Not long after Hu Lai returned to Jincheng to start strength training, Wang Guangwei heard that Hu Lai had come back and moved with him, which was just right for him to learn to drive, because the driving school base where he learned to drive was in Liucheng District.

A few days after Wang Guangwei came to stay, the 2022 Qatar World Cup officially started in this time and space.

In fact, the atmosphere of the World Cup was very strong in China before, and traditional media such as TV and newspapers, as well as emerging media such as the Internet and mobile Internet, began to warm up for the World Cup a month earlier.

As the opening of the World Cup approaches, the propaganda offensive is becoming more and more intense.

It's so violent that a blind player thinks that the Chinese team has entered the World Cup - of course, if the Chinese team does make it to the World Cup, then the blind player will find that the battle is far more enthusiastic than what he sees now.

Hulai found that although he had changed time and space, some things were really ingrained, and he wondered if it was one of the basic rules of the multiverse.

That is, although it did not participate, China's enthusiasm for the World Cup may be higher than that of other countries that have participated in the World Cup......

This is true in the plane he traveled through, and it is still true in the plane he is in now.

Even crazier on this plane.

After all, in this time and space, the Chinese team has not even participated in a World Cup. And in that time and space, I still had a competition experience.

When I first reached the World Cup, I said "44 years of waiting". In this time and space, the media promoted "a waiting for a jiazi" during the 2022 World Cup qualifiers, which is 60 years......

Hulay sometimes feels terrible when he thinks about it.

In the past 60 years, China has developed from the beginning of reform and opening up to what it is today, and it has not yet taken 60 years.

Chinese football has never been able to break out of Asia.

It is no wonder that before the reform of the Football Association, the image of Chinese football was stinky, and it really reached the point where it had to be reformed.

Of course, as soon as the World Cup arrived, when the domestic media publicized it, Hu Lai's mentor Zhao Kangming had to be turned out again and again to be "whipped" - the media talked a lot about how the Chinese team didn't even play the top ten in the 2005 World Cup qualifiers, which was related to Zhao Kangming's red card.

So poor Coach Zhao, who was still the famous coach of Dongchuan Shining Star a month ago, everyone hopes that he can lead Shining Star to achieve good results in the new season of the Chinese League A and successfully surpass the ...... Now it has become "the sinner of Chinese football" in the media.

In this World Cup qualifiers, the Chinese team performed better than the previous ones and reached the final stage of the top 12. However, they still failed to reach the World Cup, and finally ended the round of 12 with the fifth place in the group.

At the Asian Cup in early 2019, the Chinese team also reached the semifinals, which gave many Chinese fans hope.

As a result, many people later learned that the football event with the highest level of Asian football was not the Asian Cup at all, but the top 12 of the Asian qualifiers for the World Cup.

Those opponents that the Chinese team can beat in the Asian Cup have played extremely hard in the round of 12. Even the Asian Cup champion is just as likely to capsize in the gutter and lose to the "weak team" in the round of 12.

After playing this round of 12, the Chinese national team has veterans on three lines, which of them is not a famous figure in Chinese football? is also a first-class boss in his respective clubs, and he is a star player like Hu Lai and Wang Guangwei who needs to look up.

But their best efforts were only for the Chinese team to re-participate in the round of 12 after 20 years.

As for a big guy like Qin Lin, he didn't participate in this World Cup qualifier at all.

Generations of Chinese players have dedicated all their youth, but they still can't even touch the threshold of the World Cup.

Wang Xiaojun, Zhao Kangming, Qin Lin......

There are so many famous players and legends in the history of Chinese football, just because they failed to lead the national team to the World Cup, they only have regrets and tears when they talk about their careers.

When Qin Lin quit the national team, he choked up and apologized to the fans, because he failed to fulfill everyone's wishes and failed to realize the ideal that made him chase half his life.

But in fact, it is not him who should apologize.

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The World Cup was still buzzing without the Chinese team, and for Hulai, it was a great opportunity to learn more about this new world of football.

Although it is a new version of the football world he is familiar with, there are actually some things in the same direction.

For example, the strength of Chinese football is still very weak.

After all, there can be a lot of variation between clubs, but there is always a trail of the level of the national team. A country's football level is directly related to its own economic development level and the level of football development.

And these are fixed, and it's hard to change dramatically.

The history of the world has not changed, the world pattern is exactly the same as that time and space, and the level of football development in each country is naturally based on evidence.

Otherwise, as soon as Hulai crossed over and found that the number one power in world football today turned out to be India, it is estimated that he will completely lose his sense of substitution......

The birthplace of modern football was still England, and then with the colonization of Britain and other European countries, football was brought to the world, thus becoming the number one sport in the world.

If the British invented basketball in this time and space, then perhaps the world's number one sport is basketball now.

Because colonial expansion had a profound impact on the promotion of football.

Therefore, there is not much difference in the world football map.

Brazil, Argentina, England, France, Germany, Italy and Spain are the traditional powerhouses of the football world, with a glorious tradition that has lasted for many years. And these countries also happen to be the ones that have won the World Cup so far.

Countries such as the Netherlands, Belgium, Portugal, Uruguay, Paraguay, Mexico, Croatia, the Czech Republic, and Poland rely entirely on talent blowouts, and a group of "golden generations" can leave a name in the history of world football once, and if they don't, they will be reduced to mediocrity.

With the likes of Japan, South Korea and Iran playing a pivotal role in Asian football, Australia and New Zealand having joined the AFC, leaving the Oceania Football Confederation with only a few Pacific island countries, which are almost negligible.

After years of development, American football has also made great progress, and it is no longer the so-called "football desert".

African countries have a place in world football because of their abundance of football talent.

Countries such as Qatar and the United Arab Emirates took advantage of loopholes to recruit a group of naturalized players, and the level has also improved accordingly.

Even countries such as Vietnam and Thailand have made great strides in youth training.

Chinese fans always talk about the comparison of the strength of Asian football in the past, and think that the Chinese team can't even win Vietnam and Thailand, which is simply embarrassing, but in fact, in terms of today's football strength, it is not easy for the Chinese team to win against Vietnam and Thailand......

Fortunately, Chinese football has undergone drastic reforms in recent years, especially attaching importance to campus football and the cultivation of youth talents, so that Chinese football has gradually found its feeling again.

Hu Lai himself is one of the beneficiaries of this policy, and he, along with Chen Xingyi, Luo Kai and Wang Guangwei, became the first representatives of Chinese football after the reform.

It's just that no one knows whether this reform is really effective, and whether Chinese football is really on the right track because of this.

Just like neighbouring Japan, their national team will not be able to say that their football reform program has been successful until they have been able to participate in every World Cup on a regular basis.

Whether the reform of Chinese football is successful or not will at least wait for the Chinese team to reach the World Cup finals.

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The map of world football is similar to the world that Hulay is familiar with, but when it comes to individual players, it is very different......

He had just crossed over before, and he heard that the first native star center forward in the world, Cylius Caesar, in this year's World Cup, is the age of standing - thirty years old, the most golden age of a professional player, physical fitness has not begun to decline, but experience and technology are at the peak, he is naturally ambitious, want to lead the Italian national team to win the World Cup.

Zhang Qinghuan's template Louis Francis, a French international, is now Chinese New Year's Eve four years old, and his career is inevitably entering an advanced stage. But because of the characteristics of the style of play and other reasons, the state is still very good, as the "big commander" of the French national team. He also carries the high hopes of the French fans that he can lead the French team to regain the glory of the Gallic Roosters in this World Cup, which they have lost for 12 years.

Twelve years ago, when France won the World Cup, Francis was twenty-two years old, and he was not the main player of that French team. As the No. 1 playmaker in today's football, failing to win the World Cup with his own skills has always been something that has been something that makes Francis haunted.

Grimand Aylmer, a German football superstar, is Chinese New Year's Eve 2 years old and plays as a midfielder, both offensively and defensively. Nicknamed "The Sun" because Aylmer is a "B2B" midfielder, from his own penalty area to the opponent's penalty area, all in his coverage area, like the sun in the sky, shining the sun all over the earth. However, when Hulay saw Aylmer's photo, he had a deeper understanding of his nickname - the nickname "Sun" was supposed to be a metaphor for his bald head reflecting the sunlight on the court, like a little sun on the court, blinding the opponent's dog eyes all the time......

But it is said that when Almer first debuted, he had flowing blonde hair, handsome and blonde hair, like the sun god Apollo, perhaps the nickname "Sun" originated from this.

Germany are the defending champions of this World Cup, and Elmer is at the heart of the team. In the last World Cup, it was he who led the German chariot to sweep the opponent, and finally won seven games and won the World Cup. He himself won the Ballon d'Or at that World Cup.

This time, of course, he and Germany will aim to successfully defend the title, breaking the curse that no team has been able to successfully defend the World Cup in 40 years since Brazil successfully defended the World Cup in 1982. As a player, at the age of thirty-two, he is still in his prime. But his opponents are not general.

Italy's Caesar, France's Francis, which one is not here for the championship?

There is also Alessandra Celados from Spain, the Spanish striker who combines speed and skill perfectly, the twenty-eight-year-old and the youngest of the four, nicknamed "The Prince". He leads Spain's "golden generation", and the only goal of this World Cup is naturally to win the title.

The above four people have a unified title in world football: "Four Heavenly Kings".

They are widely regarded as the top four players in football today, and they are all Grand Slam players in terms of club honours. Only in terms of national team honors, there are some differences, and they are the only areas where they can distinguish between superior and inferior.

Both Elmer and Francis have won the World Cup, but Elmer won the championship as the core of the team, and Francis won lying down, so Elmer is better in this regard.

In terms of European Championship honours, Aylmer has been a bit short of heroic, having failed to win a single European Cup, while Francis and Kaiser both have a European Cup.

"Prince" Celados is the youngest of the four and debuted the latest, but he has risen quickly, and the club has won a Grand Slam, won the domestic league and cup championships, won the Champions League, and won the World Footballer of the Year and the European Ballon d'Or in terms of personal honors. There are only national team honors, because they are the youngest, so they are still blank.

And for him, this World Cup is his best chance to achieve a breakthrough of zero. Because at the age of twenty-eight, he was in the prime of life. Four years later, he will be 32 years old in the World Cup, and he may not be as good as he is now.

In addition, the Spanish national team also has a group of players who have reached the same stage of maturity as him, and this group of "golden generation" with tacit cooperation has emerged from the World Youth Championships, and now it is time to produce results after many years of competition.

The favorites for this year's World Cup are also the teams of these four people.

In addition to the "Four Heavenly Kings", there are many superstars in world football, some of them are in their playing years, some are beginning to decline, and some talents are just emerging, and the future is limitless.

For example, after many years of silence, two young people have emerged from the South American duo, and they have been in the limelight in the past two years.

One is the 19-year-old Melly Banega of the young Argentine player nicknamed the "Young Eagles", who is widely favored by the Argentine media and fans as the best successor to the Argentine football legend "Pampas Eagles" Fiorijo Iguovara.

After the retirement of the "Eagle King", a so-called successor will emerge in Argentine football every few years, but I don't know if everyone has looked away, or if the successor of Iguovara has brought too much pressure to those young people, in short, none of them have reached people's expectations.

At the moment, only this young man, Meli Banega, is the most likely to be Iguovara's successor.

When Hulai first knew about this person, the first thought that popped into his mind was Messi, after all, he had a similar background, and it was difficult not to let him think about that person.

But take a closer look, the Argentine super-talent, who plays for Spanish giants Madrid Kings......

Suddenly made Hulai have an indescribable sense of disobedience - Messi went to Real Madrid?

He can't use Banega as Messi.

In terms of personal ability alone, Banega and Messi do have a little similarity, fast speed, good dribbling, sharp breakthroughs, and all-round in the frontcourt. But it's just similarity, Hulay knows very well that Banega is not a projection of Messi in this world, Messi is Messi, and Banega is Banega.

In addition to this Argentine talent, Brazil also produced a teenage talent named Kendor Cabonca.

Don't look at the two cards in the name, but there is no resemblance to the "Kaka" of that world. Kaka is "unparalleled in the world, and strangers are like jade", handsome is the biggest feature, but this Kabangka is not handsome, he is a mixed race of blacks and Indians, his appearance is not ugly, but he is definitely not handsome, and his dirty braid hairstyle is more wild.

The style of play is also completely different from Kaka's European style of striding with the ball and attacking in a straight line. He's more of a samba soccer dancer, but he's not the same as Neymar as Hulai knows him, with Neymar being the striker and Kabonka being the striker. His body is also much stronger than Neymar, and he has the same flowers under his feet, like Ronaldinho is better than like Neymar, and his nickname is similar, he is called "Elf".

At just 20 years old, Kabonka is a year older than Bane, and both are among the best of the younger generation in South American football, and are considered leaders who can lead their respective national teams back to life in the future.

In addition to these two teenage talents, there are also a number of famous stars, such as Russia's Ivan Romanov, a tall high school striker who is nearly two meters tall, has a strong body, and his impact on the court is like a nuclear bomb, so he has earned the nickname "Ivan the Horror".

Another representative of Spain's "golden generation", goalkeeper Rodriguez Bakir.

England's centre-back duo of George Birks and Tim Martin, who have been working together for more than a decade at the same club, have been working together for more than a decade. Some media once thought that it was a pity that neither of the two defenders transferred, otherwise it would have set a record for the transfer fee of a defender in world football.

and their teammates in the England national team, the all-round midfielder "tough guy" Harry Burgard, whose skills are not good enough, but he makes up for this deficiency with his always strong fighting spirit and tenacious style, and he does not hesitate to run physically and shoot from a distance, making him the core of the midfield of the England national team.

Dutch striker Maxey Carey, a false nine, is well-rounded and a world-recognized master of free kicks.

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There are many more world-class players with names and surnames that cannot be listed here.

In short, it is a little different from the time and space that Hu Lai traveled from, there is no peerless pride here, but there are "Four Heavenly Kings", and even if it is the "Four Heavenly Kings", there is no way to completely suppress the other superstars, and there will be no such thing as one person winning the Golden Globe Award for several years in a row.

The football of this world has not become a version of "Messi, Ronaldo and others".

Today's World Cup is a stage for these heroes and stars to show themselves to their heart's content, they are not a foil for a certain person, nor are they teammates, they are them.

They have their own dreams and persistence, and they also have their own dignity, and they will not hug their thighs in order to win the championship, nor will they compete to be "so-and-so blowing" or "group leader".

They will also praise the "Four Heavenly Kings", but they will not kneel on the ground and praise the "Four Heavenly Kings".

Even the fans of the "Four Heavenly Kings" will not say anything stupid about "forcibly forcing the Four Heavenly Kings".

For such a new version that he has never played, Hulai yearns for it.