Four months ago, on August 21, Axon entered the national football team for the first time, becoming a Chinese international. Four months later, Axon also spoke up to the camera, expressing his reasons for making this decision.
When Axon came to China in late 2012, he probably didn't expect that he would become a Chinese after seven years. On August 21, 2019, Axon entered the national football roster for the first time, and was the first naturalized player in the history of Chinese football without blood. As the top scorer in the Chinese Super League and a historical foreign aid of Evergrande who has won the AFC Champions League twice, Axon has become the "life-saving straw" of Chinese football.
Four months after becoming a Chinese, Axon also spoke out, saying in an interview: "Leaving Brazil to play in China, spending less time with my family. But Axon said, "But I made the decision because it was for the football I love. ”
"Love football" is the key reason why Axon has become a Chinese citizen. Obviously, if he had not joined the Chinese nationality, Axon would not have been able to play in such a game as the World Preliminary Tournament in his lifetime, and would not have been able to play for the national team. However, after all, he is a naturalized player with no pedigree, Axon himself also said that he was learning Chinese and integrating into Chinese culture, and he also complained about a strange thing, joining Chinese nationality to take the airport to take the Chinese citizen channel, and was stopped to see the passport.
At present, six players in the Evergrande team, such as Axon, Gaulat, Aloisio, Alan, Fernando and Browning, have already obtained Chinese passports, and Axon will soon be "accompanied". However, during the holidays, most of these players also returned to Brazil, and Axon even returned to Brazil to hold his third "China Arena Cup" fun football match.
In 2020, the Chinese men's football team will usher in a new look, when not only Axon, including Gaulat and others will enter the national football team, which is the last hope of Chinese football, using the help of naturalized players to try to impact the seemingly impossible World Cup quota again.