China's World Cup debut was held at the World Cup Stadium in Gwangju, South Korea, with its opponent from Costa Rica from North America.

Costa Rica is also recognized by Chinese fans as the weakest opponent in this group. Therefore, domestic media and fans have high hopes for this game. If the Chinese team wants to break the goal of scoring a goal, scoring a point or even winning a game, the first match against Costa Rica is the best opportunity!

in the country, the attention to this game can also be described as the focus of everyone!

According to statistics, the Chinese team played against Costa Rica for the first time, and the number of CCTV audiences hit a record high - the ratings reached 24%. Later, the game against Brazil was held at night, and the ratings exceeded 30%. More than 2/3 of the national viewership population watched the China-Pakistan battle, and the absolute number will exceed 700 million. This situation is not worse than the Spring Festival Gala!

Tang Feng remembers that in 2002 before the time travel, he was still in middle school at that time. The match between China and Costa Rica happened to be held in the afternoon. At that time, the whole school was in class, and the school actually agreed to open the TV in the classroom that was usually locked by an iron lock, so that teachers and students could watch the game together!

This shows that the Chinese people attach great importance to this game!

Of course, it turns out that the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment.

After the Chinese team lost this game neatly, the TV in the classroom was locked tightly again.

In the stands at the Gwangju World Cup Stadium, looking at the excited appearance of the Chinese fans around him, Tang Feng shook his head helplessly.

He knew that this World Cup should be a watershed for Chinese football.

Before this, although Chinese football disappointed Chinese fans again and again, it still made it difficult for fans to let go. However, after the Korean and Japanese World Cup, various fake gambling fouls in Chinese football were exposed, and the national team's record was getting worse every year. These originally enthusiastic fans gradually lost after being sad again and again.

In the disappointment of Chinese football, the Chinese football population was also seriously lost. In Tang Feng's impression, when he was in elementary school, many of the basketball courts were played on football. If he could play football on a football field with turf, he and his friends would be happy for a week.

However, when Tang Feng entered high school and college, it was difficult to see people playing football on the football field, let alone basketball courts.

Before Tang Feng came over, he also saw from the news that when China selected the youth team, there were only a few dozen people to choose from.

After traveling through time, Tang Feng also thought about doing his best to help a group of Chinese football, but he soon gave up this idea because he knew that compared to the huge interest group involved in Chinese football, his power alone was too small.

Of course, when it comes to domestic football, as long as he can help, he will still do his best...

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While Tang Feng was pondering, a burst of cheers suddenly broke out around him, and it turned out that the game had begun.

Perhaps because I felt the expectations of the Chinese people, the Chinese team played very proactively after the game began.

However, after Costa Rica resisted the Chinese team's three axes, they showed their fangs.

The Chinese team regards them as the bottom of this group, but they don’t know that the opponent also regards the Chinese team as the weakest opponent in this group. They know that if they want to qualify, they must score three points on the Chinese team!

Although Costa Rica is basically unknown to the Chinese people before the 2002 World Cup, they are also considered a traditional strong team in Central, North America and the Caribbean. There are also some players such as Wanchop who play in high-level European leagues.

So, they soon reversed the situation on the field and began to fight against the Chinese team.

Although the Chinese team was in a panic at one time, they kept the score of zero to zero at the end of the half.

After watching the half-time ball, the Chinese fans in the stands finally realized that their desire to score a goal in Costa Rica before the game was really a bit blindly optimistic.

The situation in the second half also proves this!

From the 60th to the 65th minute of the game, the Chinese team ushered in the black five minutes.

Costa Rican forward Gomez, who was later called the "national football nemesis" by the media, shot and passed in these five minutes, helping Costa Rica to determine the lead of two goals.

The stands where the originally lively Chinese fans were also quieted down as if they had been poured with cold water.

With two goals behind, Milu also replaced attackers like Yu Genwei and Su Maozhen in succession, wanting to fight back.

Unfortunately, the Costa Ricans would not give up on this victory, and they began to fight the tactic of steady defense and counterattack.

Not only did they not give the Chinese team a chance, they almost seized several counterattack opportunities to expand the score.

In the end, the ninety-minute game ended and the score was locked on zero to two!

Tang Feng can imagine that after the game, the media that began to praise the Chinese team after the Chinese team entered the World Cup historic World Cup would definitely change their pen and start to criticize the Chinese national football team. This is how the reporters are. In fact, the decline of Chinese football and the impetuous performance of the media are inseparable from the relationship!

After watching this game, Tang Feng also calmed down and went to watch a match between the United States and Portugal.

This is the first time that the Portuguese golden generation has appeared in the World Cup. Tang Feng also knows that this World Cup is also bitter for the Portuguese golden generation.

To be fair, this game is indeed very good!

Facing the favorites of this World Cup, the Americans showed their fighting spirit of fearlessness. They knocked on Baiya's guarded shot in just four minutes.

The fastest goal so far in this World Cup is undoubtedly a shock to the Portuguese!

In the first half, the United States actually scored two more goals, and led the Portugal three-to-zero after less than 40 minutes in the first half.

After falling behind three goals, the Portuguese woke up as if they were dreaming and scored a goal before the end of the first half.

In the second half, the Portuguese launched a Jedi counterattack, but the Americans performed unexpectedly tenaciously. Although the Portuguese scored a goal in the 70th minute, the American team still maintained the three-to-two victory until the end of the game!

Another upset has exploded!

Tang Feng knew that this was just the beginning!

After watching the Portuguese team's game, Tang Feng rested for a day, but he didn't go to watch the second round of the French team the next day, because he remembered that it was a boring draw.

The result is the same. The French team was tied 0-0 by Uruguay, and only scored one point in the two games. Even if you win the last round of the game, you may not be able to ensure your qualifying!

Afterwards, Tang Feng went to watch the Spanish team's second game.

Another three-to-one game, and the Spanish team won two straight wins cleanly.

While other powerful people were not performing well, Spain's recognized "king of the qualifiers" was quite domineering.

In Tang Feng's opinion, this Spanish team should be the most powerful bullfighter army before the future invincible army that dominated the European Cup and World Cup.

In fact, they also have the strength to create good results in this World Cup. If they hadn't met one of the most shameless teams in the history of the World Cup...

After watching this game in Spain, Tang Feng rushed to watch the Battle of Ying'a!

In this game, Beckham used a penalty to complete the revenge that was sent off by a red card four years ago! England also defeated Argentina with the penalty kick here!

Beckham also completely cleared of the name of the sinner four years ago!

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Before we knew it, the second round of Group C started again. Tang Feng still withstood the pressure and went to the arena between Brazil and China.

He knew that this game would be a massacre, but in his impression, against Brazil, it should be the most bloody game for the Chinese team to perform in this World Cup. Moreover, his favorite players Adriano and Kaka may also have the chance to make their debut in this game.

At the beginning of the game, the Chinese team was not at a disadvantage on the scene, but they played concisely.

However, when Carlos broke through Jiang Jin's defended shot with a signature heavy artillery free kick in the fifteenth minute, the balance was broken.

The Brazilian played more easily. From the 32nd minute to the 55th minute, the Brazilian team's frontcourt trident "3R combination" Rivaldo, Ronaldinho and Ronaldo each won one goal, expanding the score to four to zero.

After being scored four goals in a row, the Chinese team was not defeated, but instead launched a counterattack tenaciously.

When the game was about an hour ago, they got the best chance in this World Cup.

After receiving a direct pass from Ma Mingyu, Zhao Junzhe drifted past Lucio and shot with his right foot. The ball drew a wonderful arc in the air, bypassed the defense of Brazilian goalkeeper Marcos and hit the far post heavily!

The Chinese team missed the goal!

Tang Feng, who is in the camp of Chinese fans, sighed in his ears. Obviously, after losing to Costa Rica in the first game, the requirements of Chinese fans have been reduced a lot. They only hope that the Chinese team can leave a goal in the World Cup. But the result... is still a little worse!

After this goal, Scolari made consecutive substitutions, Kaka, Adriano, and Denilson both got the chance to play.

Originally, Scolari meant to give the main players some rest and give newcomers some opportunities to exercise.

However, Kaka and Adriano, two first-time World Cup players, do not intend to miss the opportunity to perform.

After they came on the court, they launched threatening attacks.

Kaka's long shot and Adriano's powerful shot in the penalty area both tested Jiang Jin's shot guarded.

Moreover, before the end of the game, Adriano received a pass from DeNilsen in the penalty area and completed a cushion in front of the goal.

Five to zero!

This goal surprised Tang Feng because in his memory, the game ended four to zero, and Adriano's goal did not exist in history.

This also made Tang Feng realize that his little butterfly had indeed had some impact on the world football world.

In the end, the score was also set at 5-0, and the Chinese team lost both games, basically saying goodbye to the World Cup in advance.

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A few days later, Tang Feng watched the game between France and Denmark again. In this game, Zidane took the game with an injury, but still failed to change the result of the French team's zero-to-two defeat.

France failed to win a game and had not finished a goal, and the defending champion was eliminated in a shameful manner!

A day later, in the Argentina vs. Sweden, fans bid farewell to another traditional strong team. Argentina was tied by Sweden in the last round and ranked third in the group and was eliminated.

At the end of the game, Barty, who was replaced in the second half, shed tears of sadness on the sidelines.

A man doesn't cry easily, but he hasn't reached the sad place...

Barty has always left people with the image of a tough guy on the football field, but when he said goodbye to the World Cup, he also showed his fragile side. Seeing his idol so sad, Tang Feng couldn't help but shed tears.

A few hours later, the third victory of the Spanish team in the group stage calmed down Tang Feng's mood, and the goal battle between Spain and South Africa was also very exciting.

In the third round of the Group C game, Tang Feng did not abuse himself and then watched the national football team game, but watched Brazil's match against Costa Rica.

This is a wonderful goal battle, and the final score of this game was locked at 6-2!

This has changed from the score in history. The score of this game in history was 5-2, but there was one more this time. Adriano changed the score. After being replaced in the 68th minute, he scored the goal with his first touch, while Kaka, who also came on the bench, assisted him!

On the last day of the group stage, Tang Feng went to the scene to witness the eliminated match of the Portuguese team.

The two red cards given by the referee to the Portuguese allowed the host South Korean team to start their "glorious" journey!
To be continued...