That rippling
China Super League (soccer league)
The craze for players to go overseas has been growing since Tang Jiali and Shen Mengyu landed on the
Tottenham Hotspur (city in Morocco)
and the Celtics after it came to a screeching halt. Just when the
China Super League (soccer league)
As the bell for the restart of the league is about to ring, the news that "a middle-generation defender is going overseas" was like a hammer blow this afternoon, stirring up discussion on the topic once again.
The mid-career defender has been largely identified as Beijing's
national security
of Li Lei, who plans to
China Super League (soccer league)
The final eight rounds of the league are over before embarking on the Rising Super League.
Li Lei, now 29 years old, after the idea of going to a foreign country to make a living, he met with the
national security
Communicated and got the club's understanding and support. The Swiss Super League team he is about to join is likely to be the previously rumored Swiss Grasshoppers.
As he embarks on his journey to the Swiss Super League, will it be smooth sailing for Li Lei? Will he be able to really improve his skills? This has become the center of attention.
The Swiss Premier League is currently in its 16th round, and Grasshoppers are ranked fifth in the table among 10 teams. The team's total value is 10.48 million euros, which is about the same as Beijing's
national security
Half of (Beijing)
national security
(Total value €20.95 million). Currently, the most expensive player in the Grasshoppers' squad is Japanese player Jun Kawabe from Iwata Hyatt in the Japanese j2 league, with a price tag of 1.3 million euros.
Of Grasshoppers' current 27 first-team players, only seven are homegrown. The reason for this phenomenon is that Switzerland
soccer league
The policy of treating Swiss and EU players equally was implemented in June 2004, making the presence of Swiss players in Swiss Super League clubs increasingly rare. This is a good news for Li Lei's stay in Switzerland, and I believe Grasshoppers' Swiss manager Contini has a good idea how to utilize foreign players.
However, the ageing problem prevalent in our professional soccer is also in front of the players staying in the country. In Grasshoppers' defense lineup, except for two people who are over 30 years old, the average age of the remaining eight people is only 23.3 years old. If Li Lei joins Grasshoppers, he is bound to compete with these youngsters for a place.
China Super League (soccer league)
The league suffered unprecedented difficulties this year, a number of clubs into a succession of "crisis" clearly shows that similar problems have been generalized. In this period, capable players choose to stay in the ocean to improve, is not a wise move.
