As a classic player of Guangzhou Evergrande team and still a Chinese player, Axon recently ended his contract with Guangzhou team, and also ended his 9-year brilliant career in the Chinese professional arena, choosing to "stay in the west" once his homeland brazil for development.
As for the national team, Axon said that although he returned to Brazil, if the national football team was called up, he would come back to play and continue to fight for the country. However, as far as the current situation is concerned, Axon's future performance for the national football team has become doubtful, the naturalization plan of the national football team in the last cycle can be said to be a complete failure, the 2022 World Cup tickets have almost vanished, and the Chinese Super League after the Golden Dollar Storm is like a pool of stagnant water.
When it comes to Axon as a player (club player & international), most fans are fully positive and reluctant to leave him "temporarily". As a superstar figure in the Chinese Super League, he won the Chinese Super League championship 5 times and helped Chinese clubs win the AFC Champions League twice. After becoming an international, Axon has been conscientious, sacrificing his ball and good playing style for the system, and doing dirty work for his teammates.
First, Axon has been offered by Serie A giants Juventus
Back in 2012, at the age of 23, Axon played 11 goals and 4 assists in the season, becoming the main attacker in Botafogo in the Bajia, thus entering the vision of the mainstream European league teams.
In terms of age, Axon is not actually a young samba demon, but at that time it was still recognized by some well-known teams, and Juventus offered its parent team a transfer offer of 5 million euros. However, at that time, Axon did not have the idea of landing in Serie A, and later chose to come to China to pan for gold.
Second, Axon was once a model for foreign aid and domestic sales
In the Chinese Super League that came to the Golden Age, Axon, who was then named Elkeson and was still a foreign aid, was definitely a model of conscience foreign aid, and in addition to his personal performance on the field and dedication, the parent team Guangzhou Evergrande also sold him to Shanghai SIPG in 2016 with a transfer value of 16 million euros, and when he first bought Axon, the transfer fee was only 5.7 million euros, relying on Axon to return to a wave of blood in the domestic arena.
Third, Axon is the historical top scorer of the Chinese Super League
On August 8 this year, Axon scored the 120th Goal of his career in the Chinese Super League, successfully surpassing the national football star Li Jinyu and becoming the historical top scorer of the Chinese Super League. According to the current development of the Chinese Super League, Axon's record is estimated to remain for a long time.
Incidentally, Axon once surpassed Li Jinyu by 28 goals in a single season, becoming the single-season top scorer in the history of the Chinese Super League, but later gave Guangzhou R&F former goalscorer Zahavi from Israel a strong performance of 29 goals in a single season.
Fourth, about the nickname of Axon
After coming to China, Axon had two popular nicknames, one was to describe his brave and concise "Esshin", and the other was "Little Bear".
With Axon's naturalization in China, plus changing his name to Exxon, the nickname "Essien" has been used by few fans and continues to be popular with "Cubs". As for the reason for this, that is, mainly from the appearance and personality, Axon's physique is strong, the personality is thick, easy-going, and looks as thick and cute as a bear.
Five, about Axon's love
Star's love lace is always something that interests fans, Axon is not an off-court playboy, and his love history is not rich, but full of regrets.
The story also begins in the early years of Ikeson's arrival in China, when Axon had a girlfriend named Brazil Lusha, and the two married in 2014, the same year Lusha gave birth to a son for Ikeson.
However, Lusha is not very willing to live and work in China with Axon, and the two divorced in 2016 because of their foreign lives, and Lusha's eldest son for Axon was taken care of by Ikeson's family in Brazil.
By 2019, Axon married his new girlfriend, Gabriela, whom he met in Shanghai, who bore Axon a second son, whose second son was born in China. At present, Axon and Gabriela have a stable relationship, and the two plan to return to Brazil with their second son.
IX. Axon already has a Chinese stomach
Axon's acceptance of Chinese food is very high, especially for cantonese cuisine with relatively light taste, and I am also accustomed to eating with chopsticks early. In the past, when asked by reporters whether he was used to life here, Axon also quipped: I already have a Chinese stomach. After returning to Brazil, Axon wanted to eat authentic Cantonese food, afraid that he would have to go to the Brazilian Chinese Street with more Cantonese overseas Chinese.
Axon downloaded the national anthem to his mobile phone early
When he first learned that he had the opportunity to enter the national football team and join the Chinese family, Axon downloaded the national anthem to his mobile phone very early and practiced it in his spare time, which was worthy of praise in personal consciousness and professional ethics.
I believe that many fans remember that when it comes to the official game, Axon will always sing a national song loudly, and the degree of investment is much better than that of many local players. By the way, Axon's first Chinese vocabulary in China was "so-so." In the interview, Axon also liked to add this Chinese words.
Axon's best friend in China is Hulk
Who is Axon's best friend in China? As a social media activist, judging from the frequency of Axon's frequent interactions or likes for the content of related friends, his best friend is Hulk, who was once a teammate in Shanghai.
After Hulk, Axon's friends who played more were Luo Guofu, Oscar, Paulinho and so on. Among the local players of the national football team, the person that Axon respects the most is the captain Zheng Zhi, who has repeatedly forwarded and liked the content related to Zheng Zhi on personal social platforms.
IX. Axon is a very emotional person
In terms of personality and personality, the emphasis on feelings is arguably the most impressive thing about Axon, and here are two or three reference examples to help illustrate.
The first part is related to attitudes towards family.
Regarding tattoos, the tattoos on Axon's body are not many, the total area is not large, except for the statue representing the Virgin of faith, the rest are tattoos with the names of his family. On his left leg, Axon stabbed his grandmother's name, his parents' words on his left chest, and his cousin, brother, and his own names at the waist. In fact, Axon sends a portion of his salary home every month for his family to enjoy.
The second aspect is his attitude towards the fans, and Axon can be said to be a model for professional players.
Axon rarely turns down a fan's photo invitation. According to the author's experience, when visiting the monthly open day of Evergrande Base in the past, Axon would almost always go to the fan area after the hard training to show up and send autographs and photo opportunities to fans.
In addition, three of Axon's three public cries in China have been related to fans, and he is a player who cherishes the bonds with fans.
The first time he wept was after the 2015 AFC Champions League final, when Axon, who scored the killer goal, became the hero of the celestial body, and tens of thousands of people in the stadium were shouting his name. Axon, who has experienced changes such as injury comebacks and divorces, and has taken his career to the next level, can't help but cry, which is his way of releasing pressure and joy
The second time was after the 2017 AFC Champions League quarter-finals in Guangzhou as a Shanghai player. In that game, Axon sat on the bench, while Shanghai SIPG eliminated Evergrande. After the game, as a Shanghai player, Axon still chose to go to the end of the game and meet the Guangzhou fans for a while. As a result, as soon as he walked out, before he reached the area of the xie field, there was a tsunami-like cry to welcome him home, and he burst into tears.
The third time, when Axon left Shanghai and returned to Guangzhou, a large number of Shanghai fans spontaneously went to the airport to see him off. Axon's performance in Shanghai was not as good as in Guangzhou, and he did not stay long, he did not expect to be able to be sent off by Shanghai fans on a large scale when he left, and he was moved to the point of shedding tears at the airport.
The third aspect is the attitude towards friends, in the past interview with the Southern reporter was asked whether there have been any troubles recently, Axon said that he had been crying for a week before, and shared a tragic story, the story of which is that he recently learned that he grew up playing as a security guard in his hometown mall, and was recently killed by the robbers who robbed the mall.
Referring to this hair hour, Axon's eyes were red again, and said that he had a good salary, and his good brother when he was a child could only die as a security guard in the mall, this development gap and the story of his brother's death made him feel pity, he felt chagrin for not being able to help his brother, and he would help take care of the family of this deceased friend financially, which shows the heavy feelings of Ai Shen.
In the first 6 rounds of this year's Round of 12, Axon's average rating was the highest
Although it is said that when he recently terminated his contract with Guangzhou Evergrande and returned to his homeland brazil for development, Axon gave a promise that if the national football team still recruited him, he was willing to come back and continue to fight for the country.
Life is one period at a time, and separation may not be changed. Everyone knows that Axon is likely not to come back after this departure, and the national football team, which is in a stalemate in development, is likely to abandon the plan to use naturalized players in the future. If Axon does not return, then this year's round of 12 is his last footprint in the national football team and the last national football competition he participated in.
Although Axon did not have too many highlight moments because of his tactical positioning bias towards the meat shield pivot center, looking at the rating statistics of sofascore by the well-known data media, Axon's average score was 6.92 points, ranking first. Perhaps not the most prominent one, but Axon's play in the national football team is very stable, it should also be worthy of the national football team's battle robe, and he has done his best to try to win world cup tickets for the national football team.
In the history of national football, Axon is a test-like existence. Perhaps Axon's experience in the national football team is not very successful, but I believe that when the first unspeaked naturalized international footballer in the history of Chinese football is mentioned in the future, the first reaction in the fans' minds will not be that he is just here to mix money, but an old friend who is professional, dedicated and hardworking.