[{"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-283":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},483819,734,"Chapter 283 - 71: Absolute Dead Corner! Bayern’s Nemesis! Unrivaled Hero! Dortmund’s Great Opportunity! Make Bayern Regret It","the-god-of-football-starts-with-passive-skills-chapter-283",283,"\u003Cp>\"Haha, that foul from Holger was very decisive.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The referee blew his whistle, giving Badstuber a yellow card and awarding a free kick in a dangerous position upfield. But up in the executive box, Rummenigge just laughed and applauded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When you’re up against a player like Wang Shuo, you have to be decisive and commit to the challenge. If you have to foul, you foul.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Any hesitation, and he would have gotten past you.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Wang Shuo gave that kid a terrible time back in the U19s. He probably learned his lesson,\" Hennes added with a laugh.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"See? Our players aren’t bad at all. As long as we trust them, they can develop quickly.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rummenigge wasn’t just talking about Badstuber. He was also referring to Gomez, Thomas Müller, and all the other homegrown German players.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hennes nodded, completely agreeing with that sentiment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From Ribery to Robben, Bayern’s current team-building strategy was to rely on high-level foreign talent to foster the development of their homegrown players.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was a strategy employed by nearly every top-tier European club.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Take Ferguson’s Manchester United, for example. Their long-standing success was built on a foundation of homegrown talent supplemented by high-level foreign players, wasn’t it?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Last season’s \"Dream Team\" Barça, when Guardiola won an unprecedented treble—wasn’t that also a mix of homegrown players and foreign talent?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why did the first era of Real Madrid’s Galaxy Battleship collapse so quickly?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Many people point to a host of reasons: aging superstars, the \"one superstar per year\" policy, and so on.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But it all boiled down to one thing: a lack of cohesion in the locker room!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Football is a team sport of eleven players. It doesn’t matter how many superstars you have; if they can’t come together as a unit, it’s useless!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So how do you build that unity?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You need a core.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And that core must be built around homegrown players.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Florentino returned for his second term, many people focused on the signings of Ronaldo, Kaka, and Benzema. And they weren’t wrong to do so.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But what else was there?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were also homegrown stars like Harvey Alonso and Alvaro Arbeloa, in addition to players like Ramos, Albiol, and Raul.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chelsea was able to form a powerful team so quickly, and Mourinho deserves immense credit for that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But their squad was built on the backbone of a group of homegrown players led by Terry and Lampard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So why couldn’t Arsenal succeed?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wenger’s teams played beautiful football, but they lacked a foundation of homegrown players.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, Wenger is now pursuing a different path: relying on his own youth academy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Football is a funny thing. It can be incredibly difficult, but in some ways, it’s actually quite simple.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Both Rummenigge and Hennes understood perfectly well how crucial homegrown players were to a powerhouse club like Bayern.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was why they had chosen Gomez over Wang Shuo.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So when they saw Badstuber decisively foul Wang Shuo, they were genuinely pleased.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Dortmund’s best free kick specialist right now is Shahin, but he’s really only good at indirect ones.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Compared to the free kick masters at Bayern, Shahin’s ability was really quite ordinary.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Scoring from a direct free kick?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To the uninitiated, it might seem simple enough—just a matter of practice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But in reality?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hard work is just the most basic prerequisite.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To a certain degree, scoring from a direct free kick is a high-level skill, a fusion of exquisite technique, mental fortitude, physics, and the art of football itself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s nowhere near as simple as it looks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That’s one of the most magical things about football.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s counterintuitive!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Many skills that seem ordinary, nothing remarkable, are actually the most difficult and complex ones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Take running, for example.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone can do it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But running is paradoxically one of the most difficult, yet most important, skills in football.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this thought, Hennes couldn’t help but turn to glance at Wang Shuo again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’He really is a very, very good player!’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’It’s not just that he can run; he knows *how* to run, and he runs well.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’It’s just a shame he showed up at the wrong time.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Otherwise, I would have done whatever it took to bring him to Bayern!’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Wang Shuo took Reus’s hand and climbed up from the turf, Shahin came running over.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was the team’s designated taker for corners and free kicks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That went without saying.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the spot was fairly central, and the distance was good.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Let me take a shot.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Shuo stopped Shahin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He remembered what head coach Klopp had told him before the match.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With Captain Kael out and Weidenfeller being the goalkeeper, Klopp wanted Wang Shuo to step up and take on more responsibility.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shahin was very surprised.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You want to take a direct shot?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As far as he could remember, Wang Shuo had never taken a free kick. He wouldn’t even take penalties.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Shuo had once explained in the locker room that he was a Virgo, born on September 13th, and he just didn’t like taking penalty kicks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The other players certainly didn’t object; in fact, they were happy to take them instead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’But Wang Shuo, on a free kick? Could he really do it?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The worry flashed through Shahin’s mind, but he immediately nodded in agreement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although they hadn’t known each other for long, Wang Shuo had made a very good impression on him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Wang Shuo wouldn’t have offered if he wasn’t confident.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besides, many on the team knew that Wang Shuo stayed after every practice to work on his free kicks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’ll be your decoy,\" Shahin suggested.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Shuo nodded. \"Everyone will probably think you’re taking it. I’ll take the shot.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Smart!’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A flicker of admiration showed in Shahin’s eyes as he nodded in agreement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two of them discussed their plan as they walked over to the spot of the foul.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After setting the ball, Wang Shuo slowly backed away, counting his steps and the distance.\u003C\u002Fp>",991,"2026-05-30T11:12:32.830Z","2026-06-01T04:31:05.348Z",1,"novelbin.me","8bcf40d165894359339b1a655d6f2a852b084d0b870b2d8208adc2cc010d4c89","the-god-of-football-starts-with-passive-skills-chapter-284","the-god-of-football-starts-with-passive-skills-chapter-282",400,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-god-of-football-starts-with-passive-skills-cover.jpg"]