May 15, 2002.
Deng Kai led the Lisbon Sporting football storm, sweeping across Europe, and claimed the summit of the European Champions!
Deng Kai surged to the first place in the Golden Ball award real-time rankings!
Becoming the youngest player in history to briefly hold the world number one football ranking!
This brief moment lasted... less than a month!
June 13, 2002.
Deng Kai and the Chinese team suffered a humiliating elimination at the Korea-Japan World Cup, with three defeats in the group stage.
Everyone believed this was Deng Kai's Waterloo in his professional career.
Deng Kai slid to second place in the Golden Ball award real-time rankings, overtaken by the rampant world's top striker, Brazil's absolute main force, the extraterrestrial Ronaldo.
But the very next day, the world was shocked.
Because the football storm that had toppled the whole of Europe appeared in China!
And it did so in such a non-football manner!
June 14, 2002.