Named AFC Player of the Week Wu Lei strives to integrate Chinese football into the world

After the national team's top 12 matches, Wu Lei is still the focus of Chinese fans. Named the best player of the AFC Week for his outstanding performance, Wu Lei, who just celebrated his 30th birthday, recently said that he would work hard to integrate Chinese football into the world.

In the last two round-12 matches, Wu Lei has scored for China and is currently second in the World Cup Asian qualifiers list with 12 goals. In the AFC Weekly Player of the Week award, Wu Lei won the award, such as South Korea's Son Heung-min, Iran's Azmun and Japan's Junya Ito.

Compared with those players in Europe, Wu Lei, who is fighting in La Liga, is obviously under more pressure now. In the 14th round of La Liga match between Espanyol and Barcelona, which ended in the early morning of November 21, Beijing time, Wu Lei came on as a substitute in the 78th minute, and the ten minutes of game time he won was the highest in recent times. Although the performance opportunities are limited, Wu Lei's performance is quite good.

Just two days before this match, Wu Lei spent his 30th birthday. He wrote in the Weekly Record, "Today, at the age of thirty, I have a new understanding: in the process of Continuous Exploration and Progress in Chinese Football, what we need is to calm down and plan the overall goals, and continue to make progress individually and collectively. ”

Wu Lei's words are obviously not only related to his recent performance in the club and the national team, but also based on his own football path, especially the bittersweet and bittersweet that he has encountered since his career in Yangyang. He wrote, "This weekly record about my thirty-year-old has been brewing for a long time, the experience of the past ten years is difficult to express in full, especially when I am far away from everyone, different life stages have different life goals, after rushing to overtake, after rushing to win the championship in the Chinese Super League, after winning the championship, I want to hone myself on the world stage, fortunately my goal was achieved in the plan, but it seems that it was not achieved early enough, often wondering if I could go up to another level if I came to Play in Europe a few years earlier. I know there won't be an answer, I don't need to dwell on it, and the steps I've climbed step by step over the years are the cornerstone of my progress towards my next goal. All the best results! ”

Wu Lei's biggest regret now is that he has not represented the Chinese team in the World Cup, but he will not give up, he admits that he is just thirty years old, is the peak of his career, as a football player should still have three or four years of opportunities, as a footballer, his football career is just the beginning, he still has too much to do. "When I was a child, I said that I hoped that one day I would be worth sixty or seventy million, and today I hope that in the future, whether it is forty or fifty. Whether as a player, coach or youth coach, we must integrate Chinese football into the world! ”

Reporter Ma Yi'ou

Source: China Sports News