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Chapter 200 The Fifth Star Dream Cup Group Match First Round VS Costa Rica Team
2026 Spring Festival!The national youth team finally got together again, because they are about to participate in the fifth Star Dream Cup during the Spring Festival.This time, Germany, France, Uruguay, Argentina, Costa Rica, Nigeria, Japan and China are invited. There are a total of eight teams, divided into A and B groups.

Group A:
Chinese team

German team

Uruguay
costa rica team
Group B

France

Argentina
Nigeria team

Japan Team

The top two teams in the group advanced, and the eight teams have already advanced to the World Youth Championship. This year's Star Dream Cup has also become the best warm-up event before the World Youth Championship.

This year there will be the World Youth Championship and the World Cup, so the Saints brought the Star Dream Cup to the Spring Festival ahead of schedule.It will also be fixed at this time period in the future.

Chinese fans ushered in the annual Star Dream Cup event.

The team members haven't seen each other for half a year, and when they get together this time, they are like brothers who haven't seen each other for many years, greeting each other, talking and laughing.They are still the same happy, harmonious.

Zhang Yike and the others are now playing in the Chinese League One with another club in Shanghai. In 2025, he successfully helped the team win No.2 in the league. Throughout the second half, Zhang Yike scored 22 goals, averaging more than 1 goal per game.This year their team was also promoted to the Chinese Super League. The club has set a goal of qualifying for the AFC Champions League this year, and the whole team is full of confidence.

Liu Wenjian and the others were robbed by the Jiangsu Super League team. With their joining, the team rushed from the edge of relegation to No.3 in the league in one fell swoop. In the first round (21 teams of the Chinese Super League), they conceded a total of 22 goals. It was their excellent defense performance that made great contributions to the team.

Zhang Wei and the others were sold to the Dalian team. Although they only won No.5 in the Chinese Super League, they won the championship in the FA Cup. This year they will also participate in the AFC Champions League.Zhang Wei even contributed 24 assists in the Super League and 7 assists in the FA Cup for the team. He deserves to be the world-class assist king.

They have such a performance, all rely on the small cooperation of the triangle, this is thanks to Master's good intentions.

The Xingmeng team won the Chinese League One last year. He is 2 points away from No.11. This year, the Chinese Super League finally has the long-awaited Xingmeng team. Can he replicate the myth of Evergrande?This is the topic that all fans are most concerned about.

Looking back on 2025, Zhang Wenmo's Shanghai team won the defending champion of the Chinese Super League. In the AFC Champions League, they only won No.2 in East Asia, and unfortunately failed to make it to the final.

With an undefeated record of 34 wins and 4 draws, the Xi'an team has successfully entered the Chinese Premier League. In 2026, they will launch a strong impact on the Chinese Super League.

Following in the footsteps of the Xi'an team, the Chongqing team won 30 wins, 5 draws and 3 losses and entered the Chinese League One, but they lost both rounds against the Xi'an team.

The pair knocked the No.3 team a few blocks away.



On February 2026, 2 (the second day of the Lunar New Year), the Chinese team will participate in the first round of the fifth Star Dream Cup group competition.

This year's Star Dream Cup has expanded to eight teams, and all eight teams have qualified for this year's World Youth Championship.

The defending champion Chinese team was assigned to Group A, with opponents in the same group including Germany, Uruguay and Costa Rica.

The matchup of Group A:

The first round: China team VS Costa Rica team
The second round: China VS Uruguay
The third round: Chinese team VS German team

The goal of the Saints this year is to defend the title, but it is a bit difficult to stand out from the eight teams.

In Yangcheng today, the atmosphere of the Spring Festival is very strong, with lanterns and festoons everywhere, full of joy.

Guangzhou Tianhe Stadium and Yuexiushan Stadium have become a football event for Chinese fans. Many fans from all over the country rushed to Guangzhou to watch the event during the Spring Festival holiday.

There are a total of 16 games in the [-]th Star Dream Cup, and all the tickets are sold out.

The first round of the Chinese team against Costa Rica will be held at Guangzhou Tianhe Stadium.

Today's weather is a bit cold, 12 degrees is relatively cold for Yangcheng in the south, but the bleak cold wind can't stop the enthusiasm of the fans.

Guangzhou Tianhe Stadium has once again become the world of the Chinese Red Devils.

Not surprisingly, the Chinese team is wearing a red jersey again today, while Costa Rica is wearing a white jersey.

The game starts now.

The Costa Rica team is a powerful team, and their players are generally tall and strong.They will have a 433 formation for this game.

Yao Zhitao replaced Liu Hong in the starting lineup of the Chinese team.We will apply the first trick: the infinite triangle, which is the first confrontation between the two teams.In history, the most memorable World Cup in 02, we lost to our opponent 0:2 in the group stage.But in the warm-up match in 05, the Chinese team successfully retaliated 2:0, and it was at the Tianhe Stadium in Guangzhou that they succeeded in revenge.

While speaking, the game had already started, and the opponent used his strong physical ability to attack the Chinese team's defense.

The Chinese team used skillful cooperation to resolve the opponent's offensive one by one.

After about 10 minutes of the game, the Chinese team slowly adapted to the opponent's rhythm, and we began to control the situation.

As the defending champion of the Chinese team, the opponent is still a little scared psychologically.After more than ten minutes of the game, they also felt that the Chinese team's cooperation and footwork were better than theirs.Therefore, whenever the Chinese team counterattacked and attacked, they would return to defense in time and dare not neglect.

The Chinese team has not run-in and train together for half a year, and I feel that their cooperation is not as smooth as the world preliminaries.

The two sides scored a goalless draw in the first half.

Changing sides to fight again, the Chinese team switched to the second trick: wave-by-wave triangle.

At the beginning of the second half, the Chinese team launched a fierce offensive. The opponents seemed to be psychologically prepared. They also set up an iron bucket formation and successfully withstood the Chinese team's offensive.

In the 53rd minute, the opponent took advantage of a counterattack and got a free kick in the frontcourt.

The No. 9 captain of the Costa Rica team personally took the penalty.As a result, his shot hit Lin Bosen's knee and refracted into the net.

The Chinese team fell behind 0:1 for the time being. Since then, the Chinese team has launched wave after wave of attacks, but the opponent seems to want to hold on to the score.

The Chinese team was besieging their opponents throughout the second half. Fans who watched the Star Dream Cup game felt as if this game was like playing against the Mexican team again.

In the 68th minute, the Chinese team replaced Liu Dong and Lin Bosen with Li Jiawei and Zhang Wenmo.

The game lasted until 87 minutes. Li Jiawei made a strong breakthrough in the frontcourt and was pulled down by his opponent. The Chinese team won a free kick in the frontcourt.

Zhang Wenmo took the penalty, the captain and Li Jiawei were standing beside him, the captain Zheng Wei seemed to be talking to them?It is estimated that it should be a tactical cooperation.

Alright, Zhang Wenmo took a dozen steps back... Start... run-up...

Suddenly, Li Jiawei poked the ball and Zhang Wenmo hit the goal...

I saw the opponent's goalkeeper flying forward: "Ah..." Suddenly the ball was released, and the goalkeeper felt that his hands had lost consciousness.

The captain, who had already run up ahead of time, successfully made a supplementary shot.

In the end, the Chinese team struggled to equalize the score.

The game ended in a 1:1 draw between the two sides.

The performance of the Chinese team in this game is a bit worrying, and their cooperation feels reversed.

Well, this is the end of today's game. Three days later, in the second round of the group stage, the Chinese team will play against Uruguay.goodbye!
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