[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-i-am-the-football-star":3,"chapter-i-am-the-football-star-i-am-the-football-star-chapter-28":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","I AM the Football Star",{"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},1686256,2153,"Chapter 28 - 12: The First Star Skill, Gift of the Moment Card","i-am-the-football-star-chapter-28",28,"\u003Cp>\"You and Hans... are in cahoots!\" Lu Yang’s eyes were sharp.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Just like your relationship with Hans.\" Sotu didn’t shy away, \"And Maniero... In fact, it was Maniero who recommended me to Hans. He’s truly a wise person, both on and off the field.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Yang nodded, \"I knew it, Live Football Report always has those stories about your rivalries and relationships that nobody else gets. You really leverage off-field factors and player bonds to boost your reputation.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sotu replied, \"But we’ve never shown any false behavior in matches, every time we meet, we go all out.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Yang said, \"I believe that.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sotu questioned, \"Why? You just believe what I say? What if...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Yang replied, \"Because I have played football with you all, I trust football!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sotu pondered for a long time; Lu Yang’s words touched him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In fact, Sotu wasn’t initially working with Hans, and back then, he wasn’t any top star, just an ordinary Milan midfield workhorse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Maniero felt the pressure and trouble Sotu caused him in matches were too great.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Maniero believed such an excellent player shouldn’t be buried, Milan’s fans needed to know what a great contribution someone in their team was making.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as Juventus fans need to clearly know how important Maniero is to them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the other hand, Maniero also needed an opponent to maintain his own publicity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He knew early on that having a topic would attract more media and fan attention, allowing you to stay famous longer. Fans need to be more lenient towards you, and every player needs a tolerant public environment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because no matter how strong you are, there will always be times when you lose, when you underperform.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If you don’t even have the margin for error to play a bad match, on what basis can you grow to be a superstar?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There’s no player in this football world born a superstar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So Maniero helped establish the notion of Sotu as Maniero’s lifelong rival, boosting both their reputations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sotu had nothing to lose from it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Maniero didn’t need him to slack off on the field. They both have high loyalty to their teams and high expectations for themselves and football.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From the decline of Hans’s influence following Maniero and Sotu’s retirement, it’s clear that this lifelong Serie A rivalry was engineered by Maniero.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without Maniero, Hans gradually lost his footing in the news media sector.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hans considered redoing Maniero’s plan and cultivating the next pair of brain vs. butcher.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he failed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Arnold was his third failure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Maybe due to uneven development on both sides, jealousy arose from one player towards the other causing them to refuse a harmonious publicity stunt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Maybe one side became ordinary, losing the operating space and value.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Or perhaps some fool kicked Hans out just for 300 euros.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Arnold will never know what he lost.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He lost a chance to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with Sotu and Maniero.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In short, Hans couldn’t complete this task.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had no initiative; he was just a channel of expression, a broker, with too low participation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The only ones who could truly control all aspects and create idols were the participants themselves.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That is, only the players themselves could.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hans could only play support.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And recently, Hans excitedly told Sotu he found another ADC for himself, perhaps not inferior to Maniero.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sotu sniffed at that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not everyone is worthy of being compared to Maniero!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But when Hans mentioned Lu Yang’s name, Sotu fell silent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because, in his eyes, though Lu Yang and Maniero are completely different players, they both possess a magical trait, which is... excelling at creating miracles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Tell me your thoughts; I need to confirm whether we’re working towards the same thing.\" Sotu was straightforward but used a peer-to-peer, same-level conversational style subtly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sixteen years old?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sixteen years old, my foot!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Anyone who treats Lu Yang as a sixteen-year-old kid is asking for trouble.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Simple, Vedian has to leave next season; the team can’t keep him, nor do they have a reason or ability to.\" Lu Yang said, \"Given this, why not make him look more valuable?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Next season, we need a certain amount of transfer funds, and Vedian can simplify this. Otherwise, even with Milan’s resources, we couldn’t afford him.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Yang’s final sentence made Sotu’s hair stand on end.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He even knew about this?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Don’t look at me like that.\" Lu Yang laughed, \"I can even guess you’re planning to bring in either Juventus’s veteran midfielder Latu Yidi or Juventus’s old captain Chiellini!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This made Sotu completely uneasy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Damn it! When did you tap my phone! Tell me, how many cameras have you installed in my home, filming me with female fans in hotels?\" Sotu sounded like a lion ready to kill.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And Lu Yang... opened his mouth wide, \"That’s a juicy piece of news, you’re a fan of Cao!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Shush!\" Sotu covered Lu Yang’s mouth to prevent them from being overheard by the players in front, \"I’m a man too; I have needs. I’m thirty-eight, unmarried; lots of issues to deal with, you know!\"\u003C\u002Fp>",843,"2026-06-06T13:45:07.891Z",1,"novelbin.me","757d8dd5649f972ab9a815139f60fccc461a754c2b84d2ded7147a98372c405b","i-am-the-football-star-chapter-134","i-am-the-football-star-chapter-133",836,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fi-am-the-football-star-cover.jpg"]