After ending his contract with Jinmen Tigers last season, Xiao Zhi was unable to stay in the Chinese Super League, and the former international has condescended to the Chinese Second Division this season. In an interview with Football News, Xiao Zhi revealed that he also wanted to stay in the Chinese Super League, but failed to do so, and joining the Chinese Second Division team Hebei Zhuo'ao was not a dead face and did not retire, but because he loved football too much.
After leaving Guangzhou City, Xiao Zhi played for Jinmen Tiger in the 2020 season, but the former high school forward of the national football team failed to show his ability, and at the end of the season, with a series of moths appearing in Jinmen Tiger, Xiao Zhi could only find another home. However, as the input control of each team becomes more and more stringent, it is not difficult for the former Chinese Super League players to stay in the top league.
Xiao Zhi once went to Shandong Taishan for a trial, and after Pele left, Taishan urgently needed a high school striker, but the older Xiao Zhi failed to conquer Taishan coach Hao Wei. Subsequently, Xiao Zhi met with the team that had always had the hope of rushing the first division, but it was also fruitless, and finally chose an ordinary team in the second division, Hebei Zhuo'ao.
Speaking of joining Hebei Zhuoer, Xiao Zhi said that he was interested in the ambition of the team, after all, in addition to Xiao Zhi, there are Wang Xiaolong, Zhang Chenlong, and many players in the team have played in the Chinese Super League and the Chinese Second Division, Hebei Zhuoer has a heart that cannot be stopped. However, in Xiao Zhi's view, his first choice is still the Chinese Super League, and finally settling in the middle B is also a helpless choice.
Xiao Zhi is 36 years old, why do you still choose to insist, Xiao Zhi said, "My persistence is not the persistence of the dead skin, nor is it relying on bluff propaganda, but because I think I can still kick." Not to persevere for the sake of persistence, but to persevere because of love. For the naturalized players to occupy a place in the national football team, Xiao Zhi believes that this is only a transitional period, and in the future, we must pay attention to youth training and cultivate our own people.