A few days ago, the Swiss Super League team Grasshopper announced that from Sakura Osaka to sign a young Japanese international center-back Sekobu Yume, Sekobu Dream has also become the 10th Japanese foreign aid in the history of the Swiss Super League, the 21-year-old rising star is obviously using the Swiss League as a springboard to impact Europe's 5 major leagues, replicating the successful example of national team teammate Jun Kawabe from the Swiss Super League to the Premier League. At Li Lei's age, even if he plays well in the Swiss Super League, it is difficult to get the favor of the top league, and young Chinese players may wish to emulate Seko and go to the Europa League earlier to hone.
Osaka poster blessing Seto
The 21-year-old Made his career debut in 2019 and has been the main defensive force for Sakura Osaka for the past two seasons, having so far played 67 games in Japan's top leagues, playing in five AFC Champions League games for Osaka and winning the Best Rookie Award in the 2020 Japan Top League. Seto's tokutsumi is valued at £810,000, making him rank 7th in the Grasshoppers, up from Li Lei's 540,000 (11th on the team).
Li lei
Seko joined Grasshopper this time is a formal transfer, rather than the previously reported first-lease-and-then-buy, he signed a 3-and-a-half-year contract with Grasshopper, obviously hoping to be down-to-earth in the Swiss Super Training, and when the time is ripe, he will move towards a higher european league. He is also currently the second Japanese foreign player in the Swiss league, the other is Suzuki Toshiichi (21), who joined Lausanne Sport last January, Suzuki has not yet been called up for the Japanese national team, and after transferring from Shonan to Lausanne in the transfer period last winter, quickly became the team's main left forward, has accumulated 32 Swiss super experience, contributed 2 goals and 3 assists.
Seko
Looking back at the history of the Swiss Super League, in addition to the current two young players, there have been 8 Japanese foreign aides, including veteran international Koji Nakata, including 4 players who have made the Swiss Super League their first stop in Europe, including 28-year-old Japanese international center Yuya Kubo, 26-year-old Japanese international midfielder Jun Kawabe, 32-year-old Japanese international Yasu ichiro Kakitani and 20-year-old national youth team forward Wakami Okawa. If you have successfully landed in the top league since then, the success rate is also 50%.
Jun Kawabe
The loser is Aki ichiro Kakitani, who is more familiar with us, this benevolent brother began his career at the age of 24, from Sakura Osaka to the Swiss giants Basel, but only played for 1 and a half years, and did not get into the main team of Basel, leaving the mediocre data of 4 goals in the Swiss Super 18 games, he returned to Japan in 2016, playing so far; as for Wakzuki Ōkawa, in fact, it is impossible to judge success or failure, he joined Sion on loan in the 2020 season, played for two seasons, played 20 games, including 17 Swiss Super League, At the end of last year, he returned to his parent team Shonan at the end of his loan period, and he still has enough room for development at the age of only 20.
Yoichiro Kakitani
Wakatsuki Taiga
The other two have successfully transferred from the Swiss Super League to the higher league, Kawabe Jun has just landed in the Grasshoppers during the summer transfer period, played 18 times in half a season, contributed 4 goals and 3 assists of good data, and then got the favor of the Premier League team Wolves, joined Wolves during the winter transfer period this year, but was loaned back to grasshoppers in the second half of the season, and will play in the Swiss Super League this season and then transfer to England; and Yuya Kubo, who is currently playing in Cincinnati, is a 19-year-old bernese young man who has played for 3 and a half seasons. Leaving 137 games with 39 goals and 15 assists, he later moved to Ghent, a league leader, during which he also joined Nuremberg on loan to compete in the Bundesliga, which is also a successful example.
Yuya Kubo
The 29-year-old Li Lei will play with two Japanese internationals in the second half of this season, and it is difficult for him to get the favor of higher league teams, if Chinese players really want to improve their standards, they still need more young players to go out, especially defensive players, the key is that most of our defensive players are not skilled, like Zhu Chenjie, Jiang Shenglong, Wu Shaocong, the best of the U23 players, it seems that it is difficult to get the attention of foreign clubs, which is indeed a headache.
Zhu Chenjie