Across a long journey of 5,770 kilometers, Talisca, a star on the verge of his prime, is on his way to the King Fahd International Stadium.
The glory days of Talisca, as we know him, are far behind us. The most memorable of the three years is still the 2018 season. At that time, 24-year-old Talisca made 18 appearances in just half a season in the Chinese Super League with Guangzhou, scoring 16 goals and delivering four assists, scoring in a variety of ways, left foot, right foot, header, kick, everything.
The most let the opponent goalkeeper feel fear is, whenever their own defenders make a mistake, or the front of the penalty area foul produces a free kick, Talisker can always use his almost descending blow of the left-footed shot, the ball into the dead corner of the opponent's goal, so that the goalkeeper look at the ball sigh of helplessness. That year, he conquered the Guangzhou fans with his performance, and that year, Guangzhou's new landmark, Canton Tower, was used to describe the tall, thin and shining Talisker on the pitch.
Despite the team losing the title at the last minute in 2018, Guangzhou fans are still looking forward to Talisker next season, hoping that he can lead the team to win another championship glory, just like the Guangzhou Tower has been shining on both sides of the Pearl River since the day it was built.
However, at the beginning of the 2019 season, Talisca's fears about his physical fitness became a reality when injuries sought him out after a highlight reel free-kick extra-time shutout against Shandong Taishan.
But to the surprise of the fans, after the lack of Talisman, Cannavaro discovered Wei Shihao, Yang Liyu, Zhong Yihao and Yan Dinghao's youthful storm in front of the field, but also led the team to take 13 consecutive victories, in the league table had once overtaken the Beijing Guoan and Shanghai seaport, becoming the favorite to win the Chinese Super League.
Winning isn't scary, neither is a 13-game winning streak, but it's embarrassing to be missing someone. The imagination of the fans is infinite, Guangzhou's front "four little swans" plus Talisker, will be a major upgrade of the Guangzhou offensive line?
However, the waking of the dream came too soon. Talisker, who returned from injury, was surprisingly unable to keep up with the rhythm of the team's attacking soccer, and the top foreign aid was out of touch with the team, which became the epitome of Talisker's season. Although he also delivered 16 goals at the end of the season, and also led the team to win the Chinese Super League title as expected, but his goal-scoring efficiency has been far less than in the 2018 season, and the 2019 season is no longer strange, and even sometimes drags down the team's offensive efficiency.
One of the most intuitive than the feelings of the fans, in the case of the Guangzhou team can not open the situation, the radio sounded the replacement of Talisman, you can hear in the Tianshui not a small cheer, more embarrassing Talisman, such a piercing "cheers" in the end of the 2019 season can be heard several times.
That's the way it is in competitive sports, a bad performance is a bad performance. Ultimately, it's pointless to talk about this and that. Players who play soccer have to be able to face losses. Soccer players are faced with winning and losing almost every day, and normal development builds resilience in their bones. So if you don't play well, don't say that it's useless. Practice and practice and practice, and only when you perform well will you be applauded.
But Talisman does not feel "cheers" harsh, more in the subsequent successive performances for the fans "abandon the system to resume practicing back to Brazil to get married" "was forced to draw the night of Chongqing happy to go to Bali "" resumed practicing wife to participate "" draw Kashima and happy vacation "" defeated Urawa smile all the way to the west to play in Bali "" these in social media performance, and even overshadowed the The performance on social media even overshadowed his performance on the field of play.
Fans began to question his work ethic, "water tower" "soft foot crab" and other titles have undoubtedly revealed the anger of the fans, when a player is no longer for the city for the fans, doomed to be detested by the fans, favorites and outcasts but the difference between a line.
With all the controversy, Talisca and Guangzhou came to the 2020 season, a year in which Cannavaro changed his style of play and pushed Talisca into the center forward position closer to the goal, but Talisca scored only seven goals and dished out two assists in 20 appearances throughout the season.
Throughout the 2020 season, Talisca, except for a highlight performance in the second round of the duel against Beijing Guoan, in the other matches of the game can hardly hide his regression is visible to the naked eye level, especially his free kicks have also declined in level, very directly able to reflect the quality of his training. He has been criticized for his negative attitude towards the game, his ineffective offense and his walking defense.
Often the whole game to watch down, Talisca gives the impression of either fouls or mistakes, either is constantly being broken, or arguing with the referee, staring blankly, after a mistake, show hands, after a long-distance shot, do not care to walk away from the look. Even in the final and Jiangsu team's key battle for the title so that rivals Luo Jing and Xie Pengfei made its "high evaluation": "I'm really glad that the team has Teixeira, Eder and Santini such a dedication to the foreign aid, they are fighting for every ball, in the foreground must be grabbed to the ball, which is a real team." Then two Jiangsu players take Guangzhou foreign aid Talisca to give an example: "Look at others (Guangzhou) foreign aid basically do not return to the defense, may be due to their own state of depression it!" The key battle is not to fight not to fight more time?
At the end of the season Talisca was even more eye-to-eye with his parent team Besiktas, which intensified his relationship with Guangzhou fans, who cried out: we don't need a player with a bad work ethic.
In 2021, stranded in Brazil, Talisca posted on social media "Looking forward to new challenges." But Talisker will not understand, a player without work self-discipline, no matter how outstanding his personal ability, failed to be left in the hearts of the fans of the player, where he has no opportunity to wash away the brand of the previous loss, the defeat of the army of the general talk about how to say courage!
At 21:50 on May 17, Riyadh Victory officially announced that Talisca had completed his signing with the club, and he signed a three-year contract with the team. So far, Talisca ended his three-year career in Guangzhou, leaving the Guangzhou team with 65 appearances, 39 goals + 13 assists, a Chinese Super League trophy, and the best three years of a player's life. As the title of the long parting reads, "Saying goodbye is aging a little bit", so every time we part with a player, we are also aging a little bit.
But Talisca, you can't avoid leaving, but you do have a choice on how to leave. As the most common Guangzhou fans, we need to support the players who are sincerely fighting for the city of Guangzhou. The old man is gone, but only the Guangzhou stands will continue to shout, and the songs that you know will still be loud and clear.
