The national football team lost the World Cup qualifiers, and Lin Feng witnessed the despair of the players in the locker room.
At the Football Association meeting, he proposed a reform plan: "Either reform or I resign!"
Sent to the grassroots level in the northwest, he discovered an oasis in the football desert: a group of teenagers playing football barefoot.
Ten years later, when the national football team advanced to the World Cup for the first time, reporters asked for the secret.
Lin Feng pointed at the players running on the field: "They are all trees growing out of the desert."
