Shen Feng himself has no special feelings about losing the "World Footballer of the Year" and "European Golden Ball Awards" one after another.

As a player, he can't interfere in the selection process for two of the most important individual awards in world football, and can only do his best to do his best.

The judges didn't vote for him, he could only think that he didn't do well enough!

Shen Feng gave heartfelt congratulations to Griezmann on his award, although Griezmann lacks the temperament of a superstar, it is undeniable that he is also one of the top players in international football today!

In any case, the past year has been a very important year for Shen Feng personally!

In his career, he has already won all the honors that a player of his age can get, and if football also has a Hall of Fame, Shen Feng has the qualifications to be selected with his current results.

Personally, the relationship between Shen Feng and Zhang Zifeng has also stabilized, although there are inevitably some small frictions in the middle, but the two young people who really love each other still try their best to carefully maintain this relationship, hoping to have a fruitful day.

After the last game before the winter break of the Serie A league, Shen Feng immediately went to Qatar to join the Dragon Country team, which had arrived here in advance and adapted to the local climate and environment, to prepare for the upcoming Confederations Cup here.

On January 3, 2021, the opening match of the Qatar Confederations Cup was played between the host Qatar team and the last World Cup champion France.

In order to hold the World Cup on home soil in 2022, Qatar began to focus on cultivating the team as early as seven or eight years ago, and after sparing no expense, the strength of the Qatar team has improved significantly in recent years.

Although there is still a certain gap between the Dragon Country Team, the Iranian team, the Japanese team, and the South Korean team in the first group, it has caught up with the Saudi Arabian team and the North Korean team in the second group.

With the 2026 World Cup expanded to 48 teams and the AFC able to secure eight quota places, Qatar will even be able to compete in the Asian region of the World Cup qualifiers.

Just like the situation of the Dragon Country team in Asia a few years ago, we can see the hope of qualifying, but how it will depend on the performance on the spot.

Qatar don't want to be like South Africa in 2010, where they won't be able to qualify from the group at the World Cup on home soil.

However, in this Confederations Cup, the strength of the Qatar team is the lowest among all eight participating teams, and even the champion of the Oceania Nations Cup, New Zealand, is higher than the Qatar team in the latest FIFA rankings.

The other three teams in the same group are World Cup winners France, Copa America winners Uruguay, and CONCACAF Gold Cup winners Costa Rica.

Among these three opponents, the Costa Rica team looks slightly weaker, but it is still much stronger than the Qatar team.

In the first game against the French team, the Qatar team did its best to grab the start and take the lead in breaking the French team's goal, but in the end, it was still the French team that played as a substitute and scored two goals in a row and lost 1:2.

On the second match day of this year's Confederations Cup, a total of three matches were scheduled, starting with the other match in Group A, where Uruguay and Costa Rica drew 0-0.

The Dragons' first opponent in the group stage of this Confederations Cup is the strongest of the three opponents in the group, England, the runners-up of last year's European Championship.

England, an old powerhouse in international football, last won a World Series title more than 50 years ago.

The England team led by superstars such as David Beckham, Paul Scholes, Michael Owen, Steven Gerrard and Frank Lampard at the turn of the century has only reached the quarter-finals of the World Cup.

After several years of silence, the England team suddenly broke out at the 2018 World Cup in Russia, breaking into the semi-finals in one fell swoop, creating the team's best record in the World Cup since the new century.

In last year's European Championship, Harry Kane's England team continued to make it to the final, which also created the best record in the European Championship since the beginning of the new century.

The Confederations Cup is a world-class tournament below the World Cup and the European Championship, and England want to use the title to make a name for themselves.

In fact, the Confederations Cup is not valued by the participating teams, the French team and the Uruguay team are all second-tier teams dominated by substitute players, Costa Rica, Cameroon, and even New Zealand have many main players absent.

Only the host Qatar team, as well as the Dragon team, and the England team, played with a full main lineup.

England's latest FIFA rankings are fourth, more than 20 places ahead of the Dragons.

Because of their consecutive wins in the World Cup qualifiers, the FIFA ranking of the Dragon Country team has improved rapidly recently and has stabilized in the top 30, and the latest ranking is 26th.

In terms of rankings, there is still a big gap between the Dragon team and the England team, but the gap in the strength of the two teams is not as big as the FIFA ranking.

In this game, although the England team played as much as possible and vowed to get a good start to this year's Confederations Cup, it was unfortunate that they met the like-minded Dragons team.

The Dragons team's lineup for the England team, in this game, made a special arrangement, caught the England team off guard, less than five minutes into the opening game, the Dragons broke the deadlock, a one-goal lead, and made a dream start.

England tried their best to catch up, and finally scored one goal each in both halves to equalize the score and take the lead.

However, the Dragon Country team was not discouraged by this, and the score was overtaken, which aroused the ferocity of the players, and in the rest of the game, they were out of the way and almost went into battle shirtless.

In the end, in the eighty-ninth minute of the game, the Dragon Country team got a good position to take a direct free kick in the front court, and Shen Feng took the penalty and helped the Dragon Country team equalize the score.

The score of 2:2 was maintained until the final whistle sounded.

Although the Dragons only won a draw in the match with England, they used their tenacious performance in the game to win the respect of their opponents and all fans.

In the other game in the same group, Cameroon defeated England 3:1 and temporarily topped the group.

After a short two-day break, the Confederations Cup resumed on January 6, and the highlight of the two Group A matches on this day was naturally the strong dialogue between France and Uruguay, but because both teams sent substitutes, the results of this game were far from what people expected.