Now that the money is in place, everything else is easy to say.

Before the money was remitted, the Olympic delegation, which had already received funding from the football team, had been selected and trained for several months, and was ready to go. In addition to the 22 football players, including Lu Zhuhu, there are 56 athletes from other sports, 37 "sports expeditions" and 26 staff members.

Before leaving, President Jiang also personally gave a lecture to the members of the delegation. However, he knew that there was a huge gap between Chinese athletes and the world's first-class level, so fortunately, he did not send a "gold medal mission".

Chang Kaishen said politely: "Victory or defeat has nothing to do with the grand purpose, and the main purpose of participating in the World Games is to show the world the inherent spirit of courtesy, righteousness and honesty of our country and nation. All attitudes and actions should show the demeanor of a dignified nation with a glorious history of 5,000 years and a noble culture in East Asia. ”

President Jiang's enthusiastic speech made the ambitious athletes a little embarrassed-

Isn't this a clear saying that "friendship comes first, competition comes second"......

However, it seems that the expectations of the Chinese people are indeed not very large, and the emphasis is on participation. At the farewell party, several celebrities and the principal said in the same way that although victory should not be expected, they hope to show the spirit of the great people.

Well, who let the best football team already start first, and the other sports naturally have no chance to compete with them for attention......

In modern times, the hat of "the sick man of East Asia" has overwhelmed the Chinese people, and the Chinese urgently need an opportunity to reshape their image, and the World Games is obviously the best stage. In order to create a new image that is completely different from the old robe and horse coat in front of the world, the Sports Association also customized a set of team uniforms for each member of the team. Both men and women wear uniform navy blue flannel suits, and the male members wear white shirts and black ties, white pants and black leather shoes. The women's group members wore white cheongsams and brown flat-heeled leather shoes. In order to add Chinese elements, each person wears a top on their heads-

Uh, domestic straw hats.

Well, this is really with national characteristics, maybe the Chinese anti-Japanese war films shot in Hollywood in the 40s, the image of Hollywood's top stars wearing straw hats and playing old Chinese farmers are based on this costume......

(However, judging from the photos taken at the time, this outfit is quite heroic and modern.) ）

In addition to carefully packaging the members of the group in terms of appearance, the Sports Association also edited a book of "Instructions for Going Abroad". Many of the members of the delegation were going abroad for the first time (although some of the athletes in the delegation were overseas Chinese living in Southeast Asia, but it was also the first time to go to Europe). The exception was cyclist Ho Ho Ho, an expatriate in the Netherlands and a Dutch cycling champion, who insisted on turning down an invitation from the Dutch national team to represent his home country at the Olympics. In order to allow the buddies to adapt to life abroad smoothly, the "Instructions for Going Abroad" gives a detailed description of the journey abroad, the luggage to be bringed, the weather of the journey, and the situation of the conference, lest the members of the group will lose their ground in foreign countries and insult the national body. It is the earliest official guide to travel abroad.

By the time the money for the football team arrived, the remaining nearly 120 members had already set off for India to join the football team.

On June 26, the Chinese Olympic delegation boarded the Italian cruise ship Kang Yi Floating Land with the ardent expectations of the Chinese people. The scene of the send-off at the pier was unprecedented. Chu Anping and Feng Youzhen of the Kuomintang Central Daily who accompanied the reporters wrote: "At about 12:30 p.m., the ship slowly left the shore, and the sound of military music, cheers, firecrackers, and airplanes in the sky mingled...... There is infinite enthusiasm hidden in this whole voice! Infinite Hope!! Infinite encouragement!!"

The Chinese Olympic delegation lived in the second-class cabin and began a nearly month-long sea drift. The atmosphere on the ship was quite relaxed when I first went to sea, but it didn't take long for me to encounter a storm at sea and vomit a lot. Basketball player Mu Zuoyun directly lost 9 pounds in the process. When everyone finally arrived in Mumbai and got the seasickness elixir left by Lu Zhuhu, everyone was grateful, saying that this buddy surnamed Lu was too timely, and when he arrived in Europe, he must let the most beautiful female member of the delegation kiss him.

Seeing off Lu Zhuhu and Zhou Jiaqi, who asked for accounts, the remaining players packed up and went to Mumbai, the last stop of the training. It was 1,600 kilometers away by train from Kolkata in the east to Mumbai in the west, and it was not until the morning of July 8 that Li Huitang and his party finally arrived. In Mumbai, you will be playing against the Chinese Olympic team.

Mumbai, as the largest city in India in the future, is also developing well at this time, after all, in the future, the three brothers said worriedly that by 2030, Shanghai will catch up with Mumbai's advanced level - completely ignoring the whining small tricycles on the streets of Mumbai.

But who makes the third brother confident.

In the ultimate battle in Mumbai, the opponent of the Chinese team is the Mumbai team. The popularity of football in Mumbai is far less than that of Kolkata, which is not as popular as it was at this time. However, when I heard that the Chinese team brutally abused the third brother of Kolkata in the second game of Kolkata, the third brother of Mumbai was naturally not convinced, because they felt that the third brother of Mumbai was the most awesome third brother. The number of people who bought tickets for this show exceeded 10,000, which was not as good as the 150,000 in Kolkata, but it still broke the local record. Even the mayor of Mumbai came to watch the game in person.

In order to make the whole journey end perfectly with an undefeated record, the Chinese team also discharged most of the main forces except for Lu Zhuhu, but gave Zhou Xianyan a chance to play in the final battle, and Bao Jiaping took turns to rest. After all, Bao Shen is too tired all the way.

Goalkeeper: Zhou Xianyan

Defenders: Li Tiansheng, Tan Jiangbai

Midfielders: Liang Rongzhao, Xu Yahui, Chen Zhenhe

Forwards: Cao Guicheng, Feng Jingxiang, Li Huitang, Dai Linjing, Ye Beihua

At 5:30 p.m., the game officially began. Mumbai is not popular because the football league is not popular, so the players of the Mumbai team are mainly military. The advantage is a strong physique and quick movements. The style of play is also a big open and closed style of play, and when you come up, you will attack the Chinese team. It's just that the opponent's technology is still lacking compared with the famous generals of the Chinese team, and soon find out the details of the opponent and resolve the opponent's offensive again and again. After gradually gaining the upper hand, Comrade Lao Tan began to perform, directly from the backfield with a long pass, Li Huitang received the ball and ran for a long time, and easily shot in the face of the Mumbai goalkeeper, 1:0!

Lao Tan, who gave the assist, also said, look, Lao Tzu is no longer in the front line, and he is right to attack.

However, soon after the Meng team conceded the goal, through the cooperation of left center Weifu and center Lager, while Zhou Xianyan was not in the best condition, the header equalized the score. The Chinese team fought back, Dai Lin got the ball past the right back of the Mumbai team, and shot with his feet, but the ball was directly confiscated by the excellent Mumbai goalkeeper Biyishans. The contrast between one and the other made Lao Zhou, who is also a goalkeeper, very depressed. Two or three years earlier, how many people in Asia can compare with him? What a tiger in Pingyang!

However, it was still a good friend Dai Pu who pulled him, and at the end of the first half, Dai Lin broke through the defense of the Bombay team with the ball again, and shot hard in the penalty area, rewriting the score to 2-1 and regaining the lead.

It seems that Lu Zhuhu is not there, and the impact of the team is not so great. But soon in the second half, the three buddies slapped the optimistic Chinese buddies, seeing that the undefeated record was not guaranteed!