Explaining an idiom in Chinese football

I'm exploring the idiom "全村的希望," which literally means "hope of the whole village." It reflects hometown pride and can be translated as "the pride of my hometown" or "the village's great hope." In Chinese football fandom, it's a meme suggesting that someone symbolizes the only hope for domestic football. I plan to express that I'm not quite "the village's great hope" yet, but I'm aiming to earn a place in Europe. I'll produce a short answer in Chinese!