On the way to help our country's soccer dream, the CFA boldly launched a new naturalization policy in 2019, and for a while, many foreign players will come and go to wear the national football robes. However, in 2021, the policy pusher Guangzhou team encountered unprecedented challenges. The financial chain broke, the team was caught in the quagmire of salary arrears, and the naturalized players chose to leave the team and return to their homeland, Brazil.
After spending a long time studying in a foreign country, a naturalized player has recently decided to embark on a return journey: Chinese striker Eriksen, known as "Bear". As early as 2013, Ekerson (formerly known as Elkeson) landed in the Chinese Super League and stunned the crowd with 31 goals in his debut campaign. In the seasons that followed, he continued to shine, becoming the first player to taste the naturalization policy of the CFA, transforming from Elkeson to Ekerson, and becoming the first naturalized player without blood in the history of Chinese soccer!
Since 2019, Eckerson has made 13 appearances for the national soccer team, scoring a respectable four goals. Despite the overall poor performance, our team said goodbye to the World Cup qualification early. This bold attempt ended in failure.
Many fans had been convinced that these bloodless naturalized players would leave our country without playing for the national football team. However, Ackerson surprised them. In the new season, he will return to the Chinese Super League with the goal of proving himself once again and winning the favor of the national football team's head coach to rejoin the national team for the next World Cup qualifier and next year's Asian Cup!
Ackerson's path to naturalization is in stark contrast to that of another Brazilian naturalized player, Gallart. When Gallart first encountered wage arrears, he decisively proposed to terminate his contract and flew out of the country, seemingly unwilling to stay here. In the new season, in order to avoid occupying the foreign aid quota, Golat has begun the procedure for the restoration of Brazilian nationality. The much-anticipated "strongest naturalization" will once again wear Brazilian robes, Guangzhou's huge investment is finally in vain.
Will Gallagher be ashamed in the face of Ackerson's decision? Why is the gap so wide when they are both naturalized players?
