Confirmation that women's international soccer player Li Jiayue has joined Galatasaray in Turkey.
On January 3, Shanghai Shengli Football Club released an announcement confirming that women's international soccer player Li Jiayue joined Galatasaray in Turkey. Currently, there are 13 Chinese women's soccer players, 7 of whom are from Shanghai women's soccer. Especially the 32-year-old Li Jiayue can have a stable life in Shanghai team. Why did he still choose to go abroad for the second time?
Li Jiayue as a defender, at the age of 8 years old into Shanghai Beixinjing Primary School, at the age of 13 years old into the Shanghai Women's Football Youth Team, in 2007 into the Shanghai Women's Football First Team, 2010.2011.2015 Women's Super League Champion, 2008 Women's Super League Champion. 2009.2011.2015.2016 Women's FA General Cup Champion, 2017 Championship Champion, 2017 Thirteenth National Games Champion and many other honors.
In 2014, Li Jiayue first joined Suwon Samsung women's soccer team of South Korea's K-League and won the MVP of the league championship.In 2012, she was selected for the first time for the women's national team and made her international debut in that year's East Asian Cup qualifiers, and then won the third place in the 2014 Women's Asian Cup.She was runner-up in the women's soccer team of the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta and many other outstanding achievements.In February 2022, she and the women's national team went to India to participate in the 20th Women's Asian Cup in India and won the title.
When she studied abroad at the age of 32, Li Jiayue said she wanted to play more matches. "There were a lot of considerations for coming to play in the Turkish Super League, and there were also Spanish . Italian and Norwegian teams wanted me, but these big clubs are strong and have relatively stable lineups. The probability of playing with my ability is much smaller. After all, the position of defender is not very mobile." She reveals that she is a player who especially needs to play, "Playing more games will make me predict . The tackles feel better. I chose to go to Galatasaray to play more matches and have a greater exercise value."
Li Jiayue said on her personal social media that studying abroad at this age is not an escape but for the 2023 Women's World Cup. "Soccer is a competitive sport, no one pays attention to your age, I can run and jump now and I think my fitness . The body is still good, I can throw, so I also want to play more games. After all, if there are basically no games in the first half of the year in China, it's being wasted. In the second half of this year, there is a Women's Soccer World Cup and I want to stay in shape by playing more games. If this decision is for the next five years, I feel that I am pursuing my dream . Ten years of development is more favorable, even if I suffer a little bit, what is it?"
Link: 13 Chinese women's soccer players study abroad
Wang ShuangLouisville Athletics, USA
Carrie Tang CFF Madrid, Spain
Paris Saint-Germain, France
Paris Saint-Germain, France
Swiss Grasshopper Zhang Linyan
Shen Mengyu Scotland Celtic
Scottish Celtic
Zhao Yu Jie, Kiehl, Denmark
Yang Shuhui, Lokomotiv Moscow, Russia
Tulinli Iceland FHL (Icelandic Second Division)
Xiao Yuyi Australia Adelaide United
Wu Chengshu (1913-1994), Chinese poet
Galatasa, Li Jiayue, Turkey
