As a pure viewer in front of the TV or computer screen before, Li Mudi was also like other ordinary fans, often complaining about some domestic commentators and guests, and even felt that it was better to listen to these people talking nonsense than to turn off the sound.

When he was a child, the sports commentators of the Celestial Empire were still in the era of "all-round", football, basketball, volleyball...... As long as it is a game broadcast by CCTV, almost all of them can hear the voice of teacher Song Shixiong. After that, his apprentices Han Qiaosheng and Sun Zhengping perfectly took over the mantle of the teacher and evolved, carrying forward the high-speed stream-of-consciousness commentary mode.

It wasn't until Huang Jianxiang, Liu Jianhong and Zhang Bin, a group of journalists born in the late sixties of the last century who specialized in football, entered CCTV that the industry of football commentary in the Celestial Dynasty could be regarded as embarking on the road of formal development. It is under their influence that Duan Xuan, He Wei, Shen Fangjian and other juniors who joined the CCTV commentary post later are also growing up according to the path of one specialty and multiple abilities, although it is inevitable that they will also talk about other projects, but they have always maintained a sufficient professional attitude towards football.

Around the turn of the millennium, as the funds and resources owned by local stations became more and more abundant, the football commentators who were only influential in some regions, such as Zhan Jun and Su Dong, have gradually become widely known to the people of the country, and this industry has finally ushered in a good situation of a hundred flowers blooming.

There are some similarities between commenting on football games and talking about cross talk, that is, "stand-up" is too difficult, it is not easy to say well, and "counterpart" is the easiest way to be accepted by fans, so next to these commentators, there is often a guest (in some cases, there will be two or more).

In this regard, the most familiar names should be Zhang Lu and Tao Wei, the two teachers, who have accompanied countless fans to survive one weekend after another, and are the most familiar and favorite commentators for domestic football fans. After that, Xu Yang, Gong Lei and other professional guests were all selected according to the successful model of Zhang Tao and the new generation of "champions", and they are also quite popular with the audience.

However, due to the fact that entertainment elements have entered the sports circle in a big way, many local stations have begun to engage in "crooked ways" in order to pursue ratings, and often invite those showbiz stars who like or even claim to be good at football to join the commentary team, although it has attracted the attention of many fans, but it has also brought the originally extremely professional work of commentary to the direction of "national entertainment", which has been boycotted by many real fans.

In their eyes, even the things explained by many professionals are not very attractive, let alone these "little fresh meat" that can't even be distinguished from offside. It's disgusting to hear them say all that nonsense, and almost every fan will feel a thousand times better than they say at some point, right? Li Mudi is naturally no exception, but when he really sat on the commentary seat, he felt the difficulty of this job, which fully embodies the essence of the famous saying "you can you, no canbb".

For the Torino coach personally, there are three of his favourite domestic commentators, Huang, Zhan and He. The common denominator of all three is that they have a very deep and solid knowledge of football, no matter what the situation they face, they will never let the game out of their control, and in addition to the advantages of humorous commentary, unique knowledge and systematization, they also have their own characteristics. For example, Huang's infinite passion, Zhan's off-the-field information revelations and ridicule, and He's strong poetic atmosphere are all nirvana that can catch the audience's ears.

As for the guests, what Li Mudi admires most is Zhang Lu's guidance. As mentioned several times before, as a senior fan, he has been listening to the Serie A commentary of Huang Zhang's golden partner since the mid-nineties of the last century, and has gone through his student career. So when he was invited to explain the live broadcast of the game for the first time, Li Mudi involuntarily wanted to follow the path of Zhang's guidance, but he couldn't find a suitable insertion point, and more importantly, he couldn't just do the right "hehe", so the effect presented was not very ideal.

Fortunately, He Shishi also knew that the person who gave his voice on the TV screen for the first time would inevitably have some problems in the live broadcast, so he always privately encouraged the Turin coach to calm down, as long as he didn't say too much, he could try to give Yuan back. In this way, as the game progressed, Li Mudi finally found some form and explained the opening game smoothly.

The Torino coach is really not very familiar with the two teams that will play in this game, and even if he has done some homework in advance, he has not gained much. The host Russia is a little better, after all, there are many players in the team who play for strong teams in the Russian league and have played in European competitions, which is somewhat impressive. As for Saudi Arabia, they have not paid attention to the Asian football circle for more than ten years, and they are very unfamiliar with their players, and can only rely on the FM system in their heads to cheat.

In order to avoid unnecessary mistakes, in the process of commentary, he has been focusing on analyzing the tactical intentions of both sides, and trying not to touch the aspects involving the background of the players. He Wei, on the other hand, played the role of checking and filling in the gaps and gave strong support to the new partner.

During the game, He and Li just chatted briefly about the winger Denis Cheryshev, who came off the bench and played brilliantly, and the midfield star Alexander Golovin, who had just turned 22 years old, at a relatively calm moment. The former is a disciple of Li Mudi when he worked in Real Madrid's youth team, and the latter is currently a popular fried chicken in European football, and giants such as Juventus are interested in recruiting him.

After telling a few interesting things about Cheryshev many years ago, the Turin coach expressed that he had indeed moved to introduce Golovin under He Wei's inquiry, but Luohua was ruthless, and people didn't look down on the new European League champion, so he teased himself a little.

Due to the brave play of the Russian players, the final score of 5-0 made the content of the whole game very rich, and there was more room for play, which also indirectly helped Li Mudi's commentary debut not become too dull, and to a certain extent, it improved the fans' evaluation of his performance this time.

However, after the game, there were many people who said they didn't like his commentary, especially for the Torino coach after the game by comparing the strength of the two teams and the ranking status in their respective continents, expressing their worries about the future development prospects of Celestial Empire football, which made many fans who consider themselves patriots catch a lot of anger.

Fortunately, Li Mudi knew that she was not a soft girl, and she couldn't be seen by everyone, so she decided not to pay attention to the comments of the outside world. He agreed to CCTV's invitation this time, in addition to not wanting to refute the face of this media platform with high influence in China, but also hoping to have a close contact with the World Cup, after all, since watching the 1986 World Cup video as a child, for more than 30 years, he has just sat in front of the TV to watch how those teams overcame obstacles and finally reached the top, and there has always been a dream of personally participating in his heart. Considering the level of the national football team, he is unwilling to go to that troubled water, and becoming a commentator is the best choice.

Of course, the most important thing is that because of the impact of the World Cup, the opening time of the new season team training camp will be postponed by a week compared to last year, after basically getting the team's lineup adjustment affairs, Li Mudi can't find anything serious to do for a while when his fiancée returns to Asia to be busy with work, it is better to enjoy the treatment of watching the world's top football games for free.

After commenting on the slightly unexpected opening match and resting for a night in a local hotel in Moscow, Li Mudi, who needed to travel to St. Petersburg on the third match day to explain the highlight of the first round of the group stage, Portugal vs. Spain, participated in a special World Cup column on CCTV Sports Channel before leaving Moscow.

During this period, under the questioning of the host, the Torino coach reluctantly gave his own prediction for some important matches in the first round of the group stage. If the Iberian Civil War ends with a narrow victory for the Matadors, the five favourites Brazil, Argentina, Germany, France and England will have a solid opening match.

As a result, it was from this episode of the show that Li Mudi was gone on the road of football betting "beacon", and then he made predictions about the upcoming games in public many times, and the success rate was less than 30%, becoming the object of ridicule of fans of the Celestial Empire.

Later, someone came up with evidence to expose that he bought lottery tickets in reverse according to the prediction provided by the Torino coach, and if the prediction was 3, he bought 1 and 0, and the result was a small profit. The incident quickly rose to the forefront of the hot search on the Internet at the speed of a rocket, and became one of the most well-known stalks in the football circle in the next half month, which can be regarded as adding a comic attribute to the Torino coach.

Let's first bring the topic back to the battle between Portugal and Spain on June 15, this game is partnered with Li Mudi to narrate his old acquaintance Zhu Xiaoyu on CCTV, the venue of the game is the Sochi Fisht Olympic Stadium built for the 2014 Winter Olympics, and the referee is Serie A whistle Zhan Lucaroki. Looking at the many familiar faces of the two teams, as well as the referee on the field who has brought painful memories to his team many times, the Torino coach couldn't help but sigh in his heart, this is all fate!

In the pre-match process, Li Mudi once again expressed his support for his second country, although he believes that Ronaldo's ability to be the world's top two is undoubted, but with his own performance, it is difficult for the Portuguese team to create too much threat to De Gea's goal. Against a team with strong passing ability, his teammates have not fully proven that they can provide sufficient support to the captain.

It was only in the opening stage that the European Championship champions two years ago subverted Li Mudi's prediction, and they took the initiative to control the ball, and pressed all three lines of Spain back into the half through a wide range of back-and-forth maneuvers in the midfield.

Cristiano Ronaldo was also very excited after kick-off, and after a long period of slump at the club, he gradually regained his peak feeling in the middle and late stages of the season and brought it back to the national team. It was evident that in the first few minutes of the game, he had a wide range of movements, not only attacking his club-mate Nacho on the left flank, but also often pushing up the front line to act as an attacking fulcrum with Guedes, helping the midfielders to gain more space on the edge of the box. What's even more rare is that the president will also actively participate in the counter-attack, which makes Portugal's overall front-court pressing tactics achieve very good results.

Thanks to his aggressive running and clever link-ups, the group seeds, who were not favourites before the game, kept their opponents at bay with astonishing momentum and quickly scored goals. The president's breakthrough caused Nacho to foul in the box, and he took the penalty himself to easily deceive De Gea and help his side take the lead.

After the score was rewritten, Spain began to control the ball as if they had just entered the game, taking advantage of their players' passing ability, but in the face of the opponent's immediate transformation into a strengthened defense and waiting for opportunities to counterattack strategy, it was difficult for the matadors to find a suitable penetration space for a while. Although Silva and Isco both had the opportunity to get their feet on goal, Portugal's two counter-attacks were more deadly, especially in the 21st minute, when Cristiano Ronaldo crossed into the box from the left, Guedes got a great opportunity to face the opposition goalkeeper one-on-one, but was destroyed by the defenders who drove back because of unnecessary stoppage adjustments, otherwise the suspense of the game may be over.

Portugal's style of play at this stage is very similar to the tactics often used by the Torino team, and it also allowed Li Mudi, who had just been slapped in the face by the penalty, to find an opportunity to forcibly show a wave of professional analysis and avoid the previous embarrassment.

However, the course of the game deviated more and more from his predictions, first Costa used his individual ability with foul doubts to help Spain pull a goal back, causing the guests who have been analysing how important passing ability is to the game. De Gea then made another unforgivable mistake in dealing with Cristiano Ronaldo's unthreatening long-range shot, slapping the Torino boss who had just rated him as the best goalkeeper in the world today.

In the second half, after Costa's brace and Nacho's long-range shot helped the Matadors overtake the score, Li Mudi saw that the situation on the field had been mastered by the Spanish team, and finally made a summary of the game near the end of the game, and took out the pre-game saying that Ronaldo could not beat a strong team no matter how good he was.

However, as if he had heard an order from heaven to completely swell the face of the Torino coach, the president fixed the score at 3-3 with a brilliant direct free kick, leaving Li Mudi, who had already begun to doubt his life, sitting alone in the commentary seat in the stands, not knowing what to say.

After the game, a fan published an article in the forum, proving that the Torino coach was actually a ball blind, which caused the majority of melon-eating people to laugh, which brought an alternative joy to people who felt extremely depressed because of the loss of gambling.