At dawn on August 29th, Atletico de Bahia won the 26th round of the Barclays Premier League with a thrilling 2-1 victory over Da Gama. Golat, who only joined Atlético de Bahia at the beginning of this month, made his first start in this crucial match, first scoring an accidental own goal, then helping his team to score a turnaround goal, contributing three points to the team's home win. It was also Golat's first goal since joining Atlético de Bahia, and he was honored as the best player after the match.
Since his naturalization in 2019, Golat has earned at least 400 million yuan. The player has been seen as the focal point of the naturalization process in the Chinese Super League. Although Golat completed his naturalization in 2019 and the Chinese Football Association (CFA) had expected him to represent the national football team in the Asian qualifiers for the World Cup in Qatar, due to the fact that he was loaned back to the Brazilian league at one point during his time with Guangzhou Evergrande (now Guangzhou), Golat was unable to represent the national football team during the WC qualifiers due to failing to satisfy the FIFA rule of five years of continuous residency in the country or region of his new nationality despite being naturalized, Golat was He was unable to represent the national soccer team.
However, Golat was born in 1991 and is younger than other naturalized players such as Eickson, Lok Kwok Foo and Alan, and many Chinese fans are still hoping that he will play for the national football team in the next World Qualification Tournament. After all, he was elected AFC Foreign Player of the Year during his time in the Chinese Super League, and has also won the AFC Champions League Player of the Year, the AFC Champions League Golden Boot, and two Mr. Chinese Super League honors, so his personal strength should not be underestimated. Previously, domestic media repeatedly reported that in order to make Golat, Ackerson, Alan and others naturalized, Guangzhou Evergrande spent 1 billion RMB at that time, of which only Golat's signing fee and settling fee is more than 100 million RMB!
In addition, due to his naturalized status, Golat has been offered a lucrative contract. From the time he was naturalized in 2019 until the end of the 2021 season, Golat, who earns 13 million euros a year, has a total salary of 39 million euros (about 267 million yuan) during this period! Combined with the various win bonuses and championship bonuses he has earned at the club over the years, Gallart's earnings after being naturalized have topped at least 400 million RMB.
However, for reasons that are well known to all, Golat, who was earning a lot of money in China, also gave up the rest of his high-paying contract and chose to go back to the Brazilian league after Guangzhou started owing him wages. At one point in January this year, he joined Barclays Liga club Santos, who at the time offered him a monthly salary of just R$500,000 (roughly Rs. 680,000), compared to the Rs. 7,410,000 he was earning while at Guangzhou. In other words, while playing for Santos, Golat earned less than 10% of what he was earning in the Chinese Super League, but for Golat, who has already realized his freedom of wealth, it doesn't matter anymore.
During his time with Santos, Gallart played poorly, failing to register a single goal in 11 Barclays Premier League appearances. Eventually, his contract with Santos came to an end and he opted for Atletico de Bahia in the Barclays Premier League (BPL), who announced in early August that he had signed a three-month short-term contract with the player. According to Germany's Transfermarkt and Football Gazette, Gallart has also recently regained his Brazilian citizenship. After leaving the Chinese Super League, he can no longer meet the five-year residency requirement and will not be able to play for the national soccer team in the future. This naturalization has lost its practical significance, and is equivalent to Guangzhou's investment of at least 400 million RMB in him.
After joining Atlético de Bahia, Gallagher has come off the bench in the previous three matches, contributing only one assist. He also made his first start as a front man in this morning's early match against Da Gama. In the 19th minute, Golat was involved in the defense in front of the goal, facing the opponent's header skewed dodge, accidentally own goal, which led to the team 0-1 down at home. After that, the other player Quintero also returned a goal to Athletic Bahia. In the first half of the extra time, he received a corner kick, header broke the goal, for the team scored 2-1 reversal of the winning goal, but also ignited the enthusiasm of the fans at the stadium.
After the match, Golat was named the best player of the match, and the Brazilian media used the phrase "from hell to heaven in 20 minutes" to describe his performance. Chinese fans should have mixed feelings about Golat, both happy that the former Chinese Super League player can have a great performance, but also because he can no longer play for the national football team after taking away 400 million dollars.
