After waiting for 11 years, Shandong Taishan, the veteran giant of the Chinese Super League, has finally reached the top again. The end of the Golden Dollar football tide has made the Taishan team, which has been steadily invested for many years and deeply cultivated youth training, finally stand out. And their several reinforcements at the beginning of this year are even more miraculous. Among them, the former Atletico teenager Xu Xin has achieved mutual achievements with the Taishan team, and even ushered in the second transformation of his career, which fully shows that the right is the best.
This season, Xu Xin played 21 games in the Chinese Super League for Shandong Taishan, received 3 goals and 2 assists, and sent a total of 18 key passes, he and Sun Zhunhao joined forces to form the main double back of the Taishan team, both of them are offensive and defensive players, whether it is the defensive interception of the midfield or the assist of the back row is impressive. In fact, it was the arrival of Xu Xin and Sun Zhunhao that made the old captain of the Taishan team, Arthur Junmin, lose his main position, and finally chose to leave the team and return to Wuhan.
In the hot state of the Taishan team, Xu Xin finally had a day in the national team. In the 2nd stage of the Round of 12, he performed well against Australia and Oman, and was one of the few national football players who could still hold the ball and pass the ball steadily despite high-intensity confrontation. Thinking back to the collapse of the national football team facing the Kangaroo Army in the first leg, fans can't help but sigh that if Xu Xin was the main force at that time, maybe the result would be different.
The club is the absolute main force, the national football team has emerged, and 2021 is undoubtedly a fantastic year for the 27-year-old Xu Xin. Before that, he had already won 3 Chinese Super League championship trophies in his hands, but only this time, he won as the absolute main force of the team, and scored a goal that locked the victory in the championship decision battle. In fact, at the award ceremony, Xu Xin, who was interviewed, also admitted that the 2021 season of the Chinese Super League championship is different from the previous meaning.
Born in Shenyang, Liaoning Province, Xu Xin first started his football career at Shenyang Heping District Sports School, successively received football training in Tianjin Teda and Shanghai Shenhua Youth Training Camp, in 2010, Xu Xin joined the Atletico Academy and signed a youth contract with the club, and signed a formal contract as a professional player in 2012, becoming a famous Atletico teenager in Chinese football, of course, he only played with the Madrid B team in the West B B competition, and did not have the opportunity to join the Atletico First Team to play in La Liga.
Before the start of the 2016 Chinese Super League, Evergrande used 4.3 million euros to bring him back to the Chinese Super League, when Xu Xin was once regarded as Zheng Zhi's successor. However, in evergrande's 5 seasons, although Xu Xin also had a remarkable performance, he always lived in the shadow of Zheng Zhi and Paulinho and could not get enough stable playing time. In this case, Xu Xin also had the idea of changing his living method. At the end of last season, his contract with Evergrande expired. Taishan team coach Hao Wei had previously worked as an assistant coach at Evergrande and was well aware of Xu Xin's ability, and at his gracious invitation, Xu Xin first chose to join Taishan. It turned out to be a very wise choice.
As the saying goes, good birds choose trees and perch, Xu Xin changed teams, which proved his value very well, and in the Taishan team, he had a similar experience, as well as the former harbor main center-back Shi Ke and the veteran of the Jiangsu team Ji Xiang, who also finally joined at the invitation of the Taishan team, and came up with a convincing performance in this season's Chinese Super League. Ji Xiang also became the only player to defend the Chinese Super League title this season.