Wu Lei rubs shoulders with Messi

For a year and a half, stakeholders have been proclaiming that Wu Lei is as popular in China as Lionel Messi, winner of six Golden Balls. And, apart from having amply demonstrated in Espanyol's accounts that his player has a undoubted pull in your country, there are signs that the statement was true.

He published LaLiga on Friday, May 29 in his official account of the Weibo social network, the Chinese Twitter, a survey, so that Internet users would settle their support between a hypothetical Barcelona derby: Messi's Barcelona or Wu Lei's Espanyol? And evene in the first hours the votes were slightly towards the 'Flea', which led him to pass the phase, the results are so even –the survey closes this Friday– that late Thursday, without going any further, the Espanyol player won with more than half of the 3,997 votes.

To get an idea of ​​the pull that Wu Lei has in China, where he has been proclaimed best footballer in the last two yearsjust compare another LaLiga poll in this last week, in which he gave himself a choice between Messi and the Atlético de Madrid player Diego Costa. The Barcelona striker won with 8,400 of the 11,100 votes. I mean, it swept away.