Entering the national team competition window, countries have recently announced their own national football training lists. As the winner of the last World Cup who is about to embark on the journey to defend his title, the selection of such a nearly 30-year-old player in the French national team roster has touched fans around the world...
"Klaus", when the national team coach Deschamps called out his name, his teammates were next to him almost crazy to celebrate him, and the 29-year-old Klaus cried in his seat, for this moment he waited too long, or even he himself did not expect to one day be able to wear that national team shirt!
Born in Strasbourg, France, the 29-year-old, Jonathan Klaus spent almost the start of his career and the decade since, but he was almost never recognized there until 2013, when he moved to Germany to join Sixth Division side Links. However, from the professional team in France to the state league team in Germany, this change is known to everyone, and it is no accident that he obviously can't play...
However, although the team is small, the German atmosphere and environment helped him to integrate into it as soon as possible, and also laid the groundwork for his subsequent success, and he still struggled for three years after returning to France in 15 years, until the meniscus Brenner, the main right-back of the Bundesliga team Bielefeld in 18 years, the team found Klaus with a resume of playing in Germany, and the ensuing rise allowed him to kick out of his place. Klaus, who was able to eat the entire flank, scored 8 goals and 10 assists in 62 games in the two seasons that followed, helping the team win the championship in the 19-20 season and successfully promote to the Bundesliga!
As a result, he was able to return to France and touch the threshold of the five major leagues in Europe - Ligue 1. In the summer of '20, he joined Lens, who was returning to Ligue 1 after a five-year hiatus, where he truly stepped into the eyes of European fans! How explosive is the performance?! In its first season in Ligue 1, he handed over 34 games, 3 goals and 6 assists, and this season has scored 4 goals and 9 assists in 28 appearances, combined with his abundant physical fitness and ability to move on the wing, this efficiency has been comparable to Liverpool's 23-year-old Arnold, but he is already 29 years old!
In fact, as early as last year, there were already French media calls for Deschamps to recruit Klaus, but the latter did not do so, but Deschamps said that he was paying attention to his performance, and perhaps because of this confidence, Klaus worked harder, until today the miracle was finally born! What an inspirational story to enter Ligue 1 from the German Sixth Division after nine years!
Coincidentally, the same story plays out almost every day, with Atalanta beating Bologna 1-0 in the recently concluded Serie A 30th round, with the goal scored by 18-year-old Mustafa Cisse, who made his Serie A debut off the bench.
The post-00s youngster scored his league debut, which looks like the next new football star who has been focused on cultivating since childhood, but he only came to a refuge in Italy from Africa in 2019, yes, he is a refugee. In 2021, Cisse joins an amateur team of refugees: rinascita Refugees, competing in Italy's eighth division.
After playing for half a year, he got a trial at Serie A Atalanta and then joined the team at the end of February this year! After the goal of the reserve team made the manager realize that he belonged to the top league, so in cisse's second game of the first team, when Gasperini felt that the team could not open the field situation, he sent the youngster, and the ending was just as we mentioned earlier, just one month from the Italian eighth division to Serie A, there is nothing better than this...
The staging of one miracle after another is really touching, Vardy, Kante, Paye, Mendy, and even Messias are like this, the international Wu Lei even forwarded Klaus's story on social platforms, and FIFA also lamented for Cisse in its social media post, but as a Chinese fan, why don't you want this story full of love and hope to happen in China? Maybe it happened, it happened, but it seems hard to hear that...
Looking back at the last time, when were we moved by the national football team? The women's football level has never let us down, and in the men's football, perhaps the last time we shed tears for the men's football team has been traced back to the 1/4 final of the Asian Cup against Iran in 19 years, Zheng Zhi's full run in the 80th minute and the tears and lonely backs after the game, compared to the "older" internationals like Klaus, do our 30+ players still have the same sincerity to football as they do? The objective football environment does have an impact, but with such a spirit in the torrent of adversity, why does the Chinese men's football team not bring hope to people?
Yes, Chinese football will not immediately become better because of such a touching story, but this is the light in the hearts of hundreds of millions of fans, and where there is light, there will be hope...
For the round of twelve matches with Saudi Arabia on the evening of the 24th, which was the first game after we once again impacted the failure of the World Cup, no matter what the score will not have any impact on the final result, but for the fans to see, it is also hope...