It's not an easy task, though.

After all, football is a collective project, and Duan Yun alone can still be crushed by relying on his outstanding performance, but when he plays against foreign teams, especially European and South American teams, Duan Yun still feels unlucky.

And if Duan Yun can really succeed, then he will undoubtedly become the first person in the history of Chinese football, and even be respected to the height of 'national hero'!

The national football team has been in decline for more than ten years, and if it can really enter the World Cup finals again after more than ten years, then it is conceivable that the outbreak of hundreds of millions of fans will be such an explosive thing, and Duan Yun's reputation in China will also be pushed to a peak!

Therefore, Duan Yun himself still cherishes the opportunity to play in this friendly match very much.

The car drove for almost an hour before finally coming to a stop in front of a small stadium on the outskirts of London.

This is a stadium that doesn't look big, and in terms of scale, it's even worse than the stadium of the Provincial Sports Center when Duan Yun played in the Beiyuan Happiness Team, and it's basically the same level as the Heyang Gymnasium when Duan Yun participated in the middle school football competition.

However, although this stadium is not large, at this time, outside the stadium, a large number of fans gathered early in the morning, except for a few wearing the red Manchester United jersey that Duan Yun is familiar with, everyone else is wearing the blue jersey of the local home team.

From the earlier chat between Duan Yun and Prince Harris, it was learned that the home team of this charity competition was the Tranmere team located in the suburbs of London.

Although the team can only be considered an amateur team, the history of the team has a staggering 132 years, and the club's president, Mark Parios, was the CEO of the FA and under his leadership the team has surpassed the turnover of League One teams. The relationship between the players' clubs and the fans is very close.

It is basically unthinkable for an amateur team to have such a long history and still maintain a profitable state.

What Duan Yun didn't know was that in fact, there were eleven levels of regular league systems in the UK, and giants such as Manchester United and Liverpool were like the spires of the pyramid, and countless small teams in the lower leagues supported the base of this pyramid.

Tranmere, a fifth-tier player in England, has been in the league for 132 years, and the close relationship between the players' club and the fans is the envy of even Manchester United fans.

A big team like Manchester United and Liverpool has fans all over the UK and all over the world. And Tranmere, the Seven Oaks that belong only to a population of 200,000. After each home game, the vast majority of people just need to walk home to get home.

Tranmere cherishes each and every one of its fans, inviting local homeless people to eat for free at Christmas parties, and children under the age of 12 can enter the game for just a bottle of Coke. The cherishing of the fans has also been exchanged for the same love, and many Wirrals have been lifelong fans for three generations.

There are eleven levels of formal league system in the UK, with countless smaller clubs like Tranmere. They don't have the same reputation as Manchester United and Liverpool, but they have built their own 100-year legacy in their own way. And these small clubs may be the foundation of the English football pyramid.

At Tranmere's home stadium, Seven Oaks Park, there is an official Tranmere store right next to the entrance, which sells Tranmere's officially licensed jerseys and a variety of merchandise, which is an important source of income for Tranmere, as is the stadium ticket.

Many parents bring their children here, and the children's eyes are full of longing, and the blue and white robe must be the best gift in childhood. As soon as the jerseys arrived, they couldn't wait to put them on them.

Seeing this scene, Duan Yun felt a little touched in his heart, which made him think of the current situation of domestic football, although the country has paid more and more attention to the football project in the past two years, and has also invested a lot of money to build large stadiums and improve the league system at all levels, and has indeed done a lot of work.

However, due to many objective factors, it is still difficult for football to be popularized throughout the country, on the one hand, because some bureaucratic systems restrict the passage of amateur players to professional teams.

So even if Gao Bo sold himself and the team to Hengyuan Group in the end, Duan Yun had no resentment towards him, after all, without Gao Bo's insight, he would not have been able to become a real professional player!

On the other hand, due to the hot domestic real estate market, the price of land in big cities is very expensive, basically all built into shopping malls and residential buildings, and it is too 'luxury' to build a stadium for citizens to play football, and the lack of venues makes it basically impossible for football to be popularized in large areas in big cities, which is diametrically opposed to the situation that only more than 100,000 British towns have their own professional teams.

Led by the driver, Duan Yun entered the pitch at Tranmere.

As soon as he entered the court, Duan Yun saw Prince Harris who was chatting and laughing with everyone on the side of the court.

Here, Prince Harris does not have a posture as a prince at all, and seems to be very close to the people, constantly taking photos and talking with players and fans wearing Manchester United and Tranmere, and the atmosphere seems very warm.

Judging from Prince Harris's performance, these royal family members are cautious in their words and deeds, and participate in various large and small activities in the UK all year round, so that the British royal family has gained a lot of favor and support from the public opinion, Prince Harris is equivalent to a 'lubricant' for the British royal family and ordinary people, he is sociable and listening, gentle and elegant, and it does make the British people have a lot of good feelings towards the royal family.

"Hey!" At this time, Prince Harris greeted him with a smile and motioned for him to come over after seeing Duan Yun appear.

Prince Harris obviously has a crush on Duan Yun.

The reason why he only talked to Duan Yun at the Queen's Dinner was because Duan Yun was the youngest member to win the Fields Medal in history, which shocked the world's academic circles, and on the other hand, compared with those old guys in their thirties and forties or even fifty or sixty who were invited, he and Duan Yun were of the same age, so they naturally felt a little more close.

"Who is this gentleman?" asked curiously, the old man standing next to Prince Harris saw Duan Yun coming.