"We won!"
"We did it!"
"To hell with Korea phobia!"
The moment the referee blew the final whistle, the national football players on the pitch forgot all about their exhaustion and began celebrating like mad.
Their 27-year winless streak against South Korea had been completely ended today.
This match carried enormous significance for Chinese football. It injected a much-needed shot of adrenaline into Chinese football during its slump.
Especially considering the course of the match, this victory had been fought for by China's national team players with sweat—and even blood—making it all the more precious!
On the other side of the pitch, in stark contrast to the jubilant Chinese team, the South Korea team stood in deathly silence.
Even now, the Korean people could not accept this crushing defeat.
No matter how hard they tried, they could not understand how the team they had always beaten with ease had suddenly become so formidable.
Their opponents were not some world-class powerhouse like the Brazil Team or German team!
Even elite teams like Brazil and Germany might not necessarily withstand all the tactics the Korean side employed.
But the Chinese national team had held firm, and that dealt a massive psychological blow to the Korean people.
They had exhausted every trick outside the game and still failed to win. Without those methods next time, if the two sides faced each other fairly and squarely, could the South Korea team still win?
At that thought, quite a few Korean people felt especially panicked.
Their concerns grew even greater when they saw all those young Chinese players around twenty years old.
China's young players could win the Youth World Cup, while the South Korea team could not even make it out of the Youth World Cup group stage.
The gap between the two sides