[{"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-165":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},484001,734,"Chapter 165 - 54: Major Upgrade! Secret Weapon! Winter Transfers and War of Words! Klopp Syndrome! Championship Dream Shattered","the-god-of-football-starts-with-passive-skills-chapter-165",165,"\u003Cp>This was the source of the animosity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Darmstadt is one of the wealthiest cities in Germany, so naturally, it attracts a lot of animosity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is often how derby hatred is born,\" Wang Shuo said with a laugh.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The city of Mainz is quite small.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the two of them ran back to Bruch Road Stadium, Wang Shuo’s training for the day officially began.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The coaches and players had all started their holidays.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before the break, Kramny and Axel Busenkel had both left training assignments for Wang Shuo.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They could both see that Wang Shuo’s body was truly resilient.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For a professional player, this was an incredibly important trait.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some people, due to their muscle structure, get injured with the slightest fatigue, which is a huge problem.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Shuo was clearly not one of them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But as an Asian, he was at a natural disadvantage when it came to physical confrontations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even though Wang Shuo trained hard, at eighteen years old, he was still severely lacking in this department.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At first, Zhao Yifan could barely keep up with Wang Shuo’s training.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But gradually, he found himself gasping for breath.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This made Zhao Yifan admire Wang Shuo even more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Back in China, Wang Shuo had always had the best stamina, but as a midfielder, Zhao Yifan’s stamina wasn’t bad either.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now, after such a short time, the gap between them had become incredibly obvious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhao Yifan couldn’t help but sigh, marveling at how desperately Wang Shuo must have worked to get to where he was today.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For the next few days, Zhao Yifan continued to train with Wang Shuo.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Shuo personally supervised him, making sure he adjusted his routine based on his actual condition to avoid overexertion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, on the day before Christmas, Lina Gerk suddenly appeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’m going home to spend Christmas with my family, so I thought I’d drop by on the way.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lina Gerk looked at the young Chinese man before her, drenched in sweat and steaming from his workout, a special sparkle appearing in her eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Your way home goes through Mainz?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Of course. My parents live in Marburg.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Marburg?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It’s north of Frankfurt.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Oh.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Shuo still didn’t know the exact location, but he found it a bit strange.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Her home is north of Frankfurt, but she came all the way west. How is that \"on the way\"?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As if sensing Wang Shuo’s skeptical gaze, Lina Gerk explained awkwardly, \"I was coming from... Munich.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Shuo said, \"Oh,\" again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Does the route from Munich to north of Frankfurt go through Mainz?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’I guess it could.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Oh, right. This is for you.\" Lina Gerk handed him an exquisite gift bag.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What is it?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It was a giveaway from an event I attended. I have no use for it, so I’m giving it to you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lina Gerk practically shoved the gift bag into Wang Shuo’s hands. Their hands inevitably touched, and it felt so hot...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’m leaving now! Merry Christmas!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Merry Christmas, Lina!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The blonde girl turned back, gave Wang Shuo a radiant smile, and left.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After watching her leave, Wang Shuo opened the gift bag and was surprised to find a cell phone inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The latest model of the Apple iPhone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How did Wang Shuo know?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because the phone’s logo was an apple with a bite taken out of it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Also, Christian Heidel had bought one too. He complained all day about how this feature was bad and that one was super hard to use, but in reality?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was always clutching it and showing it off, afraid that people wouldn’t know he was using an iPhone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not long ago, several other people on the Mainz team had also bought this phone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Shuo looked at the phone, then looked up into the distance, but Lina Gerk was already out of sight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’So, she took this route specifically to give me a phone?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After Christmas, Mainz began to reassemble.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They packed up and prepared to head south to Spain for winter training.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was a routine event for German teams, and even for teams from Northern Europe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was too cold up north, making training impossible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of the 18 German teams, 17 chose to head south, either to Spain or Portugal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only Werder Bremen went to Turkey.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Additionally, teams with greater commercial potential, like Bayern and Hamburg, would travel to Dubai after their training in Spain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In recent years, the football market in Dubai had also been very hot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was said that Bayern would also play a friendly match against AC Milan in Dubai.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mainz followed the crowd, holding their training camp in the area of Malaga and Marbella in Spain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The advantage of doing this was that it was easy to find suitable opponents for friendly matches.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The hottest news during this winter break was, of course, about Real Madrid.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The management of the Galaxy Battleship had apparently failed to grasp the transfer rules. They spent a fortune to sign two players, Huntelaar and Lass Diarra, but it turned out only one of them could be registered to play for Real Madrid in the Champions League.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This led to countless fans mocking the incompetence of Real Madrid’s management.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But what Wang Shuo saw was Real Madrid’s immense wealth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the Bundesliga, the equally wealthy team was Bayern Munich.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Signing the Ukrainian midfielder Tymoshchuk from Zenit cost Bayern 11 million euros.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, the player could only join them in the summer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Klinsmann, on the other hand, did something very bizarre. He signed US international Donovan but stubbornly refused to give more opportunities to Podolski and Tony Kroos.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tony Kroos resolutely chose to leave the team, seeking a loan move elsewhere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was rumored that Stuttgart, Bayer Leverkusen, and Dortmund were all interested in loaning Tony Kroos. However, Stuttgart wasn’t short-staffed in the midfield, and Bayer Leverkusen had a formidable player like Vidal holding down the fort.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only Dortmund, which was determined to strengthen its midfield, was originally the best choice.\u003C\u002Fp>",998,"2026-05-30T11:12:32.829Z","2026-06-01T04:31:05.348Z",1,"novelbin.me","8a9e6144531a9c9b2d2b846b1b8a99e9a8cb9187fc2f7f8b6ec053923c6c936d","the-god-of-football-starts-with-passive-skills-chapter-166","the-god-of-football-starts-with-passive-skills-chapter-164",400,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-god-of-football-starts-with-passive-skills-cover.jpg"]