Guoan's new foreign player Adebenro has trained with the team, and recently, he spoke out through the club's official interview, expressing his expectations for the new season and his views on the trip to China. The African aid joked that he was probably the african aid who couldn't dance the most.
When it comes to African foreign aid in the history of Guoan, Adebenro is certainly not the first, nor will it be the last, but looking back at the African foreign aid hired by Guoan, you will find that most of them have performed well, but most of them have ended up going high and low.
Adebenro's predecessor Bakambu is from Africa, his ancestral home is the Democratic Republic of the Congo, but because he grew up in the French youth training system, Bakambu's style of playing football is actually not African at all, his technical and tactical qualities are very high, the ball running position is very good, and he is a very European African player.
Among the foreign aid forwards in the history of Guoan, Bakambu can definitely rank in the top three in terms of strength, and only Irmaz and Canut can match him.
Canute is from Mali, and he should be the most famous african foreign aid hired by Guoan, after all, he has won the African Footballer of the Year. Before he came to China, he helped Sevilla win the Europa League. Tall but very skilled at the feet, Canute is also a very strong striker in Europe.
In the year that Canute played for Guoan, his teammate Utaka was also an African foreign aid, and the Chinese fans nicknamed him "Zhang Fei", he was from Nigeria and was a fellow Adebenro. But in fact, Utaka is not a particularly fierce kind of player, and his impact is not as good as Gron in comparison. Utaka had a certain amount of personal ability, especially a good impact against the goal, but it was not good to carry the ball on his back, which allowed him to play an advantage in Manzano's single arrow system later.
Uttaka is still playing in the Japanese league, having won the J-League Golden Boot in previous years and the Golden Boot in the Second Division, and the 38-year-old is still scoring seven goals in 10 games, maintaining a high goal efficiency.
Before Utaka, Guoan had brought in two African defenders, one was François from Pacheco and the other was William Paul from Lee Jang-so. Both are from Portuguese teams, François is from the Portuguese Premier League and Paul is from the Portuguese Second Division.
François is a Senegalese player, he is tall, reaching 1 meter 92, two long legs like a big scissors, coupled with his unusually fierce style of playing, once criticized by Arihan: "His movements can kill people." However, it was because of his brave style that François was seriously injured in the first league game in 2012, and was later replaced by Yu Yang, and he left Guoan. After returning to Portugal, François still plays in the Portuguese Premier League for many years, which also shows that his level is still OK.
Paul helped Guoan win the league title in 2009, but he was basically reduced to a substitute in the middle and late stages, especially after Hong Yuanshuo became the head coach. Paul's physical fitness is very good, strong enough, bouncing well, but the sense of position is not good, the landing point judgment is not good, and in general, he is a rash muscle man. In fact, most of the Defenders in Africa are like this, whether it is Paul or François, the physical condition is exciting, but the defense is frizzy, and their performance in National Security also confirms this.
When Pacheco was coaching, he also got an African striker Keita from the Portuguese Super League. This man is also a Senegalese player, Keita is actually more famous than François, he once played for the Portuguese Super League mid-rise side Braga, but only a substitute in Braga. In general, Keita played decently in Guoan, although it did not become a big killer, but in the limited playing time showed a strong impact and the ability to carry the ball on his back, but he appeared to be a little lazy on the field, and left Guoan after playing for half a year.
For a long time in the past, Guoan has not hired African foreign aid, but it is interesting that the first foreign aid in the history of Guoan scored by African foreign aid, his name is Yingana, is a foreign aid from Kenya, he came to China like Gompos to play in the Paraguayan League, claimed to have been selected for the Kenyan national team, and was also a legendary player of a strong team in Kenya's own league, Yingana has a strong impact in the front field, especially good at winning in chaos. At that time, in the away league between Guoan and Guangzhou Sun God, in the pouring rain and muddy field, Yinggana kicked twice, making the Guangzhou team lose its temper.
However, later Kim Chi-yang gave up on Ingana. In this regard, the old King once said this matter: "He (Ingana) has a strong impact and is very threatening in front of the goal, but he is more self-egoistic, the sense of cooperation is not strong, and the style of our team is not very in tune." Of course, there was a reason why Kim gave up on the black striker, because he was looking for a better foreign player, that is, Cassiano. Although Ingana scored three goals in four games efficiently, Cassiano scored three goals in the team's first game and scored a hat-trick to help Guoan play a 9-1 that has not been seen so far.
In fact, an inventory of these African foreign aid will find that the African foreign aid hired by Guoan is more or less still somewhat strong, and the overall resume and performance are better than the Brazilian foreign aid in the history of the national security team. Most of these African foreign aid have good speed or strength, the impact is very strong, but also exposed a lot of similar problems, such as basic skills under the feet, general psychological quality and so on. Even a striker of Bakambu's caliber is the former, and he frequently misses good opportunities. Forwards like Canute are the latter, who have twice received senseless red cards in unfavorable situations.
However, it should be said that African foreign aid can still have some performance in national security, even if it is high and low, it has also had a "high open" time. I hope that Adebenro can "open high" in Guoan, not "go low".