On December 19, 1980, Su Yongshun, who had just taken office for less than half a year, led the national football team from Guangzhou to Hong Kong, China, and began his second journey to the World Cup finals in the history of the national football team.

On December 19, 1980, Su Yongshun , who had just taken office for less than half a year, led the national football team from Guangzhou to Hong Kong, China, and began the second time in the history of the national football team to reach the World Cup finals.

The first round of the qualifiers of this World Cup Asia Region (Asia and Oceania ), the Chinese national football team was divided into the fourth group, the competition location was Hong Kong, China, and the opponents in the same group were Japan, North Korea, Hong Kong, Macau, and Singapore.

match rules are that six teams will first draw into three pairs to play a group match. According to the results of the group match, the six teams will be divided into two groups A and B. The two groups will be divided into three teams in a single-cycle point system. The top two qualify and cross the semi-finals. The two teams that won will play a final, competing for the only place in the fourth group to advance to the next round. The draw results of the group match between the Chinese national football team against Hong Kong, Singapore against Japan, and North Korea against Macau. Among these six teams, North Korea has the strongest strength. If the national football team wants to avoid North Korea in the group stage, they must win the first group battle.

1 On December 21, 1980, the Chinese national football team ushered in the first game of in this World Cup qualifier. With the goal of Chen Jingang in the last minute before the final game, the Chinese national football team won 1-0 with a goal of Chen Jingang in the last minute before the final game. Because of this victory, the Chinese national football team successfully avoided North Korea and was in Group A with Japan and China and Macau.

December 24, the Chinese national football team defeated Macau, China 3-0 on Christmas Eve. Two days later, with Rong Zhixing's long-range shot in the world wave, the Chinese national team defeated Japan 1-0, and won the first place in Group A with two consecutive victories.

On December 31, the Chinese national football team played against Hong Kong, China, the second place in Group B, and the two teams met again after the group stage. Both sides made no achievements within 120 minutes, and they could only decide the winner through penalty kicks. The five players from the national football team played in Huang Xiangdong, Zuo Shusheng, Chi Shangbin, , Wang Feng and Rong Zhixing all hit, while Chen Fazhi missed the penalty kick. In the end, the national football team eliminated the opponent 5-4 in the penalty kick and will compete for a qualifying spot for the North Korean team.

On January 4, 1981, the Chinese national football team played against North Korea. Two minutes into the game, the North Korean team scored with forward Li Changhe. Behind , Su Yongshun made personnel adjustments in the 35th minute of the first half and replaced Wang Feng with Huang Xiangdong, which was Huang Xiangdong's clarion call for the national football team to sound the counterattack. In the last minute of the first half, Huang Xiangdong scored a goal from a small angle and tied the score. In the second half, the two teams scored another goal. Within 90 minutes, the two sides drew 2-2, and the game entered overtime.

In the second half of the overtime game, Huang Xiangdong beat the North Korean team's goal with an iconic heavy artillery outside the penalty area, rewriting the score to 3-2. A few minutes later, Gu Guangming added icing on the cake to lock the score at 4-2, national football team eliminated North Korea and entered the semi-finals of this World Cup Asian Regional Qualifiers. After the game of

, Rong Zhixing and Li Fusheng in the national football team were respectively rated as the best offensive and defensive players in this group.

Attached with the list of national football teams in the first round of the World Cup:

Head coach: Su Yongshun

Assistant coach: Hu Zhigang, Zhang Honggen

Players: Li Fusheng, Yang Ning, Chi Shangbin (captain), Lin Lefeng , Wang Feng, Liu Zhicai, Cai Jinbiao , Zang Cailing , Chen Xirong , Huang Xiangdong, Zuo Shusheng, Gu Guangming, Yang Yumin, Chen Jingang, Xu Yonglai, Rong Zhixing, Shen Xiangfu

In addition to the national team, the other three teams are the 1980 Asian Cup championship, Kuwait, West Asia upstart Saudi team, and New Zealand team that eliminated Australia from Oceania.

When Su Yongshun saw the national football team's schedule, he was shocked!

This semi-finals will be conducted in the home and away game, and the top two qualify for the

982 Spanish World Cup finals.

According to the schedule, when all six games of the national football team ended, the other three teams had two games each without playing. Faced with such an unfair schedule, Su Yongshun, as the head coach of the national football team, responded upward many times but never responded, and in the end he had to leave it alone.

1981 On September 24, 2019, the Chinese national football team ushered in the first game of the semi-finals at home Gongti , with the opponent being the New Zealand team. Although the two sides drew 0-0, New Zealand 's fierce British football style made the Chinese national football team very uncomfortable, and at the same time, it also paid the price of Rong Zhixing's injury and retreat.

Ten days later, the Chinese national football team was away from Auckland, lacking Rong Zhixing's lead in the midfield, the Chinese national football team played in disarray on the court and eventually lost to New Zealand 0-1. After the game of

, an official from the Kuwait Football Association who was watching the game on the sidelines said in an interview that the New Zealand team is the dirtiest team he has ever seen to play football. If the New Zealand team treats the Kuwait team with such an action in the next game, the Kuwait team will definitely return it twice.

Look at the Football Association officials, how tough they are!

1981 On October 18, 2019, the Chinese national football team, which had previously drawn and lost, ushered in the third game of the semi-finals, with the opponent being the Asian champion Kuwait team. With the cheers of more than 80,000 people from Workers' Sports, the Chinese national team defeated Kuwait 3-0. Rong Zhixing, who was in the center position, scored with a header to score the first shot of the Chinese national team's offense. Then Gu Guangming and Shen Xiangfu added another goal, and Li Fusheng also saved a penalty.

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This game is the most classic victory in the history of the Chinese Football World Cup qualifiers. After the game, fans from all over the country spontaneously took to the streets to celebrate.

The next two games, the Chinese national football team competed with Saudi in two rounds. Since China and Saudi Arabia had not established diplomatic relations at that time, the competition venue was set in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

1 On November 12, the national football team played the first game with Saudi Arabia. Ten minutes into the game, the national football team, which had not yet established a stable foothold, was scored two goals in a row by the Saudi team. In the second half, Su Yongshun replaced Shen Xiangfu and Liu Lifu with two Tianjin Tigers, Zuo Shusheng and Chen Jingang. It was this time the substitution applied for rewrite the entire process of the game. Zuo Shusheng's powerful shot and Chen Jingang's header helped the Chinese national football team to score 2-2. Then Gu Guangming and Huang Xiangdong each made their own contributions, and the Chinese national football team achieved a shocking reversal 4-2.

A week later, the Chinese national football team faced Saudi Arabia again. This time, the Chinese national football team did not give their opponents any chance. Huang Xiangdong shot a long-range world wave, Cai Jinbiao scored a header, and the Chinese national football team won another game 2-0, achieving three consecutive victories.

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After this game, the Chinese national football team temporarily ranked first in 5 games, 3 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss, and 7 points.

On November 30, the Chinese national football team challenged the Kuwait team away. In this game of , the Chinese national football team only needs to tie the opponent to get the right to qualify.

However, the Asian champion who played at home was full of momentum. He used a long shot to penetrate the goal guarded by Li Fusheng in the first 7 minutes. Being behind, the national football team did not organize too much offense and defense. Instead, the Kuwait team continued to attack fiercely, and the national football team finally lost 0-1.

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In the next game, Kuwait defeated Saudi Arabia 2-0 and drew with New Zealand 2-2. At this time, the Chinese national team still led the New Zealand team by 2 points and held the advantage of 5 goals.

In the last game of the semi-finals, Saudi Arabia lost to New Zealand 0-5 without any chance of qualifying. The Chinese national football team can only play another playoff with New Zealand.

At this time, the long-disbanded Chinese national football team could only gather in a hurry and prepare for the battle again.

1982 htmlOn November 10, 1982, the Chinese national football team and New Zealand team played a playoff in Singapore to compete for the last World Cup ticket in the Asian region. Although Huang Xiangdong used the free kick in the penalty area to score a goal for the Chinese national football team, unfortunately the Chinese national football team still lost the game 1-2.

is only one step away from, and we are in Spain!

That's it, the second World Cup journey in the history of the Chinese national football team ended.

It was from this time that the inexplicable fear of British football began to quietly plant the root of the disease in the national football team. Until now, it has not been able to recover, and there is a trend of becoming increasingly fierce.

In July 1982, Su Yongshun, who was leading the team to participate in the Beijing International Football Invitational Tournament, received a notice that his mother was seriously ill and went to Canada since then, and a generation of Confucian coaches bid farewell to Chinese football.