Due to the epidemic, this season's AFC Champions League competition has in fact become a "chicken rib" event for Chinese Super League teams, and several participating teams, including Evergrande, have sent pure substitutes to participate. Under the principle of all health and safety as the premise, the Chinese Super League team has also unified its thinking, that is, to treat the AFC Champions League as a training game.
In the two matches that have ended, sipon and Evergrande have lost both domestic giants, with Evergrande Juniors losing twice to Sakura Osaka and SIPG losing to a Singaporean team in the play-offs. Such an outcome, while unexpected, is also reasonable. SIPG only sent a very small number of players with league experience, and the rest of the players were from the reserve team. Among them, there is a player whose name is familiar but unfamiliar to many fans, that is, Jia Tianzi.
Jia Tianzi went to Portugal to stay in the ocean when he was young, and showed a good talent when training in Portugal, so that after returning to China, Shanghai Sent him a 5-year long contract. But now 5 years later, Jia Tianzi has never appeared in the league or even the FA Cup, if it were not for this "chicken rib" AFC Champions League match, he might have ended his 5-year contract with 0 appearances in SIPG.
Born in Sichuan, Jia Tianzi was sent by the Football Association to Portugal to stay in Portugal before he was 18 years old, and because he was not yet an adult, Jia Tianzi could not sign a contract with the team, and he and other teammates could only form their own teams to follow the coach to participate in various warm-up matches. In this training team composed of all Chinese players, Jia Tianzi is wearing the no. 10 shirt, which also highlights his central position in the team.
In some of the warm-up matches he participated in, Jia Tianzi has scored four goals in 5 matches, and 3 of them were directly broken by his own free kicks, including a super long-range free kick 35 meters away. So to this day, there are still rumors on the Internet that Jia Tianzi "shook Portugal". It is conceivable that a player under the age of 18 can score with free kicks in the game in a row, it is difficult not to attract the attention of scouts and coaches, and Jia Tianzi has become a player that many Portuguese youth teams want to recruit. Jia Tianzi later joined a Portuguese A team, but he only came off the bench in 1 league and 1 cup match.
In 2014, Jia Tianzi returned to China to join the Shanghai Shenxin team that was still in the Chinese Super League, and Jia Tianzi made 18 appearances in the Shenxin team during the Chinese Super League, and he also had 4 appearances after Shen Xin was relegated. Judging from the appearance record alone, Jia Tianzi has the strength to gain a foothold in the league, so in 2017, SIPG introduced Jia Tianzi, who was 23 years old at the time, and signed a contract with him for 5 years.
However, in the 5 years since joining SIPG, Jia Tianzi has only played in the reserve team most of the time, and even if he entered the first team roster, he did not get any opportunities to play. Even in cup matches where most reserve players can play, he has not been able to play, and if it were not for this AFC Champions League appearance, even SIPG fans would have forgotten that there was such a player in the team. Over the years, SIPG has changed many coaches, but Jia Tianzi has never won the favor of any coach, and the coaches have changed and changed, Jia Tianzi has remained in the team, he has not been loaned out or transferred. So many fans simply don't understand why the team signed the player in the first place and signed him directly to a 5-year contract.
Now it seems that Jia Tianzi's stay in Yang is simply invalid liuyang, if he could have been developing more games in China at that time, maybe he would have had a better career. Jia Tianzi is now 27 years old, but how much of his true strength is there? Not to mention playing for a Team in the Chinese Super League, even the Chinese League A team is afraid that it is reluctant to introduce a reserve team player who has only played once in 5 years. Therefore, after the contract expires, Jia Tianzi will most likely go to a middle two or even amateur team.
But for Jia Tianzi personally, the 5 years spent in SIPG also allowed his income to be guaranteed. Although he has only participated in one official game with the team in 5 years, I believe that the salary given by SIPG is certainly not thin. So what are your impressions of Jia Tianzi as a player?