The pressure of the Football Association is coming! What should be done with the naturalization move? Or wait for the national football situation in June to be decided
The pressure of the Chinese Football Association is coming, how should the naturalization move be taken? Will the Cangzhou Lions be naturalized as a foreign aid Oscar? Judging from the overall situation, the Football Association should not push forward in the short term, or wait for the situation of the national football team in June to make a decision.
In the fourth round of the 2024 Chinese Super League, the pre-match press conference of Wuhan Three Towns VS Cangzhou Lions was held on April 3, and a reporter at the press conference asked Cangzhou Lions head coach Zhao Junzhe: "The call for Oscar naturalization is very high, if it happens, what benefits can it bring?"
Zhao Junzhe: He is the only one who has the conditions for naturalization now, and in this World Cup preparation cycle, the national team needs a player like Oscar to play, and from the player himself, he also has the will to be naturalized. But from the will to the realization, there are many details in this process that need to be done, if there is a need, I hope everyone can work together to promote this matter, after all, it is indeed difficult for us to promote unilaterally.
According to the situation of the Chinese Super League teams, it is true that only Oscar meets the conditions for naturalization at this stage. The player has the nickname "Weinan Mbappe", and it's not hard to see how fast Oscar is described. Oscar's sprint speed is indeed very fast, but the shooting at his feet is relatively rough.
The Chinese men's football team can't play the offense of counterattacking at this stage, a big reason is the lack of this kind of sprint player, although Oscar is not enough in terms of shooting, but with speed and teammate cooperation, the threat is quite large. Oscar also has one advantage that he is very young, he is not yet 25 years old, and he does have a lot of potential for naturalization. Now that the players have the will to naturalize, it is up to the Football Association to decide whether to advance or not.
Promoting naturalized players requires multi-faceted coordination, as well as FIFA review and other processes, which cannot be completed in a short period of time. Even if Oscar is naturalized immediately, it will not be able to catch up with the matches between the Chinese men's football team and Thailand and South Korea in June. The goal of the Chinese men's football team's naturalized players is to impact the World Cup, and now the future of the Chinese men's football team is unclear, and if the match against Thailand in June cannot be won, then it will face the situation of being reversed by the Thai team.
On the whole, the Chinese men's football team is not sure whether it will be able to advance to the top 18, and now naturalization is not available for a short time, which shows that the Football Association should not promote naturalization for the time being. If the Chinese men's football team reaches the round of 18, it will be very difficult to qualify for the World Cup with the current lineup. However, it is probably not enough to naturalize 1 Oscar, and the naturalization of the national football team is basically as effective as the use of foreign aid in the Super League.
Among the other Chinese Super League teams, there are indeed no suitable naturalized players at this stage, and there are not many foreign aides who meet the conditions for 5 consecutive years, there are two Oscar, Henan team's Achimpeng, of which Shanghai Port's Oscar has played on behalf of the Brazilian national team, and Achimpeng has played on behalf of the Ghana national team, which does not meet the naturalization conditions. In addition, Changchun Yatai's Serginho is almost satisfied with 5 years, but he is relatively old, and his performance is not particularly outstanding.
In short, the issue of naturalization will be put on hold for the time being, and everything will have to wait until the end of the World Preliminary Championships in June. Especially in the life-and-death battle against the Thai team, the Chinese men's football team can directly advance if it wins. If the Chinese men's football team finally loses in the round of 36, then the meaning of naturalization will be lost in the short term, and naturalization will come to an end, and it is possible to give up the road of naturalization directly.