A few days ago, the Chinese men's football team suddenly announced an urgent call-up of Shanghai Port midfielder Xu Xin to replace naturalized player Li Ke.
As for the reason for Li Ke's departure, the official did not explain, and the mainland media reported that Li Ke suffered so-called "family reasons".
There is an unspoken rule in mainland football, where the word "family reason" appears, the real reason must not be family reason. For example, Hao Wei, the former coach of Shandong Taishan team, suddenly disappeared at the beginning of this season, and the first explanation that came out was that he suffered "family reasons", but in fact Hao Wei was arrested. Conversely, if it is really a family reason, the words "family reason" will not appear at all, but will directly specify whether the wife gave birth or the child is sick.
The national football team did not explain the reason for Li Ke's departure clearly, which naturally caused various speculations from the outside world. Tianjin's Daily News reported: "Comprehensively inferred, this matter should not only be as simple as family reasons. The Vietnamese media "Soha" put it more directly, claiming that according to insiders, the real reason for Li Ke's departure from the team was that he had a conflict with Wu Lei, and the two had conflicts as early as last month's 0-3 loss to South Korea.
The conflict between Li Ke and Wu Lei caused Li Ke to leave the team on his own, do you believe this statement?
Less than an hour after the Vietnamese media broke the news, Wu Lei's Weibo account quickly responded, saying that in the past two days, many friends, teammates, relatives and friends have come to him to verify whether there is really a conflict with Li Ke, to which he said: "We must be a united collective." Rumors stop at the wise, and for rumors, I can say 'martial'. ”
Regarding Wu Lei's Weibo, we can read two points of information. First of all, Weibo was not sent by Wu Lei himself, the system shows that the IP of the post is in Guangdong, but Wu Lei is currently training with the national football team in the United Arab Emirates (the following positioning can be manually adjusted by the user); In general, Wu Lei's team has long been prepared for this rumor-refuting article, so they can send it out as soon as the Vietnamese media broke the news.
After Wu Lei posted an article to refute the rumors, several professional football reporters in the mainland Pei Li, Zhao Zhen, and Wang Xiaorui immediately exposed the real reason for Li Ke's departure, it is said that Li Ke was late for the first training session after the national football team arrived in the United Arab Emirates, and this is not the first time Li Ke has been late for training, coach Jankovic decided to let Li Ke leave in order to emphasize attitude and discipline, and the team only said that it was "family reasons" for the sake of protecting Li Ke.
Pei Li, the chief reporter of domestic football in "Sohu Sports", even broke the news that after Li Ke was removed, Wu Lei and Zhang 5 (Zhang Linpeng) also went to intercede with him, but Jankovic did not let go.
It is very sad to say, we don't know whether the Vietnamese media's revelations are true or false, so we will treat it as fake, but if the Vietnamese don't report it, we will have no way of knowing the so-called "real reasons" for Pei Li, Zhao Zhen, Wang Xiaorui and others to break the news. Chinese football is like this, it has been covering up the negative news, but in the end, it can't cover the score of the loss.
Whether it was Li Ke who clashed with Wu Lei, or Li Ke's late arrival angered Jankovic, anyway, this is enough to show that the reason for his departure is not "family reasons". However, Li Ke is now an unstable factor in the national football team after all, and I hope that his departure can really become what Wu Lei called a "united collective", and I hope that this united collective can achieve good results in the upcoming Asian Cup.