man of East Asia gone, so-called naturalization is no longer at the throats of the majority of the population after sports achievements have been decoupled from national pride.
The Naturalization Maze
"I am proud to have made the choice to return to China."
In early 2019, 21-year-old Hou Yongyong returned to China as one of the first naturalized players, using Chinese Super League side Beijing Guoan as a foothold. Returning with him was Li Ke, who shares the same Chinese heritage.
At the age of 16, he made his debut with Norwegian super giants Rosenborg and was selected for the Norwegian national youth team. Eadgall and Ajer were dubbed the "Norwegian Triple Heroes", and won the Norwegian Football Talent Junior Award for the reason of Hou Yongyong's resume, which is the reason why they hope to revive the Chinese soccer industry.
At that time, the other major naturalization force in Chinese soccer was the Guangzhou team. Unlike Guoan, they were mainly dedicated to converting the best foreign aiders from the Chinese Super League into "foreign aiders" for the national football team.
In 2019 alone, Guangzhou paid 870 million yuan in transfer fees, wages and settlement fees for six naturalized players, Golat, Allan, Ackerson, Fernando, Luo Guofu and Jiang Guangtai.
After such a huge mass change, "Elkeson" became "Aixon", "Aloysio" became "Luo Guofu", "Alan" or "Alan", together with Chinese naturalized player Jiang Guangtai, "Second Palace" Lippi, led the national football team to participate in the World Qualifying Tournament. ", "Alan" or "Alan", together with the Chinese naturalized player Jiang Guangtai, the "Second Palace" Lippi, led the national soccer team to participate in the world preliminaries.
However, with the Philippines drawing and losing to Syria, and the qualifying situation for the Top 40 of national soccer in jeopardy, Lippi abruptly resigned. "Players have no sense of national honor" was his final characterization of Chinese soccer before he left.
Li Tie took over the national football team, Alan, Jiang Guangtai further additions to the lineup, and eventually advanced to the top twelve without any risk, Luo Guofu and Fernando also gradually qualify for the field.
Throughout the last World Qualifying cycle, only Ekson and Jiang Guangtai were truly naturalized players. Fernando continues to hang up his exemption card on the grounds of injury, and Li Ke also missed the Top 12 due to injury.
unforeseen circumstances
In the world preliminaries, Li Tie on the use of naturalized players of the controversy has arisen, as a trigger for the "closed training", "the lack of home" and other issues continue to deepen the rift between Li Tie and the media.
For Exxon, whatever controversy there was, it ended with the final whistle of the National Football League against Australia.
In the 68th minute of the match, Ackerson scored a penalty kick inside the Australian penalty area. Wu Lei then one-timed it, making it his swansong in this year's National Football League 12.
Meanwhile, after Guangzhou defaulted on his wages for months on end, Ickerson decided to leave China and the league he had played in for nearly a decade.
"I'm Chinese and as soon as the Chinese national team calls me up, I'll be back," Ickerson said as he left China and returned to the airport in Brazil
After a six-month break, Ickerson joined Pakistan B team Gremio as a foreigner. This was the impression most Chinese fans had of the naturalized player after the World Qualifier.
When Li Xiaopeng led the team to participate in the world preliminaries, "whether to recruit naturalized players" became the hottest topic of discussion, and ultimately Iverson failed to make the roster.
Unfortunately, Madsen jumped in with a very "reasonable" explanation: "Eckerson made it clear that he would not be returning to the team for the final 12 games, so he was not listed on the National Football Team roster."
But it was soon reversed when many national media sources revealed that Exxon was not listed on the national soccer team roster because of a lack of infection.
The strange thing about China's soccer media is that the demonizing portrayal of various opinions makes Chinese soccer seem even less clear, even as many of the traditionally righteous consider themselves "authorities" and wave the flag of "justice".
The Golden Dollar Falls
Looking back at the past four years, the naturalization of Chinese soccer has not caught up with any element of "right time, right place, harmony".
With the first batch of naturalized players, Hou Yong Yong, leaving Beijing Guoan, only Jiang Guangtai and Li Ke are still playing in the Chinese Super League.
Perhaps it may only be a matter of time before Li Ke leaves and Jiang Guangtai remains in the Premier League as Shanghai Port is one of the few stable teams.
With Ackerson almost destined to return to the Chinese Super League, media personality Wang Xiaorui went on record as saying, "His current level of competition does not qualify him to be selected for the national team again. Not to mention the likes of Wu Lei, Zhang Yuning, Lin Liangming, Xie Pengfei, Wei Shihao, and even Xie Weijun and Chen Pu, who have been on the rise much more than him, he should consider retiring as soon as possible."
Such a question could come from the media announcing that Ickerson wants to play with the national soccer team in this year's Asian Cup.
Indeed, the media ridicule is endless. To summarize, Lo Guofu is currently playing for America Mineiro and said in an interview that he has started to think about retirement. Allan is also back in Brazil playing for Fluminense.
Fernando has no appearance record since naturalization and is a free agent, and Gallagher, who plays for Atletico de Bahia, is applying to regain his Brazilian citizenship.
As for Delgado, he won't be eligible to play until at least next year, but there's no reality to it.
With the Asian Cup approaching and only four months left, the Chinese national team has yet to even identify a candidate for head coach, and the national team has more recently disappeared from the public eye.
As a member of the Naturalized Legion, Exxon's professional attitude is beyond reproach. Unfortunately, however, they have never been recognized by the majority of the population due to the fact that there has never been a trace of immigration in their history.
If possible, I prefer that Hu and Tao and Wang Haijian gradually realize their value to the Nationals, which is the legacy this country wants to see the most.
In the cold winter of Chinese soccer, in the naturalization trend that quenches the thirst, people in the future will use "farce" to summarize the national team in the era of Li Tie and Li Xiaopeng, but I still want to believe in the original belief of "Exxon" in soccer.
