After playing the Chinese Super League match against Shandong Luneng as captain, Beijing Guoan player Li Lei will leave China to play in Switzerland. Li Lei's stay in Yang, he once said that he was influenced by Wu Lei, a brother of the national football team, who gave up his comfort zone and went to Europe to challenge himself. It can be seen from this that Wu Lei has indeed brought some different feelings to Chinese football. Just recently, Wu Lei has also been fully affirmed by a domestic award, and has been shortlisted for 16 people, and these 16 candidates are the best in all fields of Chinese sports.
The annual award is titled Sports Role Model Athlete of the Year, and there are currently 8 male and female athletes out of these 16 candidates. Judging from the list, the names inside are basically familiar star athletes. Including Su Bingtian, Quan Hongchan, Zhao Xintong, Zhou Guanyu and others. Su Bingtian was shortlisted for his outstanding performance at the Tokyo Olympics, where he achieved a breakthrough result, running for 10 seconds in the semi-finals and finals, including the strongest performance in Asia in the semi-finals of 9.83 seconds.
The reason why Quan Hongchan was able to qualify was also because of her performance at the Tokyo Olympic Games, in the women's single final of the 10-meter platform, she jumped with full marks on all three jumps, and finally won the gold medal in a way that broke the historical Record of the Olympic Games. Today's Quan Hongchan has become a phenomenon-level athlete in the Chinese sports world, a top-notch star athlete, and she is the focus everywhere she goes. She has also become the best spokesperson for the Chinese diving team, and is more likely to become the core and leader of the new generation of Chinese diving. Zhou Guanyu is also a leader in his field, becoming China's first official F1 driver, filling the gap in the field of this sport.
Chen Meng and Ma Long's selection is also well-deserved, Chen Meng is the Tokyo Olympic women's singles champion, not to mention Ma Long, in the current world table tennis is almost a mythical figure. He is a double-lap Grand Slam winner and the only defending National Games champion. Zhao Xintong's entry was due to his outstanding performance at the British Championship, one of the three major snooker competitions not long ago, Zhao Xintong played beautifully, and even the Rocket O'Sullivan praised him. In the new season of the British Championship, Zhao Xintong finally reached the final and won the championship with his excellent attack in the case of not being optimistic. His victory also made history, becoming the first post-90s player in the world's snooker professionals to win three major championships. It was his groundbreaking performance that made him a successful finalist.
After seeing these shortlists, some people may question why Wu Lei can be shortlisted and can be juxtaposed with athletes such as Su Bingtian, Quan Hongchan and Ma Long. In fact, Wu Lei was able to be selected because of his own performance. Although compared to the state and status when he first went to La Liga, Wu Lei's performance in the club today is indeed very average. However, Wu Lei's performance in the national team is really quite good. The reason why the national football team can enter the top 12 matches is ultimately not relying on the naturalized players who have spent a lot of money to invite, but Wu Lei. It was Wu Lei's almost perfect performance in the second stage of the Round of 40 that helped the Chinese team to play a wave of four consecutive wins and finally advance to the top 12. Although in the round of 12, wu Lei's performance was not as good as that of the top 40 in the round of 40, he was still one of the most outstanding players in this national football team.
Of course, as a very influential sport, football is given some different meanings. In this, Wu Lei has always acted as a communicator of positive energy. He was able to leave the gentle township of the Chinese Super League at the hottest time of Jinyuan football and go to Europe to work alone, carrying the banner of Chinese football staying in the West alone. This kind of courage and perseverance is definitely what Chinese football needs most at present. Therefore, his shortlisting is also well deserved.