In the Village Super Finals held in Rongjiang, Guizhou Province, a village in Chejiang won the penalty shootout and was eventually awarded the championship trophy. In the award ceremony after the match, the winning village took a calf as a prize. Besides that, Loyalty Village also won the second runner-up, they raised a black hairy pig, which is very simple and close to nature.
In fact, Loyal Village could have steadily won the title without playing a penalty shootout.
Leading 2-1 in the second half until the last minute, Chee Gang Ichimura broke through to tie the score 2-2. The game went to penalties, where Loyal Village failed to score on their first two penalties, losing 3-4 in the end, and watching Chee Ichimura complete a miraculous turnaround to win the title.
After the game, the players of Loyal Village were very uncomfortable and many of them shed tears directly, the championship they got just disappeared. Also, there were fans of Loyal Village who cried as well.
As the commentator of the finals, He Wei borrowed a famous saying: "The most important thing in life is not to triumph, but to fight" to encourage the Asian team.
The Village Premier League was just an amateur tournament. 20 village teams took part in the tournament, but the players were honored by what was considered to be a very important tournament. They didn't win the championship and cried, which is much better than the international players of the national soccer team.
On the night of the first day of the Lunar New Year last year, the Chinese men's soccer team lost to the Vietnamese men's soccer team on the road in the World Qualifying Tournament. After the match, the international players did not show any special expression, not to mention that some people shed tears on the field for this. Even the next day when they were ready to return home, there were still international players happy to take selfies, which did not reflect a sense of honor at all.
Currently, fans across the country are more inclined to watch the Village Premier League in the amateur leagues and less inclined to the more professional Chinese Super League. They are even more disappointed with the national team players.
