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Chapter 527 [Xiongqi] China World Cup

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On September 16, the 29th year of Guanghua, the first World Cup football tournament was being held at the center of the International Stadium of the Imperial Capital of China.

This is the first time that the World Cup has been recognized by the international community, led by the Sports Committee of the League of Nations, and the hosting rights of the first World Cup have also fallen to the Chinese Empire, and the World Cup Football League is also the largest international event to come to the Asian continent for the first time, so the Chinese Imperial Government and people attach great importance to the first World Cup.

Emperor Wang Chenhao and Empress Li Youyi of the Chinese Empire led the members of the five provinces and nine ministries to the opening ceremony in person, and the imperial concubines such as Shu, Ning, Xian, Gong, and Chen also accompanied the princes and princesses, and hundreds of royal family members participated in the opening ceremony of the World Cup collectively became the largest collective attendance of the imperial family since the founding of the Chinese Empire.

The FIFA World Cup Football Championship is the world's most honored, highest-standard, and highest-level football competition, and is known as the two top sports events in the world together with the Olympic Games, and is the world's largest sports event with more influence and broadcast coverage than the Olympic Games.

The reason why the influence is the highest, even more than the Olympic Games, is mainly because wars are not allowed to break out during the Olympic Games, and countries participating in the Olympic Games will be strongly condemned by international public opinion if they participate in the war, so many belligerent countries refuse to send teams to participate in the Olympic Games to avoid being criticized by international public opinion. Therefore, since the inception of the Olympic Games, only a dozen countries have participated at most, and the influence cannot cover the whole world.

The World Cup does not have this restriction. As the most coveted sacred glory of all countries in the world, any national football team can get it, and it is rightfully the world's first. The whole world will go crazy for it, and the players who played well in the World Cup will be remembered by the country as national heroes, so it also represents the ultimate dream of every footballer. Held every four years, any FIFA member state (region) can send a team to sign up for the greatest tournament of mankind.

The World Cup does not conflict with international peace and public opinion, and participating countries can participate without fear of strong international criticism from the outbreak of war during the World Cup. At the same time, compared with the sports of the Olympic Games, football is more popular and participatory. The Olympic championship is only achieved by a few supermen, and it does not have the color of civilian popularity. The World Cup Football League, on the other hand, is more accessible to the people and has the support of people from all over the world. At the same time, football is like a battlefield, many countries cannot defeat the enemy on the battlefield, so fighting with the enemy country on the football field can also make up for their fragile hearts. Of course, more importantly, football has been going on for thousands of years, and the popularity and love of people around the world is the main factor.

The Football World Cup was finally accepted internationally, which included many political games between international powers, and after a long period of negotiations and political compromises between countries, it was finally agreed on the framework of the League of Nations.

Back on May 21, 1904, the first president of FIFA, the Frenchman Robert ? For the first time, Gaylan presented such an idea to the leaders of national football and instructed its secretary-general, the Dutchman Hilschmann, to draw up a document for it. However, due to the small number of countries that expressed their willingness to participate, and because of political and sports discord, the plan was aborted.

After the end of the First World War, the founder of the Red Star team in Paris, Jüle? Mr. Remet was elected president of FIFA and he restarted the stalled project. He did a great deal of persuasion to the leaders of the world of football, and tried to prove that a world football competition could go hand in hand with the Olympic Games founded by Baron de Coubertin, and that it could flourish. ╔╗

In 1923, in a hotel in Brussels, the Uruguayan diplomat Bouereo officially expressed his support for Remet on behalf of the two-time Olympic football champion Uruguay, which played no small role at the time. However, the establishment of the World Cup league mechanism has been blocked by the Chinese Empire, and the governments of various countries have been forced by the political pressure of the Chinese Empire to delay the establishment of the World Cup Football League.

The reason why the Chinese Empire prevented the establishment of the World Cup Football League does not mean that the Chinese Empire itself opposes this worldwide football sport, including the Chinese Emperor Wang Chenhao, who even goes to the Royal Sports Center every Sunday to play a football game, which shows Wang Chenhao's love for football. Under the example of Wang Chenhao, the people of the Chinese Empire rose up to play football, and the people of the empire were particularly concerned about every sport and hobby of the Emperor Wang Chenhao, after learning the news that Wang Chenhao loved football, the central and local governments of the Chinese Empire successively set up national football teams and local state football teams, and the people were very active in cooperating with this, and soon football swept all over the country, and the football league system at all levels was established one after another.

Since the twelfth year of Guanghua, more than 3,000 football teams have appeared in the Chinese Empire, including national, local, city and county, and even major consortia in the empire have also contributed money to organize football teams. In that year, the emperor Wang Chenhao promulgated the establishment of the national football league system, once every four years, the full name of the Chinese Imperial Football Super League, referred to as the Chinese Super League.

The competition system of the Chinese Super League is formulated by the emperor Wang Chenhao himself, held every four years, and the final is selected by each of the 72 states and provinces of the empire to participate in a team, and the home and away double round-robin system is adopted, with each team playing against each team twice, home and away once. The method of determining the ranking of the Chinese Super League is the point system, that is, each team gets 3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, and 0 points for a loss. If two or more teams have equal points, a separate ranking strategy will be introduced, that is, 1, the team with equal points will be ranked first. 2. The teams with equal points will be ranked first if they have the most goal difference in each other's games. 3. The teams with equal points will be ranked first if they score more goals in each other's matches. 4. The team with the same points has the most goal difference in all the games of the Chinese Super League that year, and the ranking is top. 5. The team with the same points will be ranked first if it scores the most goals in all the matches of the Chinese Super League that year. 6. Those who have fewer red and yellow card deductions (excluding disciplinary punishments) in the year-round competition will be ranked first. In the end, if there is still no winner or loser, the ranking will be determined by drawing lots.

Before the Chinese Super League, each province and state played separate football leagues at the city and county level and at the regional level. Named A, B, C and D, the First Division is a competition that decides the football teams that participate in the National Super League. In addition to the first two Super Leagues, there is no relegation constraint, from the third session onwards, in order to improve the level of football in the Chinese Empire, the relegation and promotion system is adopted.

The first Chinese Super League was held in Guanghua for 14 years, and finally the Zhili football team won the championship, the Jiangsu football team won the runner-up, and the Royal Football team won the third place (i.e., the Beijing football team). Due to the first time to carry out such a huge event, all kinds of games need to be improved urgently, the referee system is not perfect, many football teams in the game of various violations can not be stopped in time, wrong judgments and wrong penalties occur from time to time, but also the Chinese Imperial Football Association during the continuous improvement of the process must go.

The second session of the Chinese Super League was held in Guanghua 18 years, this league has a more systematic referee system than the previous one, many of the problems that arose in the last game have been solved, on the whole, the league has made the imperial government and the people more satisfied, the participating state and provincial football teams have played their due strength, winning or losing has not caused large-scale dissatisfaction. However, for the first time, the Imperial Overseas Territories and Colonial Representatives were allowed to participate in the competition, which was formulated by the Imperial Government in order to strengthen the friendly relations between the Empire and the overseas territories and the people of the colonies, and as a result, the second and third places in the second Chinese Super League were won by the Hawaii State Football Team and the Cuban State Football Team, which made the football teams of the Empire's native states and provinces quite ashamed. Fortunately, the championship was still won by the Naoli football team, so it did not cause a big storm.

By the 26th year of Guanghua, the Chinese Empire has held four football super leagues, and on the whole, the football sports and competitions of the Chinese Empire have entered a period of stable and mature development, but there are still many deficiencies in front of the Chinese Imperial football.

Although the Chinese Empire had a long history of football, in the modern Qing Dynasty, the game was stifled by the corrupt Qing government. ╔╗．． / The full text of the advertisement was in the Qing Dynasty, and there were very few records of football activities in the historical books. Keju in ancient China has been practiced for thousands of years since the Warring States period, and in the Han, Tang and Song dynasties, it once shone like a comet. But when it was thrown into the water of Qing Dynasty society, only a little bubble was left, and it finally fell darkly.

At this time, modern football appeared in the Western world, and when Britain dominated the world, Western football far surpassed the East, resulting in the football of the Chinese Empire as a whole lagging behind the West. Although the Emperor of the Chinese Empire, Wang Chenhao, knew this very well and actively worked hard for it, the problem facing the major football teams of the Chinese Empire was that they were among the best in the country, but they became the bottom team in the world. After four sessions of the Chinese Super League, although the football team of the Chinese Empire has been greatly improved, especially since the third session, the Emperor Wang Chenhao issued a decree to the Imperial Football Federation to allow foreign aid to join the Chinese Super League, so that many well-known Western football stars came to China to play football.

Due to the overall economic recession in the Western world, the Chinese Empire is so rich that many world-class football stars can no longer mix in the Western football team, and come to China to play football and make money from China. Their participation has brought advanced technology and experience to the Chinese football team, especially Dorado, Thea, Iliad and Castro from Uruguay, Peusele and Stabile from Argentina, Laurent, Longille and Maginot from France; Mexico's Carreno, Argentina's Luis Monti and other outstanding players who became international stars in the first World Cup came to the Chinese Empire Chinese Super League as foreign players before they became famous, and their advanced skills have made great contributions to the development of the Chinese football team. Similarly, there are many foreign coaches who participate in the Chinese Super League in China. Scalone, who won two Olympic football gold medals for Uruguay in 1924 and 1928, also became a foreign football consultant for the Royal Chinese Football Team.

On December 10, 1924, FIFA convened a working meeting in Paris, which was attended by representatives of Switzerland, Hungary, France, Austria, Germany, Paraguay, Argentina and many other countries. Four months later, the draft of the meeting was submitted to the national football associations for consideration, but it was opposed by more than 20 countries, including the Chinese Empire. The main reason is the collective opposition of the members of the Federation of the Great China Co-Prosperity Sphere, which is angry with the nostrils of the Chinese Empire, for the simple reason that the Chinese Empire is not ready.

It turned out that the Emperor of the Chinese Empire and the Cabinet both supported the establishment of the World Cup Football Championship by the League of Nations, but when Tang Shaoyi, a member of the cabinet, asked the Imperial Football Association again, he found that the Imperial Football Association was not sure of winning. Although the fighting spirit to win the first World Cup is strong, the football players of the empire are inferior to foreign players in all aspects, and they do not have the ability to win the World Cup 100%. When the World Cup is underway, foreign players are not allowed to exist, and all foreign players who play in the Chinese Empire are called back to their own countries to represent their respective countries.

In this way, the imperial football team did not have the certainty of winning the World Cup, which made the faces of the senior officials of the empire, including Tang Shaoyi, gloomy. Tang Shaoyi naturally guaranteed the ticket with the emperor Wang Chenhao before, and the imperial football team definitely wanted to win glory for the empire. How to win glory? Naturally, it is to win the first World Cup championship, because only winning the championship is in line with the identity of the Chinese Empire as the world's only superpower after World War I, which is necessary, and it involves the face of the empire.

Since there was no certainty of victory, Tang Shaoyi ordered the Imperial Football Association to unite with other countries to oppose the Paris proposal. Tang Shaoyi's tactics are one word - drag, drag until the football team of the Chinese Empire has the ability to win the World Cup. Due to the huge amount of money required to host the World Cup and the consent of most countries, the opposition of the Chinese Empire caused more than a dozen member countries of the Great Chinese Federation to vote against, and even a considerable number of countries that looked at the eyes of the Chinese Empire also voted against or abstained, and more than 30 countries opposed it. ╔╗

France and other Nordic countries are actively supporting the hosting of the World Cup, and they hope to hold the first World Cup in Europe, but Paraguay, Argentina and other American countries are against it, and they hope that the first World Cup will be held in the Americas. The two sides dismantled each other in order to seize the right to host the World Cup, and the Chinese Empire and its federal member states became the targets of both sides. Tang Shaoyi took advantage of their ambivalent psychology to negotiate a tug-of-war with the two sides, in fact, just to buy time for the Chinese football team to step up training.

Tang Shaoyi's procrastination tactics were successfully implemented, and the World Cup was postponed. Therefore, the Imperial Football Association quickly issued a call to 450,000,000 native citizens and 50 million overseas dominions and colonies, and 72 provinces successively launched an urgent order to select top football players, and even the Emperor Wang Chenhao issued an edict saying: "If the empire cannot find a good football player, then I will personally go into battle." At the same time, Wang Chenhao also wrote a poem himself: "Kick out the moon in the sky, and lift the stars in the sea on both shoulders." He sighs that there are few heroes in the national football team, and he should know that the master is in love. ”

Of course, Wang Chenhao's words and poems are just to stimulate the fighting spirit of the imperial football players, and scolding them is to make them fight. Whenever Wang Chenhao thought of the fact that 1.3 billion Chinese in the 21st century could not choose 11 outstanding football players, he was always so angry that he smashed the table and cursed. He was convinced that it would be a great shame for the empire's 500 million population to not even select a dozen top football players.

Wang Chenhao personally issued an edict and set up a huge reward fund of up to 100 million dragon coins for this purpose, which stated that all members of the national football team who won the World Cup would receive a huge prize of 2 million dragon coins to stimulate the fighting spirit of the people.

After Wang Chenhao's edict was issued, it immediately stirred up a monstrous wave in the hearts of the 50,000 citizens of the empire. The huge prize money made all the people who played, ready to play and not to play strong, and Wang Chenhao's sarcastic words of "if you can't do it, you will replace me" made the hearts of the two million professional football players in the empire deeply stabbed, and even bled out.

As the best footballer of the Chinese Empire's two Chinese Super Leagues, the imperial football star, and the chief striker of the Royal Football Team, Li Huitang (non-cameo, a historical figure in the history of football in the Republic of China) then held a press conference, at which he publicly declared: "If you can't win the World Cup, you are sorry for the cultivation of the empire, sorry for the favor of His Majesty the Emperor, and it is not a pity to die on the football field", and at the same time he called on all domestic football players and enthusiasts to carry forward the "blood, sweat and tears." "Train to the end for the glory of the empire at any cost", and at the end, he exclaimed: "Even if you are looked down upon by the people of the whole world, you cannot be looked down upon by our most beloved emperor!" We have to fight and get the World Cup back to show him, we are not a bad breed. ”

Under his leadership, the minds of the Empire's more than two million professional players are constantly mindful of the belief in winning glory for the Empire and training diligently. If nothing else, just for the huge prize of two million dragon coins, and for not to be completely looked down upon by the emperor Wang Chenhao, they must grit their teeth and train diligently to win the World Cup.

The emperor's edict was issued, and the empire from the central to the local government regarded it as the top priority of sports competitions, and the government gave various conveniences to local football associations, and the students of the empire's major colleges and universities with the most advanced ideas and the highest fighting spirit joined a large number of football associations in various schools and regions, among which a considerable number of players with high football skills emerged. At the same time, more than 200 consortiums of the empire also value the business opportunities of football, and invested a huge amount of more than 2 billion dragon coins before the first World Cup, including the construction of a large number of middle and high-level football stadiums and sports centers across the country, providing an excellent practice environment for football players in various regions. Driven by the unity of the whole empire, the football of the empire has made great progress in just a few years, and a large number of outstanding players have emerged to reach international standards.

With the increasing number of football elites in the Chinese Empire, the confidence of the Imperial Football Association to win the World Cup has increased significantly. After examining the report of the Imperial Football Association, the Imperial Cabinet decided that the time was ripe, so the Imperial Government did not oppose it anymore, and the proposal for the World Cup project was resubmitted at a meeting of the Football Committee of the League of Nations.

On June 5, 1927, at the Shanghai meeting convened by FIFA, the motion at the Paris work conference three years earlier was adopted by 33 votes in favor, 5 votes against (the Nordic countries expressed opposition), and 3 abstentions. ╔╗The meeting decided to formally establish the World Cup, and held a collective discussion on the host country of the first World Cup, the regulations of the event, the start-up fund and other issues.

Since the Chinese Empire took the lead in hosting the Chinese Super League system of football competition, the Football Association Committee of the League of Nations compared with the "Cambridge Rules" formulated by the British Football Association, believed that the competition system and penalty standards formulated by the Chinese Imperial Football Association were more in line with the spirit of football, so the World Cup system and penalty standards were formulated based on the points-based, pre-selection and elimination system and penalty standards of the Chinese Imperial Chinese Super League.

The World Cup schedule is divided into two phases: the qualifier stage and the final stage. The World Cup qualifying stage is divided into six major regions, namely Europe, South America, Asia, Africa, North America and Oceania, each region needs to formulate qualifying rules according to the actual situation of the region, and each FIFA member country (region) team that has registered for the World Cup needs to qualify in their own region to compete for a place in the World Cup finals. The number of places in the final stage of the World Cup is currently 32, and the host country in the final stage can directly obtain the quota in the final stage, except for the host country, the other places are allocated by FIFA according to the football level of each qualifying region, and different qualifying regions will have different numbers of final stage places.

The host country of the World Cup finals must be a FIFA member state (region), and the member state (region) needs to apply to FIFA (two members can jointly apply to host it), and then the vote of all FIFA member countries (region) will be selected. The 32 teams will compete in the final stage of the tournament in the host country to compete for the championship. In the final stage, 32 teams will be divided into 8 groups of 4 teams in each group through the draw, and the top two teams in each group, a total of 16 teams, will qualify for the semi-finals; After entering the rematch, the sixteen teams will determine the schedule according to the established rules, no more draws, and then play a single knockout match until the champion is determined.

The quota for the first World Cup is allocated to 6 places in Asia, 14 places in Europe, 1 place in Africa, 1 place in Oceania, 5 places in South America, and 5 places in Central and North America and the Caribbean.

A total of 44 countries said they would participate, but 46 teams participated. There are four local governments in the UK, England, Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland. All the competitions were played by the four local governments themselves, and they did not bird each other, refused to be gregarious, and only when the Olympics did they get together and call the British delegation, so the United Kingdom was allowed to participate in the four teams. Similarly, the Chinese Empire's land runs through the axis of the North and South Poles, the land area is vast, the population is the largest in the world, the Chinese Empire has hosted four Chinese Super Leagues, and the rules of the World Cup come from the Chinese Empire, so it is recognized by the international community as a prosperous country in football. Taking into account factors such as the influence of the Chinese Empire, the Football Association of the League of Nations decided that the Chinese Empire could send three teams to participate in the World Cup qualifiers.

On the issue of the country and place to host the first World Cup, countries are quarreling endlessly, and they all want to win the right to host the first World Cup, and the Chinese Empire is also not to be outdone, mobilizing all kinds of forces to fight for the right to host the World Cup.

The Nordic countries were the first to make a strong request to host the first World Cup, on the grounds that, according to Norse mythology, the Greeks and Romans were already playing a game of football before the Middle Ages. On a rectangular court, they placed the ball on a white line in the middle and kicked it with their feet onto the opponent's court, a game called "Habastom" at the time.

Western Europe, Britain and France immediately opposed it. France said that it was the French who first proposed the establishment of a World Cup football league in Paris, and that it should be held in France. The UK, on the other hand, threw out the reason why they were the birthplace of modern football. The reason for this comes from a war with Denmark around the 12th century, after which the English saw the head of a Danish soldier on the ground, and kicked the head because the British hated the Danish soldier so much. At the same time, by the beginning of the 19th century, football had become quite popular in some countries in Europe and Latin America, especially in capitalist Britain. It wasn't until 1848 that the first written rules of football were born, the Cambridge Rules. The so-called Cambridge Rules were some of the rules that were laid down in the early 19th century when the competition between London, Oxford and Cambridge was played. At that time, there were 11 people in each team playing. Because there were 10 students and one teacher in each dormitory of the school, they played dormito-dormitory matches with 11 people per side, and it was then that the current 11-a-side football game began. ╔╗On October 26, 1863, the English Football Association held a very important conference in the history of modern football in England.

The British seemed to have a good reason, but they were soon attacked by the Chinese Empire.

The Chinese Empire believed that football first originated from a ball game "Keju" in ancient China, and later spread to Europe through the Arabs and developed into modern football. In 307 BC, that is, during the Warring States Period, King Wuling of Zhao reformed and implemented the "Hufu Riding Archery", and the people of Zhao learned to ride horses and shoot arrows. King Zhao often took his cronies out of the city on horseback, so he was not imposing. One day, when he came to a forest, he saw that there were several hares in the woods, and the king opened his Chrysostom, and "caught them alive", so he divided his troops into four ways and caught them together, and did not want to be frightened, and the hares ran rampant, and fled from the flat cracks of the horses, and found nothing, and everyone shook their heads and sighed. A strategist's eyes suddenly lit up, and he stepped forward to offer a plan: "King, this kind of containment is very interesting, we might as well use balls instead of rabbits, and we can play every day without leaving the palace gate." "Good idea," King Zhao praised, "I'll leave this matter to you with full responsibility." Thus, football was born in China. However, at that time, it was still a horseback sport, and it was called "Keju". The term "Keju" was first published in the "Historical Records? The Biography of Su Qin, when Su Qin lobbied King Qi Xuan, described Linzi: "Linzi is very rich and real, and its people are all blowing rods, drumming, and bowing." "蹋" means "kick", which means to kick. "Ju", the ball, that is, the ancient football. In the Han Dynasty's "Xijing Miscellaneous Records", "Treatise on Salt and Iron", "Keju New Book", and "Liu Xiang Beilu" all have records about Keju.

By the Song Dynasty, football in China had reached its peak. From the emperor to the common people, they all love football. In modern times, although the Qing Dynasty lagged behind, in the era of the Chinese Empire, four Chinese Super Leagues were held one after another, and the rules of the World Cup also came from China, so it has a strong international influence.

The Chinese Empire's efforts on this, combined with its strong political influence, were extremely persuasive. Soon, more than 20 countries supported the holding of the first World Cup football tournament in the Chinese Empire, but there were still opponents such as Uruguay and Argentina in South America, and Norway and Sweden in Northern Europe. They all accused the host country of being a long distance, that it would take several weeks to travel by boat to South America, and that the same was true of the train to the Chinese Empire, and that the long train ride by car and boat would seriously affect the physical strength and energy of the athletes, so they used this as a reason to oppose it.

In fact, this accusation was the main interface of competition between Europe and South America three years ago. Paraguay is going to host the first World Cup, and European countries are using this excuse to oppose and refuse to participate. Similarly, France bid, and South American countries use this excuse to oppose it. Paraguay, in particular, planned to host the World Cup in 1930, because that year was the centenary of Paraguay's independence, so the opposition was very high.

In addition to its strong political influence, the Chinese Empire also had a strong economic advantage. Soon, the Chinese Imperial Football Association proposed that if the World Cup was held in China, then the Chinese Empire would take care of the transportation of the participating teams from various countries, and ensure that they would be transported from various countries to the Chinese Empire's competition venue within a few hours, and there would be no fatigue caused by the long journey and could not play.

Of course, the Chinese Empire can do it, and in this era, only the Chinese Empire has the financial resources to directly fly teams from all over the world to the playing field of the Chinese Empire through long-range transport aircraft. And using the plane to directly transport the team personnel does not take much time at all, at most more than ten hours.

After the representative of the Chinese Empire put forward this condition, neither the countries of Europe nor South America immediately had any reason to oppose it. At the same time, after four sessions of the Chinese Super League, the Chinese Empire has a large number of sports facilities, and they are advanced and complete. Europe has limited financial resources and simply cannot afford to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to host the World Cup, while South American countries are not rich in the first place, and the venues that Paraguay can provide are not even as good as the continental-level football stadiums of the Chinese Empire, and compared with the international sports centers of the Chinese Empire, it is really insignificant.

As a result, the host country of the first World Cup was finally handed over to the Chinese Empire, and the venue for the game was selected at the Capital International Sports Center of the Chinese Empire, an international level football match built by the Chinese Empire at a cost of 90 million dragon coins, and the crowd watched and played all day long.

In this way, after exhausting all means, the Chinese Empire finally got the right to host the World Cup.

However, when it comes to the timing of the first World Cup, countries have demanded that it officially start in 1930. However, 1930 was the fifth Chinese Super League time of the Chinese Empire, which conflicted with the time of the World Cup, so the Chinese Empire was against it. Under the pressure of the Chinese Empire, the countries quickly compromised and set the time on October 18, 1929, that is, September 16, the 29th year of the Guanghua of the Chinese Empire, and October 18 every four years thereafter, it will be the time of the World Cup. The duration of the first World Cup was one month, from October 18 to November 17, and the same will apply for subsequent editions. However, when the countries of the southern hemisphere hosted the World Cup, due to the climate difference between the northern and southern hemispheres, the hosting time of the southern hemisphere was appropriately modified.

On October 18, 1929, tens of millions of fans from all over the world gathered at the International Sports Center in the capital of the Chinese Empire to watch the opening ceremony of the first World Cup, which began at 5 p.m.

Before the official start of the opening ceremony, the Royal Air Force Performance Team of the Imperial Chinese First performed a wonderful aerobatic performance. The flight group, which includes the most elite Jian-10 Black Hawk fighter formation and the colorful painted Hellfire fighter formation, swept over the stadium at ultra-low altitude, leaving traces on the clear blue sky, like a picture of Asia painted by a Chinese artist.

At 17 o'clock in the afternoon local time in Beijing, the opening ceremony of the China World Cup officially began. A cute little Chinese girl in Hanfu is smiling, she is still the age of babbling, and from her mouth, the lovely voice of milk unfolds a picture of ancient China for people all over the world.

"There are beautiful scenery, wild animals, rich mineral deposits, developed economy, advanced technology, strong military, and simple people. …… All this has been brought to every corner of the world by the World Cup. ”

Then, the sound of gongs and drums sounded, and nine golden dragons that could only be supported by more than 1,000 people appeared in the center of the arena one after another, and the dragons struggled to chase the dragon balls in front of them, circling and swimming throughout the venue, and the sound was earth-shattering.

After the dragon dance, the sound of the guzheng sounded, melodious and tactful. 10,000 female dancers dressed in Hanfu slowly entered the venue, and they used traditional Chinese dances to build a beautiful picture of oriental style, and the rich oriental style of the opening ceremony was fully reflected from the beginning. Tens of millions of spectators applauded warmly, and the cheers shook the sky.

However, after all, the first World Cup represents the world, and at the request of the Football Association of the League of Nations, the opening ceremony should add Western elements to represent the integration of East and West.

Therefore, after the traditional Chinese dance, there is the modern song "Fight for It". This song was personally arranged by Wang Chenhao, from the tone to the lyrics, it is a complete copy of the 98 World Cup theme song "Cup of Life" of Wang Chenhao's era, but it was changed to the first song in Chinese, followed by an English cover. Wang Chenhao believes that this song is the song that best reflects the passion of the World Cup, so in order for the first World Cup of the Chinese Empire to leave an indelible good impression on all mankind, Wang Chenhao had to be cheeky and pirated once.

"Life is pure passion

It should be full of love

And make a living from it

The mind must fight to win

……

gogogo！ alealeale

Moving forward, the world is at our feet

gogogo！ alealeale

Life is a race

……

Fight for it (yes!) ）

Fight for it (that's right!) ）

……”

When the song "Fight for It" sounded, the tens of millions of viewers in the stadium immediately became enthusiastic, they had never heard such a good song, until hundreds of years later, this song has become one of the favorite songs of every football lover. Similarly, the World Cup hosted by the Chinese Empire was also quickly spread around the world because of this song, and the influence of the Chinese Empire in cultural soft power expanded rapidly.

Later, famous rappers from China and around the world took the stage to sing. Chinese, French, English, Spanish, and Latin are the main languages, representing the voices of the world.

After the performances of artists from all over the world, the famous singer Lei Tao and his ghost band appeared on the stage, and they brought the second theme song of this World Cup "Call of Victory", which was performed for the first time with the most advanced electronic guitar and subwoofer, proving to the world that the Chinese Empire has come out of the blue after learning Western pop music.

At the same time, the flags of all members of FIFA entered the stadium amid singing, reflecting the united power of football. Then the actors on the scene formed the emblem of the Chinese World Cup, a huge modern football pattern. The opening ceremony of the World Cup also came to an end with a burst of salutes.

The opening ceremony lasted two hours, and it was already dark after the end. Everyone thought that there would be no games today, but soon to their surprise, tens of thousands of high-power incandescent lamps were lit up in the surrounding stands of the stadium, which suddenly illuminated the entire football stadium as if it were daytime.

Then, the first World Cup match began, with the Chinese Imperial Football Team playing against the Mexican Football Team.

When Li Huitang and other eleven members of the Chinese Imperial Football Team entered the stadium, the whole stadium immediately resounded with thunderous cheers. There are tens of millions of Chinese in the audience, less than 300,000 foreigners, and less than 2,000 Mexicans, and the cries cannot even drown the noise on the football field, which makes the members of the Mexican football team playing away from home nervous.

At the beginning of the game, China and Mexico had a fierce duel. For the players of the Chinese Empire, the first game must be won, so the offensive is quite fierce.

When the game reached the 19th minute, Chinese goalkeeper Chen Qi kicked the ball through the midfield, and central defender Liu Sen quickly passed the ball to 23-year-old left striker Li Huitang, who passed the ball to left winger Ma Mingda in time, and Ma Mingda dribbled the ball past a Mexican defender, straight into the penalty area, and then knocked back to Li Huitang, who was following quickly. Without hesitation, Lee Hye Tang led the ball forward, swayed left and right, and quickly passed through the gap between the opposing two defenders. More than 10 meters away from the goal, he decisively shot with his feet, the ball flew into the net from the upper left corner of the gate like a meteor, and the audience immediately thundered with joy, warmly congratulating Li Huitang on scoring the first goal of the World Cup. The Chinese team broke the door of the Mexican team for the first time, and the crowd was immediately excited and their confidence soared.

A goal that has made a man go down in history, and he is the Chinese Li Huitang.

At 8:19:25 p.m. on October 18, 1929, a scene in the green grass became an eternal moment for him and the World Cup. In the opening match of the World Cup, China defeated Mexico 4-0, and the 1.72m Li Huitang grabbed the penalty in the 19th minute to open the scoring, and at that time, he did not realize the significance of the goal.

"I was just happy after the goal, hugging or high-five my team-mates in celebration, and then I saw His Majesty the Emperor standing up and cheering at me with excitement, and at that moment, I knew that the blood and sweat of the past three years had been recognized. Then I continued to play because I didn't even realise it was the first goal in World Cup history......"

Li Huitang's first goal undoubtedly played a strong role in encouraging the Chinese Imperial Football Team, and then the Chinese team became more and more courageous, scoring three goals in a row for Mexican fans in the first half.

After the start of the second half, the Mexican team organized several large-scale counterattacks, but in the end they were all saved by the Chinese team. In the 89th minute and 47 seconds of the second half, central defender Liu Sen knew at the last moment of the game that the Mexican team was powerless, so he relaxed, and when the whistle of the end of the game was about to blow, he shot fiercely in the midfield, the football was like an eye, directly over the central defender defense of the Mexican team, and entered the goal with a kick in the unprepared situation of the Mexican goalkeeper, and the audience was in an uproar, and Liu Dajia became famous in the world (please refer to Beckham's influence) and became the strongest central defender in the world.

4:0, the Chinese Imperial Football Team defeated the Mexican Football Team and won the first official match in the history of the World Cup, and its milestone significance is self-evident.

In the first game, the Chinese football team played a majestic game, although the Mexican team was not very strong, but it was able to play a 4:0 opponent, and Chinese football suddenly impressed the world football community.