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They say that Chinese players just can't do it, but he beat a group of superstar foreign aid and won the Chinese Super League Golden Boot.
They say that the Chinese player could not succeed in the top five leagues, but he drew against top giants Barcelona in the derby.
They say that a Chinese player cannot be worth tens of millions, but at the peak of his career, he was worth 10 million euros.
He is Wu Lei, the former hope of the whole village.
A man who almost died because of the general environment of Chinese football, but finally grew up tenaciously.
On November 19, 1991, Wu Lei was born in an ordinary family in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, and he showed a high talent for football since he was a child.
Father Wu He. Therefore, he was specially sent to the famous local football specialty school, the First Central Primary School in Gulou District, Nanjing.
In order to better accompany his son to grow up, Wu He even quit his job in geological exploration and worked as a security guard near the school.
Fortunately, Wu Lei lived up to his father's talent, and with hard work, he quickly became the best in the school, and at the age of twelve, he got the opportunity to go to the Jiangsu Shuntian Club summer camp to receive professional training.
However, in this semi-trial summer camp, the talented Wu Lei was defeated.
And the reason is simply that he is not tall and does not have enough strength.
For such a funny reason, his father Wu He felt both angry and powerless.
But where do they have the strength to resist reality from ordinary families?
He can only find acquaintances everywhere to ask for relationships, hoping to continue his son's football dream.
Fortunately, when Wu Lei's family was about to give up, the school's coach Cai Chengyu helped them.
He asked Li Hongbin to write a letter of recommendation to Xu Genbao.
The latter was invited to watch Wu Lei's game on the spot.
This is why there was the child king of Chongming Island later, the golden boot shooter who overwhelmed a group of foreign aids, and the Chinese striker who equaled Barcelona, so the greater the ability, the greater the responsibility.
The experience of a teenager made Wu Lei extremely clear about the difficulties of a Chinese teenager who wants to embark on the road of football.
Therefore, after he became famous, he always wanted to help the children in China in his own way.
As early as when Wu Lei was still in the Spaniards, he often paid attention to youth football events such as Naiguan through social media network live broadcasts, and often recorded videos to encourage those children who love football.
At the end of last year, Wu Lei also came to the scene as a special guest, personally cheered for the children and interacted with the players, and presented the awards in person at the end.
Looking at those figures sweating on the green field, he seemed to see himself when he was young.
In Wu Lei's view, campus football events like Naiguan are actually one of the important parts of Chinese football.
Although his goal is not to train professional players directly, at least to enable more children and even parents to really get involved in football.
Compared with the youth training system, such school competitions are actually improving the environment of Chinese football in a more basic dimension, and the meaning of its existence is more to encourage children to participate in sports, cultivate their desire to win and the ability to face failure.
In this way, even if the children do not continue their football path, they will be excellent people in the rest of their lives.
Therefore, Wu Lei believes that we also need more football events like Nai Guan, especially in the case of not being able to establish a mature youth training system in a short period of time, the development of campus football is even more important.
Wu Lei has expressed his desire to devote himself to the youth training of Chinese football like his mentor Xu Genbao after retiring more than once.
He himself has been playing football since he was five years old, and football has been a lifelong career.
If he retires one day in the future, he will continue to do his best to help all the teenagers who love football.
Although such a career is destined to be difficult and long, perhaps the hope of Chinese football lies in those teenagers who run to the green with football after school.
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