Qin Hanzong, a 62-year-old invisible rich man, has been obsessed with football all his life but lamented the stagnation of China's football system. After retirement, he traveled to 22 provinces and cities with a net worth of 100 billion, and spent 5 years to recruit 25 "extraordinary" talents - a 15-year-old orphanage barefoot forward, a Shaolin Qinggong defensive midfielder, a released center defender, an overseas midfielder, and a deliveryman winger , a depressed defender, a gay designer midfielder... This group of players with vastly different identities and diametrically opposed personalities was a "rabble" when they first got together. They set a record of 0-8 defeat in a single game, fought each other on the field, and were riddled with scandals off the field: pornographic photos scandal, alcohol addiction, suppression by the Football Association, and match-fixing retaliation followed one after another.
Qin Hanzong is both an iron-fisted coach and a warm-hearted godfather: he advances the medical expenses of poor players, relieves the pain of depressed players, strengthens the Football Association's protection, and uses folk wisdom to break the shady story. From being last in a losing streak to being undefeated in the Chinese Premier League, from five-match victory over the national football team to a desperate breakout in the World Cup preliminaries, this group of "marginal people" struggled together on the green field and redeemed each other in life. Finally, they broke into the World Cup as the "Dawn Team" and defeated the German tank in overtime to win the Hercules Cup!
This is not only a counterattack legend of grassroots geniuses, but also a passionate epic of Chinese football breaking the shackles and rising towards the sun - dreams are never within the system, but at the feet of every ordinary person who never gives up.
