The Chinese men's soccer team has shown signs of talent interruption due to the backwardness of youth training, which in turn has triggered naturalization operations. Chinese Super League teams naturalized Ackerson, Luo Guofu, Fernando, Alain, Gaulart, Jiang Guangtai, Li Ke, Hou Yongyong, Xiao Taotao, Delgado. Of the 10 naturalized players, Gaulat and Delgado failed to qualify for the Chinese men's national team, although half of the naturalized players wore the Chinese men's national team jersey, their overall performance was sluggish.
Lippi, the famous coach who led the use of naturalized players in the Chinese men's soccer team, was angry at the Asian Top 40 stage of the World Preliminary Round because naturalized players and local players could not be perfectly integrated. Li Tie led the team to the round of 12, and then suffered a crash, after Li Xiaopeng took office, the Chinese men's national football team lost to Vietnam and finished second from the bottom of the group, worse than the performance of the last World Preliminary Round.
It can be seen that the development of naturalized players is generally unsuccessful. According to the current player status, 7 naturalized players can be said to be wasted and do not see any hope, namely Li Ke, Hou Yongyong, Gaulart, Alan, Ackerson, Fernando, and Xiao Taotao. None of the seven maintained his form, basically reduced to substitutes or playing in the minor league, Li Ke suffered frequent injuries and became a glass man; Alain has only made his debut this year until the last few days, with all the substitution stats hanging to zero; Gaulat failed to score in the Bundesliga, was terminated by Santos, and now also plays in the Bundesliga, scoring 2 goals and assisting 2 times in 14 games; Fernando simply stopped playing, has not played since last year, and has not joined a new club; Xiao Taotao could not play when he returned to Peru; Hou Yongyong is basically invisible in national security.
In late October, Ackerson, who remained as an international, came off the bench again and returned to the Bundesliga with the giants Gremio promoted two rounds early, beating Recife Nautical 3-0 in this round, Ackerson came on as a substitute in the 73rd minute after his team led 3-0 and did not have many opportunities to perform. After the win, Gremio won 61 league points in 36 rounds of Baja División, ranking second in Baja B, seven points more than Fifth-placed Ituano, according to the Baja B promotion rules, the top four in the standings were directly promoted to Baja División, and Gremio successfully completed the promotion two rounds early.
Ackerson played 11 goals and 3 assists in 13 games in the Chinese Super League last season, and this season he has stayed in the second division as an international, scoring only 2 goals in 22 games, and basically coming off the bench, only getting 2 starts. From the development of these naturalized players, it can be seen that they have earned enough, lost the motivation to strive for the top, and the Chinese men's football team obviously cannot count on them.
Among the naturalized players, only 3 are in a relatively normal situation, namely Jiang Guangtai, Delgado, Luo Guofu, Jiang Guangtai has maintained a stable state in the Chinese Super League, scoring 2 goals in 6 games for Shanghai Port; Delgado worked hard, although not reused by Hao Wei, and his loan to Kunshan was stable, scoring 4 goals and assisting 1 time in 9 games, regaining the form of 9 goals and 3 assists in 18 games for Taishan last season, but he still needs time to qualify for the national football team.
Chinese Super League Golden Boot goalscorer Luo Guofu was underestimated, he accidentally became the most helpful player among naturalized players in the Chinese men's football team, no matter where he was scrappy, and really integrated, for which he changed his Chinese name to Luo Guofu. The 34-year-old has become the only naturalized player to truly establish himself in the Bundesliga, playing 26 games for 11th-placed América Mineiro this season, starting 12 of them and captaining at one point, scoring four goals and assisting twice, and in the most recent game, Lo Guofu came off the bench in the 35th minute and scored a penalty to help América Mineiro draw 2-2 with Goiás.
Luo Guofu said in an interview that the next goal is to help the Chinese men's football team achieve good results in the Asian Cup, and also hopes to return to the Chinese Super League, he is accustomed to life in China, and has a Chinese driver's license, for future considerations, Luo Guofu left a lot of his belongings in China. It is worth mentioning that in order to ensure that he can participate in the Asian Cup next year, Luo Guofu turned down the contracts of a number of Baja League teams. Such a player with a sense of belonging and honor is not only a role model for naturalized players, but also for all players in the Chinese men's national team, hoping to play in the Asian Cup in better form next year.