January 5, 2023 was an extraordinary moment for national soccer fans. In faraway Spain, a La Liga match was in full swing. The referee's whistle broke through the night sky, and the match between Espanyol and Barcelona, the dominant team in La Liga, was officially kicked off. The match was extremely close, until the 73rd minute, the score was still fixed at 2-1, it was at this moment that the Spaniards made a decisive substitution, No.7 Wu Lei replaced No.14 Melendo. Just ten minutes later, a lightning blue figure quickly plunged forward, and after receiving Vargas's precise direct feed, he shot the ball into the corner of the net with lightning speed.
Wu Lei, who is known as "nuclear weapon seven", has long been a household name in China. He was not only the Chinese Super League dominant, and now it is the "hope of the whole village" of the "stay in La Liga", all kinds of honors in one. However, who can imagine that the story behind all this is so difficult?
In fact, whether in the past or now, Wu Lei's first impression is always shorter in height and thin. Therefore, many coaches tend to ignore him when selecting people. At this time, his nobleman appeared, that is Xu Genbao.
In the summer of 2003, the young Wu Lei accompanied by his father to Chongming, after reading the letter of introduction, Xu Genbao did not immediately moved, but entrusted Wu Lei to another coach Yang Limin, so that he first examined this not outstanding young players. In coach Yang's team, Wu Lei is much shorter than other players, but just after a training match, Yang Limin immediately found Xu Genbao as if he had found a treasure, "He is short, others take this point to bully him, but he is very smart, know their own short board, not at all with others to do physical confrontation, but more than one pass with more, three or two times the effort of the ball into the. " After observing Wu Lei playing football, Xu Genbao directly find the Nanjing Football Association, "I want to take him away", and finally to the price of 40,000 yuan will be Wu Lei from Nanjing to Shanghai, to the place where his soccer dream began.
(young wu lei)
In Shanghai Genbao base, Wu Lei with amazing speed and first-class sense of the ball quickly became the core of the team, but in the road to the national jersey has been frustrated. At that time, the national junior team called in Wang Jiayu, Park Jiajun and other Genbao system players, but repeatedly ignored the highly respected Xu Genbao Wu Lei, the reason is "too short". It was not until 2010 that Wu Lei finally gained a foothold in the national soccer team.
(Wu Lei and Xu Genbao)
Since Wu Lei entered the soccer world, has been subject to controversy and questioning. In the national team and club performance by the fans and media questioning, but also was deducted "wave shooting king" and other hats, young Wu Lei also had a counterattack, but now has matured more he chose to avoid, which also shows his strong psychological quality. This is also the reason why Wu Lei never misses in the penalty shootout in all kinds of key games.
It is not easy to make the decision to stay in the ocean. Some people think that the national football players "to stay in the ocean" is a simple thing, then why so many years really stay in the ocean success is only Wu Lei one? Europe's top five leagues and the Chinese Super League can not be compared, Wu Lei in the Chinese Super League can be randomly scored 20 or 30 goals, but in the stage of the Western League, every goal is not easy. Coupled with the inconvenience of being in a foreign country, language and culture problems, Chinese players want to stand firm in La Liga, the effort is even more unimaginable.
"Lead the national football team to break out of Asia" is Wu Lei's teacher gave him the expectation, then what we can do is to put down the keyboard is still knocking, to give the king of the martial arts ball the greatest support, so that he continues to shine on the stage of the La Liga.
