Football World, February 27 This year's Chinese Golden Ball Awards, Wu Lei, who plays for Shanghai Port, won the award, he said in an interview after winning the award that the level of Chinese football has not kept up with the second-rate in Asia, and if you want to improve, it will take at least 10 years or so.
This is the fourth time in Wu Lei's career to win the Chinese Golden Ball Award, Wu Lei said that the general environment of Chinese football in the past two years has not been good, thank you very much for your continued attention to Chinese football. The more difficult the time, the more we must persevere, especially our players, as practitioners, and have more confidence in Chinese football.
As a player who has stayed in the five major leagues in foreign countries, Wu Lei said that he has learned a lot when he played in Spain, especially the operation and management of their youth training and professional leagues, which are much better than us, and their understanding of football and football atmosphere and culture are very different.
Wu Lei said that after returning from Spain, he could clearly feel that the pace of the Chinese Super League was very slow, and we could only better adapt to the continental competition by raising the rhythm of the league.
In this year's Asian Cup, the national football team lost three games in the group stage and missed the knockout round. In this regard, Wu Lei said that the other opponents in the Asian Cup are improving, and only we are standing still, so we are being pulled further and further away by the opponent. I have to admit that we are not even second-rate in Asia. However, as long as we work hard, in 5 or 10 years' time, our football level will improve.
At present, the national football team is tied for second place in the top 36 of the Asian region of the World Preliminaries, and Wu Lei said that we must enter the top 18 of the Asian region of the World Preliminaries, which is the goal we must accomplish.