On April 1, Baria Bundeson Mineiro Athletic officially announced that Chinese naturalized player Luo Guofu officially joined the team. The 33-year-old Luo Guofu has played for Shandong Taishan, Hebei Huaxia Happiness, Meixian Tiehan and Guangzhou Evergrande, and won the Golden Boot of the Chinese Super League in the 2015 season. In February, Guangzhou announced the termination of his contract with Luo Guofu and he became a free agent. However, it is worth mentioning that on the poster of Atlético Mineiro, the name of the naturalized player is still his original Brazilian name: Aloisio.
In January of this year, another naturalized player, Gaulat, joined Santos in the Brazilian league, thus unveiling the tide of escape from brazilian naturalized players. In this sense, Luo Guofu's return to Bajia is actually expected. After that, Axon, Alain and Fernando will also return to their original names to play in their actual home country. Their relationship with China has since come to an end, and only the large string of numbers on their bank cards will remind them of the oriental country where they once had great hopes.
After losing 0-2 to Oman, the national football team led by Li Xiaopeng ended the journey of the round of 12 with 1 win, 3 draws and 6 losses. In the 2 rounds of 12, Li Xiaopeng, Li Tie and Gao Hongbo combined only got 1 win and 7 points, while Lippi single-handedly won 3 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss 11 points. Although the final ranking of the national football team in the last Round of 12 was also 5th, it was only 3 points away from the 2nd ranked South Korean team. At that time, there was a mainstream voice that believed that if the national football team could add a few foreign players who performed well in the Chinese Super League, it might be easy to reach the World Cup. It was from that time that naturalization became a new way of thinking for the revitalization of Chinese football.
In the 2019 season, Shandong Luneng's young foreign assistant Delgado, who is worth 800,000 euros, successfully naturalized and played in the Chinese Super League as a U23. Subsequently, Hou Yongyong, Li Ke and Axon also successfully naturalized. These players, Delgado is a player of no Chinese descent who has been selected for the Portuguese national youth, Hou Yongyong and Li Ke have Chinese blood, and Axon has played in the Chinese Super League for more than 5 years, which is eligible to play for the national football team, although their identities are different, but they are all attempts and discussions of different naturalization ideas.
However, the real tide of naturalization is the Chinese Super League eight champions Guangzhou Evergrande, Axon, Gaulat, Alan, Fernando, Jiang Guangtai and Luo Guofu are all promoted by them, in this process, Evergrande spent a huge amount of manpower, material and financial resources, but also a hundred secrets, because they had in the 2019 season to loan Gaulat back to the First Division for half a season, which led to the latter did not meet the requirements of FIFA to live in China for 5 consecutive years, unable to play for the national football team. What the national football team lacked most at that time was precisely a midfield attacker like Gaulat.
Being a national nurse was the best adjective for Evergrande's naturalized players at that time. Of course, in the Chinese Super League clubs, there are also clear opposition to naturalized players, that is, the 2018 season of the Chinese Super League champion Shanghai SIPG, it is precisely because of the refusal to participate in naturalization, they sent Axon back to Evergrande, a certain Shanghai reporter also described Axon as a "hermaphrodite yellow eel", extremely cynical. What is even more fatal is that after the retirement of Cai Zhenhua, who advocated naturalization, it was Chen Shuyuan, the former head of the Shanghai Port, who succeeded him as the leader of the Chinese Football Association.
For Chen Shuyuan, everyone was most impressed by the 2018 season when sipping teeth and breaking Evergrande's monopoly on the Chinese Super League champions, he said: "Football is not far from money, and only by relying on faith in football can it be more pure and noble." A person's true backbone is faith and ideals, and only by carrying faith on his shoulders can he go further, otherwise his career will achieve nothing. At the time, this passage sounded deafening, making people feel that the 12 billion yuan that SIPG spent to win the championship was worth.
After that, everything that happened is not surprising, many naturalized players are divided into three, six, nine, etc., those with Chinese ancestry can play as an internal aid, each club that has no Chinese blood but can play for the national football team can only have one internal aid quota, neither Chinese blood nor qualification for the national football team, then it has become one of the few in the world football world where to play is the existence of foreign aid identity. There are two such players, namely Shandong Luneng's Delgado and Evergrande's Gaulat. Embarrassingly, Delgado played for Luneng as a U23 player in the 2019 season, only to find himself a foreign aid in 2020.
In the round of 12, Li Tie's use of naturalized players caused a lot of controversy, and Luo Guofu, Alan and others who were considered to have only 30 minutes of physical fitness were the hardest-working players in the following matches, and Luo Guofu also scored 1 goal in the match with saudi Arabia. If the national football team reuses them at the beginning, it may not be able to qualify for the qualification, but the result may be better. However, after losing to Japan in the second round, Li Tie threatened at the press conference that "the Chinese national team must let chinese coaches bring it", which is exactly the same as the original opposition to naturalization in Shanghai.
In the last 2 rounds of the round of 12, the national football team without the help of naturalized players drew 1-1 with Saudi Arabia, 0-2 defeat to Oman, and Fernando, who was far away in Brazil, posted a video of him watching the national football game on social media, which triggered the cynicism of fans, because he had not played for the national football team since he was naturalized, and Evergrande was ridiculed for "people with stupid money". However, in the future, there will really be no more evergrande such a team as the national nurse, Axon, Luo Guofu these names will gradually be forgotten, the monetary tightening of the Chinese Super League can only return to the small play and small trouble bleak operation 15 years ago, Chinese football, still can not see the day of the beginning. Perhaps in a few years, Gong Hanlin and others will not be too lazy to have anything to do with football.