The newspaper explained what soccer is, and soccer is a simplified version of Keju, in which each side sends eleven players on the pitch and dribbles the ball with any part of the body other than the hands, and the winner is the one who kicks the ball into the opponent's goal more times.

The ball used in soccer balls is made of rubber gallbladders that can be inflated, and the outside is a ball made of leather.

The six prefectures in Shandong are: Jinan, Dongchang, Jining, Qingzhou, Shanxi, and Dengzhou.

Each prefecture selects the strongest football team first, and then comes to Seungkyo to chase the championship with Seungjing's soccer team.

In the first football competition, Zhou Xian took out 1 million Xingjing coins as a reward for the champion, and the winning team can also choose to be a civil servant in Xingjing.

In the face of such generous treatment, the entire state capital of Shandong was tempted.

When Zhou Xian asked Xu Shouyi to publish the newspaper, he asked Daniel Zhang to find a regiment of soldiers and let them set up a sports bureau, and Zhou Xian taught them all the knowledge about football.

Then each province sent a hundred soldiers to teach them how to play football, and then the first football team in each province was selected.

The news that Xingjing was going to hold the first football tournament quickly spread throughout Shandong through Xingjing Daily, because the whole of Shandong was under the jurisdiction of Zhou Xian, so now there will be people from the post and telecommunications bureaus in the whole of Shandong to distribute newspapers.

After hearing this news, the entire Shandong people were shaken, after all, this was the order of the Shandong General Army, and no one dared to disobey Zhou Xian's intentions, and they all wanted to use this opportunity to confront Zhou Xian.

As a result, each prefecture actively participated in the establishment of countless football teams, and some relatively poor people also spontaneously organized themselves and set up football teams one after another, and they also coveted the 1 million Xingjing coins.

Of course, it was the first time everyone played football, so it was a bit of a miserable scene.

Finally, after the explanation and selection of the soldiers of the Sports Bureau sent by Zhou Xian, finally twenty-five days later, the first place in all the provinces came out, and these first places played football with a little bit of appearance.

All the prefectures that produced the first place, the prefect will go to Xingjing with the team that won the first place, after all, this is a good opportunity to contact Zhou Xian.

The love of the people in Xingjing City for football is stronger than that of the other six prefectures, because the people of Xingjing have basically achieved food and clothing, and they urgently need a chance to release their spirits.

When Zhou Xian published the first football tournament in the newspaper, the people of Xingjing found this opportunity.

Football is their opportunity, and football is like a kind of spiritual food for the people of Xingjing, so that the spirit of the people of Xingjing is satisfied, and this satisfaction makes them addicted.

In the past month, everyone in Xingjing has been talking about football, as if they are outdated if they don't talk about football.

Xingjing's football team is composed of workers from each factory, and basically every factory sends a football team.

After nearly a month of pursuit, the Tigers of the Arsenal finally won and won the opportunity to compete for the championship with Shandong Liufu.

On the sixth day of the sixth month of June, the sun is shining, and the entire Hoshikyo Kyoto is immersed in a sea of liveliness.

The construction of a football stadium next to Seungkyo Square has been completed, and it is a building with a capacity of 30,000 people.

The building is built in a lot of modern styles from later generations, a bit like the Colosseum, with the playing field in the middle, and the seats on all sides are higher than the other.

The playing field of the football field is a large rectangle with a length of 105 meters and a width of 68 meters, and many lines are painted with white paint on the field.

These were all built by Zhou Xian according to the specifications of the football stadium in later generations.

Today is the day when the seven teams continue to play the finals, the football stadium is full of people, and the tickets for the football stadium are actually quite expensive, asking for 10 Xingjing coins, but it still can't stand the enthusiasm of the people of Xingjing, and it is even more difficult to find a ticket.

The Sports Bureau earned 300,000 Xingjing coins for the ticket money alone, and there are still a few games in the future, and it can get more than 1 million Xingjing coins.

Fortunately, there have been no scalpers at this time, and there has not been a large number of price increases.

Soon all seven teams entered the field, and the game adopted a knockout system, and the seven teams drew lots for the game, and the bye team went directly to the next round.

Through the draw, the dark horse team of Dongchang Province was lucky to have a bye.

The first round was the Flying Eagles team of Jinan Mansion against the quicksand team of Dengzhou Mansion.

Zhou Xian came early in the morning with Zhou Fugui, Daniel Zhang and other cadres, and after a polite exchange with the prefects of the six provinces of Shandong, everyone sat down on the rostrum, which was the best position to watch the game.

After what they saw and heard in Xingjing in the past two days, the prefects of the six prefectures of Shandong felt more mysterious and expectant about Xingjing.

They can all see that Xingjing will definitely be the center of the entire Ming Dynasty in the future, and they are very proud and proud that they have taken refuge in Zhou Xiandu.

The two teams below entered the stadium, and there was a lively cheer from the football field, with the Flying Eagles of Jinan Province wearing red clothes and the Quicksand Team of Dengzhou Mansion wearing blue clothes.

The reason why he wore it like this was Zhou Xian's request, so that the people watching the game could distinguish the situation of the two teams, and if they wore whatever clothes they wanted, it would only make the audience look confused.

The game is still in accordance with the rules of later generations, each team of eleven people, there are two Zhou Jiajun soldiers as referees, because considering that everyone's football skills are not very good now, so Zhou Xian stipulates that the first half and the second half of the two games, each game is 60 minutes.

If the time is too short, it is easy to have an embarrassing situation where both sides can't score goals.

With the enthusiastic cheers of the spectators, both the Flying Eagles and the Quicksand team were already standing on their own courts, and with the referee's whistle, the game began.

First of all, the Flying Eagles controlled the ball, and the football was controlled by Han Lifei, the captain of the Flying Eagles, and quickly went to the goal of the quicksand team.

Han Lifei's football talent is really good, and he can control the ball like a fish in water in just one month.

I saw Han Lifei rushing left and right in the team of the quicksand team, and no one could grab his ball, and soon arrived at the door of the ball.

I saw that Han Lifei found an opportunity, he kicked hard at the goal, and the ball flew towards the goal.

The ball was stopped by a hard save from the goalkeeper.

At this time, there was a sigh from the audience.

"It's a pity, such a good opportunity, this Flying Eagles team is a good person, and the skills are very skilled, I think this time the Flying Eagles team won."

Zhou Fugui said while feeling sorry for the Flying Eagles.

"This Flying Eagles is really good, but he seems to only care about himself and doesn't cooperate with others, so it's hard to be an Eagle in the back."

Zhou Xian gave a different view.

Hearing Zhou Xian's words, Zhou Fugui seemed to have a little understanding, and he also felt that many people should be required to cooperate, otherwise why would so many people play together.