Former Shakhtar player Alex Teixeira may change his football citizenship.

One of the highest paid football players in the Chinese championship, Alex Teixeira (450 thousand euros per week) is ready to take Chinese citizenship and play for the national team of the Celestial Empire, but this requires the fulfillment of certain conditions - reports the South China Morning Post.

Teixeira's contract, which helped Jiangsu Suning win the Chinese Championship this season (10 goals in 20 games), expires on December 31, 2020. The Brazilian has several offers from Europe, but they want to leave him in China so that he can achieve the required period of residence in the country and obtain its citizenship.

Alex is not against this development, but according to the Chinese media, the 30-year-old player is demanding a 4-year contract worth 80 million euros. In addition to Jiangsu Suning, Shanghai SIPG also claims for the Brazilian..

In China, about a dozen footballers have already been naturalized (mainly from Brazil), as they intend to strengthen the national team in order to get into the final tournament of the 2022 World Cup.

Alex Teixeira previously played for Vasca da Gama and Shakhtar, and in 2016 moved to China for € 30 million.