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The 2023 Men's Asian Cup is about to be held in Qatar, based on the highlight performance of Japanese and South Korean feet in the five major leagues, which has doubled the value, and the media "Football Daily" has also ranked the value of each team, including Son Heung-min, Kaoru Mikasa, Kubo Jianying, Kim Min-jae, these superstar players who are worth 50 million euros and 60 million euros, so this Asian Cup is also known as "the most valuable Asian Cup in history". Although the estimated total value of the Chinese men's football team has reached 11 million euros, ranking tenth, but to be honest, in the face of the dilemma of the Chinese men's football team withering foreign talents, the real value is big?
Once upon a time, especially in the first 10 years from the late 90s to the early 21st century, a large number of players chose to stay abroad, and they went to the five major leagues and other high-level leagues to achieve good results. Like Fan Zhiyi (captain of Crystal Palace in the English League), Sun Jihai (the main right defender of Manchester City in the Premier League), Zheng Zhi (Charlton Athletic in the Premier League, Celtic in the Soviet Super League), Yang Chen (the main center forward in Frankfurt, Germany), Shao Jiayi (Munich 1860, Ivbus forward) and so on play an important role in their respective teams, and even create many amazing performances that make fans excited by their strength that is not inferior to European and American players!
Zheng Zhi, "with an injury" scored the winning goal
Zheng Zhi, one Asian Footballer, two Chinese Footballers, ten Chinese Super League champions, two AFC Champions League champions, can be described as the leader of Chinese football in recent years!
In the Asian qualifiers of the World Preliminaries, South Korea defeated China 3-0, Sun Xingmin made an unreasonable gesture of "shut up" to Chinese fans, and was indifferent to Wu Lei's theory, but he showed the respect of his juniors to his predecessors in the communication with Zheng Zhi after the game, which shows his status in the rivers and lakes.
Zheng Zhi, during his stay in Charlton Athletic, has played in the Premier League and the Championship with the team, and showed a good level, including November 10, 2007 in the 16th round of the Championship, Charlton hosted Cardiff, in the case of being scratched by the opponent's shoelace in the left eye, Zheng Zhi, who insisted on the game with swollen eyes, scored with a header to lock the win, and relied on an assist and this goal to help Charlton defeat Cardiff 3-0, ranking second in the Championship standings, maintaining a huge hope of impacting the Premier League. Charlton Athletic boss Pardew said emotionally after the game: "He played with an injury and scored for the team, he inspired us as a team. ”
Yang Chen, leading the "Frankfurt" miracle
On July 1, 1998, under the recommendation of his mentor Schlapner, he went to the German second club Mannheim for trial, and won the attention of the Bundesliga team Frankfurt scouting team with his excellent performance, and finally Yang Chen transferred to the Bundesliga Frankfurt club with a value of 1 million marks.
In the 98/99 season, he made 23 appearances for Eintracht Frankfurt in the Bundesliga, scoring 8 goals and becoming the team's top scorer, especially in the Kaiserslautern life-and-death battle, helping Frankfurt to avoid relegation.
Shao Jiayi, one pass and one shot directed the reversal
In 2003, Shao Jiayi joined the Bundesliga team Munich 1860 on loan. He also became the second Chinese player to play in the Bundesliga after Yang Chen.
After the end of the 2005-06 season, Shao Jiayi's loan contract with Munich 1860 expired, and he joined the Bundesliga promotion Makebus for a transfer fee of 10 million yuan. He scored 29 goals in 175 appearances during his nine years in Germany, most notably from his free-kicks.
On September 18, 2010, in the fourth round of the German Second Division, Ketbus fell behind Aachen 1-2 away, Shao Jiayi came on as a substitute in the 53rd minute, and first assisted Peterson to equalize with his heel in the 79th minute. In the 79th minute, Shao Jiayi took a free kick, the ball crossed the wall and entered the goal from the bottom edge of the crossbar in the upper left corner, and Ketbus exceeded the score 3-2! Ketbus finally won 4-2, and Shao Jiayi personally directed the reversal.
Wu Lei, the first Chinese player to break through the Barcelona goal
Wu Lei, one of the achievements of Coach Xu Genbao's ten years of sharpening his sword in Chongming Island, Shanghai, especially the goal that scored Barcelona when he stayed in La Liga, was enough for him to blow for a lifetime!
On January 5, 2020, the 19th round of La Liga ushered in the Catalan derby, and Espanyol hosted Barcelona. The game came to the second half, the Spaniards fell behind 1-2, in the 74th minute Abelardo gave the last substitution to Wu Lei, in the 88th minute, Vargas sent a straight stopper, and Wu Lei shot at a small angle to break the goal, 2-2! Wu Lei's goal became the first time in La Liga's 91 years that a Chinese player broke the Barcelona goal! With this key goal, Espanyol miraculously drew Barcelona 2-2. After scoring the goal, he rushed to the sidelines, hugged and celebrated with his teammates, and the commentary called Wu Lei a "hero"!
Sun Jihai, goal-line volley clearance "must score"
Between 2002 and 2008, Sun Jihai played for Manchester City in the Premier League for 6 years, making a total of 130 appearances in major competitions, and his best result was second in the Premier League with the team, and in 2015, Sun Jihai was inducted into the English Football Hall of Fame, he is the first and only Asian player to win this honor so far!
When he was a player, he ran all over the field, locked Gerrard, had a tough bottom line to protect the ball against Ronaldo, and the Premier League Chinese derby with Zheng Zhi is still impressive!
The most classic picture is the 12th round of the 2005-2006 Premier League season, Manchester City lost 1-2 away to Fulham, Sun Jihai came on as a substitute in the 68th minute, when Manchester City won a free kick in front. In order to equalize, Manchester City goalkeeper James also came to the opponent's penalty area to participate in the attack. The free kick was taken by Sun Jihai, and after a battle for the top, the ball came to the feet of goalkeeper James, but the pass was wrong under the bag, giving the opponent a chance to counterattack.
In the absence of a goalkeeper in the back and Fulham's 4 attacking players pressed forward, Sun Jihai ran 40 meters and sent an incredible volley on the goal line to score, never abandoning or giving up, so that the "Chinese Sun" shines on the British field!
Now Chinese football is not only poor in technology, but also in the spirit of fighting on the field, is it possible that in another ten or twenty years, it will still be necessary to use the highlight performance of these players to prove that "in fact, the performance of the Chinese men's football team in foreign countries is not bad"!