Lin Dong's return to China this time was for two players, one was Wei Shi Hao, who was now successfully signed by him, and his path to overseas football had been cleared.
The second one was the future leader of Shanghai, the future strongest player in China, Nuclear Weapon 7 - Wu San Shi!
Lin Dong actually liked Wu San Shi very much. In the era of the decline of Chinese football, he was undoubtedly a legendary player belonging to China.
Wu San Shi, this legendary Chinese football superstar, was born in a football-filled family in Nanjing, Jiangsu.
In his early years, he showed amazing football talent at Gulou Primary School, a football-themed school in Nanjing. He ignited the football fire of the campus with his strength and passion.
After graduating from primary school, Wu San Shi's parents found Li Hongbing, the coach of Jiangsu Suning, and he was able to sign with Shanghai Genbao Base with a letter of recommendation.
This gifted teenager did not disappoint Xu Genbao. In 2004 alone, he joined the national youth team and shone at the U14 Asian Youth Zone Championships, helping China win the championship with his outstanding performance, surpassing Japan.
In 2006, Wu San Shi represented Shanghai East Asia in the national Division B league. At the age of 14 years and 10 months, he set the youngest appearance record in the history of Chinese professional football, which undoubtedly affirmed his strength.
In the following years, Wu San Shi continued to improve his skills and emerged in the national Division A league. In 2008, he scored 4 goals, becoming the second highest scorer in the Shanghai East Asia team.
In the 2009 Division A league, he took it a step further, becoming the top scorer of the Shanghai East Asia team with 6 goals.
By 2012, Wu San Shi's performance in the Division A league was particularly outstanding. He scored 17 goals, helping the team ascend to the Chinese Super League as the top scorer of the Division A league.
It can be said that it took ten years to sharpen a sword. Wu San Shi studied at Chongming Genbao Base from 2003 to 2013, and joined the Chinese Super League in 2013. It was exactly 10 years.
During these ten years of hard work, he stood out in the Chinese Super League with his unremitting efforts and tenacity.
In the 2013 Chinese Super League season, Wu San Shi played 27 times, scored 15 goals in the Chinese Super League, and scored three hat-tricks in one season.
This year's performance is enough to prove his strength and potential.
After several years of hard work, Wu San Shi has completed a total of 100 goals in official matches in his career, and has scored double-digit goals in four consecutive seasons.
In addition, he became the only Chinese player to be listed in the Global 500 Important Players list selected by the British magazine "World Soccer".
In 2018, Wu San Shi's performance reached its peak.
He helped Shanghai SIPG win the Chinese Super League championship. In that season, Wu San Shi scored 27 goals, surpassing Li Jin Yu, and created the most goals scored in a single season in the domestic top league.
In the past 6 years (2013-2018), Wu San Shi has won the Chinese Super League Golden Boot for 6 consecutive years, scoring a total of 102 goals.
After this series of honors and achievements, Wu San Shi did not stop.
He chose to continue pursuing higher goals, signing with Spanish La Liga team Espanyol on January 28, 2019, becoming the second Chinese player to play in La Liga after Zhang Chengdong.
On January 28, 2019, Chinese player Wu San Shi signed with Spanish La Liga team Espanyol, becoming the second Chinese player to play in La Liga after Zhang Chengdong.
On March 2, 2019, in the game against Valladolid, Wu San Shi scored his first goal in La Liga.
This goal not only made him a hero of Espanyol, but also broke the 3731-day goal drought of Chinese players in the top five European leagues.
In December of the same year, Wu San Shi continued to make history, becoming the first Chinese player to score in the three major competitions of La Liga, the Europa League and the Copa del Rey.
On January 5, 2020, in the game against Barcelona, Wu San Shi broke the opponent's goal in the 88th minute, becoming the first Chinese player to break Barcelona's goal.
This goal once again made him the pride of Chinese people all over the world, and he was also selected as the best lineup of that round of La Liga.
In August 2022, Wu San Shi ended his three and a half years of overseas career and returned to the Chinese Super League Shanghai Port.
At Espanyol, Wu San Shi played 126 times, scored 16 goals and assisted 6 times, demonstrating his outstanding strength.
After returning to the Chinese Super League, Wu San Shi's form remained strong.
In the match against Meizhou Hakka on October 24, he not only helped the team beat their opponents 7:0, but also scored a hat-trick, fully demonstrating his scoring ability.
Entering the 2023 season, Wu San Shi has scored 7 goals in the Chinese Super League, ranking second on the goalscoring list.
His number of goals and performances fully demonstrate his talent and superb shooting skills on the pitch.
At the national team level, Wu San Shi also has outstanding performance.
In 2009, he scored 9 goals in the Asian Youth Championship qualifiers, becoming the top scorer for the U19 national youth team.
Since then, he has continued to contribute to the national team, including being selected for the national team for the first time in 2010, participating in the East Asian Four-Nation Tournament, and scoring in the 2013 East Asian Cup against Australia.
Although he was one of the candidates for the Asian Footballer of the Year in 2017, unfortunately he did not win.
However, this did not affect Wu San Shi's performance and confidence.
In the national team warm-up match in June 2023, Wu San Shi scored 3 goals in two consecutive games, bringing his total number of goals for the national team to 30, just one goal away from Liu Haiguang's 31-goal record.
Although he is thin and not tall, Wu San Shi has become a sharp weapon for the team's attack with his excellent positional awareness and sense of goal.
His absolute speed is not fast, but his acceleration and acceleration are excellent, which enables him to quickly seize opportunities and complete shots in the game.
Many people criticize Wu San Shi's single-handed ability, but has anyone ever thought that besides him, who else can run out of that single-handed ability?
Moreover, in Lin Dong's view, Wu San Shi has absolute potential.
You know, in the Chinese football dye vat, which is so unbearable, many talented people have become ordinary here, just like the later naturalized players of the Chinese national team.
For example, Gao Lat, Alan, and Xiao Moto, after they integrated into Chinese football, they all became corrupt.
Looking back at Wu San Shi, he has lived in this dye vat for his whole life, and yet he has managed to grow into what he is today. It is truly rare.
So Lin Dong has always felt that Wu San Shi's talent is not even inferior to Wang Chu, and it is possible that he may even be higher than Wang Chu.
The plane flew steadily, the clouds outside the window rushed towards the direction from which it came.
In the blink of an eye, an hour passed, and the plane finally arrived at Shanghai Airport. Lin Dong did not hesitate to head towards his destination.
Lin Dong couldn't wait to see this Nuclear Weapon 7 of China with his own eyes.