After the Asian Cup in early 2019, including the Football Association, they are soberly aware that it is basically impossible for the national football team to qualify in the World Preliminary Round, and naturalization is the final bet. However, with the national football team in the round of 12 basically out, naturalization is close to the end, and 8 games of the top 40 and 6 rounds of 12 rounds are played, naturalization can not be said to be useless, but the cost performance can only be described as "ultra-low".
Why naturalization? Just for the World Cup
From the moment the naturalization project was initiated, everyone recognized that this was not only an energy-intensive, but also extremely costly project. For naturalization by blood, we must first find the right target, persuade the other party to accept the naturalization, and at the same time give the ideal price tag. No blood naturalization is relatively simple, these former Brazilian players have no hope of entering the Brazilian national team, as long as the money is in place, they will be "tied up".
Then the question is, why is Chinese football naturalized and simply improved the strength of national football? Or do you qualify from the Round of 40, or do you have the ultimate dream to reach the World Cup? The answer, obviously, is the World Cup, not the world cup.
The event that really makes the outside world realize that the level of national football only declines and does not improve is the Asian Cup in early 2019, and the national football team led by Lippi has been suspended by South Korea and Iran, which is considered to be the best in the past 10 years, but it is the ceiling of the next 10 years. Only with the help of "external force" the national football team can stop the decline, and this "external force" at that time, only from the perspective of the coach, it was not good, the only way was to find "foreign aid" for the national football team.
Naturalization is this "foreign aid", even if it is a naturalization without blood, acting as a mercenary can get money to do things, after all, the Football Association only needs to contribute, and in the context of that time, some clubs paid for the Football Association and the national football team.
Of course, naturalization is the biggest chip in Chinese football to gamble on the World Cup, and the result is only to gamble or lose or gamble to win, and the current 12 rounds of the round of 6 rounds, the national football team only has the theoretical possibility of qualifying, and the final conclusion to naturalization is that the bet is lost, and it is the end of all parties losing. The Football Association is facing huge doubts because of naturalization, and it also put in the "Li Tie class", but this bet that could have "continued to live" was wrong, and the Football Association had to find another way to enhance the strength of the national football team in the 2023 Asian Cup.
Evergrande Group and Guangzhou team lost even worse, and this kind of "greeting" behavior ended up in a chicken feather.
Naturalization is only the fighting spirit to win the affirmation, but where is the cost performance?
The reason for naturalization is to expect these players to directly enhance the combat effectiveness of the national football team after becoming international footballers, and it is the kind that is expected to have an immediate effect.
Lee ke was the first naturalized player to wear a national football jersey, and on June 7, 2019, Lippi's debut in the warm-up match 2-0 victory over the Philippines became a match that can go down in the annals of national football history. In the subsequent warm-up match against Tajikistan, Li Ke was given the opportunity to come off the bench, and the country won 1-0. Although Li Ke is the focus of the whole field, the performance can only be described as decent, and Li Ke has long been considered unable to directly improve the combat effectiveness of the national football team.
The first round of the Round of 40 on September 11, 2019 was another historic moment for the national football team, and Axon became the first unrelated naturalized to represent the national football team. In that match, the national football team won 5-0 against the Maldives, and Axon played the whole game and contributed the last 2 goals. In the subsequent match against Guam, the national football team won 7-0, and Axon contributed the icing on the cake. This was followed by Lippi's Battle of Waterloo, a 0-0 loss to the Philippines, a 1-2 defeat to Syria, and a silver fox to hang its mark.
Only Axon, a naturalized striker, was considered unable to form a joint force, and with the original restart of the Top 40 in March 2020, it was postponed to June 2021, but it became a positive for the national football team, and Jiang Guangtai, Alan, Fernando and Luo Guofu were successively qualified to represent the national football team.
In the last four rounds of the Round of 40 this year, the national football team scored 17 goals, the naturalized international Alain scored 3 goals, and Axon scored 1 goal, but none of them decided the key goal of the game. In the 6 rounds of the round of 12, the national football team scored 7 goals, and only Luo Guofu scored goals in the naturalized international team, but the national football team lost 2-3 to Saudi Arabia in that match.
Since the national football team has naturalized players, a total of 14 official games have been played, and the naturalized international has not scored a key goal. There is no need to look at other data, what the national football team needs is that the naturalized players plug and play, and the game can change the situation, not the so-called fighting spirit, of course, can not deny the fighting spirit of naturalized players such as Luo Guofu.
However, to put it bluntly, the annual salary of 30 million yuan for local internationals can also be desperate on the field. All the unrelated naturalized internationals start with an annual salary of at least 40 million yuan, while the income "ceiling" of Chinese players is Zheng Zhi (20 million) revealed by Forbes that year, including off-field income.
If the performance is measured by income, naturalized players have not contributed too much to the national football team to grab points and take points, and with the unrelated naturalization all leaving China, you can give a conclusion - naturalization has completely failed.
Less playing time is not an excuse, and naturalization is not a life-saving straw
As the first unrelated naturalized player to enter the national football team, Axon won a total of 957 minutes of playing time in 14 games of the World Preliminary Round, including 356 minutes in the round of 12, but all 4 goals were the icing on the cake, and all of them scored in the round of 40, and did not contribute in terms of goals during the round of 12.
The biggest controversy for the former coach of the national football team Li Tie is that he did not let Axon, Alan and Luo Guofu form a fixed attack combination, but the 3 people in the China-Japan battle of the round of 12 played 27 minutes at the same time, "coexisted" with Saudi Arabia for half an hour, and appeared for 80 minutes with australia's sub-round match. During this period, the advantage of the national football team on the field is obvious, but it does not turn the advantage into a winning trend.
And the first stage of The Luo Guofu Chinese Super League is still in the adjustment period, with the national football team to play in the top 12 matches, but also need to use the training in the national football team to find the state, Li Tie also mentioned why not let Luo Guofu and Alain, Axon form a fixed combination earlier after the draw with Australia. For This statement of Li Tie, Luo Guofu did not refute it in an interview, but thanked Li Tie, if these are the embodiment of "high emotional intelligence", then before leaving China, Luo Guofu expressed his hope to continue to serve the national football team, who can deny that these words are also "scene words"?
Nearly 3 years of naturalization, with the national football team of the top 12 out of the basic out, coupled with the cost of more than 1 billion, can now declare failure, but the 2023 Asian Cup, the national football team as the host, what means can be used to immediately enhance the team's hard power, these problems left to the Football Association and Li Xiaopeng.
From the perspective of hoping to see an immediate effect with naturalized players, Evergrande Group's "for the country" did not gamble successfully, and left a bunch of "famine" for themselves, and even directly dragged down the team.
in Zakumi