He is the witness of the golden era of Chinese football and the wave of naturalization[WEIRUSHUI]

On the evening of 9 Beijing time, 35-year-old naturalized player Akerson announced his retirement on personal social media, ending his 16-year professional career. As the first non-blood naturalized player in Chinese football, Akerson has spent most of his career in China, although the national football career is not successful, but his career has been exciting enough. Once became the transfer champion of the Chinese Super League

Born on July 13, 1989, he made his debut in Vitoria, Brazil, joining Botafogo for €2 million in 2011 and Guangzhou Evergrande for €5.7 million in early 2013. From then on, Akerson, who was less than 24 years old at the time, ushered in his golden moment

In the 2013-2015 season, he played 111 games for Guangzhou, scoring 76 goals, helping the team win two Asian Champions League titles and three Chinese Super League titles, and represented the team in the club's highest competition, the World Club Cup, and twice finished fourth. In terms of individual honors, Aksen won the 2013 and 2014 Chinese Super League Golden Boot and the 2014 Chinese Super League Player of the season.

In the meantime, Aksen's representative is undoubtedly the two Asian Champions League finals in 2013 and 2015, in 2013 against Seoul, he scored home and away to help Guangzhou team finally win the cup. Two years later, against Ain, Aksen scored the only goal in the two legs to help Guangzhou reach the top of Asia for the second time in three years.

The first time Aksen joined the Guangzhou team, the transfer fee is as high as 5.7 million euros, which is how much thanks to the Guangzhou team to open the golden era of Chinese football, in fact, the first five years of the golden era from 2010 to 2020, the first five years of the Guangzhou team alone can only count as the 1.0 era, and in the second five years with the joining of Jiangsu Suning, Tianjin Quanjian and China Fortune and other clubs. Completely accelerated into the 2.0 era.

Aksen is the beneficiary of the Golden Yuan football 1.0 era, from the Barca to the Chinese Super League, even in just three years, he may have earned the salary of a lifetime career of Brazilian players of the same level, not to mention those honors...

However, to some extent, Aksen is also a victim of the Golden Yuan football 2.0 era, Shanghai Port signed a big striker Asamoah gian effect is not good, re-focus on the scope of the Chinese Super League's excellent striker, Aksen naturally become the first choice; The Guangzhou team is also in order to climb the relationship with the crocodile agent Mendes, ready to give its "wipe the butt", eat Mendes recommended to Simeone, but in Atletico can not play the level of Jackson Martinez, Axon, so become a victim.

In the winter window of 2016, the Guangzhou team and the Harbor team began to operate the transfer of Aksen, although it was already the most direct competitor for the league championship, but under the principle of "only eternal interests", the two clubs began to directly carry out such high-end transfer transactions. Guangzhou team is more urgent to sell people, because to make room for the introduction of Martinez, when Guangzhou team insiders also quietly to the Shanghai media "feed", so that the transfer from under the table to the surface.

Guangzhou team is a private enterprise team, and the port team is a state-owned team, the two clubs even in the final "general vote" and "special vote" on the issue of a tug of war, and finally, Aksen joined the port with a transfer fee of about 18 million euros, which also created the Chinese Super League transfer fee record at that time. Once became a tourist forward

The three years in Guangzhou was the peak of his career, and after moving to the harbor, Aksen never returned to that state. Statistics show that from 2016 to July 2019, he played 117 times for SIPG, scoring 54 goals, and won the first league championship trophy for SIPG in the 2018 season.

From the point of view of goal efficiency, the port era compared to the Guangzhou era decline is obvious, on the one hand, he is no longer the team's first choice, Oscar, Hulke, Ji 'an and other big names, so that Aksen is sometimes forced to pull the side, sometimes can only substitute or even miss the game list. The worst situation was in 2017 under Villas-Boas, who was left out of many matches due to the restrictions on the number of foreign sign-ups.

Aksen is also very dissatisfied with this, although there is no clear say what, but every day to miss the game list, he will post his own travel dynamics on social media, through such a way to express dissatisfaction, he is also dubbed by fans as "travel forward".

On the other hand, for the vast majority of South American players, it is difficult to maintain long-term self-discipline, and Shanghai, the most modern city, also provides a richer lifestyle for Axon after training and competition.

In terms of weight control, although there is no other naturalized player Luo Guofu as completely out of control, but after all, this still affects the state of Aksen, and it is also the key factor that Aksen can never find the teenager again. The most positive attitude of the naturalized players

In July 2019, Aksen transferred to Guangzhou for the second time, this transfer was a little sudden, he and the port contract was only in the second half of the year, when the port Asian Champions League and the league were at a key moment of two-line attack, originally intended to let Aksen work until the end of the year, after the contract expired, the two sides no longer renewed. But the Guangzhou team is operating naturalization matters to "win glory for the country" as a reason to buy Aksen, in this "big hat", the port naturally has no way to refuse, can only allow Aksen transfer to Guangzhou.

An interesting detail is that at that time, Guangzhou team sold Aksen to the Port, without mentioning the follow-up player cooperation between Mendes and Mendes, but said that to help the port play the Asian Champions League "win glory for the country", buy back Aksen, or with the same reason. Perhaps in the eyes of Guangzhou, a player like Aksen is just a pawn in order to achieve its ultimate goal. In the 5-0 away defeat of Maldives in September 2019, Aiksen from Brazil became the first non-blood naturalized player in the history of Chinese men's football team. He scored the first goal of the national team with a penalty kick in the final moments of the game, and then finished with two goals in front of the empty net. In the second home game against Guam, Akerson also scored a goal.

From the final Aiksen for the national football team 19 games, scored 4 goals, assist 3 data, Aiksen's contribution to the national football team is very limited. Even so, he can be considered the most positive naturalized player, the first generation of all non-naturalized players (also Alan, Fernando, Lo Guofu), he is the most games played, the most goals, the most assists.

Of course, it is not only the contribution of data, compared with Alan and Fernando often leave the national football team training or competition because of personal matters, there is never such a "uniqueness" between Axen and the national football team. In April 2023, Aksen returned to the Chinese Super League from the Brazilian League and joined Chengdu Rongcheng, after which he was again given the opportunity to represent the national football team.

Unfortunately, Aksen's state can no longer go back to the past, several friendly matches have no contribution to the case, he was kicked out of the national football team in November against Thailand, South Korea's 36 strong competition training list, so far, the story between Aksen and the national football team, completely ended.

The so-called hero twilight, beauty white head, but so!