At 17:00 on December 20, Swiss Grasshoppers Zurich Football Club announced that China international Li Lei signed a contract with Swiss giants Zurich Grasshoppers. Beijing Guoan officials also announced that Li Lei will soon transfer and send blessings. In January next year, Li Lei will become a member of the Grasshoppers for the 2021-22 season. After Wu Lei, there was finally a Chinese international playing in a high-level european league.
Li lei
Li Lei, 29, currently plays for Beijing Guoan. In this year's Chinese Super League, Li Lei made 16 appearances for Guoan and scored 1 goal. A day ago, Beijing Guoan lost 0-5 to Guangzhou City, and Li Lei started and played 45 minutes. After playing in the 2021 Chinese Super League, Li Lei will leave Guoan and report to grasshoppers in Switzerland.
Li Lei, who plays as a left-back, is an active international, and since March 2019, Li Lei has played five times for the Chinese men's football team and provided 2 assists. Judging from the official announcement of the Swiss grasshopper, Li Lei will wear the No. 4 shirt at the new owner's home, which is the same as his jersey number in Beijing Guoan.
Grasshopper Zurich is an established club founded in 1886 and has a history of 135 years. Grasshoppers have won the league title 27 times and the Swiss Cup 19 times. However, in the 2021-22 season, grasshoppers only ranked 6th in the Swiss Super League.
It is worth mentioning that Swiss Grasshoppers is a Chinese club.
Wang Jinyuan (data map)
According to public information, 90% of the shares of Swiss Grasshopper belong to "Champion League Holdings Limited", which is owned by Jenny Wang Jinyuan .
Sky Sun
Wang Jinyuan, 50 years old, was once the host of Oriental Satellite TV, and now he is the wife of Guo Guangchang, the boss of Fosun. According to the Hurun Rich List, Guo Guangchang's wealth is worth 59.5 billion yuan. Guo Guangchang is the boss of the Premier League Wolves, and his wife Wang Jinyuan is the boss of the Ruichao Grasshopper. The president of Swiss Grasshoppers Football Club is also Chinese, named Sky Sun in English, who used to work for Wolves in the Premier League.
In addition to Wu Lei, the Chinese international who broke into European football, there is Li Lei. Chinese fans can pay attention to Li Lei's debut: on January 30, 2022, in the Rui Super League, Grasshopper challenged XiYong (no. 7) away, and that day happened to be in the early morning of Chinese New Year's Eve. As Chinese fans, we look forward to more and more players going abroad to play in high-level european leagues.