Reporter Chen Yong reports On the evening of the 25th, Shandong Taishan's two new foreign aids, Madruga and Khazar, arrived in Jinan, Madruga played as a midfielder, and won the 2023 FIFA Puskas Award (Best Goal Award), and Ghaar served as a central defender. The two foreign players will undergo a medical examination in Jinan, and after passing the medical examination, they will go to Shanghai to meet the team.

Maderuga is a player who is very familiar to Taishan fans, he came from Shandong Taishan Football Club's overseas satellite club Sporting Brasil, played in the São Paulo U20 League and Sao Paulo A3 League during his time at Sporting Brazil, and also came to China to participate in the Weifang Cup International Football Invitational Tournament.

Born on November 11, 2000, Maderuga is 1.87 meters tall, mainly playing as a defensive midfielder, can play as a central midfielder, played for Botafogo SP in the second division in the 2023 season, and played for Cuiabá FC in the first division last season (relegated). Madru has played 6 games in the first division, 32 in the second division and 10 in the Sao Paulo weekly league (A3).

In the 2023 season, Maderuga won the 2023 season with a barbed shot from outside the boxFifaPuskas Prize. Madruga is currently worth €600,000.

Born on August 6, 1999, Lucas Gazal is 26 years old, 1.87 meters tall, plays for Atlético Goiânia FC in the Brazilian Liga (has been relegated), he has a consistent appearance in the 2022 season, and last season he played for Mirasao FC in the Brazilian Second Division, helping the team to successfully reach the first division. Qajar currently has 15 appearances in the Brazilian Primera Division, 40 in the Brazilian Second Division and 26 in the Brazilian State Division A of Goiás. Qajar is currently worth 700,000 euros.

The current news suggests that Madruga has joined on a transfer, while Ghaar has joined on loan.

Thankfully, both players are very young, with Madruga at 24 and Ghazar at 25, both in the rising stages of their careers. Compared with the Jin Yuan era, the two foreign players have not broken through the 1 million euro mark, and they are not the absolute main players of the Brazilian league, but they have been playing between the Brazilian league and the Brazilian second division, and in terms of ability, there is no big problem in playing in the Chinese Super League, including the AFC Champions League elite. At present, the recruitment of the Chinese Super League is also generally cost-effective.

The addition of Maderuga and Cajar means that Shandong Taishan Football Club has finally realized its recruitment plan.

In fact, before the end of the 2024 season of the league, Taishan Football Club locked these two foreign aid candidates, but then, the club's recruitment was affected in many ways, resulting in Taishan recruiting "got up early in the morning and rushed to a late set", for which fans are also very anxious, the reason is very simple, in the 2025 season, Taishan team is one of the first Chinese Super League clubs to play, and will play at home in the seventh round of the AFC Champions League Classic on February 11.

At present, Shandong Taishan's recruitment is mainly based on Brazilian sports as the main platform, and through this overseas satellite club, a comprehensive investigation of the cost-effective players in the Brazilian league can be said to be "direct procurement from the source". In fact, as early as the middle of the 2024 season, Shandong Taishan's recruitment plan was operated in this way, when Taishan brought in Marcel in this way. It should be noted that in fact, there were players with higher value and more experience in the original recruitment list, but the coaching staff selected Marcel. In terms of league performance, Marcel has played his own value, and the overall performance is not particularly good, but it is also decent.

After the end of the 2024 season, Shandong Taishan comprehensively analyzed the team's performance in the 2024 season and determined two directions of recruitment, one is to choose a more capable central defender to ensure the defensive line; Second, choose a midfielder to strengthen the midfield defense and offensive and defensive transitions of the Taishan team.

Normally, the planned new foreign aid can arrive at the moment when the Taishan team's winter training is concentrated, but due to the problem of the right to recruit reinforcements, the established plan has not been able to make progress for a long time. Fortunately, the final result was as the club wanted, Madruga and Khazar finally joined Shandong Taishan, and at present, only the final medical examination procedures are left for the two to join.

Although the foreign players arrived late, the two foreign players are the middle and back field foreign players, relatively speaking, the requirements for the run-in are not too high, and the other three foreign players of the Taishan team are the foreign players of last season, namely the attacking trio of Cressan, Kazaishvili and Zeka. From this point of view, although the Tarzan team is far away from the AFC Champions LeagueThe English Championship is just over two weeks away, but the two foreign players are more than capable of catching up with the AFC Champions League Classic.

In addition, the Taishan team will have a warm-up match after the year, which can also help the two foreign players to speed up the run-in.