World at Your Feet (TV series)

World at Your Feet (球在你脚下) is a Singapore MediaCorp Channel 8 television series produced in 2014, which premiered on 14 May 2014.

It stars Ha Yu, Tay Ping Hui, Jeanette Aw, Elvin Ng, Zhang Zhenhuan and Yvonne Lim as the main casts of the series.

[1] It revolves around the theme of football, as a lead-up to the 2014 FIFA World Cup held at Brazil.

In his youth, Hong Canghai (Tay Ping Hui) was high-spirited and a name to be reckoned with in football.

As his wife Zheng Yongyi (Yvonne Lim) cannot get along with his mother, Canghai has no choice but to move out.

This leads to his younger brother, Hong Dehai (Ian Fang), resenting him for abandoning their mother over a woman.

Wu Weixiong (Elvin Ng), a professional footballer, falls in love with Mo Yuqing (Jeanette Aw) at first sight.

Later, his role in an assault case discourages him from accepting Yuqing's love as he has made up his mind to turn himself in.

After his release from jail, Weixiong's eye disease worsens and he avoids people by living on his own.

One day, Yuqing chances to meet Weixiong, who is a guide of “Dialogue in Darkness” Experiential Walk.

To protect himself, he bribes the witness, Ann (Silver Ang), to frame the miserable Weixiong.

However, Guotian is perfectly aware that their relationship rests on a time bomb that will go off anytime... Gao Shou, too, was a professional footballer when he was young.

Ye Laixiang (Aileen Tan) was a waitress but worked very hard to get close to Gao Shou to become his assistant.

In his youth, he fathered an illegitimate son, Liao Huancong (Xu Bin), without knowing it.

He falls for Yuqing but after being spurned by her, turns his attention to her elder sister, Lihua, creating some funny episodes in the process.

He requires a huge sum of money for medical treatment for his younger sister who is suffering from a serious illness.

Later, with encouragement from Yangming, who is afflicted with an incurable illness, they decide to take the tournament seriously in order to score a personal triumph as the boys feel that they have never won any prizes in their lives before.

Whether this group of people will turn their lives around and make a comeback or not, one can only hear him shouting fervently on the sideline: “Don’t give up!