To be honest, Celestial Empire football has not made a little progress over the years, at least there is a Li Tenglong who can get stable playing time in the five major leagues, and there have been three or four players in the top leagues of Portugal and Belgium who have had the opportunity to make a difference, but unfortunately they have not been able to stand on their feet in the end.

However, judging from the evaluation given by the FM system and scouts, in the age group born in 2000-03, there are still a number of players with potential values of more than 120 and can play an important rotation or even the main force in secondary leagues such as the Championship and La Liga in terms of strength. Although there is certainly a big gap between the good momentum of the two countries, at least it is not bad if you compare yourself.

Unfortunately, when the number of places in the World Cup finals was expanded to 48 this year, the Celestial Empire men's football team, which was led by a French head coach with no qualifications or ability, still failed to get one of these eight places, which made all the Chinese people who still had some hope before the start of the qualifiers despair again.

So at the end of last year, after it was determined that there was no right to qualify, the former chairman of the Tianchao Football Association, who was on the verge of leaving class, in order to protect himself, put all the responsibility on the team's foreign coach, but not only failed to achieve the goal, but became the object of everyone's spurning because of character problems, and indirectly helped the head coach who should indeed be responsible for this situation to avoid the center of the storm, but the latter's dismissal is indeed impossible to avoid.

In March 2026, after the new leadership of the Football Association takes office, the first important task is to formulate relevant work plans for next year's Asian Cup and the Olympic Games cycle in two years, so the first task is to decide on the new coach of the national team as soon as possible.

In the end, under the tremendous pressure of the national team not being able to achieve even a single result for many years, everyone agreed to send someone to have a preliminary trial communication with the sports god of the whole country to see if they could invite him back to China to save the world's No. 1 sport, which had been difficult to return to, but could not be completely abandoned. Of course, due to the efforts of Da Yao and others, at least in the past five or six years in the Celestial Empire, the recognized number one sport has become basketball, but the hundreds of millions of fans who still love football are not reconciled, they are just waiting for the opportunity to vent wantonly.

Li Mudi received a phone call from China at the end of March, after which a national youth team leader who was leading a team on a tour of Europe visited the Real Madrid coach who was observing the results of Shuangbijia's training at the private training base. When the latter understood the idea of the new leader of the Football Association, he did have an urge in his heart to agree, but reason quickly returned and he made the decision to decline.

Not to mention that Lin Yun'er's second child and taking care of the baby after that will occupy most of his out-of-work time for at least a year in the future, not to mention whether the current strength of the national football team will consume all the reputation he has accumulated so hard, just looking at the fact that he is still in the contract period with Real Madrid, it is impossible for Li Mudi to take over the coaching whip of the men's football team of the Celestial Empire. Because in addition to the Spanish national team, it is impossible for the Real Madrid management to allow the coach they hired with a high salary to distract from other football-related work, and even if the Spanish Football Association really comes to the door to make such a request, it is estimated that Raul will only be embarrassed for a while, and finally refuse.

Therefore, unless Real Madrid fires their coach in advance, or Li Mudi's IQ suddenly drops below 60 and voluntarily resigns despite his salary of more than 25 million euros a year (counting various incentives), then he can become the head coach of the men's football team in his country until the summer of 2029 at the earliest, and this possibility will become extremely weak due to a series of factors such as Real Madrid will renew his contract, almost negligible.

However, as the only person in the Celestial Empire football world who can still do something on his own, Li Mudi naturally will not be so hard-hearted and let the Chinese people who come to the door with hope return empty-handed, so he proposed in the way of suggestions that this training base can be opened, so that some young players of the Celestial Empire with good potential can come here to train for a period of time, and use his ulterior plug-in ability to improve the football level of these future stars faster and better.

It's just that because it is inconvenient to disclose specific details, the team leader obviously listened to these words as ordinary polite words, and did not take them to heart from the face. Fortunately, Shuangbijia's adjustment at this stage is nearing the end, and he will soon be called up by the interim coach of the national team to participate in some friendly matches, as long as he can show the results of the hard training in the past few months in front of the public, I believe that there will be people who will find the difference of Li Mudi's training base, so that the Real Madrid coach's suggestion can be implemented.

If this somewhat retro training method can be persisted in for two or three years, Li Mudi is confident that he will be able to cultivate a group of instant combat power for the national team, although the overall ability may be excellent (after all, it will be affected by the potential value), but the technical characteristics will be extremely distinct, and the effect in actual combat is far better than those who said that they were extremely mediocre in the past.

When it comes to Shuangbijia, his current ability has changed a lot from three and a half months ago, with 14 dribbles, 14 crosses, 14 speed, 13 acceleration, and 14 endurance, which is enough for him to gain a foothold in the Spanish Second Division. If the team is not one that is relatively strong and wants to be promoted, then it is not completely impossible to get a main position, but the main thing depends on whether the manager's tactical play needs a winger who crosses from one side.

However, this is obviously difficult for Li Mudi, through the FM system viewing, he has selected three teams for his compatriot who can play his strengths, and has sent his own signed letter of recommendation, I believe that if Shuangbijia does not have any big accidents in the trial, it is not a problem to find a satisfactory job.

And through a long period of careful observation, the Real Madrid coach also speculated with years of coaching experience that his "number one test subject" is likely to have a rare trait of Asian players, that is, the ability to maintain at the peak is strong, and the average Celestial Empire player has begun to decline in ability at his age, but Shuangbijia has not seen this situation for the time being. In other words, his current ability of 117 should be able to maintain until he is 30 years old before there will be a gradual decline, and when he falls to 110, which cannot enter the rotation lineup in the West League game, it is estimated that it will be three or four years later at the earliest.

It's a pity that the men's football team failed to enter this year's World Cup finals, which basically announced that Shuangbijia, who turned 29 years old in November, will not have the opportunity to participate in this most important event in world football in his life, which is really a pity.

This topic is indeed a bit too cruel for Celestial Empire football, but for fans in other countries, it is a quadrennial carnival moment.

Since the World Cup is mentioned, then we have to introduce the impact of this event on Real Madrid. Because of the honor of winning the treble, and with all the players making their own contributions due to the rotation system, the first team, reserve team and even the youth team of the best football club of the last century have won the favor of many national team managers, making the number of Real Madrid players selected for the cup squad reach a staggering 22, setting a record.

In addition to the impact of adding 16 teams, the most critical reason is naturally that these disciples under Li Mudi have indeed been widely recognized in terms of ability, otherwise there would not be such an exaggerated situation.

However, even so, there are still a large number of media and fans who complain about some Real Madrid players who have not been given the opportunity to show themselves on the World Cup stage, among which Spanish central defender Zori, who has just won multiple rookie awards, and Febas, one of the team's spiritual leaders, are the two most controversial people.

The Spanish national team has not been able to reach the semi-finals of any World Series since that super-peak period in 2008-12, and it is unfortunate that Enrique and Unai Emery, two of the world's leading managers, have not been able to reverse that situation.

But anyone with a discerning eye can understand the distress of the two of them, because since Xavi and Villa's golden generation withdrew, there have been some signs of disconnection in the talent of Spanish football, although the strength of Koke, Saul, Diego Costa and others is very strong, but the characteristics are not very in line with the country's traditional technical and tactical play. Isco, who has high hopes, has also proven to be the one who can't be the one to dominate the game, so it's no surprise that the Matadors have struggled so much since the World Cup in Brazil.

It wasn't until the likes of Abel Ruiz, Carlos Alenia, Brahimi Diaz, Ferran Torres and Sergio Gomez – born around 2000 – matured that there was another period of blowout of their frontcourt players, but at the same time, their backline went awry.

Although the right wing-back still has a certain depth of talent reserves, and the left-back is not satisfactory when José Gaya, Grimaldo and Cucurera take turns to play, but the central defender position has not been able to appear a good player of the level of Ramos or Pique, and finally a Diego Llorente appeared, and he became a glass man after returning to Spanish football.

The rest of the likes of Hermoso, Unai Nunez and Melle have not grown to the level of leading the national team as expected, and Vallejo is the only one who is barely worth using, but he has also been plagued by injuries in the past few years, which has affected his further improvement.

Now a good seedling has finally appeared, but the new coach of the Matadors Legion Abelardo obviously does not think that the 20-year-old meets his selection criteria, so he simply excluded him from the 23-man squad, and even did not recruit Real Madrid's central defender into the team in a few warm-up games before the start of the World Cup, giving him a chance to prove himself, which is where the majority of fans are dissatisfied. As a result, in the six friendly matches and warm-up matches before this year's World Cup, the Spanish national team conceded a total of eight goals, although it cannot be said that the performance at the defensive end is particularly poor, but at this level it will certainly not be able to achieve an ideal result on the World Cup stage as the fans expect.

As for the loss of Febas, the controversy is even greater, because the midfielder, who is widely regarded as the most tenacious midfielder in La Liga and even in European football as a whole, can be said to be the most consistent player in the team in the two seasons since returning to the Bernabeu, but because of Abelardo's tactical play, he has never been able to be reused in the national team, and now he has not been able to become a member of the final 23-man squad, which is widely believed to be due to the manager's personal bias. Even Pinsuri's unfriendly media feel that even if Spain's current midfielders are indeed full of talent, it is difficult to imagine what kind of problems the team will have when facing a difficult situation, without this great player who can act as a spiritual leader.

So after the announcement of the registration list and the results of several warm-up matches, even the experts and journalists who had previously given the most support to Abelardo did not dare to predict how the team would be able to play in the World Cup, where the team had expanded for the first time and made the overall situation very unpredictable.

The reality is that everyone's fears are not unfounded, although the addition of a large number of slightly inferior teams has made the group stage easier than ever, but even if they are placed in a relatively easy group, the road to top the group is not as smooth as originally expected. If it weren't for a thrilling last-round win over Panama, they would have finished second behind the Kimchi Nation on goal difference and faced an even more brutal knockout round.

Next, after beating Costa Rica in the 16-point final and just being recognized as one of the favourites, the Matadors were stunned by the opponent's high-flying tactics in the European civil war with Nordic powerhouse Denmark, conceding two headers at half-time, and finally being blocked out of the quarterfinals 2-3, leaving the World Cup early.

Less than two days after returning home, Abelardo, who had led two successful La Liga teams to Alaves and Valencia, submitted his resignation to the Football Association, becoming the fifth national team manager in eight years to leave the position with regret.

Discussions about his successor quickly became a hot topic in the media and online, and as on previous occasions, a Celestial name was at the top of various unofficial votes, as obvious and glaring as a resounding slap in the face of all the local coaches.