On January 4, Beijing time, China's first naturalized international footballer Li Ke posted a video of his gym resuming training, and the 28-year-old midfielder's injury problem was finally better. It has been nearly 5 months since Li Ke left China and returned to the UK, when will Li Ke return?
As the first naturalized international footballer in the history of Chinese football, Li Ke was selected for the national football team on May 30, 2019, and then became the first naturalized player to represent the national football team. However, whether under The Command of Lippi or Li Tie, Li Ke is not an absolute protagonist and is not too trusted. After being selected for the 2021 national football team to compete in the round of 12, Li Ke was injured, so he returned to the United Kingdom in August last year, and almost 5 months passed in the blink of an eye.
Li Ke now, what happened to the injury? Li Ke, who had almost disappeared before, finally posted his recovery training video, indicating that he was about to make a comeback. In the entire 2021 season, Li Ke also only played 3 games, including 1 start. Like Fernando, he is almost a forgotten naturalized international.
The national football team is about to start the preparation for the New Year, and I don't know whether Li Ke has entered Li Xiaopeng's vision at present. In the game before the national football round of 12, the defensive problem in the midfield is still relatively large, and Li Ke, as a player who is stronger than the attack, is actually not useless.
All in all, at present, as Li Ke and Fernando have slowly recovered from injuries, it is not known whether the national football team will add new naturalized players after Jiang Guangtai, Axon, Alan and Luo Guofu. Of course, in the eyes of many fans, in fact, the national football team has no drama to impact the World Cup, and this group of naturalized players can actually focus on the 2023 Asian Cup.