On April 14, Beijing time, the Chinese men's football team has another foreign player, naturalized international Axon officially joined the Bajia Gremio team, and at the joining press conference, Axon also expressed his mood, but also said that he also wanted to join the national team, hoping to contribute to the 2023 local Asian Cup to win the honor.
Axon said: "I plan to play in the Asian Cup next year and I still want to help Chinese football. The Chinese fans like me very much, so I hope I can maintain my high level and participate in the Asian Cup and help the national team win the championship. Unfortunately we weren't able to get into the World Cup, but we still have a chance for the next cycle. ”
Axon is not the first naturalized player to express his willingness to fight for the Chinese men's football team, after Luo Guofu said that if he can be called up by the national team again, he will go all out to report and fight for the honor of Chinese football. As for Alain, it is even possible to return to the Chinese Super League to play, that into the national team, there is no suspense at all.
At present, several Brazilian naturalized players, Axon joined Gremio, Luo Guofu joined Mineiro Americas, Alain's future is suspenseful, and Fernando's future is quite slim, but no matter where the final place belongs, these Brazilian naturalized players still have a strong patriotic spirit, and they are willing to help Chinese football.
If you used to say such words when playing in the Chinese Super League, then everyone will think that they are opening their mouths for money, but now Axon and Luo Guofu have returned to Brazil to play football, and still express their willingness to fight for Chinese football, which shows one point: these Brazilian naturalized players are definitely not mercenaries!
It's just a pity that the enthusiasm of these naturalized players has been poured cold water, and on domestic social media platforms, some media people and some fans have only given them a label: just for money. Even in the national team, there are some local internationals who reject naturalized players and think that they have robbed their jobs.
Those spit voices on the Internet are insults to Brazilian football and ignore the football beliefs of Brazilian players - their career is to play the World Cup. This dream may not be worth much to China's local players, because it really can't get in. But on Brazilian players, it's worth thousands of dollars.
Now that the World Cup dream has been shattered, they have set their sights on the 2023 Asian Cup, and the Chinese team, as the host, can't really do without naturalized players if they want to achieve good results, even if they are substitute players. I don't know how the senior management of the Football Association felt when they heard the voices of these naturalized players? Don't live up to the kindness of others, and at the current level of men's football, if you want to achieve results, you also need Brazilian naturalization.