Beijing time on April 19, according to media infobahea, the 31-year-old Goulart decided to retire and will be officially announced this week, and Jorge Nicola, a well-known Brazilian football journalist, confirmed that the news is true. Goulart ended his football career, the main reason is that he made too much money in China, and he began to enjoy life at the age of 31 after half of his life, which is also enviable.
Goulart is a well-known Brazilian athlete who moved to Guangzhou Evergrande in early 2015, playing 174 games for the team, scoring 110 goals and providing 54 assists, with major honours including three Chinese Super League trophies, one AFC Champions League trophy and FA Cup. But when the Football Association and the Guangzhou team launched the naturalization project, in fact, the main purpose was to let these Brazilian players play for the national football team, such as Luo Guofu, Alan, Axon and other stars have also played for the national team, and have also been recognized by everyone, but Gaulart has been criticized.
At the beginning, the Guangzhou team spent 800 million yuan in order to naturalize Gaulart, including transfer fees, salaries and settlement fees, and Gaulart has earned 400 million from China in recent years, but because he does not meet the conditions for playing for the national team, Gaulart played 0 for the national football team, he is also the most failed naturalized player in Chinese sports history, has not played for the national team, which makes people very speechless.
Goulart chose to withdraw from Chinese nationality at the beginning of 2023 and regain his Brazilian nationality, he planned to play in the Brazilian league, but now decided to retire because there is too much money to spend. Gaulart made hundreds of millions from the Chinese Super League, and now he wants to take his wife and children to the world, and he is really a winner in life. At a time when Gaulart made a lot of money, Chinese football entered the lowest period, his former team Guangzhou has been relegated to the China League One, and the 8th Chinese Super League title has become a thing of the past, which is embarrassing.
Moreover, since entering 2023, the Chinese football scene has set off a storm of anti-gang crime and anti-corruption, and 9 big fish in the football association system have been arrested, including Chen Jiayuan, Du Zhaocai, Yu Hongchen and other high-ranking sports officials. In fact, Chen Jiayuan is a football association official who rejects naturalized players, he is different from his predecessor Cai Zhenhua's philosophy, when Li Tie led the team to the round of 12, naturalized players were not reused, which should be Chen Jiayuan's instructions. But unexpectedly, Chen Jiayuan entered because of suspected serious violations of law and discipline, and 62-year-old Cai Zhenhua is now retired safely, he is the initiator of Jinyuan football, and has also witnessed the "peak" of Chinese football.
Cai Zhenhua retreated all over, but his subordinate Hongchen did not have such good luck, Yu Hongchen served as the vice chairman of the Football Association, and was also the senior level of the Football Association in the Jin Yuan football era, the task force investigated for 10 years, implicated Yu Hongchen, he became the chairman of the Athletics Association in 2023, but only served as the head of the sports association for a few months, and fell in this anti-corruption operation.
After all, during the most prosperous period of Chinese football, the Chinese Super League was indeed the top league in Asia, and many world-class stars were willing to play in China. In fact, naturalized athletes have become a trend, and in other events, the Chinese ski team naturalized Gu Ailing, and Gu Ailing won 2 golds and 1 silver at the Beijing Winter Olympics and achieved great success. The short track speed skating team also naturalized Lin Xiaocheng and the Liu brothers, and became one of the world's top teams.