On the evening of July 6, 2003, Beijing, China.
After a month of fierce fighting, the world-famous China World Cup is finally coming to an end.
After six arduous matches, the host team China and the traditional giants Brazil both entered the final of the world cup, which is also the first time in the history of Chinese football to enter the final of the world cup.
The final was held in the new workers' Stadium.
After the renovation of this landmark building in Beijing in 2020, it has always been used as the home court of Beijing China city and China national team. It is the most advanced top stadium in China and even in the world. In order to better host the World Cup finals, it was officially expanded in 2009, expanding the stadium to 100000 people.
Tonight's World Cup final will attract fans from all over the world, and tickets are in short supply.
There are still two hours to go before the final, but the workers' Stadium and the surrounding football park are already full of people, and many fans have begun to line up at the check-in gates.
They all look like they can't wait.
All day long, on the LED giant screen outside the stadium, the competition highlights of the two teams in the final, as well as the exclusive interviews of the players and the manager, were played repeatedly. When the interview of FIFA was played in alpine cold, countless fans in the square could not help but stop.
In the video, the world-famous coach, who is praised as the godfather of Chinese football by the world fans, confidently promises all the fans that China will do its best to win this Hercules cup at home.
The interview also specially reviewed the legendary manager's life experience.
From his coaching experience in Europe to 14 years ago, he took over the shaky Chinese national team and led the third rate Asian team to the world cup in Russia.
This is also the second time in the history of Chinese football to enter the World Cup finals.
Compared with the despairing experience in 2002, the Chinese team was extremely tenacious this time. They met Portugal, Spain and Morocco in the group stage. As a result, the Chinese team won, drew and lost one by one, but finally only got the third place in the group, with the same score as Portugal and was eliminated.
However, in the three group games, the Chinese team drew 0-0 to win the championship. Spain lost 1-0 to Portugal and narrowly won 2-1 to Morocco. The three games were extremely fierce and classic, which are still talked about by countless Chinese fans.
After the world cup in Russia, Gao Han began to reorganize the Chinese team. Captain Zheng Zhi announced his retirement and joined the national team. He served as assistant coach of Gao Han with Li Tie, but veteran Feng Xiaoting continued to stay in the team.
Not only did the national team restructure, but under the leadership of the high cold, Chinese football also played a vigorous reform movement.
In the following three years, the Chinese team went through the throes of metabolism. Although they broke down in the East Asia Cup and the Asian Cup, they successfully cultivated a group of overseas rookies such as Zhang Yuning, Zhao Jun, Wang Lei, Gao Ren and Yang Xin, and a group of local rookies such as Wei Shihao, Tang Shi, Deng Hanwen, Gao Zhunyi and Liu Yiming, which made the Chinese team invincible again in the subsequent World Cup qualifiers, All the way to the Qatar world cup.
Compared with four years ago, the strength of the Chinese team has improved significantly this time. In particular, several young players led by Chinatown have made great achievements in the world cup. They finally helped the Chinese team fight all the way crazy, broke out of the group stage, and reached the top eight, and finally lost to the French team which won the championship.
By this time, the Chinese team was already one of the best teams in Asia. Even facing the traditional strong teams in Europe and South America, they had the strength of the first World War.
After returning from the Qatar world cup with regret, Gao Han and the Chinese team once again suffered from hardships. Veteran players such as Feng Xiaoting and Jiang Zhipeng retired, and the Chinese team once again ushered in a new round of metabolism. With the improvement of the competitiveness of the Chinese Super League, Chinese players began to no longer respect studying abroad, but mainly play in their own league.
But there are still some top stars like Wang Lei, Gao Ren, Yang Xin and Zhao Jun in this team. Especially in the following season, Chinatown won the Grand Slam again in the Champions League and international games. Wang Lei won the first FIFA golden ball award in Chinese football history as a midfield player.
Gao Ren and Yang Xin were ranked second and third respectively. Chinatown opened a dynastic era in European football.
With the outstanding performance of Chinese players, China's national team is also invincible in the Asian arena, winning in succession, and won the North American World Cup in 2006 with an amazing record.
This is a world cup jointly hosted by the United States, Canada and Mexico. It is also the first time that the participating teams have been expanded to 48 teams, but this has not affected the outstanding performance of the Chinese team.
On the stage of the North American World Cup, the Chinese team broke through all the way from the group stage to the semi-finals, only to encounter Brazil, also led by the top superstar vinesius. The two sides played the most classic game in the world cup. In the end, the Chinese team came back with regret again, the score was 4-3.
With this world cup champion, venixius, who plays for China City, won the FIFA golden ball award. Chinese player Gao Ren followed him and won the second place, while Brazilian international Alan, who also plays for China City, won the third place.
After the baptism of the three world cups, the Chinese team has already become a powerful force in the world football world that can not be underestimated. Especially with the comprehensive reform of Chinese football in the past decade and the improvement of the youth training system, an endless supply of talents has been cultivated for Chinese football.
Today's CSL has surpassed the five major leagues in Europe and become the hottest and most competitive professional league in the world, while Beijing Chinatown has become the most competitive top club of CSL.
After four years, Gao Han led his Chinese team to make a comeback again, and in the world cup with gorgeous offensive football, all opponents were unable to fight, all the way to the final, met the old enemy Brazil again.
In the end, the cold Chinese team with the advantage of home, a snow before shame, revenge four years ago?
Or can Brazil break their fate and successfully defend the world cup?
This has become the biggest suspense of the World Cup final.
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Inside the worker's stadium and in the office, Gao Han silently looks at the crowd in the square outside the stadium. On his face, he can't see any uneasiness and uneasiness before the competition. On the contrary, he is more confident and proud.
In the twinkling of an eye, more than ten years later, he is no longer young. Years have left traces on him, and his gray hair makes everyone feel his pressure and efforts in the past ten years.
He is respected by the whole country and even the whole world.
Because he brought the Chinese team from the third class in Asia to the world's top strong team today, he saved the Chinese football from the darkness of the trough, and built the weak Chinese football into today's world football power.
In the past decade, he has won almost everything.
Chinatown is invincible in La Liga. It once won the championship for five years in a row, beating the traditional strong teams such as Real Madrid, Barcelona and Atletico Madrid. It is also unstoppable in the Champions League. Its three successful defending titles have proved the strong competitiveness of Chinatown.
Especially in the recent three years, led by top stars such as Wang Lei, Gao Ren, Yang Xin, Zhao Jun, venixius and Alan, Chinatown has won the Champions League for three consecutive years and won the top three FIFA golden ball awards for three consecutive times.
Even the arrogant Europeans have to admit that European football has ushered in the era of Chinatown.
In China, the CSL has become the most influential League in the world, which is comparable to the five major leagues in Europe and the Champions League. All players in the world are proud to play in the CSL. In the CSL, Beijing Chinatown has won nine league titles and six Champions League titles in 13 years.
East and West, two Chinese cities dominate the two major football cores in Asia and Europe.
As the owner of the club, Gao Han is a winner of both fame and wealth.
Now, he has only one last and most important wish.
FIFA World Cup!
That's what he's been pursuing for more than a decade, and now it's within his reach.
And this should be the latest time he has been away from the world cup. A group of core stars such as Wang Lei and Gao Ren are in the golden age of their career. If they can't win the world cup this year, it will be more difficult in the future.
When Gao Han was complacent, the door behind him was knocked from the outside, and assistant coach Zheng Zhitui opened the door and came in.
"Boss, it's time." Zheng Zhiman said respectfully.
For the cold, whether the national team up and down, or Chinese fans, all respect.
"Good." Gao Han turns his head and returns heavily.
Hercules cup, I'm coming!
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In the presence of 100000 fans, the World Cup final finally started.
The most aggressive formation is the 343 formation in the cold. This is a set of highly offensive tactics tailored for the Chinese team in accordance with the development trend of world football in the past few years, which gives full play to the powerful offensive power of the Chinese team.
The peak of Brazil team was in the last North America World Cup. At that time, the age structure of the players in their team was the most reasonable. However, this world cup has declined slightly. In contrast, the Chinese team has the best combination of the old, the middle-aged and the young, and there are a number of talented young players sitting on the bench.
Therefore, Brazil took the defensive position in this game.
The pace of the game is very fast. Whether the Chinese team is passing and receiving the ball, or the players' running without the ball, they all seem to have a tacit understanding. The overall strength of the team is higher than that of Brazil. The team also quickly created a threat and launched a wave of continuous attacks towards the goal of Brazil, forcing the samba team to retreat to their own half.
The head coach of Brazil is Kaka, the legendary star of the past. Over 50 years old, he is already a famous coach in the world. His coaching style is similar to that of his mentor. He is famous for his elegant passing control and gorgeous offensive football. However, in this game, the strength of Brazil fell behind, and Kaka had to show a weak posture of defensive counterattack.
With the support of 100000 fans, the Chinese team continued to attack aggressively, testing Brazil's defense, while the samba team was patient in defense, waiting for the opportunity to launch a sharp and fast counterattack.
The two sides had a very good game, which made 100000 fans and billions of TV viewers all over the world watch the game.
But no one was the first to score.
Obviously, after the last World Cup, both sides knew each other better and their tactics were more targeted, which made neither side easily take advantage of the opponent.
In the first half, the two sides shook hands and made peace with each other, but in the second half, the Chinese team still dominated, while the Brazilian team defended and counterattacked.
Finally, in the 65th minute, Gao Han made his first substitution for a 21-year-old, who played for Beijing Chinatown. He was rated by authoritative media as the most potential talent rookie in the world football in the next decade, and also his only son, Gao Shen.
It is rare for father and son to fight hand in hand in the history of world football, and it is the first time in the history of Chinese football.
Although Gao Shen is only 21 years old, he is already a top scorer in the Chinese Super League. He is just too young and lacks competition experience, so Gao Han arranged him to be a substitute. After he was replaced in the second half, he and Wang Lei, Gao Ren and Yang Xin formed a front court attack combination. The only purpose is to continue to strengthen the attack.
After personally sending his son to the stadium, Gao Han did not forget to look back at the chairman's stand. He quickly saw the familiar figure of Lin Xia in the familiar position. She has always been so beautiful and moving. It seems that years have not left any trace on her.
And every time I see her, alpine always starts to get lucky.
It's the same this time!
After Gao Shen came on the court, China's attack became more flexible, Brazil's defense became more difficult, and Kaka soon changed his players to strengthen defense.
In less than five minutes, the Chinese team took the lead to break the goal of Brazil. With the cooperation of Gao Ren and Yang Xin, Gao Shen scored a goal in the restricted area, breaking the deadlock for the team.
As soon as the deadlock broke, Brazil began to panic, but soon unified their thinking and began to press on.
The first hour failed to score, but in less than half an hour, the two teams fought each other. China finally won the first Hercules cup in the history of Chinese football by winning the second goal with the deep Mei and the goals of Gao Ren and Yang Xin.
The loud National Anthem began to float over the workers' Stadium.
One hundred thousand fans, one billion Chinese, can't wait to celebrate.
When the whistle sounded at the end of the game, all the players rushed out of the stadium for the first time and rushed to the stands crazily. They surrounded the head coach with cold and threw him into the air again and again in the carnival.
We finally won the Hercules cup!
We've finally become world champions!
Countless predecessors, countless Chinese fans, decades of expectations, in this night has finally become a reality!