On December 12, while the drums of the second phase of the Chinese Super League were beating, Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport was filled with parting emotions. Numerous Guangzhou fans went there spontaneously to see off the striker Aixon, who has carved a deep mark in the history of the national soccer team.
As early as a week before the National Football League ended its isolation, several media outlets revealed that Ackerson would not represent Guangzhou in the second stage of the tournament, choosing instead to take his family to Brazil for a vacation.
At the time, there was much speculation as to which team would be the new owner of Ickxon, given that Guangzhou had been in arrears for three consecutive months and was struggling to operate. However, when Ixon through personal social media platforms to release a long message to officially bid farewell to the Chinese fans, many people realized that Ixon this time to leave may mean with the Chinese Super League "goodbye".
On social media platforms, Ickerson recalled his arrival in China in the past nine years, two times on the top of Asia and five times to win the Chinese Super League title was unforgettable to him. At the time of parting, Ickerson expressed his heartfelt gratitude to the clubs he had played for, his teammates and the fans who loved him.
In a long parting message, Ickerson said he is still a Chinese, despite leaving the Chinese Super League, but is ready to play for the national football team. As long as the national football team call, they will have no choice but to return to the team to play for their country, which also let the fans who were worried that Ickerson will change back to Brazilian nationality ate a pill of peace of mind.
The final piece of Guangzhou's puzzle, he was the Brazilian "Egidio" who was unbeatable in Asia.
On December 24th, 2012, Guangzhou gave their fans their usual "Christmas gift" by signing 23-year-old Brazilian striker Elkeson, who was playing for Botafogo at the time, for a transfer fee of 5.7 million euros.
Although domestic fans did not know Elkeson at that time, but by virtue of the outstanding performance in the first season in Botafogo to get the Barclays Premier League assist king, Elkeson in 2011 was evaluated as the "international football world's 100 most magical man" and "the most watched samba talent of the year! In 2011, Elkeson was honored as one of the "100 most exciting players in international football" and "the most popular Samba talent of the year". The following season, became Botafogo's main striker Elkeson is scored 11 league goals, its outstanding performance has been the attention of a number of European giants, Serie A Juventus even opened a 5 million euros offer, but ultimately, Elkeson chose to come to the Chinese Super League to play.
On March 8, 2013, Elkeson scored twice in the second half of Guangzhou's match against Shanghai Shenxin in the first round of the 2013 Chinese Super League season, helping the team win 5-1 in the season opener. A week later, against Jiangsu Suntian, Elkeson scored a hat-trick of three goals to help Guangzhou win 3-0.
The arrival of Elkeson can be said to be a quick solution to the lack of a stable and reliable center forward under the rule of Lippi, the team was invincible in the Chinese Super League that season, 24 wins, 5 draws and 1 loss in 30 rounds of the league not only made the Guangzhou team locked the Super League Championship, but also created a new single-season scoring high in the history of the Super League. Throughout the season, Elkeson blasted 24 league goals, winning the first Chinese Super League scorer king, the outside world is its and Liaozhu's Edu and become the Chinese Super League's North and South "Egod".
At the level of the Asian Championship, Elkeson and Muric, Konka composed of the South American trident is very tacit understanding, a clear division of labor, they and a number of international players at the peak of the composition of an invincible king of the division. Semi-final home and away to 8-1 score eliminated Kashiwa Sun God is shocked Asia, the final, Elkeson two rounds each scored a goal, can be called the Guangzhou team to be able to ask for the first time the top of Asia's number one contributor.
In Elkeson's first seven years of his Chinese Super League career, he won the league trophy five times, and in his first three years in the national soccer world, Elkeson helped Guangzhou reach the top of Asia twice with his superb shooting skills and big heart performance in the final match.
The first non-blood naturalized, he was once expected to be our country's Exxon
In the summer of 2019, Shanghai seaport and Guangzhou team reached a consensus, Elkeson officially returned to Guangzhou. At that time, it was widely believed that the naturalization matter, which had been mentioned for many years, would be officially put on the agenda. A month later, Elkeson got his ID card, renamed as Eckerson, he officially became a Chinese, but also has the qualification to represent the Chinese men's football team to attack the Qatar World Cup.
September 10, 2019 is destined to be a day that will go down in the history of Chinese soccer. In Male, the capital of the Maldives, the Chinese men's soccer team had their first match of the 40-team tournament. Ekerson, who was included in the starting lineup by then national football manager Lippi, performed a perfect national team debut with his outstanding performance of scoring two goals in the last minute of the second half, which made fans expect Chinese men's football to have naturalized players.
However, after the victory over Guam, the Chinese men's soccer team has been in the predicament of dropping points, and the draw with the Philippines and the defeat against Syria have made Lippi take the blame, and the unproductive Ekerson has also become the target of criticism from the outside world. When Iverson failed to score a single goal in the entire league season, the outside world was full of questions about his status, and even thought that Iverson, who was a naturalized player, had been "assimilated" after becoming a naturalized player.
But since this season, the physical state of the obvious improvement of Aixon became the front line of Guangzhou team's top killers, scored 11 league goals he not only became the Super League's all-time top scorer, but also is expected to compete with Changchun Yatai's Junior all-time top scorer. However, with Guangzhou in a wage crisis, Ickerson chose to leave.
Naturalized Players "Reverse Stay", Exxon Promises to Return When Called
In the Chinese men's football team after the new head coach Li Xiaopeng took over the team, he put forward the "four prohibitions" policy, which includes a "prohibit discrimination against naturalized players, and even more prohibit empty naturalized players".
Although in the previous campaign during the 12 strong, fans more or less feel the naturalized players in the field some isolated, but now Li Xiaopeng's regulation seems to suggest that the naturalized players in the field by the domestic players hollow.
Because of naturalization, players such as Ackerson have a much higher salary level than other international players. Although this is a contract between the naturalized players and their clubs, it still makes a lot of international players dissatisfied. Although the naturalized players contributed a lot of wonderful manifestations in the previous 12 matches, but there are a lot of very threatening attacks from the naturalized players to cooperate with each other.
In fact, back in 2013, when Iverson was at his peak, some fans said that if the Chinese football team had an Iverson, there would be no worries about the "powerlessness of the striker", but the outsiders overlooked the contribution of Gao Lin, who was willing to play as a green leaf in the offense and defense of that Guangzhou team. Nowadays, the naturalized players are still the most powerful players in the Chinese men's football team in terms of both offense and defense, but they lack the helpers like Gao Lin, who is willing to be the green leaf.
Perhaps it is the various encounters during the 12 games and now the Guangzhou team's unpaid salary difficulties that have made Ekerson, who has been living in China for 9 years, have the intention to go. Perhaps the "reverse stay" in the Barclays Premier League will be conducive to the continuation of Ackerson's career, while protecting his due income.
"I will come back when called" is the promise that Iverson left to all Chinese fans who love him. Despite the fact that even Chinese Iverson has to wait for a flight to return to China due to the severe epidemic situation in the country, Iverson will still be able to fly from Brazil to meet the Chinese men's soccer team as long as he is called up by Li Xiaopeng, as they are going to face Japan and Vietnam in the next 12-team tournament at the end of January.
This time Iverson left just the Chinese Super League, perhaps in the near future, we will again see Iverson wearing the Chinese men's soccer uniform. By then, we'll have two players who are staying in China.
