On February 28, Beijing time, Spain's ** "As" newspaper wrote an article "Wu Lei, the lost winner of the Golden Ball Award for Chinese football" commented on Wu Lei and Chinese football in distress.
"Wu Lei has been away from RCD Espanyol and European football for 19 months, and he has returned to his hometown club Shanghai SIPG. The 32-year-old Wu Lei is still the leader of China's 1.4 billion people (in football). He won the Chinese Football Ballon d'Or again, his fourth after 2018, 2019 and 2022. ”
After that, this ** further said: ".Wu Lei's 18 goals for Shanghai Port are as fundamental to his nomination as the irrefutable fact that Chinese football is at its lowest point. Before that, China had artificially and briefly promoted the development of Chinese football, such as Chen Yansheng's acquisition of Espanyol.
The striker had just lost 1-0 to local rivals Shanghai Shenhua in Sunday's Chinese Football Association Super Cup, but more importantly, his national team did not perform well in the just-concluded Asian Cup, with China failing to get out of the group stage and not a single victory. They (of the group standings) are behind the Qatari side led by Tintin Marquez and the little-known Tajikistan side. ”
However, there are still certain problems with the interpretation of the rules of the Chinese Super League in the article "As" newspaper: "With this in mind, the Chinese Super League has adopted new rules for the new season, which kicks off this Friday, in order to improve competitiveness,For example, the number of foreign players allowed per club was increased from five to seven (from 4 to 5).
In addition, the newspaper also quoted Xinhua News Agency's interview with Wu Lei, who put Wu Lei's "We are not even second-rate in Asia" on the subtitle of the article.