Steel City Football Dream: That Summer of 2002

In Huangshi in 2002, the rusty smell of the Yangtze River was wrapped in the despair of football. Chen Feng was reborn as the general manager of Chuye Club. He faced 1.2 Million in unpaid wages, threats from the underworld, and the long-standing problems in Chinese football. He once watched the team disband, watched the football-loving teenagers become brick workers on construction sites, and watched the national football team lose all three games in the World Cup. This time, he didn't want to be a bystander. He rejected the match-fixing agreement and used the blocking of young defenders to hold the bottom line; he sold real estate to pay wages and ignited the players' fighting spirit with the smell of steel smoke; he took root in campus youth training and used the blast furnace fire of Huangshi Iron Mountain to illuminate the path of Chinese football youth training. From the mud of the second league to the glory of the Asian arena, from the bubble of Jinyuan football to the rationality of the post-Jinyuan era, Chen Feng led Chu Ye through the darkest twenty years of Chinese football and also embarked on the brightest road to rebirth.