On February 26, Beijing time, it was officially announced that Wu Lei won the 2023 China Golden Globe Award. And this is the fourth time that Wu Lei has won the Chinese Golden Globe Award. After winning the award, Wu Lei also delivered an acceptance speech, and he bluntly said that he deserved to win this award, because the results of the national team in recent years have not been particularly ideal.
The China Golden Globe Awards have been awarded since 2017, and the winners so far are: Feng Xiaoting (2017), Wu Lei (2018), Wu Lei (2019), Wu Xi (2020), Wu Lei (2021), Zhang Yuning (2022), and Wu Lei (2023).
Although, given Wu Lei's spicy performance in the national team, it always feels strange to be called "Asia's first buddy" to win the award. But looking back, we can't scold or blame Wu Lei for winning the award, because there is really no one.
Among the top three players who entered the Chinese Golden Ball Awards this year, although Wei Shihao had some outstanding performances in the national team, his performance in the Chinese Super League was mediocre, and he was even recuperating from injuries for a long time; As for Yu Hanchao, although he helped Wuhan Three Towns win the Chinese Super League championship last season, he failed to be selected for the national team for a whole year.
As for Wu Lei, he is the local scorer king in China in the Chinese Super League, and Wu Lei also achieved an achievement last year: he was crowned the all-time scorer king of the Chinese men's football national team. So except for Wu Lei, there is really no one left, so he can only find a tall one among the short ones. Wu Lei's award can only be said to be all set off by his peers, which is the current situation of Chinese football and the sadness of Chinese football.
The most scolding may be the main committee, and when Chinese football is at a historical low, perhaps this award should not be awarded this year.