Azmait

Central Midfielder - Chengdu Rongcheng
6 Jul 2027
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Azmait

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The Chengdu Rongcheng Gazette

5 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Still nobody has beaten Chengdu Rongcheng

The unbeaten run reaches 7. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Squad

A falling-out at Chengdu Rongcheng

Yegor Sorokin and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Cléber falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Squad

Han Zilong stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Han Zilong and Chengdu Rongcheng agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Chengdu Rongcheng lose Xie Chaosheng

51 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Player ratings

Cléber beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 15. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Boardroom

Chengdu Rongcheng sign 6 boys into the academy

None of them will be seen by anybody outside the training ground for three years, most of them will never play a senior match, and one of them might change the club. That is the whole proposition, and it is why academies exist.

The dugout

Xie Chenglong: “We have to be better”

“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.

Match

No goals between Chengdu Rongcheng and Tianjin Jinmen Tiger

Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Tianjin Jinmen Tiger will be the happier side with the point.

In brief

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The Chengdu Rongcheng Gazette

5 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A fracture rules Romulo out for 48 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Chengdu Rongcheng will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Player ratings

Tian Yifan runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 34. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

Chengdu Rongcheng out of the cup

Qingdao West Coast ended it 1‑2. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Azmait at 21 — 7.89

The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Azmait did not need any: 7.89, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Player ratings

Felipe Silva, 35, rolls back the years — 8.07

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.07 at 35, and nobody on the pitch was better.

The dugout

Min Zixi: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Chengdu Rongcheng have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Home is on Boubacar Konté's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Chengdu Rongcheng are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

Squad

A falling-out at Chengdu Rongcheng

Yegor Sorokin and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Peng Peng

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

In brief