Sports Weekly revealed that behind the frequent moments of hard training shown by naturalized players on social media recently, it is actually a careful planning by agents and teams. The reason why they do this is to return to the national team and maintain a good value, and secondly, to be recommended to the domestic league again. After all, they have not yet found a new club, return to the Chinese Super League has become the best choice, and continue to play for their country will also help them find a new owner in the Chinese Super League.
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Even if naturalized players are eager to return to the national football team, it makes sense that they would take the national team fitness test. Players such as Jiang Guangtai have expressed their willingness to undergo the test. However, other naturalized players have expressed strong resistance to this. The national football team will no longer bring naturalized players to away games without taking into account their condition, as they did against Japan and Vietnam. Li Xiaopeng will not be like in Japan, Luo Guofu give a warm embrace, said to Alan: "I need him too much, see him I have a bottom".
The national football team has done a good job of non-blood naturalized players can not be able to support the team's preparation, can only pick the main force from the existing players. However, from Li Xiaopeng's tone, it seems that the existing national footballers have fluctuations in their status. Li Xiaopeng said: "Although everyone has their own difficulties, but we have come to this training session, it also means an attitude. We and the players also said, first of all, to be quiet, concentrate to the next two games. If you can't concentrate, you can bring it up first because the national team needs cohesion and more commitment."
Obviously, Li Xiaopeng is worried about the players' concentration and morale. Such worries are not difficult to understand. First of all, the national football team has been eliminated, the last two games will have to go to West Asia "to go through", for the past year most of the time in the closed state of the national football players, morale is indeed difficult to raise. On the other hand, many of the international players in the national football team in the current situation of the club is not clear, some of the international players may not know where they will play next season, this situation will also let the players in the preparation of the battle time distraction. However, from Li Xiaopeng's helplessness, people also found a huge concern, that is, "as long as the national team robes on the field, we have to do our best for the honor of Chinese soccer," the most simple and basic logic, has been challenged by the reality.
A question to ponder is what does the status of international footballer 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 second is to let the players' earnings directly increase. The Chinese Football Association (CFA) has had two salary limits for Chinese Super League players, and in both cases, there were special favorable policies for international players. The first salary limit, the general domestic players annual salary shall not be higher than 10 million yuan, the international players can not be higher than 12 million yuan. In the second salary limit, the annual salary of general players shall not be higher than 3 million yuan, and the annual salary of international players shall not be higher than 5 million yuan. Obviously, the status of international players can make the players in the professional league and even in the transfer to get real benefits. However, the CFA's salary restriction policy is still ongoing, in which 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 their boots. And after the end of the final 12, will there be more people, make the same choice as them?
Lost hopes of a World Cup run, no more high incomes, and the clubs in which they play live or die. 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 matches of the 12 strong, for the national football team is the end of the impact of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, but also hope that this is a brand new starting point, is the Chinese 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 a chance to the starting point. Only when the "wearing the national team's uniforms, playing for the country, will certainly fight to the best of their ability" faith re-established, the Chinese men's soccer team's spiritual outlook is expected to be renewed.
