Another potential naturalization in China has been exposed, and he is the Australian foreign aid Wei Lin, who is currently playing for Jiuniu in Sichuan. In the match against Liaoning, Wei Lin scored his first goal after joining the club just 8 minutes after opening the game, helping the team to lead 1-0. It has to be mentioned that he is different from the previous naturalized foreign aid such as Axon and Fernando, because he lived in China for 4 years in his childhood, so he can represent the national football team as long as he is naturalized, and does not need to stay in China for another 5 years.
Born in 1998, Wei Lin is 1.85 meters tall and plays as a striker, and is a mixed-race player of Japanese and Australian descent. As early as 2000 and 2004, Wei Lin, who was young (2-6 years old), lived in Shanghai. Thereafter, Verlin returned to Australia and joined the echelon of Australian Premier League side Melbourne Victory.
At the age of 19, he successfully advanced to the Melbourne first team, and the following year he moved to the Japanese League, joining the J-League powerhouse Sakura Osaka. After playing for Sakura Osaka for three years, Wei Lin was favored by Jiuniu coach Li Yi and joined the team in July this year. In November, Wei Lin came to China again, joined the Jiuniu team, and participated in the Chinese Football League for the first time.
Previously, because Wei Lin had just been released from isolation, his physical condition had not yet recovered to his best, so he did not get too many opportunities to play. And Li Yi fancyd him, mainly to prepare for next year.
In the match against Liaoning Shenyang on the 14th, Wei Lin made his second debut for the team in the season. In the 8th minute of the opening game, the Jiuniu team launched an attack on the right side, Nansong burst into the penalty area with the ball and crossed the middle of the road, Wei Lin turned around and easily got rid of the entanglement of 2 defenders and then shot low to break the opponent's goal, breaking the deadlock for the team to take the lead. It was his first goal since joining the team and his first in the Chinese Pro League. You can imagine how happy he was. After scoring this goal, Verlin appeared more confident, showing a good level of skill with the ball.
Judging from his performance on the field, although Verin is a high school striker, he is very agile and fast on his feet. Importantly, coming from the Australian Football Academy and the Japanese Football Academy, he has good skills, body and consciousness, and can be said to be a good striker. Being able to find such a good foreign striker as Wei Lin from the Japanese league, and even a potential naturalized object, Li Yi, as the coach of Jiuniu, can be said to be indispensable.
Of course, what makes verlin the most happy is that according to FIFA regulations, if a player has lived in the local area for 3 years before the age of 10, he can play for the national team with a passport. That is to say, if Wei Lin gets a Chinese passport in the future, he can immediately play for the national football team without waiting for 5 years, which can be described as plug and play. The Chinese Football Association should start early this time, and don't let him become the next Evra (former Wuhan foreign aid).