In the world of soccer, naturalizing overseas players to represent their national teams has become a common means of improving overall strength. Whether in Europe, South America or North America, such cases are common, and these naturalized players are affectionately known as "naturalized national footballers" by fans. The East Asian region, especially Japan and South Korea, has made remarkable achievements in the field of soccer. However, the two countries have very different attitudes towards the introduction of overseas players. The South Korean men's soccer team is clearly resistant to the introduction of overseas players, which may have something to do with the fact that they believe in the concept of the local nation. Japan, on the other hand, has invested a lot of resources in their youth training, but they are open to foreign players until the harvest time of the talent spurt arrives. Former Japanese internationals such as Ramos, Lui Bisu, Lord Santo and King Tanaka are among the beneficiaries of this policy. In recent years, the national soccer team has continued to bring in overseas players as supplements to cope with the pressure to perform during the embarrassing period of youth shortage. From players of Chinese descent to pure foreigners, a number of players who grew up overseas as well as those who were originally foreigners have now become part of the national soccer team. However, due to substandard strength, change of mindset or other reasons, most of the naturalized players of the national football team did not achieve the expected results after the success of naturalization, and some of them even began to be forgotten by the fans. In this article, we will take stock of five gradually forgotten naturalized players of the national football team for your reference.
V. Hou Yongyong
Hou Yongyong, 23 years old, formerly known as Ioan Hou Sait, has both Norwegian and Chinese ancestry. As a Norwegian youth training player, Hou Yongyong in the Norwegian soccer world, once with Ödgård, Aye and known as the "Norway 98 three".In early 2019, he was naturalized in China, to join the Beijing Guoan. However, after coming to our country, Hou Yongyong did not show the former style, the growth speed is far less than expected, so failed to get the national football team called up.
IV. Delgado
In 2018, Shandong Luneng brought in 21-year-old midfielder Delgado from Sporting Lisbon's b team in the Portuguese Super League.In June 2019, Delgado was officially naturalized as a player in China. Despite the fact that he is only 22 years old and has the potential and immediate power, but before naturalization, the relevant staff had omissions in the material inquiry. Delgado, who represented Portugal in the 2017 U-20 World Cup, will not be able to represent our national team in the future according to FIFA rules, which makes his situation quite embarrassing.
III. Xiao Tao Tao
Xiao Tao Tao, formerly known as Robert Xiao, is a 24-year-old striker and winger who currently plays for Kunshan FC in the Central League A. Xiao's grandfather, a native of Zhongshan, Guangdong, traveled to Peru in South America in the last century. As a soccer player with Chinese roots, Xiao Tao Tao was a starter for the Peruvian national youth team and played as a starter for Peruvian Primera Division powerhouse Sporting Peru.In 2019, Xiao Tao Tao came into the vision of the national football team and gladly accepted the invitation of naturalization to become a member of the national football team and joined Guangzhou Evergrande. However, after coming to our country, the strength shown by Xiaotao Tao Tao was not convincing, and is now mixed in the Central League.
II. Gallagher
In January 2015, Guangzhou Evergrande brought in 24-year-old striker Golat from Barclays Premier League's Cruzeiro for 15 million euros, becoming the first player from China to have a transfer fee of more than 100 million yuan. Golat showed great strength in the few years he joined the Chinese Super League and naturally became a target for the national football team to bring in.At the end of 2019, Golat successfully became a naturalized player. However, due to the new rules introduced by FIFA about naturalized players needing to reside in the new country continuously for a certain period of time before they can represent the national team of the country to play in FIFA tournaments, Gao Latter is temporarily unable to play on behalf of the national football team.
I. Lok Kok Fu
Luo Guofu, formerly known as Aloysio, nicknamed "Bison", plays as a striker.In 2014, Shandong Luneng brought in Aloysio, who had a great performance in the Barclays Premier League's Sao Paulo. In his first three years in the Chinese Super League, Aloysius' performance in Shandong Luneng and Hebei Huaxia Happiness was quite good, with an average of more than 0.5 goals per game, and his professional attitude was also highly praised. With the growth of age, to the impact of the selling point of Luo Guofu gradually decline. 2019, 31-year-old Luo Guofu has been in the first league of the Meixian Tiehan salon mixed, the athletic state of the early years is no longer in the year across the Super League of the iron cattle. Nonetheless, he still became a key scouting target and was given a valuable opportunity to become a naturalized player. After becoming a player in our country, Luo Guofu moved to Guangzhou Evergrande. However, at the national team level, Luo Guofu was only symbolically selected in the training list, and did not get the chance to play. The operation related to the introduction of Luo Guofu to the national soccer team is really puzzling.
