Shanghai SIPG defeated Wuhan Three Towns 3-1 in their debut in the Chinese Super League, goalkeeper Yan Junling still performed well and was highly praised after the game, but for the team's No. 3 goalkeeper Du Jia, he will have to sit on the cold bench in the Chinese Super League this season.
As a player born in 1993, Du Jia is also 31 years old, although he has passed the age of standing, but for goalkeepers, it still belongs to the stage of ** age.
At the age of 20, Du Jia also made a cameo appearance as a center forward in Tianjin and became famous, and at the age of 22, he became the main goalkeeper of the Tianjin TEDA team, and was also selected for the National Olympic team, played in the Olympic qualifiers, and also started the game.
In 2021, that is, when he was 28 years old, he officially joined SIPG, As the former main goalkeeper of the Tianjin team, many people thought that he would be the guest of Shanghai Port, but he didn't expect it to be Yan Junling's spare tire, as long as Yan Junling was not injured, Du Jia would sit on the bench.
If it were other 28-year-old goalkeepers, most of them would choose to leave the team on loan or leave the team, but Du Jia did not choose to do so. He would rather choose a long cold bench career than exhaust his contract at SIPG, there is no official data on how many times he has played for SIPG, but it will certainly not exceed 10 games. Anyway, in the author's impression, he doesn't seem to have played in SIPG.
After the contract expires in 2023, everyone thinks that Gao Hongbo's love will leave the team and go away, SIPG does not play according to the routine, and is very righteous and renews the contract with Du Jia for another year, and he is also selected for the 2024 Super Cup squad, I don't know how many opportunities Du Jia will have to play this season, or he won't be able to play at all.
In fact, with Du Jia's strength and resume, he is already a very good goalkeeper in the Chinese Super League, and he will definitely play the main role in the Chinese Super League relegation team, or the Chinese League A team, but in the professional stage, he chose to lie flat in SIPG, which may also be his attitude towards football. At the same time, it also saw that SIPG has strong financial resources and has the ability to retain the main goalkeeper of the Tianjin team as a substitute