There were no soccer games at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics, so it wasn't until the 1936 Berlin Olympics that football came back. This Olympic Games has been deliberately avoided for some reasons, but for Chinese football, it is definitely an Olympic Games of great significance, because Chinese football debuted on the world stage for the first time.
However, the appearance of the Chinese team was not easy, due to the financial difficulties of the National Government at that time, in 1936, in order to participate in the Berlin Olympic Football Tournament, Li Huitang and the football team could only raise their own funds, set off more than two months in advance, and relied on the ticket revenue of the games along the way as the cost of participating in the Olympic Games. Li Huitang and his teammates played 27 matches along the way, achieving a record of 23 wins and 4 draws. They saved money and rushed all the way to Berlin. However, due to the exhaustion of the players along the way, when it came to the Olympic games, they lost 0:2 to England and were eliminated in the first round.
There are still 16 teams participating in this tournament, except for China and the United Kingdom, the other matches result is Italy 1:0 united states, Norway 4:0 Norway, Germany 9:0 Luxembourg, Austria 3:1 Egypt, Poland 3:0 Hungary, our mortal enemy Japan actually defeated Sweden 3:2 to advance, the other promotion place belongs to Peru, they eliminated Finland. But Japan was swept out 8-0 by Italy in the following match.
In the end, Italy won the gold medal in the Olympic Games, second in Austria and third in Norway, and the Olympic Games were interrupted for several years due to the outbreak of World War II.