In 2025, the national football team was defeated again in the World Cup preliminaries, causing an uproar across the country and freezing public opinion. Guo Ding, a former legendary player and young coach known for his "iron-bloodedness", was ordered to take over the coaching staff of the national team when no one was optimistic about him. However, what he proposed was not a conventional war preparation plan, but a shocking "Iron Curtain Plan" - leading a newly selected "Young Guards" to completely disappear from public view and conduct a five-year fully enclosed, ultra-limit secret training.
In the past five years, the outside world has questioned, ridiculed, and forgotten. Five years later, when a strange team named "Dragon Team", with eyes like knives, physical strength like beasts, and tactics like chess, suddenly appeared in the World Cup Asian Qualifiers, the world of football was shocked. They announced the awakening of the Eastern Dragon with one crushing victory after another.
But this is just the beginning. What Guo Ding injected into this team was not only tactics and physical fitness that transcended the times, but also the courage and belief to tear apart the old world football pattern. Facing the encirclement and suppression by European and American powers, the scrutiny of the global media, and the internal test of human nature, Guo Ding and his disciples will use the football at their feet to knock on the door of destiny and launch an epic impact towards the highest glory - the Hercules Cup!
This is a majestic epic about dormancy and explosion, about technology and will, about individuals and their family and country. See how Guo Ding strategizes, see how the Dragons emerge from their cocoons and become butterflies, and see how China Red ignites the top of the world!
