This season, the owner of Chinese League One club Zibo Juju has become a “celebrity” in Chinese football circles. The owner registered under the pseudonym “He Shihua” for this season’s Chinese League, and made his professional debut as an investor and player in the third round of the league, causing a lot of repercussions, and even the foreign media paid attention to it.
In the match between Zibo Juju and Sichuan in the Chinese League this season, He Shihua wore the No. 10 jersey and came on as a substitute for one minute, and in recent days, Spanish media besoccer commented: “A very unusual thing happened recently in Chinese football, Zibo Juju sent a player named He Shihua, who wore the No. 10. He Shihua is the owner of Zibo Juju and he is not even a professional player.”
In the opinion of foreign media, He Shihua’s behavior was hilarious. “It is surprising that he is still wearing number 10, a symbolic number worn by legends such as Pele, Maradona and Zinedine Zidane. This is not the first time that Chinese club owners have done this, former Shanghai Shenhua owner Zhu Jun also made an appearance himself, but he was in a warm-up match; and the owner of Jilin Bajaj, also donned the number in the league.”
“Why does this make news? Because the owner (of Jilin Baiga) is said to weigh more than 200 pounds and when he appeared on the field, the other team scored two goals and he hasn’t played since. It looks like it’s a new lower limit for Chinese soccer recently.” The media outlet believes.
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