On January 7th, Beijing time, after the announcement of the withdrawal from professional football by the Chinese Super League's "8-time champion" Guangzhou FC, 24-year-old star Abdurahman Ablimit updated his social media with a heartfelt message bidding farewell to Guangzhou FC, the team that has nurtured him for many years.
Ablimit revealed that he arrived at Evergrande Football School in 2012 at the age of 12 and received training there for seven years without paying a single cent. The school once organized dozens of buses to take students to watch games at Tianhe Stadium. In 2015, he was sent to the Spanish branch for further education. Witnessing Guangzhou FC's predecessors winning the AFC Champions League, he felt just as excited and happy as the veterans on the field.
In 2017, Ablimit returned to the club's youth ranks, where he won various titles and runners-up trophies, including the CSL Elite League Championship and the National League Championship. Due to fierce competition within the first team, Ablimit left the club in 2019 to join Kunshan FC.
After helping Kunshan win the China League One title in 2022, Ablimit and his teammates faced a major setback when the club announced its dissolution following their successful promotion. When the relegated Guangzhou FC called upon him, Ablimit returned to his mother club without hesitation to compete in the second-tier league.
Ablimit expressed that over the past two years, despite the lack of match bonuses and low wages, he remained joyful and grateful, stating, "Because I truly experienced pure football for the first time, a group of guys who love football came together! We were so close to achieving something remarkable!" (referring to their near-promotion from the second-tier league).
In his emotional farewell to Guangzhou FC, Ablimit said, "Thank you to all the Guangzhou fans, thank you to the football school, thank you to Guangzhou FC. There are endless thanks to express, and I will always be a child of the football school! Thank you, the football school will continue, and I hope you will continue to support every child who comes out of the football school because the bloodline remains, and I believe one day he will return!"
The 24-year-old Ablimit, since returning to Guangzhou FC in 2023, has played 50 games for the team, contributing 7 goals and 4 assists. Currently valued at 125,000 euros on the German "Transfermarkt," he is expected to receive invitations from many clubs as a free agent.