In the history of the development of Chinese football, there is a player who is well known to fans because of his speed on the field, his cool head at key moments, and his ability to rush to the landing point. This player is Wu Lei, who is from Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, and is known as the "King of Martial Arts".
Wu Lei has liked to play football since he was a child, but what really made him get football enlightenment was that when Jiangsu Sainty Club held a summer camp, he made an exception to recruit Wu Lei, who was underage, and wu Lei could not extricate himself in the field of football. In 2003, Wu Lei signed a contract with Genbao Football Base on Chongming Island in Shanghai.
Today, Wu Lei has officially become a member of the Chinese men's football team, and basically the major events of the national team will see him fighting for the country.
But in the 39-man roster of the new national team, Wu Lei's name was not seen. According to media analysis, the reason why Wu Lei did not appear in the list may be that coach Li Xiaopeng considered that Wu Lei had no ball to play in La Liga and his state continued to be sluggish, so he recruited Yang Liyu and Axon to recruit two forwards to fight for the country.
In the previous match between the national football team and Vietnam, Wu Lei's sluggish performance also disappointed the fans. Recently, the words of the first chairman/head coach of Shanghai SIPG Football Club in an interview with the media pushed Wu Lei to the cusp of public opinion. What's going on?
Originally, in an interview with the media, Xu Genbao talked about the "fate" between the club and Wu Lei, and inadvertently missed it. The host then asked: Was he (Wu Lei) sent by his parents, or did he choose it yourself?
Unexpectedly, Xu Genbao said without any disguise: he came "through the back door"!
It turned out that Wu Lei was not the first player to enter the Genbao football base. It is said that his conditions did not meet at that time, but Wu Lei's parents found Li Hongbing, the head coach of Jiangsu women's football team at that time. And Li Hongbing was Xu Genbao's proud disciple.
Then Li Hongbing wrote a letter to Xu Genbao, inviting him to watch Wu Lei's game together. It was also after watching Wu Lei's game that Xu Genbao discovered that Wu Lei had explosive power, speed, and "kicking brain". Even Yang Dao, who was inspecting together at the time, praised Wu Lei as "China's Messi".
However, in 2003, Messi's fame was not as great as it is now, and in October of that year, Messi signed his first professional contract. In the 2003-04 season, he played for Barcelona B, with only 5 appearances in the whole season, and did not score goals, so his performance was not impressive. Xu Genbao said at this time that in 2003 some people thought that he would be "China's Messi", which was a bit nonsense.
But then again, Wu Lei has its own distinctive characteristics compared to other players. Otherwise, even if he really went through the back door, he would not have been able to become the youngest player in the history of China's professional football field in 2006, let alone win the honor of "Best Local Goalscorer" for 4 consecutive seasons!
Therefore, we do not have to make too many evaluations for Wu Lei's growth process. His level is still more prominent among many internationals.
However, how many teenagers with real football talent have been artificially "eliminated", excluded and forced to change careers because of this environment of Chinese football, thus destroying the future of Chinese football and affecting the soil of Chinese football, which is really disappointing and worrying!