Wu Lei finally scored. The Spaniard came off the bench against CELTA. He scored a winner in the 89th minute and scored three points for the team.

This is Wu Lei’s second goal in La Liga after 666 days. The last time was against Aravis on June 13, 2020. Wu Lei’s last goal was against Cristo athletic in the king’s Cup 117 days ago, and the last league goal was against Xihong athletic 490 days ago.

He has waited too long and the fans have waited too long.

After Wu Lei scored, the voice on the microblog platform was dominated by support and overwhelming.

Of course, a few people ridiculed: “16 goals in more than 100 games, is this a striker or a defender?” “It will be another year to score a goal…”

But such ridicule was soon drowned in a wave of support. After all, fans who really pay attention to Chinese football know how difficult Wu Lei’s persistence is.

In the Feng Gong war a while ago, the situation was just the opposite. Scolding the national football team was the greatest political correctness. Various performances that took advantage of the situation to rub their emotions were the utilitarian needs of some people.

After all, they are two groups of people.

Most people who are moved by Wu Lei’s persistence are fans. In the national war of words a while ago, many people who wanted to spit when they saw the words “Chinese football” didn’t even know who Wu Lei was. It was just a vent of Pavlovian conditioned reflex.

For Chinese football, Wu Lei is like “the only fluorescence in the darkest hour”. This netizen comment is not exaggerated. Although it is weak, after all, the light is still there.

Wu Lei said after the game: “it’s not because there’s hope that we can stick to it, but if we stick to it, there will be hope.”

This weekend, South Korea’s sun Xingyun performed a hat trick at Tottenham and once again envied the Chinese fans. Fortunately, Wu Lei’s goal reminds people of the persistence of the Chinese people in the five major leagues.

Sun Xingyi is a world-class star, while Wu Lei is far from it. The former has long been a thigh like existence in the Premier League and Tottenham, while Wu Lei has sat on the bench in the Spaniard. In the past six months, the maximum playing time of a single game is no more than 15 minutes. He has sat on the bench for 13 times this season.

For professional players who need game time to accumulate feelings and state, it is particularly difficult to play well in this situation. Many people couldn’t endure and chose to quit and give up, but Wu Lei didn’t give up in the trough and dilemma, which is as precious as today’s goal.

You can’t see Wu Lei’s scoring ability, but no one can talk about his efforts.

Spanish coach Moreno, no longer reuse Wu Lei, will not turn a blind eye to his efforts. “Wu Lei is a young man who is very strict with himself and will do everything according to the requirements of the coaching team.” “His help and efforts to the team as a whole are very commendable.”

Who is Wu Lei’s tenacity in the trough for?

The first is for his own career, for a decent income and for the stable life of his family.

After the game, Wu Lei showed his daughter watching his goal in front of the TV… We all know that children and family are the biggest driving force for a man to bite his teeth in the trough.

This weak fluorescence is also for Chinese football.

It sounds a little big and empty, but it’s actually real.

Chinese football needs a sense of existence, a positive sense of existence.

After Wu Lei scored, the official media of La Liga sent a blessing: “when your first goal of the season is a winner!” After the game, Wu Lei was rated as the best player of the game. The title of daily sports is “Wu Lei saves the Spaniard”, and world sports called Wu Lei “the hero of this afternoon”.

Spanish teammate Katie Barre specially ran to Wu Lei’s social dynamics, left a message “the best” in Chinese and sent a clapping expression bag.

All these are the most scarce and needed positive sense of existence of Chinese football today.

Some people say that Wu Lei is 31 years old and his career is like this. What’s the use of playing a good ball or two like this?

Those who say this forget that football needs inside information and inheritance, but what is inside information and inheritance?

Sun Jihai, who is now doing the popularization of youth training, talked about such a thing. “Before holding a youth competition, many parents said to their children, ‘look, this is Sun Jihai and this is Wu Chengying’, but the children didn’t feel much. After all, they weren’t born at the 2002 World Cup.”

“I later asked the children, who is your favorite Chinese player? Almost all the children answered the same: Wu Lei.”

what is it? This is inheritance, this is hope.

As the only Chinese player adhering to the five major leagues, Wu Lei’s high light performance is an inspiration for people in Chinese football circles.

Especially for those children who play football, a long lost goal by Wu Lei may become a seed buried in their hearts.

In 2019, Wu Lei received an official interview with UEFA, Talked about this inheritance: “At present, compared with other Asian countries, such as Japan and South Korea, China does have fewer players playing in Europe, so I also hope that through my own efforts, I can bring more confidence to the domestic players and hope that more and more Chinese players can play in Europe in the days to come. Therefore, I still hope that through my own efforts, I can bring more confidence to them and let them see more hope Look. “

Yes, I hope this is the meaning of Wu Lei’s persistence abroad and what Chinese football needs most in trouble.