Wu Lei: Chinese football has less faith and less foundation

On July 10, Beijing time, Wu Lei posted a long article on his personal social media, thinking about his experience of staying in the West and Chinese football.

Wu Lei's original text is as follows:

Dear "Parrots"

At this moment I am sure that you must be more disappointed and sad than we are. We had a bad season.

This season should have been a season of great happiness and enjoyment, we broke into the Europa League, stood in the European arena again last February, when I stood at the El Prat Stadium for the first time, your enthusiasm, shouts were deeply imprinted in my heart!

For more than a year, we have experienced both joy and disappointment. I am deeply touched by you, especially this season, we have not performed well. But you are with us, home or away, always behind us!

Here I also feel a strong sense of belonging, a sense of belonging that has been passed down from generation to generation.

In March of this year, I was unlucky to be infected with the new crown virus, and during that time I felt a huge concern from you, and I think that no matter how difficult it is, as long as I stand on the court, I will do my best to bring you happiness!

From the first day I came to the team, I felt the atmosphere of the dressing room, we are a united, humble, positive and enterprising team, I thank everyone for their help to me, as well as the coaches, teammates, staff who have trusted me! The blue-white parrot has been deep in my heart.

Now we need to work hard to get back to the top flight, for our history, for our club, for our lives! As we sang in the team song, white is our heart and blue is our soul!

Finally, I hope we can celebrate the next victory at the El Prat Stadium soon! Without your support, football will become meaningless and our hearts together.

Of course, there are also fans and friends who support me day and night in the country, care about me, whether it is new fans or old fans, whether they are fans who have always paid attention to me, or who have begun to follow me after I stayed in the ocean, and gradually began to really regard Espanyol Club as their favorite team! Your follow-up along the way has always been my motivation!

In March, when I was infected with the new crown virus, I felt the infinite power you gave me, your worries, concerns, encouragement, and deeply touched me, and I will remember it!

I think there are many places for Chinese football to improve, and we need a sense of inner satisfaction and pride too much! But we have less faith and less foundation than the 100-year history of European football! When people talk about where I should, or should not go, I think we are sometimes too confident, on the other hand, it also reflects our lack of confidence, I think, when one day people no longer talk about a Chinese player should play in the mainstream European league, or the sub-league, when there are Chinese players running in all levels of European countries, Chinese football will be really confident in the bottom of the heart!