Mauricio, a "parallel importer" in the Chinese Super League era, helped Indian Super League team Mumbai City beat the Baghdad Air Force 2-1 to win the first AFC Champions League victory in the history of Indian football, creating history.
In last night's second round of AFC Champions League Group B, Mumbai City beat the Baghdad Air Force 2-1 to win the first victory in the history of Indian football.
The turning point of the game was in the 70th minute, Mumbai City's Brazilian foreign aid Mauricio broke through the Baghdad Air Force defense on the counter-attack, was shoveled by the panicked defender, won the penalty, and personally scored, scoring the first goal in Mumbai City's AFC Champions League history.
Mauricio arched the Iraqis' defenses with the impact of a wild bull, and single-handedly turned the tide of the game.
By the way, when hebei fans see this face of an Indian football hero, do they feel a little familiar?
That's right, it's the parallel cargo striker from Yongchang in Shijiazhuang in 2016.
Before the 2016 season, shijiazhuang Yongchang (now Cangzhou Lion), the dark horse of the previous season, loaned the striker who had been selected for the Brazilian national youth from Brazil - look at Mauricio's resume, and then look at the budget and positioning of Shijiazhuang Yongchang.
The result was exactly that year, just signed a 5-year 8 billion broadcast contract in the Chinese Super League, the teams began to engage in an arms race, a winter transfer window in the Super League transfer history of the champion was continuously refreshed, Teixeira, Ramirez, Jackson Martinez and others landed with tens of millions of euros worth - and then the summer bid king price was refreshed by Hulk. Not to mention foreign aid, even the internal aid that has not been selected for the national team can sell hundreds of millions of yuan.
As a result, at that time, there were chinese super leagues full of european giants, and Mauricio, who was originally in line with the positioning of small and medium-sized teams in the Chinese Super League, became a bargain, and then played a performance that matched his value - 4 goals in the whole season, which did not meet the data of a main foreign aid forward in the Chinese Super League, and Shijiazhuang Yongchang also made a big dive and relegated.
The more representative game was shijiazhuang Yongchang in the second half of that year at Yutong Stadium against Jiangsu Suning - small business team vs big macs. Shijiazhuang Yongchang was blown up by the tens of millions of euros worth Ofixeira, who had just won the Ukrainian Premier League's top scorer in just half a season and almost ran to Liverpool's European transfer market reds to complete a hat-trick, sweeping Shijiazhuang Yongchang 6-1 away. Mauricio, as the representative of the traditional cheap foreign aid in the Chinese Super League, barely recovered a goal.
Jiangsu Suning finished runners-up that season and Shijiazhuang Yongchang was relegated. At the end of the season, Shijiazhuang did not buy out Mauricio, a Brazilian foreign aid who could not catch up with the standard of the Chinese Super League gold dollar to South Korea next door.
In 3 seasons in South Korea, Mauricio was a bit high and low - the first season scored 13 goals in the K1 League's Gangwon team, and then his performance shrank, mixing with the Busan idols in the K2 League, and finally left South Korea and returned to Brazil for a few years. In 2020, Mauricio is once again in the Asian gold rush – the platform is getting lower and lower, this time in the Indian league.
At Orissa, Mauricio won the league bronze boots, then was favored by league champions Mumbai City, joined the Indian giants, and had the opportunity to play in Asia.
In 2022, Mauricio, as a striker of Mumbai City and an employee of the famous City Football Group, scored the first goal of the team's AFC Champions League and helped the team win the first AFC Champions League. And Mauricio's old club, now called Cangzhou Lions, not only moved, but also had the continuous problem of unpaid wages and heavy pressure on the survival of the team.
According to the current standards of foreign aid in the Chinese Super League, Mauricio, as the top scorer in the Indian league, has every opportunity to get a main position in the Chinese Super League.
The benchmark is the two star strikers of the Chinese Super League last season - Changchun Yatai's Junier and Shanghai Shenhua's Dunbia. Junior's Asian career began in Thailand and reached its peak in South Korea. Dumbia simply went directly from Thailand to the middle division, and then was regarded as the main striker by a Chinese Super League giant such as Shanghai Shenhua.
The Chinese League One Sichuan Jiuniu team brought in foreign striker Ortiz from the Indian league.
Therefore, the former Chinese Super League parallel goods helped the Indian champions create AFC Champions League history, and now the Indian league can also export talents to the Chinese league - the meritorious coach Lobella who led Mumbai City to win the championship last year has been in the Chinese League Chengdu Jiuniu team, and Lobella has also brought the star players of the Indian league - Chengdu Jiuniu has just officially announced the signing of the team's star foreign aid Jorge Ortiz from Goa recently.
One in east Asia, one in west Asia, the Chinese Super League and the Indian Super League teams in the AFC Champions League can not meet. So at the national team level, I don't know if the national football team has a chance to repeat the "Earth Derby" in next year's Asian Cup and India?
Wen |Bi Mo
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