“I’m so happy to announce that I would be representing China in the World Cup. Really proud to wear the team China jersey,” Anderson said on his Weibo account.
Anderson’s great-grandfather was Chinese, according to Sina Sports, adding that in 2018, he visited his ancestral home in south China’s Shenzhen City with his mother to trace his roots and was officially registered in the family genealogy under his Chinese name Li Kai’er.