China striker Zhang Yuning has kept his cold head about the hype in his homeland after he joined Bundesliga side Werder Bremen last month on a two-year loan deal.<\/p>\n
Zhang joined Premier League outfit West Bromwich Albion this summer from Vitesse, and he has been immediately loaned to Bremen for the 2017\/18 season.<\/p>\n
The 20-year-old is the only member of China national football squad to play professionally in Europe, and the first Chinese striker to join a Bundesliga side since Yang Chen with Eintracht Frankfurt and St Pauli from 1998 to 2003.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have to admit that that was quite big news,\u201d he told the club\u2019s official website<\/a> of the reaction in China to his move.<\/p>\n \u201cThere aren\u2019t many Chinese players playing in Europe, especially not in the five big leagues.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve quickly been put under great pressure by the media, friends, but also by people who I don\u2019t know at all.<\/p>\n \u201cEveryone suddenly thinks I\u2019m the new hope of Chinese football,<\/a> even though I don\u2019t think that myself.\u201d<\/p>\n Zhang will start his Bundesliga campaign with Bremen when they take on Hoffenheim on 19 August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" China striker Zhang Yuning has kept his cold head about the hype in his homeland after he joined Bundesliga side Werder Bremen last month on a two-year loan deal. Zhang joined Premier League outfit West Bromwich Albion this summer from Vitesse, and he has been immediately loaned to Bremen for the 2017\/18 season. The 20-year-old is the only member of China national football squad to play professionally in Europe, and the first Chinese striker to join a Bundesliga side since Yang Chen with Eintracht Frankfurt and St Pauli from 1998 to 2003. \u201cI have to admit that that was quite big news,\u201d he told the club\u2019s official website of the … Continue reading “Werder Bremen striker Zhang Yuning: I\u2019m not the new hope of Chinese football”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":5814,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[138,154,139],"class_list":["post-5813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-china","tag-bundesliga","tag-china","tag-werder-bremen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}