[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-god-of-football-starts-with-passive-skills":3,"chapter-the-god-of-football-starts-with-passive-skills-the-god-of-football-starts-with-passive-skills-chapter-158":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","The God of Football Starts With Passive Skills",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},483994,734,"Chapter 158 - 53: Top Scorer! Massive Reward! A Miracle! Wang Shuo’s Underestimated Potential (Part 2)","the-god-of-football-starts-with-passive-skills-chapter-158",158,"\u003Cp>All the photos featured Wang Shuo on the pitch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A few of them were clearly taken at very close range, as if you could reach out and touch him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Wang Shuo obviously hadn’t noticed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only the space below the 8th ticket stub was blank, without a photo.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Below it was written a line of elegant, small script: DFB-Pokal Second Round, Mainz at home against Cologne.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The girl flipped through the scrapbook page by page, caressing each photo, ticket stub, and plane ticket as if they were beautiful memories, until she reached the most recent page.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She took out the 19th ticket stub and plane ticket from her backpack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bundesliga Matchday 17, Bochum at home against Mainz.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The plane ticket was from London, United Kingdom, to Düsseldorf, Germany.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The name on it was: Shen Qinghe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The news of Mainz becoming the Bundesliga Winter Champions spread like wildfire!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For a newly promoted team to surpass traditional powerhouses like Bayern Munich, Bayer Leverkusen, and Dortmund to become the Bundesliga Winter Champions was an unbelievable feat in any league.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Germany’s Kicker Magazine wrote an article titled \"The Commoners’ Uprising.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In this article, Kicker Magazine argued that Mainz was not a particularly strong team.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But why were they able to become the Winter Champions?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was something all the Bundesliga giants, including Bayern, Dortmund, and Pharmacy, needed to reflect on.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Before the season began, everyone had listed Mainz as the top favorite for relegation.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No star players, no national team players, no new signings, and even... no money.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet it was this have-not team that, relying on sheer, stubborn tenacity, defeated one opponent after another to become the Winter Champions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kicker Magazine believed that Klopp’s team still had all sorts of problems.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For example, after October, their form clearly took a big dip, which was an old problem for Klopp.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Injuries also started to pile up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The squad was thin, and they were overly reliant on Wang Shuo for goals...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But this team ultimately became the Winter Champions!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was an iron-clad fact!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Remember, before Matchday 4 of the Bundesliga, when Mainz played Bayern, some media outlet said that a single star player from Bayern was worth the entire Mainz team. And that was indeed the case!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"In that match, Bayern stormed to a three-goal lead.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But did they crush Mainz?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The answer is, no!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"On the contrary, Mainz, led by Wang Shuo, broke through Bayern’s defense with a brilliant long-distance solo run, launching a counter-attack that left Bayern completely flustered.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Other than winning on the scoreboard, Bayern lost everything else.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kicker Magazine believed that this commoners’ uprising was more of a wake-up call for Bayern.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The strength of the Bundesliga’s reigning champions was beyond doubt, but the problem was the severe internal strife within their team.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Klinsmann had consistently failed to unite the locker room or manage the relationship with the board, preventing Bayern from unleashing their full combat power on the pitch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is just the beginning!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kicker Magazine warned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Don’t forget, Hoffenheim also secured 4th place, and this newly promoted team is just as ambitious!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bild, on the other hand, explained the first half of the Bundesliga season from a different angle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Disruption!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The best-performing teams in the first half of the Bundesliga season almost all had a \"disruptor\" figure behind them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Klopp of Mainz, Rangnick of Hoffenheim, Labbadia of Bayer Leverkusen, and Klinsmann of Bayern.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Among these four, the oldest, Rangnick, was only 50 years old.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the Hoffenheim he coached was the youngest team in the entire Bundesliga.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The four young coaches brought a brand new way of thinking about attacking football.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Most importantly, they were all native German coaches.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In contrast, foreign coaches were all struggling in the new Bundesliga season.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is the most beautiful half of a season in the history of Germany!\" Bild lauded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It gave its reasons: two newly promoted dark horses ran wild, the league’s dominant giant started low but rose high, attacking football was all the rage, and the competition was fiercer than ever before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bild believed that this season’s Bundesliga was completely different from those of the past.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Look no further than last season.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Heynckes had built a super defense for Bayern, winning the league title.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Stevens brought his defensive philosophy from Schalke 04 to Hamburg, which almost got the Northern King into the Champions League spots.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Magat had declared at VfL Wolfsburg: \"Only defense can win a championship!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But what about now?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wolfsburg’s improved results stemmed from Magat starting to unleash the attacking power of the trident of Misimovic, Griffith, and Dzeko.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hoffenheim’s Demba Ba, Ibisevic, and Obasi were arguably the most fearsome trident in the Bundesliga’s first half.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Klinsmann’s Bayern was also renowned for its offensive firepower.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mainz?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This team was no believer in conservative play, either.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Klopp still adhered to his old philosophy of high pressing and fast attacks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mainz was one of the most passionate teams on the pitch in the first half of the Bundesliga season.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was also one astonishing statistic in which the Bundesliga outshone the entire European Football Scene.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An average of 3.02 goals per match, the most since 1988.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Over 60% of matches had three or more goals.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>34.64% of matches had four or more goals.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>18.3% of matches had five or more goals.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was something no other league in Europe could achieve.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Attacking football had taken the entire Bundesliga by storm!\u003C\u002Fp>",903,"2026-05-30T11:12:32.829Z","2026-06-01T04:31:05.348Z",1,"novelbin.me","a69d4ee4efe82c3d5f2f72551a169f5f859314b7631d9be119364557a1c29cb8","the-god-of-football-starts-with-passive-skills-chapter-159","the-god-of-football-starts-with-passive-skills-chapter-157",400,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-god-of-football-starts-with-passive-skills-cover.jpg"]