The national football team narrowly defeated Vietnam 3-2 in the Round of 12 of the World Preliminary Round, and Wu Lei, who played for La Liga Espanyol, scored twice and was the biggest contributor to the team's victory. So far, Wu Lei has scored 25 goals for the Chinese national team, equaling Li Jinyu's national team goal record, ranking sixth in team history.
Li Jinyu presented Wu Lei with the 13-year local best scorer award
As Wu Lei's predecessor who stayed in the west, Li Jinyu made his debut in five major leagues at the age of only 21. On September 11, 1998, in the fifth round of the 1998-99 Ligue 1 season, Nancy played paris Saint-Germain at home, which attracted attention because of the arrival of a Chinese player, who was the first Chinese player to land in Ligue 1, Li Jinyu.
Li Jinyu, who competed in the Toulon Cup in May 1998
Back in May 1998, in the second game of the Toulon Cup group stage, Li Jinyu, who had just returned from Brazil and was in full swing, broke through the Portuguese team's goal with a header to help China win 1-0, and then he was scouted by The Ligue 1 team Nancy. In the summer of that year, after negotiations, the Nancy team decided to introduce 21-year-old Li Jinyu from the Liaoning team in a rent-before-buy manner.
Lee's jersey number in Nancy is number 22
At 3 p.m. local time on September 2, 1998, Li Jinyu arrived in Paris. At Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport, the Nancy club sent several dignitaries to greet them, and more than a dozen local French journalists also went to the airport to interview the Chinese player who set foot on French soil for the first time. Subsequently, the then Nancy head coach and Romanian coach Boloni took Li Jinyu to a press conference specially arranged for him by the Nancy club and officially met with the long-awaited Nancy fans.
Lee Kim Yu wears a Nancy jersey
On September 3, Li Jinyu, who was not yet in a good jet lag, participated in the training of the Nancy team.
Lee Jinyu and then Nancy coach Boloni
Li Jinyu in training
On September 4, Li Jinyu, who had just arrived in France for two days, participated in a warm-up match with Nancy against Karlsruhe, who was in the Bundesliga at the time. Li Jinyu was arranged to start.
Li Jinyu, who played in the warm-up match
After the start of the game, Li Jinyu's performance was quite eye-catching. In the first half, it was his brilliant pass that made teammate Zanotti open the scoring for Nancy; less than 2 minutes after yibian, Li Jinyu made a contribution to extend the score to 2-0. He then created a penalty for the team and his teammates scored. He was then substituted and Nancy won 3-1. The performance of one goal and one assist once made points, so that head coach Bononi was very satisfied with the arrival of Li Jinyu.
A week after the warm-up match, on 11 September 1998, Nancy's 5th round of the 1998–1999 Ligue 1 season was about to begin at home against Paris Saint-Germain, and Li Jinyu was placed in the squad for the first official match for Nancy. The stadium magazine launched by Nancy Club for this game also deliberately chose Li Jinyu as the cover character, which shows the importance the team attaches to him.
The Nancy Club launched a field magazine for Paris Saint-Germain
Paris Saint-Germain at that time, although not as star-studded as it is now, there were many familiar names: Rama, Vaughans, Loko, Goma, Marco Simeone, Alain Roche, Okocha and others played in the team, and they all started in this match against Nancy.
Alain Rocher of Paris Saint-Germain in this match
After the game began, both sides played very anxiously, and the score was still 0-0 at the end of the first half. After the start of the second half, Li Jinyu warmed up outside the field, and the home team fans shouted his name in unison, which was not only expected, but also because of the freshness brought by the first appearance of Chinese players in Ligue 1.
Li Jinyu warming up on the sidelines
In the 76th minute of the second half, the referee raised the substitution card, and Li Jinyu, wearing the No. 22 jersey of the Nancy team, came on the field to replace the No. 20 Rambo. Since then, Li Jinyu has become the first Chinese player to play in Ligue 1. At the same time, he is also the second Chinese player to appear in the five major leagues after Yang Chen. Yang Chen was nearly a month ahead of him, and on August 14, 1998, Yang Chen made his debut for a Chinese player in the Bundesliga match against Duisburg in Frankfurt against Duisburg. Unfortunately, the short ten minutes can only play a role in familiarizing the atmosphere, and the big feathers failed to contribute to the team, and the final score was fixed at 0-0.
In 2004, li jinyu and Wei Deke, who also played for Shandong Luneng
It is worth mentioning that in the 81st minute of this game, Paris Saint-Germain's Nicolas Weedek replaced him, he later joined Dalian Shide in 2002, played for Shandong Luneng from 2003 to 2004, and was a teammate with Li Jinyu for a year in 2004.
After returning to China, li Jinyu played for Liaoning team
Although Lee Jin-yu did not get many opportunities since then, he made a total of 6 appearances for Nancy, of which only 1 started and did not score. But the experience in LiGue 1 benefited Li Jinyu a lot, after returning to China in 1999, he and Zhang Yuning, Qu Shengqing formed the Liaoning team frontcourt trident, became the strongest attacking combination in the A League that year, And Liao Xiaohu almost created the Chinese version of the "Kaiserslautern Miracle". Li Jinyu made 100 appearances for Liaoning, scoring 46 goals and winning the Golden Boot in the 2002 season.
Li Jinyu, who plays for Shandong Luneng
In 2004, Li Jinyu moved to Shandong Luneng and won the 2006, 2008 and 2010 Chinese Super League championships with the team, and he also won the Chinese Super League Golden Boot in the 2006 and 2007 seasons. Li Jinyu made 151 appearances for Shandong Luneng, scoring 73 goals. Li Jinyu's record of 119 goals in China's top league set in 2010 was not broken by Axon until August this year.
Li Jinyu, who plays for the national team
For the national team, Li Jinyu played 73 games for the national football team and scored 25 goals. He played in three World Cup qualifiers in 1998, 2002 and 2006, and scored goals. Unfortunately, in 2002, the only time the national football team reached the World Cup, he failed to qualify for Milu's final 23-man roster.