The referee hesitated for a moment before blowing the whistle to signal that the goal was valid.

After scoring an own goal, the Costa Rican players were confused.

The centre-backs and goalkeepers who returned the ball thumped their fists to the ground in frustration, and they still don't understand why they handled the ball the way they did.

The players of the Chinese team, the fans at the scene, and the fans watching the game on the Internet were silent for two seconds before they suddenly realized what had happened and all cheered.

This own goal is so important! Directly sent the Chinese team to the World Cup!

God also favors Chinese football too much this time, right?

"It's not a martial arts!" Gao Hong let out a long sigh, only he knew what had just happened.

If he was not forced to this step by Jiang Hao, he was not 'calculated' by the referee at the last moment, and Gao Hong was unwilling to make this move.

The luck of Chinese football is always so bad, sometimes there is no way to move forward without some off-the-board moves.

Take the first stage of the World Preliminary Championships as an example, in the game against the Philippines, the national football team had a ball possession rate of 58%, and 35 crazy shots on goal, 14 of which hit the target, while the Philippines only had 8 shots on goal, 4 of which hit the goal frame.

In terms of the number of corners, the national football team also has an absolute advantage of 7 to 1. However, with such a big advantage, the national football team failed to win, which shows the weakness of the national football team's attack.

But on the other hand, it also shows that the luck of the national football team is really enough.

The game against Syria is the same, judging from the scene, the national football team still has a certain advantage, but Syria's not very threatening header was pushed into a dead corner.

It was easy to equalize, and in the second half, Zhang Mosi's 'acrobatic clearance' turned into an 'acrobatic goal', and an own goal turned the Chinese team and Syria for the first place in the group into a competition with the Philippines for the second place in the group.

was so angry that Lippi couldn't even deceive him.

There seems to be a hand behind the scenes.

Today's own goal can be regarded as compensating for Zhang Mosi's own goal.

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The Chinese football team once again reached the World Cup finals, and the whole of China fell into a sea of joy.

Fans rushed to tell each other and toasted in celebration, as if it was a holiday.

It's not easy! After 02 years, it took 20 years to reach the World Cup again.

Without Gao Hong, I really can't imagine what the result would be today.

Although in the end, it was Costa Rica's own goal that got through the danger, but without the precious goal scored by Gao Hong's long-distance run and bloodstained blood, the Chinese team had no chance.

While netizens frantically praised Gao Hong and the Chinese team, netizens did not forget to denounce Jiang Hao and the Football Association.

In a game where Gao Hong was originally nine out of ten, why didn't Gao Hong play?

Why did the Football Association condone what Jiang Hao did? What's so funny about this?

Netizens have suggested that law enforcement agencies should intervene in the matter and conduct a thorough investigation into the matter.

The Football Association reacted quickly this time, and immediately announced the dismissal of Jiang Hao as head coach after the game, and ordered him to conduct a deep review and reflection.

At the same time, Gao Hong was appointed as the head coach and captain of the new Chinese national team to lead the Chinese football team to the 2022 World Cup.

This result did not satisfy netizens and fans, who felt that the punishment for Jiang Hao was too light.

According to the analysis of people in the legal circles, the punishment of Jiang Hao can only stay at the level of punishment by the Football Association, and cannot rise to the height of the law.

But people in the circle don't think that the punishment for Jiang Hao will be light.

Because Jiang Hao angered an unusual fan, you can imagine what will happen to him in the rest of his life.

There is such a stain that even his family will be implicated.

It can be said that his life is basically over.

Although the Football Association quickly dealt with Jiang Hao and let Gao Hong take over the position of head coach of the Chinese national football team, the Football Association still accepted a major rectification from above.

The new Football Association was established, and the new chairman of the Football Association, Meng Sanwan, said that he would fully support Gao Hong's work, fully guarantee the Chinese football team to compete in the 2020 World Cup, and help Gao Hong attack the Hercules Cup.

With the support of the Football Association, Gao Hong's career has also flourished in China.

His business is to use the money he earned in the five major leagues to open a large number of football schools in China. There is no tuition fee, and some children who can't afford to play football, but like to play football, are subsidized to play football, and medical injury insurance is provided after injury.

We will focus on cultivating the outstanding seedlings and provide a variety of necessary resources.

These soccer schools also offer cultural classes, so that children who play football can have other skills even if they don't go on to play football in the future.

For the current players in China, as well as players of all age echelons, he will find ways to send them to the clubs in the five major leagues where he controls the shares behind the scenes, and use the power in his hands to fight for more opportunities for them to play.

At the same time, Gao Hong also loaned a large number of European and American players from the clubs he controlled behind the scenes to domestic clubs to improve the quality and viewing of the domestic league.

Gao Hong's popularity and appeal in China have been imperceptibly improved because of his football skills and all the things he has done silently for Chinese football.

Gao Hong's efforts in Chinese football have also paid off, and his popularity has quickly made him the most commercially valuable athlete in China, even far surpassing those small fresh meat, making him a new generation of youth health idols.

Gao Hong has received advertising endorsements from many top brands, and even Wu Jing asked him to shoot Wolf Warrior 5 and The Wandering Earth 3 together, Gao Hong's strong ability to attract money is enough to compensate for his huge investment in domestic football.

Of course, Gao Hong's high-profile advertising, filming, and even participating in some variety shows also made some fans and netizens worry about whether he would abandon his main business.

In the eyes of this part of the fans, they are chasing Gao Hong because of his skills.

If he can lead the Chinese team to do well in the World Cup, not to mention winning the Hercules Cup, even if he enters the round of 16 for the first time in history, he will continue to be their hero.

But if Gao Hong only played in the group stage at the World Cup, what he is doing now will spurn them.

For this reason, there is no shortage of war of words between Gao Hong's loyal fans and these 'sane fans'.

Time flies, and soon 2022 will come.

The winter of 2022 is cold, and some say that the Xiaoice season is coming.

But the World Cup is being held in a hot place.

And this World Cup is held in winter.

For the first time ever, it is held in winter.

The Chinese team is in a group with France, Peru and Iceland.

This group is also known as the Group of Death.

The first match was between China and France.