Original title: Chinese player Xiao Junlong signs with Brazilian Santos Club
Brazil’s Santos Football Club signed a three-year contract with Chinese Tianjin player Xiao Junlong on the 24th. Xiao Junlong will have the opportunity to join Santos’ first team in Brazil’s domestic leagues, cups and other international competitions.
Xiao Junlong was born in Tianjin in 2000 and joined the Beijing Guoan Youth Training Team when he was a teenager. After the expiration of his contract with Guoan in 2018, he went to Brazil’s Itúno Club to train. In 2019, he came to the Santos Club, one of the Brazilian giants. However, due to the nature of the visa, he could only train and could not compete with the team.
During the training period, the club was very satisfied with Xiao Junlong’s performance and signed with him immediately after obtaining the qualifications to participate in official competitions in Brazil.
Club President Rueda said to Xiao Junlong at the signing ceremony: “You are our future star. Our platform gives you. I hope you can play well on this platform and contribute to the cooperation between Chinese football and China-Brazil football. .”
Xiao Junlong just underwent ankle surgery not long ago, and currently in the recovery training stage, the Santos club said that if it is temporarily unable to participate in the first team, it can represent the club to participate in the U23 level competition, and can be transferred to the first team at any time after the state is fully recovered.
Xiao Junlong said in an interview with Xinhua News Agency reporter: “My goal is to strive for a stable position in the first-line team and make progress. Of course, the bigger goal is to be able to play for the motherland in the future.”
Xiao Junlong, who is already able to speak local Portuguese, also said that it has been very difficult from coming to Brazil to train to officially signing the contract. Although the hardware conditions of the club here are not comparable to those in China, they have already felt the advanced concept of Brazilian football through training. For the sake of my own progress, it is worthwhile to endure some hardship now.
The Santos club has a history of 110 years. Brazil’s “ball king” Pele and the current international player Neymar have all stepped out of here. It is one of Brazil’s most famous football clubs. On the same day, the club also signed a contract with Tardelli, who had played for the Shandong team in the Super League. (Reporter Zhao Yan Chen Weihua)
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