Defeated in the round of 12, the Chinese national football team failed again to qualify for the World Cup, and could only wait for the next 4 years of reincarnation. At the same time, Luo Guofu, a Brazilian naturalized player of the national football team, declared in a recent interview that "there may be no chance to play for the Chinese team in the future", which is equivalent to completely tearing off the mask of "loving China" that was previously warm.
At first hearing this sentence, some fans may also think: "Why, the Chinese team 'did' sorry for Ah Luo again?" Hurry up and pull out my 40m knife! However, in fact, this time it is Luo Guofu himself who "does not want to play", and the reason is very simple: he is now mainly considering playing for his new team in Brazil, so the matter of representing the national team can only be put back.
His original words were very blunt: "Now if you want me to continue to compete [on behalf of China], I have to sit down and talk... I'm a player for Mineiro Americas and my priority is to play for this team. If my act of representing the Chinese team is not good for the club, then I will no longer have the possibility of playing for the Chinese team."
If it is not the identity of a naturalized player, if Luo Guofu's words are said by some other Chinese player, he will definitely dare to risk the world's "big disobedience" - dare to say that he puts the interests of the club before the national team, and needs to "talk about it" before playing on behalf of the national football team, these two articles alone are enough to make a player on the "blacklist" of the Chinese Football Association, and be sentenced by fans and public opinion to be "social death" and never turn over.
Of course, you can't say that Luo Guofu is not right, because players have the right to choose themselves, but there is no land. There are a large number of players in Europe who announced their retirement from the national team just after the age of 30, and the Chinese team has never had only players who they do not recruit, if they are recruited, the nearly 40-year-old will have to come up and play a few games. For Chinese players, the national team is more like compulsory service, which over time becomes an "obligation"; and the emergence of naturalized "Chinese players" in name has a strong impact on this value.
This is obviously an outcome that the FOOTBALL Association does not want to see, because since the introduction of naturalized players, the football association and its subordinate public opinion have been trying to avoid the issue of "differential treatment" between naturalized players and Chinese local players. Obviously, naturalized players are only employees who take money to do things, but the Football Association has to give them "re-education", learn Chinese today, watch patriotic movies tomorrow, and show loyalty the day after tomorrow, trying to blur the "mercenary" attribute of naturalized players to the outside world.
The performance of the media is even more excessive, in countless reports, naturalized players seem to appear more "patriotic" than a native Chinese player, Luo Guofu was directly crowned with the same name as a national hero in mainland history, and even a big V wanted to recommend a naturalized player to the organization. And the naturalized players are also happy to cooperate with these overwhelming "artificial marketing" - anyway, it is a fool, not to play white, not to play.
But when the tide recedes, you'll be able to discover who's swimming naked. When Luo Guofu admitted that he put the interests of the club ahead of the interests of the national team, as some netizens described it, this was "Yue Fei running away". When Wu Lei over there said that he was "obliged" to play for the country and was ridiculed by some fans as hypocritical, some people here did not even want the cheap "hypocrisy" on their lips.
The route of naturalized players will not necessarily disappear from Chinese football in the future; but the naturalized players prepared for the 2022 World Cup will inevitably become a long-term pain in Chinese football and will no longer be willing to be talked about. Is it more ironic than that these naturalizations, which were originally recruited as the "fig leaf" of Chinese football, have finally unveiled the few fig leafs left in Chinese football?