The national football team qualifys, and naturalization is accelerated! The naturalized Oscar Chinese Football Association has moved from the brewing to the substantive promotion stage

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2024-06-12 10:34Published on the official account of Beijing Beiqing Sports News

With the national football team thrilling to catch the last train of the top 18 matches, the naturalization of Oscar Tati Maritu, a player of the Cangzhou Lions Club of the Chinese Super League, will also be transferred from "brewing" to "substantial advancement". A reporter from Beijing Youth Daily learned that after returning to the Democratic Republic of Congo for a short vacation in late May, the striker, who is not yet 25 years old, has rushed back to the club on the 3rd of this month and will return to the Chinese Super League this weekend. It is reported that as the club to which the player belongs, the Cangzhou Lions Club will actively cooperate with relevant parties to help Oscar implement the procedures for naturalization and change of FIFA membership as soon as possible, so that he can help the national football team hit the 2026 World Cup in the round of 18 competition.

The call for "naturalized Oscar (Cangzhou Lions Club player)" has been around for many years. Until this season, with Oscar's own amazing performance and helping the Cangzhou Lions repeatedly create good results, similar calls have become more and more popular. Objectively speaking, Oscar, who has not yet reached the age of 25, can fully help the national football team in terms of technical ability.

As early as 2018, when he was not yet 19 years old, he joined the Yanbian Fude Club of the Chinese League. After transferring to Shaanxi Daqin Zhishui Club in the 2019 season, he won the "Golden Boot" of the Chinese League with 22 goals. In the 2020 season, Shijiazhuang Yongchang Club, the predecessor of Cangzhou Lions Club, was pushed by the then general manager Zhao Junzhe (the current coach of Cangzhou Lions) to abandon the high-priced Bolivian foreign aid Morello and sign Oscar. The combination of Oscar and Muric, the "silver boot" of the previous season, has created a beautiful offensive landscape for the extraordinary 2020 season of the Chinese Super League.

After the end of the 2023 season of the Chinese Super League, affected by objective factors such as financial resources, Cangzhou Lions Club was once in a dilemma in the introduction of foreign aid. However, at the insistence of Zhao Junzhe and the relevant parties of the club, the Cangzhou Lions recalled Oscar. Under the command of Zhao Junzhe, Oscar gave full play to his advantages of fast speed, sharp breakthroughs, and good physical fitness.

By the end of the second phase (round 14) of this season's Chinese Super League, Oscar had made 12 appearances for the team, including 11 starts, scored five goals and provided two assists. As a relegation team, the Cangzhou Lions were able to temporarily rank 9th near the end of the league, which is actually not unrelated to Oscar's personal contribution. Although he missed some league games due to injury, Oscar, who was in the prime of his career, recovered quickly.

After many years of playing in Chinese professional football, Oscar has improved significantly in his style of play, becoming more mature on and off the pitch, and enjoying living and working in China more and more. It is understood that after returning to the team at the beginning of this year, Oscar immediately expressed to the team his desire to continue to play well in China, and at the same time said that he was willing to be naturalized. In March and April this year, when the outside world once again stirred up the topic of "naturalized Oscar", the player himself once again publicly stated, "I am very willing to be naturalized." In other words, Oscar no longer needs to mobilize when it comes to naturalization.

In fact, on the issue of "naturalized Oscar", the attitude of the Chinese Football Association and the national football team is also very positive, and has communicated with all parties, including Cangzhou Club, more than once, and has also made a detailed understanding of the relevant work process in advance. It's just that because the main body of the cooperative relationship with Oscar is the club, if all parties confirm and agree to naturalize him, then the specific procedures also need to be handled by the club and assisted by other relevant departments. It should be noted that since the national football team did not confirm the thrilling promotion to the round of 18 until the end of the match between Thailand and Singapore on the evening of June 11, the work process on Oscar's naturalization can only be officially promoted after that.

According to the schedule, the round of 18 will kick off in September, the next international break cycle. This means that the time left for the Cangzhou Lions Club and relevant parties to implement the Oscar naturalization procedures is already very limited. Judging from the competition in the round of 36, the aging problem of the national football team has been more serious. The young players or newcomers represented by Bai Helamu, Yang Zexiang, Jiang Shenglong, and Xie Wenneng have made significant progress in technology and psychology after experiencing the last two rounds of the round of 36. They are the hope for the future of the national football team. The national football coaching staff with Ivankovic as the coach will also inevitably increase the efforts to replace the team's personnel in the future. From this point of view, the naturalization of Oscar is also in line with the current demands of the national football team to improve the system. In addition, in the context of the strong players in the round of 18, it is difficult for the Chinese team to calmly attack the opponent with its current strength. In the face of strong teams, the Chinese team focuses on "anti-counterattack", which is a high probability event. Oscar's technical characteristics and physical confrontation ability can also meet the needs of this style of play.

Text/Beiqing Sports Xiao Yun

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