[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-emperor-of-football-julien-de-rocca":3,"chapter-emperor-of-football-julien-de-rocca-emperor-of-football-julien-de-rocca-chapter-275":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Emperor of Football: Julien De Rocca",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1556212,2020,"Chapter 275: Chapter-275 Kick-off","emperor-of-football-julien-de-rocca-chapter-275",275,"\u003Cp>Julien pulled back his thoughts. The others were still chatting about the match against Marseille.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rothen looked at Julien. \"Tonight's your coming-of-age night. Let's celebrate with a victory.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Haha\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The other teammates laughed too, saying Julien should get a hat-trick, score four goals, and so on.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some said they hadn't realized Julien was only eighteen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Indeed, Julien's performance on the pitch made them completely forget his age.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Choplin grinned mischievously again. \"Hehe, after tonight you can do more other things. Training all day—you're not some extreme ascetic.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His suggestive expression made everyone laugh even harder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Julien just smiled without responding. This kind of joking also completely dispelled the pre-match tension.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Time flew by.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After 6 PM, Bastia took the team bus to the Vélodrome Stadium.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The stadium was built in 1937. Initially, it even had a cycling track, because Vélodrome means velodrome or cycling stadium in French.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It could hold 60,000 fans. So, around the Vélodrome Stadium, there was a sea of people, densely packed crowds converging from all directions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bastia's team bus encountered the same situation that visiting teams faced in Bastia, it was blocked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Members of Marseille's hardcore fan organizations drove a convoy with blue-white flags circling Bastia's bus, loudly singing Marseille's anthem \"Droit au But\" while constantly honking, creating a wall of sound, trying to make Bastia feel the pressure from now on.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Bastia players on the bus smiled helplessly at each other. They had no real complaints about it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, Bastia fans couldn't surround other teams without letting others surround Bastia, right?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was just normal in France.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the classical writer François de La Rochefoucauld once said: \"In France, anything can happen.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some Marseille fans even threw blue-white smoke bombs at Bastia's bus, filling the entire street with blue-white smoke.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This behavior of throwing smoke bombs in the streets had always been banned by the government and club, but it still happened frequently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It couldn't be stopped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With insufficient police, after much \"coordination,\" Bastia's bus finally entered the stadium.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was already nearly twenty minutes behind their scheduled time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hadzibegic didn't have time to say much, just shouted, \"Don't let their little tricks affect your mood. Move quickly, hurry up and warm up.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The players all nodded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Rothen turned on the hot water tap, he laughed and said. \"It's better than Nice's home ground. Nice didn't even have hot water.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ha-ha-ha\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Another round of laughter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You need to step up tonight. I'll help you!\" As they left the locker room, Lukaku patted Julien's shoulder. \"Let's win this match!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Julien nodded slightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As he was about to reach the exit of the player tunnel, he heard a familiar voice: \"Happy birthday.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was De Bruyne.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After saying this, he walked straight onto the pitch. Julien smiled and followed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BOOM!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BOOM BOOM!!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Entering the Vélodrome Stadium, even though it was still the warm-up phase, they could feel the passion of Marseille fans.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The song \"Droit au But\" swept through the entire stadium.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At a glance, the stands were a sea of surging blue and white.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Julien couldn't help but grumble inside that Marseille was so stingy, such a big stadium, yet they only gave Bastia 1,500 away tickets.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, Modoso was leading Bastia fans in singing, trying to let the players hear Bastia's voice amid Marseille's roar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unfortunately, the disparity in numbers was too great. Even though Modoso and others were shouting with all their might, they were drowned out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the Vélodrome Stadium box, Geronimi was chatting with Marseille's chairman Labrune.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Labrune had just become Marseille's chairman last June. He kept praising Bastia's achievements, while Geronimi kept denying them saying: \"Just luck.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this time, viewership on the TF1 channel was also surging. The commentator was hyping up the match: \"Two teams—one bearing the weight and glory of history, the other writing a grassroots underdog story! Yet these two teams from seemingly different worlds have formed an amazing parallel line in the standings!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Can Bastia's youth storm put on another good show tonight? Julien—after Bastia's three-game losing streak, can he, as captain, lead the team to end the losing streak? Tonight is also his 18th birthday...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Warm-up ended.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside Bastia's locker room, everyone put their hands together and shouted with determination: \"FORZA BASTIAAA!!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The players' faces showed resolute determination as they left the locker room and walked toward the pitch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chataignier, Hadzibegic, and other staff members shook hands and hugged each player.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Chataignier hugged Julien, he said, \"I'll be watching your performance with your family.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Julien's family usually didn't attend away games, but tonight was different.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was Julien's birthday.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While waiting in the player tunnel, the players heard the frenzied voices of Marseille fans.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Let's go.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The referee led the players onto the field.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instantly, fans stomped on the metal stands in unison, combined with their synchronized chanting. Inside the stadium, you couldn't even hear each other clearly without speaking loudly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As captain, Julien performed the pre-match ceremony. Bastia won the coin toss and got kickoff.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, Marseille fans had already lit cold fireworks in the stands and were throwing blue-white smoke bombs onto the pitch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ligue 1 smoke, as always.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the players stood in the center circle waiting for kickoff, if the broadcast gave a wide shot, you couldn't even see people clearly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Actually, not just the broadcast, the players on the pitch couldn't see people in the distance either.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But everyone was used to it by now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was Ligue 1 specialty.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>TWEET!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With the referee's whistle, the match officially began.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Baup was already shouting from the sideline for his players to press Bastia. He knew Bastia would definitely use their defensive counter-attacking tactics. Want to sit back?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He wouldn't let Bastia sit back comfortably!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He would force Bastia's tempo. However, this was France, where anything could happen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BOOM!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bastia kicked off. De Bruyne, under pressure, spun in a circle, created space, then sent a long pass.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From his perspective, that area was covered in blue-white smoke.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But from others' perspective, that area had Julien making a run behind Marseille's defensive line!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>WHOOSH!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing this, many Marseille fans became restless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Danger!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>________________________________________________________\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Check out my patreon where you can read more chapters:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>patreon.com\u002FLorianFiction\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thanks for your support!\u003C\u002Fp>",1043,"2026-06-06T07:35:06.182Z",1,"novelbin.me","d88899b67d6c9f4a6e2cee77203874b79b12718aee5b9a152672794ff27673ad","emperor-of-football-julien-de-rocca-chapter-276","emperor-of-football-julien-de-rocca-chapter-274",628,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Femperor-of-football-julien-de-rocca-cover.jpg"]