On October 15, Beijing time, in response to the controversial use of Naturalized Players by Chinese team coach Li Tie, The famous Chinese footballer Dong Lu made a long speech on social media, and after 6 consecutive days of controversial remarks about the national football team, Dong Lu made a rare apology.
Dong Lu said that he would apologize for the previous criticism of Luo Guofu, but then he still said that he believed that Luo Guofu did not have the conditions to play the starting point, and the reason he gave was that the Chinese team went to West Asia this time, because it was necessary to play 4 games and stay in West Asia for more than 40 days, so he brought 32 players to play. If there are more suitable players, then Li Tie may not bring Luo Guofu.
Dong Lu also listed detailed data, he said that this year in the league Luo Guofu has not made any start, 9 of the 14 rounds of games are as a substitute, the total playing time is only 280 minutes, so his selection is still surprising, and he has not played in the top 40. Therefore, Dong Lu believes that Li Tie's idea is nothing more than to see if Luo Guofu can be used as a strange soldier when fighting for his life, and it is impossible to have such a design for him to appear as a starter.
Then Li Tie affirmed Luo Guofu's appearance status, he said that there was no problem with the game attitude, and the attack also had characteristics, but his problem was first in physical fitness, the second was in defense, and the awareness was not enough, so from a comprehensive point of view, if the Chinese team could only take twenty-five or six people at that time, Li Tie would not take Luo Guofu to play the game, Luo Guofu in the game against Japan, in the defense of many times to lose the ball and lose position, so he thinks that Luo Guofu played for twenty or thirty minutes is not a big problem, But it's unlikely that you want to play the whole game or play the starter.
Many fans have questioned this, perhaps in dong lu's eyes these fans are ball blind, but there is one person, Dong Lu will not think of him as ball blind, this person is the legendary coach of the Chinese team Milu. In the first moment after the Chinese team lost to the Saudi team, Milu publicly wrote an article for Luo Guofu and other naturalized players.
Milu made it clear at the time that since these players were naturalized, they should be boldly used and played their role, although they are older and not in their own state, but their psychological state will be more comfortable than the Chinese players, especially in the high-intensity and high-speed confrontation, their personal ability is still stronger than the Chinese players. I don't know if Dong Lu has seriously analyzed it, why did Milu say such a statement? Or is it that Dong Lu just talked on paper based on the so-called data, thinking that Luo Guofu's physical fitness was not good, nor was he able to defend, so he could not play the starter.