One of the assistant coaches mentioned here who has played in the Chinese Super League, also named Paulinho, has nothing to do with Paulinho, a foreign aid from Guangzhou Evergrande, and is not a foreign assistant Paulinho who played for Shanghai Harbor last season. This Paulinho is a Portuguese who worked as an assistant coach in Beijing Renhe in the first half of 2017, joined Shenzhen in June 2017, also as an assistant coach, and only left the team at the end of 2019. During his three years in China, Paulinho knew a lot about Chinese football and talked about life in China.
In an interview with the Portuguese media "expresso", Paulinho talked about the topic of Chinese football, "I was in Charge of the defensive organization of the training team in Beijinger, I was not the head coach, the head coach was a Chinese (the beijinger and the coach at the time was Wang Baoshan). They conceded too many goals in previous seasons and did not succeed in overtaking. "Beijinger and the coaching staff have a Brazilian physical trainer who talks to Paulinho about the team while sitting on the bus.
The reporter asked Paulinho, "What did he say to you?" "The first thing he said was that the Chinese players were reluctant to train in the morning. They stay up late to play games and rarely train in the morning. Some Chinese players have good skills, but they can't understand the game, and their understanding of the game is often 'hindsight'. Now the league is pressuring clubs to have U15 and U16 players for each team. But at the time they were all still on team B, and they only played some reserve team games.
Asked if the Chinese team was better or worse than he thought, Paulinho said, "I went to a sub-league team, there were two or three teams that were good, we were one of them. There is a big difference between China's first and second division leagues, and there are many top foreign aides in the first division, such as Hulk, Witsel... There is no sub-level, and foreign aid is weak. Our team is stronger than I thought, not only because of foreign aid, but also because there are some Chinese players in the team who have played in the Chinese Super League for several years. ”
When asked about interesting things in China, Paulinho said, "I was told that taxi drivers would exchange your money for counterfeit money with superb technique. You give him a hundred-dollar bill, he says 'no good, change one,' and then take the opportunity to exchange it for counterfeit currency. Once I went out to dinner with my wife and came back and had to take a taxi, Beijing was not good at taxi, I called the translator, he helped me call a taxi from the Internet... I wanted to get out of the car early for a walk home, the driver said that he did not receive the money from the translator, I called the translator, he said that the driver may not have received the money, let me settle the money, I gave the driver 100 yuan, he found change. My wife and I left, and soon I heard the driver shouting something with a hundred-dollar bill, and I said to my wife, 'Look, that fraudulent artist wants to deceive us.' I walked over and thought this guy was going to start his trick, but he had the phone in his hand, and on the other end of the phone was my translator, and he told me that the money had been settled, and the app went into the driver's account, and the driver wanted to return the money to us. It was a big misunderstanding, he just paid him back, I misunderstood and almost beat him up. ”
Asked about the story of working in Shenzhen, Paulinho said, "Once we went to an away game and our centre-back Qiao Wei broke his head, but he held out until the end of the game. In a training session after the game, the club's general manager gathered the players and gave Qiao Wei a 20,000 yuan bonus in person to reward his dedication. I would say that if there were such a rule in Portugal, everyone would be rushing to break their heads to win the prize money. ”
In this regard, some fans said, "The prize money that Qiao Wei got was not 20,000 yuan, but 200,000 yuan." Later, Qiao Wei donated the money to the sick children. "20,000 euros." In December 2019, Paulinho and Shenzhen FC did not renew their contracts and left China. "My wife loves to live in China, and so do I," he said. Then again, whether it's because of work or vacation, I'll definitely go back anyway. I love this country, the people, the culture and the Chinese architecture. ”
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