The Clean-Sheet King: From the Bench to the Goal

In the college league, he was the third-choice goalkeeper, stuck on the bench. On the reserve team in China League One, he was still the third-choice goalkeeper, still stuck on that familiar bench. With the U20 national youth team, he was still the third-choice goalkeeper, a regular on the bench. Then he began saving the ball, time and time again. Again and again, he turned the impossible into reality. He turned the whole stadium’s tense silence into a roar of excitement, until opposing forwards started questioning their lives, until the world remembered his name: Jiang Lin. From the third-choice goalkeeper on the bench to the team’s last line of defense, he became the one person they could always count on!