When the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game, the players and coaches of the Chinese team who were waiting on the sidelines could not hide their excitement and rushed to the court to celebrate with the fans on the field.

Lippi walked over to shake hands with Spanish coach Bosque.

Bosque was still very gracious, congratulating the Chinese team on their victory and wishing the Chinese team good luck in the next World Cup.

Then he shook his head and left the court.

The Spanish dynasty collapsed as the golden generation grew old, a stage that any dynasty must go through.

It's just that he lost all three games and lost face in Spanish football, and he must have a lot of responsibility as the head coach of the team.

Spain's World Cup is over, and his troubles may have just begun......

After shaking hands with Bosque, Lippi turned to his own team and joined in the celebration.

Four years ago in South Africa, he and his Italian team tasted the bitterness of being eliminated from the group stage of the defending champions.

Now, four years later, he is leading a young team and enjoying the joy of making history.

Fate, that's it.

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Zhou Yi did not celebrate with his players, but was pulled to the mixed area by reporters for an interview for the first time.

Everyone wants to hear Zhou Yi's views on this game and his outlook for reaching the knockout round.

“...... It's great that we can beat Spain and qualify from the group. In front of the camera, Zhou Yi smiled. "It's the result of the whole team working together. We're going to prepare for the knockout rounds and we're going to keep that mentality...... We're not going to knock out the first round of the tournament and I have that confidence that we're going to go further. From now on, we are making history every step of the way...... We hope to bring more joy to the Chinese fans and make them happy for a longer time......"

Some reporters cared about Zhou Yi's own body, and after returning from injury, he played for almost 90 minutes, did he feel tired, and did he react to the injured place.

Zhou Yi shook his head: "It's okay, I'm not very tired." I don't feel anything about the wound anymore. In fact, it was not a serious injury, but the timing of the injury was very bad, and the injury suffered half a month before the start of the World Cup, if there was no World Cup, this injury may not have any impact at all...... I'm feeling good now and the previous injury won't affect my performance for the rest of me. ”

The Chinese reporter didn't ask Zhou Yi a hard question, and after thanking Zhou Yi, he let him go back to celebrate the victory with his teammates, and it was better to be with his teammates at this time.

Zhou Yi ran back to his team, and they were in front of the stands where Chinese fans gathered, thanking the Chinese fans who had come from afar, so Zhou Yi joined in.

Whether it was in the stands or off the stands, everyone was happy and had the brightest smiles on their faces.

Although the Chinese team had a brilliant performance in the Asian Cup final before participating in the World Cup, and also had the highlight moments of defeating the Japanese team at home in the World Cup qualifiers, none of those moments can be compared with the present.

Because this is the World Cup, this is the moment when the Chinese team enters the knockout round, and this is the highlight moment of Chinese men's football so far.

Liu Jianhong said with emotion when he saw this scene: "How else to say that football is the number one sport in the world? The first victory of the Chinese team in the history of the World Cup can attract so many people's attention and make so many people happy, it feels like we have won a gold medal in the Olympic Games, and this is just a victory in one game...... During the World Cup in Brazil, the Chinese team will affect the hearts of many Chinese, and during this time, the key words of the whole society are probably the World Cup and the Chinese team......"

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Although it was already two o'clock in the morning Beijing time, many fans were still not sleepy, brushing all the news about the national team on the Internet, brushing the news of post-match interviews, brushing various latest news on Weibo, and brushing posts on the forum......

Everyone participates in it, and it's like a carnival feast.

The next day, when everyone woke up, the carnival reached its climax.

There are a lot of people who aren't fans at all.

Although they are not fans and do not stay up late to watch the game, they still need to pay attention to such an important event as the Chinese team playing the World Cup.

When they heard that the Chinese team had defeated the defending champion Spain and won the right to qualify from the group, they were all very surprised, and they were excited after being surprised.

In the past, every time the Chinese team competed, the Internet was always full of all kinds of jokes mocking the Chinese team.

But this time, there is no such joke. Instead, there are all kinds of jokes praising the Chinese team.

Previously, the official Weibo of the Chinese national team once posted a "sorry" Weibo after a defeat, and every time the Chinese team lost, this Weibo would be whipped out by netizens.

This time, this old Weibo was turned out again, but the purpose was not to whip the corpse, but to forward all kinds of heart-warming replies: "Don't say I'm sorry anymore!"

"You're doing great, really!"

"In fact, the blogger can delete this article, Chinese football has proved with practical actions that you don't need to bear the infamy all the time!"

"There is no need to apologize this time, this time it is our turn to apologize to you, and apologize for the taunts and abuses we have given you before!"

Traditional media also joined in, and the headlines on the front pages of major newspapers this morning were almost all the news that the Chinese team had won the match against Spain and won the right to qualify from the group.

The Weibo accounts that usually have nothing to do with football are also actively discussing topics related to the Chinese team at this time.

It's really a whole people involved.

As Liu Jianhong said, this is the charm of football, and this is the best proof that football is still the number one sport in the world.

Even the individual events in the Olympics are not comparable to football, and neither can basketball, which is the second largest ball.

Only football can really attract such widespread attention and discussion, whether it is victory or defeat, it can set off a storm of public opinion in this society.

In this era of relative peace, sports are actually wars without the smoke of gunpowder, and they are confrontations between countries. And football is the most extreme of these.

Every Olympic Games, everyone will care so much about the gold medal list, the medal table, and the competition for every game.

But after all, the Olympics is a multi-sport event that includes many events.

As for football, it is only a single event that can achieve an impact comparable to that of the Olympic Games, which is not a meaning imposed on football by a politician, but a natural formation after a hundred years of national liberation movements. Football was pushed to the world with the British colonization, and also witnessed the rise and independence of the nations of South America, Africa and Asia, in this process, football often carries a nation, the country's sustenance of self-esteem and honor - these emerging countries face those old powers, the strength is weak, but on the football field, the two sides are indeed fair, and even those backward countries are better, so the victory of football is particularly important at that time.

In the 90s, there was a movie in China called "Kyoto Ball Man", which told the story of the Boxer Rebellion in the late Qing Dynasty, which is a good illustration of that mood.

Not to mention emerging countries, after the catastrophe of the old capitalist powers, football can become a "good prescription" to make up for the psychological trauma of the people and boost the morale of the people. After the Second World War, the whole country of Germany was almost scorched earth, and the defeat of the world war also dealt a heavy blow to the German people, both materially and spiritually. At this time, the "Bern Miracle" of the German national team winning the World Cup in Switzerland is very important, and the victory has greatly boosted the confidence of the German people to rebuild their country and homeland. This is the best example of how football can help the country.

Of course, any sport has such an effect.

But because of the strength of the empire on which the sun never sets, they were fatally all over the world, and the sailors' footprints on their merchant ships and gunboats traveled all over the world, and naturally the modern football invented by Britain spread all over the world, so compared with other sports, football was the most widely spread sport by virtue of the majesty of the British Empire, and naturally became the number one sport in the world.

In a sense, football is even the lingua franca of the world. People from two countries that don't speak the same language can't talk to each other, but they can get together and play football, and they both know the rules of the sport, and the emotions they feel from the sport are the same.

When a person is happy to win a football game, people from another country will not be surprised to see this scene and wonder why he is so happy, but will smile understandingly.

That's football.