On July 24, Tianjin TEDA Club issued an announcement announcing the termination of its contract with German center Wagner, and Wagner also left a letter to TEDA fans, saying that he left the club for family reasons and hoped to get everyone's understanding. In a recent interview with the German "Bild" newspaper, Wagner officially announced the end of his career, and Tianjin Teda became the last stop of the German forward's journey. According to Wagner's plan, he will start coaching training in the German Football Association in September this year and officially transform into a coach next summer, because he has an agreement with his parent team Bayern Munich, so Wagner will most likely start his coaching career in the Bayern youth team.
Looking back at the foreign aid who once played for TEDA, Wagner is not the first big-name foreign aid to choose to hang up his boots at TEDA. Tomasi, who joined Tianjin Teda in the 2009 season with the halo of the Italian international, also chose Tianjin as the last stop of his brilliant career. After retiring, Tomasi did not play and coach like most of his national team teammates, but embarked on a career path. In 2011, he became president of the Italian Players' Union, a nine-year term for three terms. In July, because of the fierce internal and external struggles in the Italian players' union under the new crown epidemic, Tomasi resolutely resigned as chairman in advance, waving his sleeve and not taking away a cloud.
It's been a month since Tomasi left office, and he enjoys the days of being unofficial. In an interview with the Italian "Milan Sports Newspaper", "Big Cotton Jacket" admitted that he is now busier than when he was the president of the players' union, because he has a lot of things that he has put on hold for the time being, "Now I spend most of my time taking care of my family and accompanying my children. I had to give up or couldn't do these things well in order to devote myself wholeheartedly to the work of the players' union, and I felt that I owed a lot to my family, and now I had to make up for the things that I didn't do. ”
In the interview, Tomasi also mentioned the trip to China that year, for himself to become the first Italian player to play in the Chinese league, Tomasi laughed and said that he did not expect, "In the summer of 2008, I left Levante to transfer to the Royal Garden Ranger, when I was 35 years old, they chose me to use an experienced and prestigious person to manage the dressing room. I was living in London myself, my family was in Rome, and I asked myself many times if I could last a whole season. In the end, I didn't even wait for the end of the season and terminated my contract with the club six months later. And it was at that time that an offer from China was in front of me, and it was an interesting offer for me because I knew I was going to go through a lot of unusual things. I am honored to have played in China, seen and experienced Chinese football with my own eyes, and it is hard to imagine that Chinese football today has become an important part of world football. What attracted me to Tianjin Teda was to be able to participate in the AFC Champions League, when no Chinese team could pass the group stage, and TEDA hoped to build an excellent team for the Chinese Super League and the AFC Champions League. To be honest, at first I didn't get used to my life in China, and for the first few months, I always wanted to go home, but then I changed my mind, and in June I decided with my family to stay until the end of the season, which shows that I have found myself. ”
At the moment, it is difficult to say whether Tomasi will return to the world of football in the future, because he has already made good achievements in other areas. Now, Tomasi and his wife Chiara Piggzi, along with two friends of the same year, have created a private school in Verona called Bambi and Bimby Don Milani, where 300 children are now studying, and his role as a legal officer in the school seems to fit well with his former president of the players' union. Still, Tomasi seems to want to get personally involved in teaching, "In terms of sports, I don't think it goes without saying, if I have to assess my skills, I think football is one of the courses I can take, and in the future it may still be an integral part of my life." Although I've only been resigning as president of the players' union for a month now, I think this page should be turned over. ”
After Tomasi, there is also a big-name foreign aid hanging up his boots in Teda, he is the famous South Korean player Song Jong-kook. Song Zhongguo, who joined TEDA in the middle of 2011, although he only represented TEDA for less than a season, the South Korean international, who participated in the 2002 Korea-Japan World Cup, still conquered the fans with his performance. In the final of the FA Cup that year, Song Zhongguo's head was bandaged and blood-stained robes were still full of scenes, which still made fans unforgettable, and he also made a great contribution to TEDA winning the FA Cup, which is the most important championship trophy of the TEDA team so far, and the last championship trophy of Song Zhongguo's career. In early 2012, Song Zhongguo announced his retirement, and Tianjin Teda became the last stop of his career.
After retiring from the military, Song Jong-kook opened a football school named after himself, in addition to his role as a football commentator, and appeared in various TV shows, the most famous of which is that in 2013, he and his daughter Ji-ah recorded the Korean reality show "Where Do We Go Daddy", because his star wife Park Ye-sun often showed his face in the show, and the younger son Ji Wook also mixed flowers from time to time, and the family's happiness and harmony also made everyone envious, which also accumulated a considerable popularity for Song Zhongguo in the entertainment industry. Surprisingly, after the end of the season, Song Jong-kook and Park Ye-sun quickly separated and formally divorced in October 2015, ending a nine-year marriage. According to netizens, Song Jong-kook broke up with Park Ye-sun because of the resurgence of his old love affair with his ex-wife Kim Jong-ah.
But in a TV show at the end of 2018, Song Zhongguo's son, Song Ji-wook, said he still likes to call his father a "footballer." Song Jong-kook has said that his future career plan is to first become a professional football coach and then lead the South Korean national team to the World Cup. But now, because of cheating on his wife and children, Song Jong-kook has become a "scumbag" in the eyes of many Koreans, he has not only lost his family, but also lost his career, and there is still no place for him in the Korean football circle and entertainment circle.
Song Jong-kook and Park Ye-sun
Of course, no matter what, as a member who has worked hard for Tianjin football, whether it is Tomasi, Song Zhongguo, or Wagner, for these green foreigners who choose Toda as the last stop in their careers, what we can do may be to send thanks and blessings, and wish them all the best in their lives.