On the 24th, Shandong Taishan issued an announcement that Leonardo was loaned to Ulsan Hyundai, and he became another foreign aid who played all over the China-Japan-Korea league.
Last season, Leonardo played only 8 games in Shandong before being loaned to Hebei, but did not play a bright score there. The former J2 Golden Boot needs to prove himself again in the Korean league.
Leonardo is not the first Shandong foreign aid to play in the China-Japan-South Korea league. In July 2009, Shandong signed a striker Sandro, who had been selected for the Brazilian national youth team, and before coming to Shandong, he played in south Korea, the Japanese league, and also played in Kinde, and when he was in Suwon, he won the K-League Golden Boot (17 goals).
For Sandro, han gongzheng, then executive vice president of the club, was very respectful, and even set him up as a "benchmark" - the level of foreign aid selected in the future can at least not be worse than him.
At that time, some agents recommended big-name foreign aides from the five major leagues to Shandong, but some foreign aides put forward the request to have villas, and the club refused.
In Shandong, Sandro did not play at a real level, scoring only 2 goals in 15 games, not as good as in Kinder (6 goals in 36 games), during which there were rumors of him clashing with local players.
At the end of the season, Shandong and Sandro terminated their contract, and as a result, he returned to his former owner Jinde.
It should be noted that although the data in Jinde is also average, here, he is very comfortable, in fact, when he came to China in 2007, the first to contact him was not Jinde, Shaanxi and Guoan have played his idea, but they all gave up because of his "peach incident" when playing in Japan and the harsh conditions of Suwon.
In May 2003, a 20-year-old Japanese girl reported to the police that Sandro had attempted to sexually assault her after drinking, and eventually, the Japanese judiciary sentenced Sandro to 10 months in prison with a 3-year suspension of execution, and Ichihara terminated his contract with him, at that time, his annual salary was $700,000, the highest in his career.
Kinder hesitated, but eventually signed him, and later, he explained the beginning and end of the "peach incident," saying that the girl was a professional liar, and that "she had also blackmailed a baseball player." ”
One of Sandro's worst things about being suspended by the FA for 8 games when he was pushing down Douda while Teda was in, which he couldn't understand because the referee only gave him a yellow card at the time. Discouraged, he even asked Kinder's senior management if he could terminate the contract, "I don't want the rest of the salary." ”
In July 2012, Shandong signed Paraguayan international Otigosa, who won the Silver Boot (17 goals) when he was in Ulsan in 2010. For Ortigosa, Shandong had some expectations, but in the end, he only scored 2 goals in 10 games and was released the following year; subsequently, he went to the J-League's Jiafu Fenglin freely, where his statistics were not as good as in the Chinese Super League, 1 goal in 8 games, and was released in June.
It was also terminated early, but Ortigoza is obviously more resentful of the Chinese Super League, in an interview with the media in 2020, he said that the three countries of China, Japan and South Korea are completely different, "South Korea attaches great importance to the body, their players are often tall, physically strong, running ability, and very strong; Japan has a lot of short but technically excellent players; as for China, it can be called kung fu football, the technology is rough, the players are not creative, and the technical and tactical execution is also average." ”
Among the foreign aides who have played all over China, Japan and South Korea, the biggest card should be Edu, who has played in Bundesliga teams such as Bochum, Mainz, Schalke, Fürth and has also scored for Besiktas in the Europa League.
In 2013, Liaozu sold Yang Xu to Shandong, the club boss Huang Yan was in a hurry to find a suitable striker, in late February, an agent recommended Edu, in 2012, Liaozu chased him, but he wanted to continue to play in Germany, loaned to Fürth. Edu's transfer fee and annual salary add up to about 2 million euros, and his performance, great value for money, and Elkeson is known as the "God of The North and South".
Later in the season, after determining that the relegation was worry-free, Liaozu "snowed" Edu, supposedly afraid of external poaching, because the contract signed by the two sides was 1+1, and there were rumors at the time that Guoan, Teda and others were interested in him. Edu was very upset about this, because he wanted to fight for the Golden Boot, and he had only taken the bronze boot (tied) in the K League before.
In 2014, Edu went to Tokyo FC, where he and the team manager Hara Hiroshi had a bad relationship, the two sides had different philosophies, and he still did not get the golden boot he wanted. Later, he said that if he stayed in the Chinese Super League, "it may be happier"; in 2015, Edu returned to the K League and joined the giants Jeonbuk, hoping to realize the dream of the Golden Boot, in the first half, scoring 11 goals in 20 games, the hope is great, but in July of that year, Edu received a "big contract" from Huaxia. At the time, Edu was 34 years old, and he couldn't refuse to face a salary of nearly $10 million for two and a half years, and Jeonbuk had no resistance in the face of a $4 million transfer fee.
In the Middle League, Edu's firepower did not decrease, and 12 goals in 15 games helped Huaxia to advance to the super. Edu wanted to continue playing in the Chinese Super League, but a Bundesliga agent told him that the club was looking for big-name foreign aides in Europe, Edu was a little anxious, after returning to China, he found the club for the first time, the management told him that the club was very satisfied with him, and there would be his place in the new season, "but the next day I received a notice to leave." "Although I got the compensation, Edu was injured, "China can give very generous treatment, but I will not go back there to play football because of insecurity." ”
In the end, Edu chose to return to Jeonbuk and retire after two seasons.
In 2000, an agent came to Haigeng with a tall skinny man of 1 meter 92, ready to try his luck, he first found Shenhua, but the team manager at the time did not look at him, thinking that the club needed a strong striker, thin and tall is not the ideal candidate, in the end, Shenhua chose Lankovic.
That year, Rankovic scored 7 goals in A A, while the tall skinny one scored 8 goals, he was Tiago, and it was deep-foot coach Zhu Guanghu who took him in at that time. In four years of deep footing, Tiago scored 44 goals.
In 2006, he joined Liancheng, but a year later, Liancheng Shenhua merged and played in the Chinese Super League in the name of Shenhua, and the coach at that time, Jimenez, did not look up to Tiyage, although he liked life in Shanghai, but in the end he could only go to Beijing and join Guoan.
In 2004, He played for Hiroshima, where he scored 2 goals in 10 games, and in 2009 he went on loan for Suwon, where he scored 4 goals in 14 games. But his highlights were all in China, with 66 goals, and he was at one point at the top of the foreign aid list.