Elkson returned to Guangzhou Evergrande.
On September 9, the CSL Shanghai Shanghai Hong Kong Club officially announced that striker elkson officially returned to Guangzhou Evergrande.
According to the surging news reporter, under the background of naturalized excellent players playing the top 40 of the World Cup qualifier for the national football team, elkson can complete the naturalization formalities and obtain the qualification to participate in the world qualifier on behalf of the national football team.
In the Shanghai Derby last weekend, Yan Jun, President of Shanghai Hong Kong Group, also said goodbye to elkson, who was about to leave the team, and sent a message that elkson wanted to contribute to Chinese football and often went home to have a look.
Elkson came to China in 2012. His first stop was Guangzhou Evergrande. At Evergrande, he showed absolute strength and was the absolute hero of the team's two Asian Championships. In 2014, elkson also broke Li Jinyu's single season goal record of 26 goals with 28 goals.
Then in January 2016, elkson joined Shanghai and Hong Kong to help the team win the first Chinese Super League Championship in team history last year.
After the news of elkson's transfer to Evergrande and the completion of naturalization came out, many fans had such questions: why does elkson have to go to Evergrande to complete naturalization related matters, and why can't elkson be naturalized in Hong Kong?
First of all, there are different degrees of acceptance of 'new' things. Whether it is the national training team at the beginning of the year or the large-scale unrelated naturalization, these are new things, and each enterprise can have its own choice.
The second is the consideration of cost performance. Referring to Evergrande's substantial salary increase and contract renewal for Gorat for five years, elkson is bound to put forward a series of conditions to Hong Kong, which is indeed reasonable from the perspective of players.
However, from the perspective of going to Hong Kong, elkson has just celebrated his 30th birthday, and it is obviously too expensive to renew his contract for another four or five years with a high salary. Even if he is no longer a foreign aid from next season.
According to FIFA's five-year rule, elkson can represent the national football team immediately.
Previously, according to the Beijing Youth Daily, elkson has long been on the list of the Chinese Football Association's naturalization investigation. Lippi and the Chinese Football Association also hope that elkson can complete the relevant procedures as soon as possible and represent the national football team in the top 40 of the world preliminaries starting in September.