[Passionate football | Hard-core competition | Overseas comeback | China’s national team fulfills its World Cup dream | Face-slapping prejudice] (All organizations and characters in this book are fictional and have no connection to reality. Please do not assume they refer to real people or entities.)
Xiao Jiang, a grassroots talent born on the informal football pitches of Northeast China, comes equipped with a golden finger: panoramic, godlike vision that lets him see every attacking and defensive movement on the pitch.
He heads to Red Star Belgrade’s youth academy, where he faces racial prejudice from European players, exclusion by his teammates, loneliness in a foreign country, and baseless criticism from Chinese netizens.
With elite football intelligence, superb ball control, and exceptional discipline, he makes up for his physical disadvantage and works his way up, beating one challenge after another:
Red Star youth ranks → European competition breakout star → midfield linchpin at a giant in one of Europe’s top five leagues → Champions League winner → undisputed leader of China’s national team.
The teammates who once looked down on him become his most loyal followers. The opponents who tried to hold him back are repeatedly made fools of, while the fierce rivals from Japan and South Korea who mocked Chinese football all fall before him.
In 2034, on the World Cup stage, Xiao Jiang changes the fate of Chinese football single-handedly and creates a legendary story on the pitch for China!
Why does it feel like the whole world is targeting the protagonist, but there is no reason at all?