Elegy of the Green Gods

The 2026 World Cup in the United States, Canada and Mexico is the ultimate chapter of a golden era in football. This book focuses on this special green feast, taking the ending of the gods as the core theme, and records the final World Cup journey of legendary superstars and established giants in football. Starting from the regretful absence of Italy, many classic football teams such as Teutonic Chariot, Tulipa Legion, Selecao Legion, Pampas Eagles, and Gallic Roosters have bid farewell to their peak. Many golden generation teams such as Croatia, Belgium, England, and Spain have lost their careers one after another. Legendary superstars from all walks of life have all come to the end of their national team careers, full of regrets and lamentations. The book sheds the carnival background of the game and focuses on perseverance, ending, inheritance and regret, detailing the ending of each legendary team and the last dance of each green god. After the tragic end of all the heroes of the old era, the new Nordic stars came to the top and were crowned, completing the complete change of the old and new eras in football, and writing a tragic and grand elegy for the era of football heroes that lasted for more than ten years.