Carlos Tevez has hit back on the capability of Chinese players after being criticized by Shanghai Shenhua bosses and supporters.<\/p>\n
\u201cChinese players are not as naturally skilled like South American or European players,\u201d he said in an interview with the French television station SFR Sport<\/a> on Wednesday.<\/p>\n \u201cLike players who learned football when they were kids. They\u2019re not good. Even in 50 years, they still won\u2019t be able to compete.\u201d<\/p>\n Previously, Shenhua\u2019s chairman, Wu Xiaohui, admitted the Argentine had \u201cnot met their expectations<\/a>\u201d, with reports that Tevez had been warned to lose weight by the new head coach Wu Jingui.<\/p>\n Being one of the highest-paid football players in the world, Tevez soon became the disappointment due to his dismal performance.<\/p>\n The 33-year-old has played just 13 times in the league and scored only three goals, having struggled with a persistent calf injury,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Carlos Tevez has hit back on the capability of Chinese players after being criticized by Shanghai Shenhua bosses and supporters. \u201cChinese players are not as naturally skilled like South American or European players,\u201d he said in an interview with the French television station SFR Sport on Wednesday. \u201cLike players who learned football when they were kids. They\u2019re not good. Even in 50 years, they still won\u2019t be able to compete.\u201d Previously, Shenhua\u2019s chairman, Wu Xiaohui, admitted the Argentine had \u201cnot met their expectations\u201d, with reports that Tevez had been warned to lose weight by the new head coach Wu Jingui. Being one of the highest-paid football players in the world, … Continue reading “Carlos Tevez: Chinese players won’t be able to compete even in 50 years”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":7229,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[248,247],"class_list":["post-7228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-china","tag-carlos-tevez","tag-shanghai-shenhua"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7228","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=7228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}