[{"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-588":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},1686483,2153,"Chapter 588 - 156: Preparing for the Playoff, the National Team Big Shots (Part 3)","i-am-the-football-star-chapter-588",588,"\u003Cp>Not to mention players like Morici who got in through the \"backdoor\" due to Kolber’s injury.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What’s more... Kolber himself is also considered a \"versatile player,\" similar to Lu Yang.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besides, Lu Yang and Morici both clearly understand that having just been selected for the national team, they are now facing a crucial play-off match.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Don’t even think about starting; even getting a chance to come on as a substitute would be considered lucky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What are the fans expecting from the players on the field at that moment?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What is the Head Coach expecting?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s for you to make an immediate contribution to the team!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this point, you can reduce your touches, reduce unnecessary cooperation and passes with teammates.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But you must make a very noticeable difference to the team’s attack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So just now, on the field, Lu Yang and Morici kept making threatening passes with Perrotta, Ancelotti, attacking midfielders, and left-back Praxedes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ancelotti has just recovered from a minor illness and is not quite daring to make strenuous sprints.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he plays in a shadow forward position that doesn’t require constant sprints but does require sudden bursts at key moments.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So he held back a bit, and naturally, the effect wasn’t good.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The coordination between Lu Yang and Morici with him had many issues that were probably Ancelotti’s fault.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But in Vincent’s view, it’s simply that Lu Yang and Morici’s passes were too wide!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ancelotti is quite adept at dribbling, and if you pass the ball at his feet, he might twist and turn and create some opportunities!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why insist on through passes and overhead balls?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Assists in the national team aren’t as simple as those in Serie B.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Also, Perrotta is a massive central forward standing at 1.93m, a super fulcrum.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He is quite good at receiving and creating, but this requires Morici and Lu Yang to time their forward runs well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Morici and Lu Yang are new here, and as midfielders making reckless forward runs, it might seem a bit excessive, right?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a result, they made a few mistakes. It was their fault, but understandable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The coordination with Praxedes and the others was the same.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, although there were many problems, they could be resolved with careful communication and adjustments.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once the attacking issues are solved, Lu Yang and Morici would have the chance to play.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Vincent clearly doesn’t plan to give them this opportunity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Do you think I can give them ample time to adapt?\" Vincent asked Maniero.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Then why did you recruit them?\" Maniero replied, \"The veteran national team members, even without training, are ready to fight. What do they need to practice for?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"While maintaining their form, testing if Lu Yang and Morici can bring some new changes is the purpose of this training camp!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Vincent squinted his eyes slightly, \"But this time, I want to try new combinations. Drake’s form has noticeably declined recently, and I want to try using Candreva as a defensive midfielder.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Drake, defensive midfielder for Rome, Italy’s main defensive midfielder, turning 33 this year.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Drake’s performance in Italy’s last qualifying match was poor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dino Candreva, a central attacking midfielder for bottom-half Serie A team Udinese, 28 years old. Has played in various positions in his youth, a versatile midfielder for Italy coming off the bench.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Defensive midfielder?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Candreva?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Does he really think everyone is like Maniero?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That everyone can play as both a central attacking midfielder and a defensive midfielder?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Anyone notice even the excellent Morici moved back from defensive midfield to central attacking midfield?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Maniero was completely puzzled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The pioneer and master of positioning the organizational core deeper is right here in front of you, and you’re telling me you want Candreva to play defensive midfielder?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If someone says you don’t understand football, generally, only someone as renowned as Guardiola could dare to play a central attacking midfielder as a defensive midfielder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But if you claim you do understand football, wouldn’t you know that I, Maniero, am the most qualified to speak on this?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Candreva cannot play as a defensive midfielder; when he plays as a midfielder and central attacking midfielder, he’s not the brains of the operation,\" Maniero spoke up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Oh? But I’m quite optimistic about him becoming the new brain for Italy!\" Vincent said, \"In recent seasons, his performance at Udinese has been outstanding!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Maniero had a thousand words that boiled down to one phrase: MMP.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I have nothing more to say to you!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And so, Lu Yang and Morici’s first national team training didn’t go smoothly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Most of the time, they weren’t even involved in the team training sessions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It made it seem as though the two of them were particularly bad.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No kidding, there might actually be people in the team who think that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, Lu Yang and Morici aren’t Euros and obviously can’t be liked by everyone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The national team also has internal competition.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>November 17th.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seria B, round twelve, San Remo VS Empoli.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Missing Lu Yang, Morici, and Bernulin, San Remo looked like they were missing their soul, pressed hard by the opposition in the first half.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If you say San Remo’s players aren’t excellent, that would also be incorrect. San Remo’s players at each position are nearly top-tier in Serie B.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But without the core and deputy core, any team would struggle to function smoothly in the short term.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the 55th minute of the second half, Empoli got lucky and executed a brilliant play, breaking through San Remo’s defense to score.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sotu on the sidelines didn’t have much to say.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There’s no way around it; this is the consequence of missing Morici and Lu Yang.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yes, it had nothing to do with Bernulin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With Morici, he wouldn’t have given the opponent the opportunity to repeatedly break through the midfield with passing plays.\u003C\u002Fp>",968,"2026-06-06T13:45:21.404Z",1,"novelbin.me","e2184a49fbad6dcd4df57f4e43a242d8f18fa4e634aad2819e4394ade4a88064","i-am-the-football-star-chapter-589","i-am-the-football-star-chapter-587",836,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fi-am-the-football-star-cover.jpg"]