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A major historic upset against the Dorgi Gemun crowns the Second League's Caiboo team as the owners of the Khan Cup
17 June 5689 (backdated)



It is an unprecedented and historic victory for the Caiboo's eleven, as the southeastern provincial team led by the Fulušun Joobar wins a spectacular 3-2 Bianjie Khan Cup final match against the last year's runner-up squad, and the Bianjie First League's defending champions, Dorgi Gemun. The 119th-minute goal from the Farmers' star striker, Alin Liruhuo, has once again helped the Greens to cross the finish line on top, this time, making it the final stretch, to win the nation's most prestigious trophy: the Khan's Cup, with Khan Nurhaci personally being present during the match, and taking part in the award ceremony.

What was a shock on its own, that Caiboo even managed to get to the finals, turned into a full-on embarrassment for the Dorgi Gemun, who had not only failed to win the match, but also had not been in control of a big part of the match, against the eleven who are currently 4th in the nation's Second League competition. Still, a first ball in the net came from Gemun's side at the 31st minute, with the Lourennaise left forward Alban Génin finding the net from 8 metres. It didn't take long for the Farmers to respond with an equaliser. In the 37th minute, Caiboo's striker, Liruhuo, found a way to keep the intrigue going in this match, scoring a beautiful goal coming from a free kick after a foul against the Farmers' winger, Tangda. With that, the first half was over, 1-1, an active, yet calm first half. Calm before the storm.

It took Caiboo 5 minutes in the second half to score a second goal, with the Farmers' midfielder Jirga Yonot pushing the ball in a truly chaotic episode in front of the Burgundies. And with that, the game was led by the players in the green uniform, in a complete shock to almost everyone, including the coach of the Farmers, whose shocked face after a second goal quickly became a meme across the Bianjian social media. Still, 2-1, and Gemun had to get it together if they wanted to win the Cup, and they did. When it was almost certain that Bianjie would witness its first upset victory in nearly two decades, performed by the southeastern team, Gemuners managed to turn it around with a late 89th-minute header goal from the corner. The message this goal has sent was clear to everyone: Dorgi Gemun is here to stay and fight 30 more minutes.

Now, in yet another rare moment of the Khan's Cup final match, the game went to two additional times of 15 minutes, meaning 30 minutes total to either score a final and victorious goal, or to win in a penalty shootout. Luckily for the nerves of everyone, Farmers chose the former option, with the star striker of the Caiboo team, Alin Liruhuo, putting a final nail into the coffin of Gemun's hopes of winning the Cup, with a long shot across the Burgundies' half of the field at the 119th minute. To say that the Ilhaiyafan Stadium was loud is, to put it mildly, quite an understatement. The whole, and I mean it, the whole Caiboo team ran to the Liruhuo, literally jumping on him, hugging and crying, as the small Second League team from the Handuba Province, surprisingly to everyone, even to themselves, managed to achieve, probably, the biggest achievement in the 89-year history of the club, by winning the Bianjie Khan's Cup for the first time in history.

Later that day, during the press conference of the Caiboo's coach, Elden Mordi, and the team's hero, Alin Liruhuo, the players of the Farmers stormed the conference midway, spraying champagne everywhere, singing the club's anthem, running and jumping around, with both Mordi and Liruhuo first laughing it out, but then joining their team two minutes later. Now, Caiboo is not simply a Second League club; it is a club that has found itself as a part of the modern Bianjian football history, and mostly, it is just the beginning for the small, yet determined club from Caiboo, Handuba Province.



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