How important is it for Chinese players to go out? Wu Lei will tell you the answer
On October 4, Wu Lei had just completed his substitute debut in the game against Real Madrid, and Wu Lei immediately rushed to the airport, took a night flight to the UAE, and went to the National Football Team to report. As the only “returned player” in the team, Wu Lei had all the chances to play in the 4 rounds of La Liga during the month when the national football team was closed.
And this has become the most critical link for the national football team to successfully kill the Vietnam team. How important it is for Chinese players to “go out”, Wu Lei gave the answer with his actual performance.
Lonely Wu Lei
On September 8, after participating in the top 12 matches and the Japanese team, Wu Lei took the flight back to Barcelona alone. And just 3 hours after landing, he has officially returned to the team and participated in the team’s training. You can imagine the hard work all the way, but to Wu Lei, these are nothing. What really made him uncomfortable was that at the airport he met almost the entire Japanese team and returned to Europe to participate in the league. In contrast, Wu Lei is very lonely alone.
When Wu Lei rushed back to La Liga alone, the Chinese men’s football team also set off for the UAE and entered a month of closed preparations. In this month, the players of the national football team can only play in the two-point line between the hotel and the stadium, and only a warm-up match with the Syrian team can be played, and the opponent has only half of the main lineup to play. Under such an environment, the state of the international players can be imagined.
On the other hand, Wu Lei, since returning to Barcelona, has participated in the last four rounds of La Liga with the Spanish team. Although he failed to score, he has been in the training and competition environment of La Liga for a long time, which is enough to keep him in good condition. And it is for this reason that Wu Lei finally postponed his return time. According to the original plan of the national football coaching staff, Wu Lei should return to the team around September 25. But in the end, Wu Lei delayed for a week and went to the national football team to report after participating in the game with Real Madrid. In that game against Real Madrid, Wu Lei came off the bench and defeated a formidable opponent with the team.
How important is it to go out
Only rushed back to the team 3 days before the game, but Wu Lei is still an unbeatable starter. Throughout the game, even though the Vietnamese team took good care of him, Wu Lei relied on diligent running and dexterous interspersed positions to dig out the offensive space for himself and other teammates. Whether it was Zhang Yuning’s goal to break the deadlock in the 53rd minute or his own brace later, Wu Lei was the absolute hero of the Chinese team’s final victory.
This is certainly not accidental. During the top 40, Wu Lei scored 8 goals and was the top scorer in the team. In the first three games of the top 12, he also contributed two of the three goals of the national football team. It can be said that Wu Lei’s good condition is an important support for the Chinese team’s continuous advancement in the impact journey of the Qatar World Cup.
Wu Lei used his own performance to prove the importance of going out. But unfortunately, compared with Japan and South Korea, there are still too few Chinese players going out. Since Yang Chen moved to the Bundesliga team Frankfurt in July 1998, outstanding domestic players such as Fan Zhiyi, Sun Jihai, Ma Mingyu, Li Weifeng, Li Tie, Shao Jiayi and Zheng Zhi have also appeared in the five major leagues, and some have become the main players. In recent years, many young or even underage Chinese players have gone to Europe, Brazil and other places for further study, but these children are basically difficult to gain a foothold abroad, causing “study abroad” to gradually become “gilded” and the phenomenon of “exporting to domestic sales” is widespread.
“I have called on our players more than once to take a look and feel the European football atmosphere and environment. In fact, I also know in my heart that it is difficult to bring a quality to the national team when I go abroad at my age. Leap, but I hope that through my experience, I can give more young players confidence, so that they also have this kind of dream, and this kind of pursuit. I also hope to share what I see, learn, and feel with everyone. Sharing, bringing these concepts back to China in the future, helping Chinese football, and making the learning and progressing process of playing abroad more meaningful.” Wu Lei said.Return to Sohu to see more
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