Chapter 39: Epilogue
This is the end of Yan Feng's first World Cup trip in his football career. While the results are nothing to mention for the traditional football powers, it is a perfect World Cup experience for Chinese football.
All the matches of the Chinese team in Moscow are over. However, Yan Feng did not return to China. It should be said that the entire Chinese team did not return to China. Everyone stays and comes in to watch the next semi-finals to have the final final.
The decision for the Moscow World Cup was ultimately between Germany and Brazil.
The two teams in the final are quite close to the Chinese team and have played each other in this World Cup.
Although the Chinese team lost to these two teams, it did not prevent the national football team from watching this game.
Both Germany and Brazil have a lot of supporters in China. Even in the national football team, everyone's support is different.
For example, Yan Feng admires a team like the German team with a rigorous attitude and high tactical literacy. However, Lin Fan and several other people who have a good relationship with Paulinho are more supportive of the Brazilian team.
The decisive battle between the German team and the Brazilian team was very exciting and intense. And it was the battle that decided the winner at the end.
The end result was a more holistic German team prevailing over a relatively individual and sloppy Brazil team.
Germany won the World Cup in Russia. This is their defence after winning the last World Cup in Brazil. In eight years, the World Cup has won two consecutive championships! This is the World Cup domination of a generation. The German team has once again gone down in history.
When he saw the Germans excitedly kicking up the Hercules Cup, Yan Feng was full of envy.
"It would be nice when I could lift the Hercules Cup. That must be a good feeling!"
This is the end of the 18 World Cup in Russia.
On the stage of the World Cup, some people are destined to be happy and some are sad. Needless to say, the German team that won the championship is needless to say. The whole of Germany was plunged into a sea of joy, that's for sure. The impact of this World Cup on German football is also destined to be far-reaching.
The World Cup has had a great impact on German football, and the impact on Chinese football is of historical significance.
The quarterfinals of the World Cup, such a result, is like a dream for Chinese footballers. This kind of situation has always only appeared in the dreams of Chinese fans. In fact, even after the end of the World Cup, everyone still felt that such results were unreal.
Anyway, no matter how much you can't believe it. This time, the achievements of the Chinese team in the World Cup have had an incomparably far-reaching impact on the development of Chinese football since then.
Don't underestimate the positive impact of participating in the World Cup. Some people may say that the Chinese team has not entered the World Cup, but Chinese football is not as good as a year?
Others don't know. But in fact, Yan Feng will like football, and it is precisely because of the influence of the Chinese team that they entered the 02 World Cup that they fell in love with football.
When Yan Feng was less than ten years old, there were actually more than 100 times more people who liked to play football in China than they do today.
In the village where Yan Feng grew up, there were at least hundreds of children playing football at that time. In the school, in the village, in every vacant lot, there are children playing football. There are even weekly leagues organized by the students themselves. Note that it's people who play football every day, not people who love football but can only watch others play on TV every day.
In that era of football mania, China's football population exceeded 20 million, which is almost on a par with Brazil, the kingdom of football. How many of the 20 million people who like to play football will there be? Even if only 2,000 of them can enter professional football, they will be one in a million.
2,000 players who are one in a million, and then 11 people are selected from them, it will definitely be a talent explosion.
It can be said that that time was the first big opportunity in the history of Chinese football. If Chinese football can grasp it at that time.
Of course, there are no ifs. At that time, Chinese football did not grasp it, but ruined a generation of Chinese footballers. As a result, before Yan Feng and Lin Fan came out, there was no one in Chinese football!
In this regard, I believe that there are still many people who will scoff at the long time brought by the World Cup.
The simple thing is to look at our neighbors, the two countries that have of course hosted the Korea-Japan World Cup. The blessings of that World Cup are still benefiting South Korea and Japan to this day.
This is especially true for South Korea, although they have achieved the semi-finals by some inhumane means. But that kind of performance has always stimulated young Koreans to devote themselves to football. South Korean stars such as Son Heung-min, who are now attracting much attention in Europe, have been influenced by this to devote themselves to football.
Yan Feng has been thinking about it, if Chinese football had not been ruined by fake gambling back then, what would it have become now? Dominating the world dare not say, but at least it can go sideways in Asia.
Since then, there have been people playing football everywhere, and they can't even get into the situation of people who want to play football. This kind of miserable situation, even if Yan Feng has participated in the World Cup now, he will feel a little more embarrassed every time he thinks about it.
Fortunately, all these nightmarish situations are now a thing of the past.
After the World Cup, Yan Feng returned to China with the national team. They were greeted like heroes. The enthusiasm and admiration were far greater than when they won the World Cup ticket.
The land of China is full of football fanaticism. A frenzy for football began to sweep across the land of China.
Once, 'playing football was done by people who couldn't read, had no culture and no quality.' ''That's a bunch of savages with muscles on their brains. Don't learn. ’
Now, 'Kick it well, maybe you can become a hero like Yan Feng in the future.' "If only my son could be like the national football team in the future." ’
The views and concepts of football in Chinese society are quietly changing after the Chinese team participated in the World Cup. Countless parents are also changing from rejecting their children to playing football to being very skilled and proud to play football themselves.
And in this situation, after Yan Feng and the national team were received by the national elder, and the autographed jersey was collected by the elder, he became even more fanatical.
Chinese football has once again ushered in spring.
According to data later released by the Chinese Football Association, a month after the end of the World Cup, China's youth registration directly soared tenfold. And this surge has been growing like crazy since then.
In just one year, the number of youth football registrations in China soared from tens of thousands to 300,000. Later, by the time of the next World Cup, the number of youth registrations in Chinese football exceeded 1 million. Since then, Chinese football no longer has to worry about no one in the future.
Of course, that's all for later. But the impact of this World Cup trip is truly enormous. With the development of time, it will continue to nurture Chinese football.