According to Brazilian media reports, the "withdrawal" of Chinese naturalized player Gaulart has recently made new progress. At present, Gaulart has paid a total of 250 yuan in resignation fees, and is about to officially withdraw from Chinese nationality and resume becoming Brazilian. It has to be said that the naturalization failure of Gaulart is definitely one of the biggest jokes in the history of Chinese football.
According to Brazilian media, the 250 yuan is a deregistration application fee of 50 yuan and a deregistration certificate fee of 200 yuan. For Gaulart, it has come to this point, indicating that refusing him to officially renounce Chinese nationality, it is only a matter of time before it is left. Goulart had previously admitted that he was seeking to restore his Brazilian citizenship, and now he not only said so, but did so.
Today, the naturalization of Gaulart in Chinese football four years ago is full of questions. Goulart had been on loan back to the Brazilian league for several months before announcing his Chinese citizenship in May 2019. According to FIFA regulations, his registration with the Chinese Football Association has been interrupted during this period, so he does not meet the requirement of naturalized players who have "lived in the country where he is located for five consecutive years". However, during the naturalization of the players, such an obvious irregularity was missed.
In the end, Goulart successfully obtained Chinese nationality, but FIFA unsurprisingly rejected his naturalized player status. In this way, Chinese football has spent a lot of effort to naturalize a player who cannot represent the Chinese national football team. After naturalization, Gaulart obtained a huge contract with an annual salary of more than 110 million yuan from Guangzhou Evergrande, as well as a large "settlement fee", but now he only needs to pay 250 yuan to withdraw from his nationality, which is undoubtedly the most spicy irony of this naturalization.
With the strictness of the review process for naturalized players in those years, how a player with obvious risks like Goulart passed the review and became a "fish that slipped through the net" is worth investigating. Today, when the "Li Tie case" in Chinese football has set off a huge storm, I believe that the truth will finally be revealed.