The Five Nations' Football Alliance: Gao Qiu Cried After I Kicked Him

This book is a work of fiction set in an alternate timeline where five nations coexist, and all football league events are original creations. Please do not compare them to real history. During the Xuanhe era, envoys from the Great Jin Dynasty arrived, proposing a football match with 3,000 shi of grain as the wager. Lin Chen, a rural football player, leads a grassroots team to Bianliang, where they can only watch this diplomatic match as newcomers. They refine their formations, build team chemistry, seek out talented players across the land, and negotiate to snatch capable individuals. They compete in the Great Song domestic league, aim for the Five Nations Football Alliance round-robin tournament, and step onto the stage of the Nations' Territory-Defining Assembly to vie for mining rights to border wastelands for several years! Within the Qiyun Society, Gao Qiu has long managed football affairs and is renowned throughout the Central Plains. When they finally meet on the pitch, Lin Chen must use his formation tactics to contend with formidable opponents from all five nations. — Description from novelcodex.org