[{"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-17":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},483874,734,"Chapter 17 - 10: I Want to Score Another Goal","the-god-of-football-starts-with-passive-skills-chapter-17",17,"\u003Cp>WOAH!!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment Wang Shuo scored, a collective gasp of shock erupted from around the stadium.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Mainz actually scored?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And they scored a goal like *that*.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Good God, how is that possible?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What’s the name of the guy who scored?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before today’s match, Bayern Munich U19 was already on a six-game winning streak in the Southern Division.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In those past six matches, Bayern had scored 19 goals and conceded only 3.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Led by Thomas Müller, this Bayern Munich U19 team’s performance in the Southern Division was even more dominant than the Bayern first team’s in the Bundesliga.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The only reason they were ranked third in the league table was that Bayern hadn’t taken the first half of the season seriously at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment the Bundesliga giants paid even the slightest bit of attention to the U19 league and shifted some resources over, their results improved dramatically.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now, this seemingly invincible Bayern team had been scored on by Mainz.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The area around the pitch was packed with people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Shuo, Schürrle, and Medinitz could only celebrate the goal on the athletics track at the side of the pitch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Bayern players on the pitch were also a bit unsettled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since February, no opponent had managed to equalize against them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Today was the first time!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Shuo, however, gathered his teammates in a huddle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We have to give it our all.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Now that we’ve tied the score, we have a chance to beat them.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Even if Bayern is a god in the Bundesliga, right now, that god has started to bleed!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Niedermayer watched the pitch in utter astonishment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But it wasn’t because of Wang Shuo’s goal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was because of the lateral run he made before the goal, and the sudden forward burst that followed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Niedermayer had started his career as a right-back, and a German international-level right-back at that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So he knew exactly what Wang Shuo’s sudden lateral movement meant for a defender.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Throughout the entire defensive sequence, Badstuber hadn’t made a mistake.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before Wang Shuo made his lateral run, he and Elbu had already set up an offside trap.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Wang Shuo’s lateral run neutralized that plan perfectly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was forced to follow him, moving laterally as well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No defender can allow the player they’re marking to escape their defensive zone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Especially a player with such exceptional speed as Wang Shuo.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But as Wang Shuo moved sideways, the gap between Badstuber and Elbu widened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And wasn’t Medinitz’s pass played right through the middle of the two center-backs, into the space behind them?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That’s why Niedermayer, with his right-back background, knew that Badstuber had done his best.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Did he really plan that in advance?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Niedermayer found it hard to believe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If that was the case, then this Asian player was terrifying!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the current Bayern team, there was also a player who was exceptional at off-the-ball movement: Thomas Müller.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rummenigge had watched Thomas Müller play, and his evaluation was very interesting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"He doesn’t have extraordinary talent. His physique is average, his technique is average, and his speed is also very average. But he just knows how to score goals.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s that ghost-like movement and his sharp instincts in front of the goal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Thomas Müller couldn’t run like Wang Shuo, because he lacked the speed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, he couldn’t think three steps ahead with every move he made, like Wang Shuo just had.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was an absolute demonstration of top-tier football intelligence!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’A player like that should be playing for Bayern!’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After muttering to himself, Niedermayer took a small notebook from his pocket and quickly jotted down a few words.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mainz, Asia, WANG.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No one noticed him. In the dense, impenetrable crowd of fans, there was another German who, just like Niedermayer, had also been a right-back. And he was just as stunned by the run and the goal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Shuo returned to the pitch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bayern’s forward, Thomas Müller, stood in the center circle, ready for the kickoff.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When their eyes met, Wang Shuo could clearly sense the excitement in the young German prodigy’s eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was the feeling of a chess master meeting their match.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Wang Shuo didn’t see Thomas Müller as his opponent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instead, he was targeting Badstuber.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For a while, the Bayern center-back had been playing with elegance and composure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But after Wang Shuo’s goal, he seemed to have been provoked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next time Wang Shuo had his back to the goal, preparing to receive the ball, Badstuber rushed up from behind and went straight into a slide tackle, taking down both the man and the ball.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But it was a clean tackle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The referee’s whistle blew immediately.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Another point of Passive Value acquired!’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Wang Shuo got up from the ground, he looked at Badstuber with a grin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Schürrle had said that this center-back, who had just turned 19, was a key starter for the Germany U19 team and was about to be selected for the U20s.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, just like Thomas Müller, he was a rising star that Bayern was heavily promoting—a future national team player.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’A player like him is the perfect one to farm for points!’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besides, Wang Shuo also wanted to know just what level he had reached after all the recent matches and improvements.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Did he have what it took to go head-to-head with the best center-back of Germany’s younger generation?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That last goal doesn’t count. I’m going to score another!\" Wang Shuo said provocatively, staring directly at Badstuber.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’He’s deliberately trying to provoke me,’ Badstuber thought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he still replied coldly, \"You won’t get another chance!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The match resumed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As halftime approached, the players on both sides were starting to feel the strain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were all young players, between 17 and 19 years old, who had yet to be tempered by the professional leagues.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Many hadn’t even undergone professional strength and conditioning training.\u003C\u002Fp>",983,"2026-05-30T11:12:32.829Z","2026-06-01T04:31:05.348Z",1,"novelbin.me","e07765f8d488c1da5bb952f18bdbd4821aa3418ed91bfd9cb5d51b94b0a0a6fa","the-god-of-football-starts-with-passive-skills-chapter-122","the-god-of-football-starts-with-passive-skills-chapter-121",400,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-god-of-football-starts-with-passive-skills-cover.jpg"]