Chinese fans round on 鈥榬at鈥 Tevez after holiday barb
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Furious Chinese football fans branded Carlos Tevez shameless and 鈥渁 rat鈥 yesterday after the Argentine striker described his ill-fated spell at Shanghai Shenhua as a 鈥渉oliday for seven months.鈥
The 33-year-old struggled for form and fitness during a disastrous stint in China, where he was among the best-paid players in the world on a reported weekly salary of 730,000 euros.
He brought his Chinese nightmare to a premature end when he returned to Boca Juniors earlier this month and on Monday joked with Argentine television channel TyC Sports: 鈥淚t鈥檚 fine because I was on holiday for seven months.鈥
That prompted an outpouring of anger on Chinese social media, with fans of a number of Chinese Super League clubs rounding on the man often disparagingly labelled 鈥渧ery homesick boy鈥 in the Asian country.
鈥淔ootball hooligan, please get your arse out and never return to China again. Scum,鈥 wrote one on Weibo, China鈥檚 equivalent of Twitter.
鈥淚 wonder if there is anyone more shameless than him,鈥 added another.
Tevez missed half of Shenhua鈥檚 CSL games injured, out of form or out of shape, and when he did play he failed to justify his hefty pay check, scoring just four league goals.
As well as hitting out at Tevez, whose previous clubs include Manchester United, Manchester City and Juventus, Chinese fans also said Shenhua should take some of the blame.
鈥淎fter looking at Tevez鈥檚 interview my heart as a Chinese football fan is again deeply hurt,鈥 wrote another on Weibo.
鈥淲hile we are chasing Tevez like a rat crossing the street, China鈥檚 (football) managers should also do some good self-reflection.鈥
In contrast, Tevez has been warmly welcomed back for his third stint at Boca and has a supporter in Argentine great Diego Maradona. 鈥淗e filled Santa鈥檚 sack with dollars and came back to Boca,鈥 Maradona was quoted as saying by Argentine TV earlier this month.
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