In fact, Zheng Xiaoyang's achievements in leading the team in the past four years are quite eye-catching, after all, he is a top student who graduated from the Spanish football system, and then followed Li Mudi to have experience in European powerhouses such as Turin and Arsenal, and also worked as an assistant coach in the Premier League team Coventry for two and a half years, and the level is beyond doubt.

Therefore, even though he faced fierce competition from many famous coaches when he competed for the position of head coach of the national team in the summer of 2030, he finally won the trust of the national sports director and successfully took over the class of high coach.

In the cycle of his tenure, the national football team first reached the semi-finals in the 2031 Asian Cup, creating the best record in the last seven editions, and then won a third place and a championship in the two consecutive East Asian Cups, and the performance is still relatively good.

Especially in the 2034 Spain World Cup Asian qualifiers, the national football team whose age structure is still not very reasonable due to the talent gap crisis was finally able to get a direct ticket to qualify relatively easily, and Zheng Xiaoyang's tactical arrangement and on-the-spot command played an immeasurable role in it. Saying that he is the most successful national football coach in the past 25 years can still be recognized by most fans.

It's just that in the key battle for qualification for the group stage in the first round of the World Cup finals, in the face of the Egyptian team, which is half a chip higher than himself in overall strength, Zheng Xiaoyang, who has no external protection, still failed to lead that group of players to create a miracle, and finally lost to the Pharaohs by one goal, stopping in the first play-off for the second consecutive year.

And the process and result of this game also made all the Chinese people see the ceiling of this coach in Europe, thinking that with his current ability, it can be concluded that he will not be able to lead the national football team to achieve better results in the 2038 World Cup to be held in the Celestial Empire, so the decision to change the coach will not be particularly abrupt. As for who will take over this position, there will naturally be no suspense.

In the face of the invitation that has risen to the level of national tasks, even if Li Mudi is about to hang, he has to grit his teeth and say that this is the duty of a Celestial Empire, not to mention that he planned to use the opportunity of this local World Cup to expand the influence of football in the people and pave the way for future reforms, so he did not pretend to wait for others to look around, and soon nodded and re-inducted in the position of head coach.

may have disappeared from the world football for four years, except for the news of his comeback that caused a lot of shock in East Asia in the first month, his original main battlefield in Europe was at most a small splash, and it did not attract too much attention.

However, soon, the name Li Mudi appeared on the pages of major mainstream media in Europe, evoking the memories of many old fans. Because in the friendly match schedule for the second half of the year announced by FIFA, the two opponents of the Celestial Empire men's football team will be Italy and England, the two old world powerhouses, and according to rumors, the Spanish national team will also play against that East Asian power in the first national team match day in early 2035.

In addition, the Celestial Empire Football Association has also formulated a three-year national team training plan in Europe, which will take advantage of the pre-season preparation period in European and South American football in the next 30 months to conduct a number of warm-up matches with major giants, in order to achieve the purpose of rapidly improving the technical level and practical experience of players.

As soon as these blockbuster news were revealed, they immediately caused great repercussions in China, and the media and so-called experts who were still questioning Li Mudi's abandonment of all veterans and building the new national team into a boy scout changed their original position in an instant, and praised the new coach's courage and social circle.

After the end of the World Cup in Spain, the 2000 and 01 players represented by Li Tenglong, Jiang Shenglong, and Sun Qihang all chose to quit the national team or even retired directly, which made the overall strength of the men's football team of the Celestial Empire a great decline. As mentioned before, this group of players born in 05-10 years does not have particularly outstanding leaders, even if some people catch up with the good time to stay abroad and go to Europe to play, it is difficult to meet Li Mudi's employment standards after four years, so the new coach of the national football team simply overturned the original team building concept, and excluded all players over the age of 25 from the list of the new national team, which naturally received a lot of doubts from the outside world.

But talent is really not deceiving, even if these young players in their early 20s were not so obvious when they were teenagers, but since they were sent to the European arena by Li Mudi, the level has been a step a year, and after three or four years, they have left their domestic peers far behind.

And unlike the two countries with the same number of players in Europe, this group of players scattered to Germany, Portugal, Spain and other national leagues can quickly find a tacit understanding with each other after gathering together, as if they have been training together for a long time. Although this situation is very weird, the super plug-in of the FM system is still not noticed by outsiders, because everyone will only attribute it to Li Mudi's super high level, and there will be no trouble.

Because of the help of plug-ins, this group of national football teams composed of a group of "raw melons and eggs" still achieved eye-catching results in the following year, although it is inevitable to lose more miserably in the face of top teams such as Italy, England and Spain, but at least in the global national league against several opponents ranked similar to themselves, it is more and more stable, more and more excellent, early locked the top position of the fifth group B, for the first time in history to participate in the promotion play-offs.

In the summer of this year, Li Mudi led the young men's football team in India to announce the birth of a new generation of Asian kings, who defeated Iraq, Vietnam, Australia and Japan, and won the first Asian Cup championship trophy in the history of the Celestial Empire with a complete victory.

As for the East Asian Cup held in Kimchi Country two months later, Li Mudi used the national second team composed of all young domestic players to pass all the way, and defeated his biggest bitter host in the past few decades by three goals in the final, so that the sticks who were not convinced before had to admit that the pattern of Asian football has undergone earth-shaking changes.

After winning two important championship trophies in a row, the domestic media have published reports claiming that the system transformation project of the Celestial Empire Youth Training has begun to show results, although the content does not conform to reality, but it has also played some positive effects, at least arousing more young people's love for the sport and the confidence to dare to invest more energy.

However, what attracted the most attention of the public was an article from the famous football commentator Zhan Jun, which detailed how Li Mudi had become a trapeze artist in the past year. Flying almost non-stop to various European countries to provide technical and psychological counselling to the young players who played there, except for the "half a month off" when his father fell ill again, the rest of the time was spent helping to improve the abilities of every Celestial Empire player. Zhan Zhi finally used the sentence "How can such a great football man not let us love" to express his deep respect and support for Li Mudi in his heart, which resonated with all the people.

As a result, with the strong support of both the private and the official, the results of the national team have gradually improved close to qualitatively.

In the 2036 Olympic Games, the Celestial Empire Olympic team, which entered the finals again since Seoul 48 years ago, almost created a miracle under the leadership of Zheng Xiaoyang, and finally unfortunately passed the knockout round only because of the disadvantage of a slightly less goal difference, but this team won the first Olympic victory in the history of Celestial Empire football, which was widely praised by domestic and even foreign media.

However, before this national Olympic trend could be completely fermented, it was stolen by the national team, Li Mudi led the maturing men's football team in the 51st Copa America hosted by Paraguay (the national football team is a special guest team), and finally defeated the Chilean team to win the third place, becoming the highest-ranked non-South American team in the competition for 118 years, and on the cusp of global football.

But who knows that this is not the highest peak that the "Li national football team" can finally achieve, in the turn of the year, the Celestial Empire national team, which has completely played its name in world football, first easily defended the championship of the East Asian Cup, and then drew the powerful German and Brazilian teams in a number of warm-up matches, and defeated Uruguay and Portugal, the two perennial top 15 strong players in the world all year round, shocked the entire football circle.

This time, Li Mudi finally abandoned his usual strategy of pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger, and every game gave people a feeling of sharpness and bayonets, but the hidden reason behind it was that the overall strength of the team was actually quite a small gap with those old strong teams, and he could only use one victory after another to strengthen the players' confidence in daring to compete with all opponents.

As a result, under this crazy training and running-in method, the men's football team of the Celestial Dynasty, which is going to the 2038 World Cup on home soil as the host, burst out with incredible energy, first successfully broke through from the group stage with a record of 2 wins and 1 loss, reached the minimum goal, and then defeated Romania by three goals in the knockout round and advanced to the quarterfinals in history.

However, the miracle did not stop there, in the next quarterfinals, the men's football team dragged the game into a penalty shootout under the passive situation of the whole field, and relied on the excellent performance of goalkeeper Zhao Yijun to knock out one of the favorites Argentina, reached the semifinals, and detonated the entire Chinese land.

Although he lost to the Samba Army because of his overall strength, he defeated the Three Lions in a penalty shootout in the third-place match, refreshing the best result in Asian football created by Kimchi Country in 2002.

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A year later, the long-awaited autobiography of Li Mudi, "Born for Football", was finally published and released, triggering a terrifying book-buying frenzy and naturally creating an astonishing sales record. Prior to this, the former coach of the national football team, who submitted his resignation shortly after the end of the World Cup because his father was seriously ill, has not appeared in everyone's sight for a long time, so taking the opportunity of this book, all the media and fans are looking forward to seeing this legendary figure who has contributed a lot to the development of football in the Celestial Empire.

It's a pity that everyone was disappointed in the end, Li Mudi never showed up, and the last time he was photographed in public was when he went to Madrid to attend Lafayette's funeral at the beginning of the year, it was like a complete retirement.

However, from the mouths of football professionals such as Huang Jianxiang and Zhan Jun, news about this legendary coach occasionally pops up, such as donating a few football fields, which new tournament has been held, and how many young players from poor families have been sponsored. So everyone knows that even if they are out of people's sight, their most beloved national idol is still silently making unimaginable contributions to the development of Celestial Empire football, which is enough. It seems that in everyone's minds, as long as Li Mudi is still there, our football level can be improved, and the construction of youth training can be gradually improved, and this name has become a totem of the entire national football community, bringing everyone infinite strength and confidence.

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In 2040, in the five authoritative media of France's "France Football", Spain's "Goal", the British "Guardian", Germany's "Bild" and Italy's "Corriere della Sera", the five authoritative media jointly selected the top 50 in history, although the top ten rankings were deliberately emphasized in no particular order, but it was Li Muddy who appeared in the first position, followed by Michelle, Chapman, Ferguson and other great names, which attracted readers' infinite reverie.

Of the Celestial Empire manager, he said: "He broke with the traditional notion that Europe is the center of world football, and in his thirteen years in charge of Europe, Coach Lee won a record seven Champions Leagues, which was unanimously agreed to be a miracle that could not be rewritten. In addition, there are five La Liga, two Premier League and one Serie A, plus more than 40 trophies in the Europa League, Club World Cup, various domestic cups and Super Cups, which will still be a record that will make those who come after it despair.

But what Coach Li admires and even admires the most is not the above achievements, but the youth training concept he has brought to many teams and even countries, helping world football to make great strides on the most correct development path, which is what all football people should pay tribute to. Such an influential legend is extremely rare in all sports and even in all fields, and to witness this great era should be an experience that those of us who work in football should be proud of for a lifetime.

Hopefully, one day, the legendary gentleman will get tired of the peaceful daily routine and return to his beloved football stadium, believing that it will be God's gift to all of us. ”