On the morning of January 27, the Chinese men's football team and Shandong Taishan Club officially announced that 22-year-old center Guo Tianyu joined the Portuguese Super League Vizzella on loan! After Wu Lei and Li Lei, Guo Tianyu became the third active international to stay in Yang. For Chinese football, this is good news - more players go abroad and temper in high-level leagues in Europe, which will help improve the level of national football.
Guo Tianyu
Like Wu Lei and Li Lei, Guo Tianyu's new owner, Vizzella Club, also has a Chinese background. Through past reports from the Portuguese media such as The Record and The News Daily, I would like to introduce the situation of this club.
On 30 June 2009, the darkest day in the history of Vizzella, the team was relegated to The 3rd Division and has struggled ever since. In the summer of 2017, Vizzella ushered in the "savior" - Edmund Chu (not yet known as the exact Chinese translation) to solve the club's crisis. In the 2021-22 season, Vizzella rushed to the Portuguese Premier League, ranking 12th in the Portuguese Premier League this season.
Edmund Chu
The entrepreneur, Edmund Chu, is Vizzella's capital injector. 80% of the shares of the Club Vizzella are in the hands of sports agency Seca, who is the CEO of Seca, in charge of Seca's international business.
According to reports, Edmund Chu was born in Canada, Chinese descent, and he is a good friend and business partner with Barca superstar Pique. In 2017, Kosmos Investment Group was established, and Barca superstar Pique was one of the five co-founders, in addition to Edmund Chu and Japanese Rakuten boss Hiroshi Mikitani.
Edmund Chu and Pique
Edmund Chu and Pique's girlfriend Shakira
In 2018, Kosmos and the International Network Federation reached a 25-year cooperation plan worth a total of US$3 billion (equivalent to 19 billion yuan) to promote the reform of the Davis Cup.
Edmund Chu is also a football agent, in 2005, Dewey joined the Soviet Premier League Celtics, which is also his operation; in addition, Yu Hai went to Wittes, Zhang Yuning went to the Netherlands, and Li Shuai went to The Porto on loan, all of which have his participation. In an interview in 2019, Edmund Chu said that the key to helping Chinese football grow is to let more players go to competitive leagues.