Three "stones" stand! Yesterday evening, the Swiss Premier League veteran powerhouse Grasshopper Club officially announced the official joining of 29-year-old Qingdao international Li Lei. Li Lei thus became the second active international after Wu Lei to stay in Yangyang, and the second Qingdao player to stay in Yangyang after the 22-year-old Jiang Weisheng.
As a native of Qingdao, Li Lei is from the Qingdao Hailifeng youth training system, and has successively studied under Li Xinqi, Wang Donghai and other well-known youth training leaders in Qingdao.
In early 2010, after Hai Lifeng, who won the tenth place in the 2009 season, was disbanded, Li Lei was recruited by Zhu Jiong and put on the Nanchang Hengyuan shirt. In April of that year, Li Lei, who had high hopes and was entrusted with heavy responsibilities by Zhu Jiong, made his Debut in the Chinese Super League before he was 18 years old, starting from a higher starting point than former Hailifeng teammate Song Wenjie, who was elected the best newcomer in the Chinese Super League in the 2011 season. In the 2010 season, Li Lei helped Nanchang Hengyuan to win the 13th place in the Chinese Super League, and Qingdao Zhongneng ranked 14th with a difference of 2 points.
Since the 2015 season, Li Lei, a left-backer, has played for Chinese Super League giants Beijing Guoan, playing a total of 138 games for the team, contributing 4 goals and 12 assists. So far, Li Lei has made a total of 5 appearances for the Chinese men's football team and provided 2 assists.
There are 10 teams in the Swiss Premier League, and they will decide the winner through the four round-robin matches between home and away, and the seating will be fixed. At present, the Swiss Super League has been carried out for 18 rounds this season, that is, the schedule is just over halfway, grasshoppers with a record of 5 wins, 8 draws and 5 losses, temporarily in sixth place, 11 points more than the second-to-last Lausanne, 12 points more than the bottom of the ranking Lucerne, can be described as relegation worry-free.
It is understood that Li Lei will not immediately go to Switzerland to meet with grasshoppers, he will continue to represent Beijing Guoan, who just lost 0:5 to Guangzhou City, to continue to compete in the Chinese Super League, and plans to officially embark on a journey to stay in the West in early January next year.
▲ Li Lei wearing a grasshopper home and away shirt to take a fixed makeup photo.
▲ Li Lei will wear grasshopper No. 4 battle robes, which is consistent with his number in Beijing Guoan.
According to a post written by Xu Yue, a senior sports reporter from Qingdao Daily/Guanhai News, Yu Dabao, a Beijing Guoan teammate who is also from Hailifeng's youth training system, has repeatedly encouraged Li Lei to go abroad to exercise and given him a lot of valuable advice. As we all know, as early as the age of 18, Yu Dabao, who became famous at a young age, joined the Portuguese Super League giants Benfica, and was then loaned to other teams to participate in the Portuguese League and the Portuguese League.
Xu Promis wrote in an article published two years ago that Li Lei's growth is inseparable from the careful cultivation of two Qingdao coaches - Li Xinqi and Wang Donghai.
"When he was in elementary school, I went to their school to select seedlings, and I fell in love with him at a glance." Li Xinqi, who has trained famous players such as Song Wenjie and Sha Yibo, recalled, "Li Lei used to play football with his left foot, and felt that his sense of position was particularly strong, so he was called into the team. ”
After training with Li Xinqi for half a year, it happened that the team coached by Wang Donghai needed team members, and Li Lei was exchanged to Wang Donghai's team. "This kid is a 'ball idiot.'" Speaking of Li Lei, Wang Donghai, a member of the old manatee, gave such an evaluation to the disciples. From 2005 to 2009, Li Lei spent time in Wang Donghai's team, "He was born with a left foot, plus the overall situation is particularly good, so I arranged for him to be a backside." It wasn't until he played in the pro league that he returned to the left-back position. ”
Speaking of his beloved apprentice Li Lei, Wang Donghai frankly said that he could not finish talking in one night, "The most impressive thing was that when he was 15 years old, we trained in Wuzhou, Guangxi Province, and played a series of national competitions at the same time. At that time, there was a key game about qualifying, Li Lei's left thigh grew 4 boils, but he did not tell anyone before the game. During the game, he destroyed all 4 boils in a tackle, but the boy gritted his teeth and insisted on finishing the game. Later, because the wound was infected, he had a fever for three or four days in a row, and I didn't know about it. ”
▲ In the first round of the Chinese Super League this season, Li Lei scored a goal in the second half of stoppage time, but unfortunately Beijing Guoan still lost 1:2 to Shanghai Shenhua.
So far this season, Li Lei has made 16 appearances in the Chinese Super League for Beijing Guoan, including 15 starts, contributing 1 goal and 1 assist.
▲ In the 2015 season, Li Lei joined Beijing Guoan with Yu Dabao, a fellow Qingdao compatriot who also came from Hailifeng's youth training system.