Chapter 253 – Weird Playmaking (2)

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Falling in love with the two women who live together throughout the winter break… No, squeezed… No, reverse rape… Anyway, the day I returned to the team after enduring a life-and-death struggle with mechakucha and wanting to die like this.

I rushed out to the training ground early in the morning to get out of the corner of the house where the smell of bodily fluids vibrated, and for some reason, the coach was kicking the ball alone.

Even with a serious expression.
Do you have any troubles at home?

“Director? What are you doing in the morning?”
“You were the first to come out. Did you have a good break? … No I hope you had a good time. I enjoyed watching the talk show you appeared on.”
“Five. Did you see that?”

Why is the normally calm man making such a fuss?

“Well. What is Hong? Would you like to play a passing game with me?”
“With the director?”
“When I was active, I was also a midfielder with a good knowledge of passing. It will be better than training alone.”

The director is in his late 30s.
He is obviously young for a coach, and some of his peers are still active players, but the coach gave up his career early and entered the path of a leader.

I don’t know if I took good care of my body, but the director has a typical uncle’s body type.
If he had talent in the first place, he would not have given up his career so early.

If he retired early and turned into a coach, 99 out of 100 would mean he wasn’t very talented as a player.

Even if he was a midfielder during his active career, a man who didn’t take care of himself, and a man who retired early due to lack of talent, should play pass with me.

Actually, the coach was not the type to participate in training with the players.

Why isn’t there a manager like that?
A ‘theoretical’ director who tells you to do this or that with words. Our director is just like that.

Contrary to popular belief, soccer skills do not diminish with age.
There is a saying that an old soldier never dies, and it is not for nothing that they say that a class is eternal.

In particular, parts such as technique do not rust easily even with age, so sometimes there are scenes where people are surprised by content where retired legendary players and active players are matched.

It is a look that reminds me of old legends of a retired player crushing an active player.

As such, there are many cases in which soccer skills do not significantly decrease even with age.
However, there is one part that a retired player can never catch up with the active player, and that is physical ability. Among them, physical strength is the reason active duty is active duty.

That is why even retired players can play an active part in short training that they can physically endure, and in fact, coaches who flew during active duty often directly participate in training.

Perhaps the most famous example is Zinedine Zidane.
Isn’t the ‘training ground legend’, which is said to have been a legend, as it was in the training ground and aroused admiration from Real Madrid players?

Ballon d’Or winner Modric even praised him, saying, “The one who kicks the ball best in our team is the coach.”

However, these are coaches who have spent splendid active duty, and our coach, who is an expert in entering football, has never directly participated in training as a theoretical faction.

A coach like that suddenly said he would do pass training with me?
That’s also because ‘holiday aftereffects’ and ‘Monday sickness’ occur right after the break period, when you go to work early in the morning?

At that moment, a flash of light passed through my head.

From the dawn of the next day of the break, he came out alone on the ground and was rolling the ball, his serious expression, his overly welcoming attitude, and the way he came out of nowhere to practice passing.

No way… ?

‘Right.’

Now I get it
All doubts are cleared.

‘That man was married to a nobleman.’

Yes.
The director is a married man.

After finding out the decisive keyword, all conclusions are drawn as one.
In other words, the director’s’ is also in a position to run away from the corner of the house.

No wonder….

‘Is this the camaraderie of married men?’

Although he is not married, as a prospective married man, a sense of bonding springs up naturally.

Me and the director who ran away from every corner of the house to avoid getting settled and my wife’s annoyance.

Obvious.
The director ran away from the corner of the house, but he had nothing to do, so he was trembling all alone.

The image of the director, who must have rushed out of the house early in the morning, almost caught my eye, and I couldn’t help but cry.

“Like. Let’s train together, coach!!”
“Well. I’ll give you the pass, Hong.”

Pass. Pass.
Our coach said that he was a midfielder during his active career, and that he was a midfielder whose strength was passing.

After… I can’t help it.
It’s hard to earn points these days, so I tried to save a little more, but for our coach, this amount of investment… !

“Ah, Annette… !? Why are you so good at passing!?”

Looking at the surprised director, I shook my head inwardly.
You don’t have to be too happy, Director.

It hurts a little to write points, but if it gave the director some comfort, I’m satisfied with that.

* * *

The team’s first practice game after returning.
In this practice match, the coach ordered players to refrain from their original play style of aggressive dribble breakthrough and focus on passing play as much as possible.

It seems that he recognized his improved passing ability.
Also, the director is the director.

However-

“Minjoon. Come on, talk to me for a minute.”

Like the first training session after the break, around late lunch, around the time the schedule was over and the team was disbanding, the coach asked for a meeting.

“I don’t know if you know… There is a big problem with your play in today’s practice game.”
“Is it a problem? Is it my play?”

For a while, I was taken aback by the unexpected words.
I nodded in agreement, and the director held out a wad of paper.

“What is this?”
“This is an analysis of you. Would you like to see it?”

As I flipped through dozens of sheets of paper one by one, I found various figures, graphs, and even complex marks on the ground picture.

When I looked at the director again at the mass of information that was hard to grasp by reading it roughly, he started explaining as if he had waited.

“The basic of football is passing, and passing requires various elements. In particular, two elements are key to connecting a pass from the opponent’s dangerous area, the attacking third, to the penalty box. The location and timing of the starting points.”

The director, who was passing over a bundle of materials that had been put on the table, pointed out one part.

“It is a figure that shows the goal conversion rate of four passes. Below are the numbers of other second-tier playmakers. Is it particularly low in comparison?”

I didn’t quantify it, but I knew that the percentage of my passes leading to goals was particularly low. I didn’t express it, but it was also a part I was conscious of.

Raising the passing ability was never an impulsive decision.
The director only served as an opportunity, but I continued to worry about the pass.

On the talk show, I was thinking about a solution while feeling low assists compared to scoring, and one of the ways was to make up for the lack of passing ability.

“I tried to find the reason through my own analysis. I see a few problems. … It’s embarrassing, but to be honest, the fact that Chelsea manager Federico gave an interview about your weakness helped me a lot. To say he knows my players better than I do, he must have been a person to coach Federico.”

You know the skill of director Lorenzo Federico.
The sticky difficulties I felt at Chelsea are still clear.

“I have identified two major problems with you. One is that the passing skill itself is lacking, and the second is that the speed of thought is too slow. … Are you okay?”
“Yes? What?”
“No… I’m asking if it’s okay to say this.”

What. I’ve said everything and now what?

“Okay, then. Knowing what I lack is to supplement and develop. So?”
“Uh, um… You too… “

To keep coughing for no reason at the director’s uneasy gaze as he stared at me with deeply moved eyes,

“Great! Go out now Go to the training ground right now. My, I will teach you playmaking!!”

Tell me what to tell me, man… I should go home and rest too.
Do you work overtime as soon as your vacation is over? .

However, the director’s momentum was not unusual, so I forcibly raised the tension.

“Good! Then, under the guidance of the coach, I will be reborn as a perfect playmaker!”
“It’s not even a perfect playmaker… “
“No! You have to aim for the best in whatever you do. Let’s become a pass master under the coach’s guidance!!”
“Yes? Pass Master?”

Okay.
It’s a pity that my talent is the top scorer.

“Well, being a pass master is just training… “
“Sabina Iniesta, Modric, the Bruiner class pass master. That’s what my neck is.”
“Who? Sabi?”

Speaking of which, I suddenly feel motivated.

“Let’s start training right away, coach.”

You’ve had quite a few 10/10 Premier League goals/assists, but have you ever had a 20/20?
Why don’t you win the top scorer/helper title at the same time? There is no player in the history of the Premier League who has been both the top scorer and the assists king at the same time.