Guangzhou Evergrande have turn into the primary Chinese language membership to signal a participant on energetic worldwide obligation with a significant European footballing energy with the seize of Italian playmaker Alessandro Diamanti for six.9m Euro from Bologna.
In what’s one other coup for the Chinese language Tremendous League, Evergrande have upped the ante on themselves, changing the outgoing Dario Conca, twice Brazilian League participant of the yr, by signing a present Italy worldwide within the form of Diamanti who has 17 caps for his nation.
The switch was greeted with some derision in Europe, with many questioning Diamanti’s motives for becoming a member of the Asian champions to work beneath his legendary countryman, Italian world-cup profitable coach Marcello Lippi.
Nonetheless, in keeping with Italian media reviews, present Italy coach Cesare Prandelli assured Diamanti that shifting to the CSL wouldn’t have an effect on the 30-year-old’s probabilities of being known as as much as the Italian squad for the World Cup in Brazil this summer time.
Evergrande chairman Xu Jiayin had beforehand acknowledged that each one signings have to be beneath 30 years outdated, however advised reporters that an exception may very well be made if the participant was a present worldwide from a rustic within the high 20 of FIFA’s world rankings.
Based on Chinese language media reviews, the signing takes the Cantonese membership’s whole switch charge spending to 40 million Euros since Evergrande took over the membership in 2010.
