Official of Leipzig Red Bull Club website announced that Huang Xican joined.

　　At the same time when the Spanish fans who played for Wu Lei were relegated and sighed with grief, another young Korean player joined the Bundesliga and embarked on the road of becoming the "next Sun Xingming" superstar.

　　In the Bundesliga season that just ended, Leipzig ranked third after Bayern and Dott. In the next few years, Huang Xican's name may shine on the world football stage.

　　Huang Xican is not the top figure in Korean football. Most people started to learn from the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta before they gradually became aware of this player from the Pohang Iron and Steel Youth Training System. He helped the South Korean team finally win the championship, and the whole team was exempted from military service.

On the 9th, Beijing time, the Spaniard lost to Barcelona 0:1 and dropped to West B. Wu Lei came off the bench. The picture shows Messi controlling the ball.

　　After completing the play of "Save the Soldier Sun Xingming", Huang Xican appeared again in the eyes of Chinese fans, this time joining the Bundesliga team Leipzig Red Bull. And after a few hours after the transfer official announced, Wu Lei, China's best player, dropped to the second team with the team.

　　This season, Huang Xican represented the Austrian team Salzburg in scoring 16 goals in 40 games and contributed 22 assists. In six games in the Champions League, he handed over three goals and five assists. And Wu Lei's data for the same period is 8 goals in various events.

The picture shows the Chinese team Zhang Chengdong and South Korean team Huang Xican fight for the header. Image source: Osports All Sports Pictures

　　As of the winter window of this season, South Korea has 9 players playing in the top five leagues in Europe, and our other neighbor, Japan, has reached 13. Huang Xican joined Leipzig, marking the successful double-digit number of South Korean players in the five leagues.

　　Behind this seemingly desperate data, the actual gap is more than that. As we all know, the planning of Japan and South Korea players to travel to Europe generally starts with "leveling" from the European small-level league, and is favored by big clubs for their outstanding performance. Today, there are countless young players from Japan and South Korea dormant in other European leagues, among which "inevitable" will appear the second and third Sun Xingming or Huang Xican.

　　If we count only David Cardoso, the Chinese Macau player who has only entered the Bordeaux first team roster, the number of players in China's top five leagues is two. With the downgrade of the Spaniards, this number is likely to decrease.

On May 23, local time, Barcelona, ​​Spain, the Spaniards are preparing for training. It is reported that Wu Lei has previously stated in his personal weekly diary that the team has entered the rhythm of two trainings a day. Image source: Visual China

　　Known as the Premier League in the world, it has a very strong representation. In Asia, where the overall level of football is weak, whether the players can play in the English Premier League with a fast pace and high physical strength can reflect the level of youth training and talent training from one dimension.

　　Japan’s Nanano Takumi moved to Liverpool, the Premier League champion, not long ago, and South Korean player Sun Xingming’s performance in Tottenham needless to say. He, who has already been selected for the Golden Globe Awards, has already entered the ranks of world-class stars. Iran's "Asian Cristiano Ronaldo" Jahan Bakhsh, recently won a golden hook in Brighton enough to enter the season's best goal candidate.

　　Among our last batch of players who played in the Premier League, Zheng Zhi has gradually retired in his old age, and Dong Fangzhuo has been ridiculed as "Dong Zhuo" because of his good fortune.

Sun Xingming grew into a world-class star in Tottenham.

　　Imagine that 20 years ago, although the national team was frustrated, the number of our foreign players is not inferior to Japan and South Korea.

　　Around 2002, the first time the national football team "rushed out of Asia" was a time that all fans missed. At that time, we had Yang Chen playing in the Bundesliga Frankfurt, Fan Zhiyi playing in the Premier League Crystal Palace, Sun Jihai playing in the Premier League Manchester City, Li Tie playing in the Premier League Everton, and Shao Jiayi playing in the Bundesliga Munich 1860 team. There are Zheng Zhi playing in the Premier League Charlton, there is Dong Fangzhuo playing in the Premier League giants Manchester United.

　　Twenty years later, when Japan and South Korea began to harvest the results of many years of youth training, we only had 28-year-old Wu Lei, the "whole village hope". During this period, we also had flames like Hao Junmin and Zhang Xizhe, but they all went out for various reasons.

Where is our next Wu Lei?

　　What is even more frustrating is that our younger generation has not seen the shadow of Wu Lei next. Our national youth has also created a fantasy of drinking alcohol during training.

　　Wu Lei is the flag of Chinese football, there is no doubt about it. But with Wu Lei's courage alone, it cannot change the national team's downturn for many years, nor can it change the reality of being gapped by Japanese and Korean football day after day.

　　It is conceivable that on a certain day in the future, the starting of the Japanese and Korean teams may be able to realize the desire of the "All Five Leagues" lineup. Judging from the players that have emerged in Europe in recent years, this day is not far away.

　　For us, this day is still out of reach. (Author Zhang Yifan)