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On the morning of January 27, just when the Chinese men's football team that went to Japan was making final preparations for the away match against Japan in the round of 12, the official accounts of the Chinese football team and Shandong Taishan Club issued an announcement, officially announcing that Guo Tianyu would stay in the West under the joint efforts of the Chinese Football Association and Shandong Taishan Club. Guo Tianyu joined the Portuguese Premier League promotion team Vizzella on loan for a period of six months, that is, until the end of the portuguese Super League this season.
At present, the 2021-2022 Portuguese Super League has been played for 19 rounds, and the Chinese-funded Vizzella team is temporarily ranked 13th out of 18 teams, 3 points ahead of the relegation zone. As a center forward, Guo Tianyu joined the Vizzella team, which is striving for relegation, and may be able to compete for a lot of appearances in the remaining 15 league rounds of the season. From the statistics point of view, Vizzella scored 19 goals in 19 league rounds, and the offensive firepower ranked fifth from the bottom in the Portuguese Premier League. At the same time, several center players in the team, the tallest Cassiano 1 meter 84, the other few people the tallest is just reached 1 meter 80, obviously, the height of 1 meter 92 Guo Tianyu belongs to the "siege hammer" type of players, he can bring more tactical options to the offensive end of the Vizzella team, the more the game is stuck, the more likely Guo Tianyu is to get the opportunity to play. It is worth mentioning that Guo Tianyu just ended the 2021 season with the Shandong Taishan team with a double championship record, and the body is still in the rhythm of the game, which is also what the Wei Zela team values more.
As a local outstanding talent cultivated by Shandong Taishan Youth Training, in the 2016 season, Guo Tianyu, who was 17 years old at the time, was promoted to the first team by Magat. After that, although he once had limited opportunities to play in the first team due to his national name and preparation for the National Games, Guo Tianyu has become the absolute main force of Shandong Taishan in the past two seasons. Especially this past season, Guo Tianyu showed a good state, and finally shared the honor of the best scorer in the Chinese Super League with Zhang Yuning with 10 goals.
For Portugal, Guo Tianyu is no stranger, in 2015, he was sent to Portugal by Shandong Luneng to study for a year, during which he also went to Porto, Benfica and other giants for trial training. A year of wandering life in Portugal has benefited Guo Tianyu a lot, he opened his eyes at the age of 16, saw a completely different from the Chinese league's confrontation rhythm and football philosophy, his foot technology and in front of the goal processing and other technical links have also been greatly improved, more importantly, in order to make his body more adapted to football games, he also developed scientific diet, body recovery and maintenance and other professional habits. According to Guo Tianyu's recollection, when he returned to China to play more games, he felt the preciousness of that experience more and more. And in Guo Tianyu's view, although he is tall and has strong impact, he also likes to play under the feet of the players, which is in line with the characteristics of Portuguese football. Therefore, when the Portuguese team handed over the olive branch, Guo Tianyu took it very seriously.
In fact, Guo Tianyu's stay in the ocean was already planned. In June last year, the Chinese Football Association took the lead in holding a coordination meeting for the work of staying in the West, and Guo Tianyu's name was included in the list of 3 men and 4 women at that time. After this meeting, Shen Menglu, Tang Jiali, Shen Mengyu, these female footballers went abroad, while the male footballers did not make the first trip because of the national team's preparation for the top 12 matches and the club's participation in the league. Now, with the end of the domestic competition, the Chinese men's football team's top 12 round of 12 journey is coming to an end, and the time has finally arrived to promote the male footballers to stay in the West.
From the perspective of the Chinese Football Association, the naturalization boom of Chinese football is gradually fading, and while promoting the return of Chinese Super League investment to rationality, the Football Association naturally also needs to promote the stay of international football players in the Ocean, so as to improve the overall level of Chinese men's football. It is not difficult to see from the official announcement of Guo Tianyu's transfer by the Chinese Football Association and Taishan Club that the Chinese Football Association has participated in this transfer. In the announcement, the Chinese Football Association also made it clear that it "fully provides support and guarantee for players who stay in foreign countries", which shows the important position of the plan to stay in foreign countries in the work of the Chinese Football Association.
From the perspective of Shandong Taishan Club, after winning the title of "Double Champion" for the third time in the history of the team, releasing the 22-year-old top scorer in the team also shows the determination of Taishan Club to cooperate with the Chinese Football Association to cultivate local young football talents. That determination is at least no worse than that of Shanghai Harbour, and Wu Lei stayed in Yangyang in 2018 after helping SIPG win the league title, when he was 27 years old.
From the perspective of Guo Tianyu's personal development, after absorbing nutrients from world-class stars such as Pele and Fellaini, with the gradual dispersion of big stars, the room for improvement provided to him by the Chinese Super League has become more and more limited. Although it is uncertain what kind of performance can be played in this stay in the ocean, it is certainly very helpful for the 22-year-old Guo Tianyu to improve his personal level by confronting the europeans' tall defenders. Moreover, the half-year lease period is flexible enough, and after the expiration of the lease period, all parties have every opportunity to review the actual effects of staying in the ocean and then decide on the subsequent arrangements. In the announcement of the Chinese Football Association, it was also mentioned that Vizzella's Portuguese Super League was included in the second gear in the identification of the top league of the British Labor Certificate, which also gave fans more speculation about Guo Tianyu's future development.