Deng Li's Legend

In 2015, Deng Li, a young man from Liuzhou, Guangxi, received his university admission notice, but he stood at a fork in his life. The last wish of his mentor before his death bed - "I really want to see the national football team enter the World Cup" - shattered his confusion like thunder. He resolutely dropped out of school and went to the Netherlands alone. Starting from the youth training team of a second-division club, he embarked on a thorny road that no one expected. When the national football team is still missing from the 2026 World Cup and fans across the country are sighing, no one knows that an 18-year-old boy is watering a seemingly impossible dream with his sweat on the lowest training ground in Europe. From obscurity in the Dutch second division to fame in the Bundesliga, from "Chinese Deng" who shocked the world in the Champions League to the well-deserved core of the national team, Deng strives to use his running to explain what faith is. In the 2030 World Cup, he led the Chinese team back to the world stage, even though they were defeated. In the 2034 World Cup, he was at his peak, and together with his more mature teammates, he overturned the two giants of Germany and Spain in the recognized "Group of Death", creating a miracle night for Chinese football. This is not only a story about football counterattack, but also an epic about commitment, growth and inheritance. He went from fighting for one person to dreaming for a country, and finally completed the redemption of himself and a generation.