Sports Weekly revealed that although several naturalized players frequently show pictures of hard training on social media, seemingly hard work, but behind the agent and the team's careful planning. The purpose of their move is clear: first, to return to the national team to maintain their own value; second, looking forward to returning to the field of our professional league. As they have not yet found other clubs, returning to the Chinese Super League seems to be the best option for them at the moment, and continuing to represent the national team will also help them find new owners in the Chinese Super League.
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While naturalized players are eager to return to the national football team, it makes sense to take the national team fitness test. Players such as Jiang Guangtai have expressed their willingness to undergo the test. However, some naturalized players are against the test. The national football team is no longer like facing Japan and Vietnam, and will not take the naturalized players to the away game without considering their condition. Li Xiaopeng said that he would not be overly enthusiastic about players such as Luo Guofu as he was in Japan.
The national football team has done a good job of non-blood naturalized players can not be able to support the team's preparation, only from the existing players to select the main force. However, from Li Xiaopeng's tone, it seems that the existing international players are also unstable. He said: "Although everyone has difficulties, but since it has come here, it shows determination. We ask the players to concentrate on preparing for the next two games. If they are unable to focus, they can bring it up because the national team needs cohesion and more commitment."
Obviously, Li Xiaopeng is worried about the concentration and morale of the players. Such worries are not difficult to understand. Our team has been eliminated, the last two games still need to go to West Asia "go through", for the past year in most of the time in the closed state of the international players, morale is indeed difficult to improve. On the other hand, many of the international players in the national football team in the club's future is uncertain, some of the international players may not know where the next season will play, this situation will also let the players in the preparation of the battle time distraction. However, from Li Xiaopeng's helplessness, people found a huge worry: "as long as the national team robes on the field, we must do our best for the honor of Chinese soccer" such a most simple and basic logic, has been challenged by the reality.
A question to ponder is what does international football status really mean to the players now? In the beginning to be able to enter the national football team, one is to let the players have the hope of impacting the World Cup, and the other is to improve the players' earnings. The Chinese Football Association (CFA) has imposed two salary limits on Chinese Super League (CSL) players, with a special policy of preferential treatment for international players. The first salary limit, general domestic players annual salary shall not be higher than 10 million yuan, international players annual salary shall not be higher than 12 million yuan. The second salary limit, the general players annual salary shall not be higher than 3 million yuan, international players annual salary shall not be higher than 5 million yuan. Obviously, the status of international players can make the players in playing professional league or even transfer to get benefits. However, the CFA's salary limitation policy is still continuing, in this case, the price advantage of international players is also feared to be reduced to nothing. Coupled with the uncertainty of the survival of the clubs, this has resulted in a number of players who were international players two years ago, simply announcing their retirement. Like Meifang and Huang Bowen were once international players, also have a good career, now, the success of their face can not see the direction of the road ahead, coincidentally chose to hang up his boots. And when the end of the final 12, will there be more people, make the same choice?
Lost hope of reaching the World Cup, no more high income, the life and death of their clubs are uncertain. Those who have accumulated enough wealth in the past decade of the golden dollar era of a large number of 30-something veterans, I am afraid that they have lost the motivation to continue to struggle in the next four years. The last two 12 games, for the national football team is the end of the impact of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, but also hope to open a new starting point, so that China's men's football really began to renew the generation, in the end of the era of the golden dollar so that more young people get the opportunity. Only when the "wearing the national team's uniform, playing for the country, will certainly fight to the best of their ability" faith re-established, China's men's football spirit is expected to be new.
