Of course, this would not be enough to record them if they just relied on the Chinese Super League championship. Although the Asian Champions League was not as exciting as the Champions League at that time, it was in full swing every year. As the representative of Chinese clubs, Guangzhou Evergrande won the Asian Championship twice in 2013 and 2015, which is the highest achievement of Asian clubs. At the time, Guangzhou Evergrande was at the peak of its sun and therefore qualified for the Club World Cup. It has played against Bayern and Barcelona. While it is true that it cannot match the strength of the top teams in Europe, it is very rewarding to witness a real match between the nation's clubs and the strongest clubs.
However, this was also thanks to the support of gold-dollar soccer. At that time, foreign aid was very powerful. Basically, they could play in five leagues. Although they couldn't compete with players from Real Madrid and Barcelona, they were already at the level of Asia's big guns, and the only two Asian champions in the Chinese Super League have to thank these foreigners for that, among others, Elkeson, who scored twice for his team in the two legs of the final of the 2013 Asian Champions League, has now become a naturalized player, renamed as Ickxon, and then in 2015's Asian Champions League, he helped Guangzhou Evergrande win the trophy twice in three years. His contribution to Chinese soccer deserves to be recognized. However, naturalized players do dumb down fans. This should not be used to improve the performance of Chinese soccer.
With the passage of time, in just more than a decade, a once brilliant team became a stranger, and after a series of operations, Chinese soccer has not made any progress, but rather, the fans do not see hope. Guangzhou Evergrande can no longer be called Guangzhou Evergrande, but only the Guangzhou team. The development of Chinese soccer is the same as the development of Guangzhou team now, we need to start again, from the most basic foundation, so that the national soccer team can have hope after many years.
