[{"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-3":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},483843,734,"Chapter 3 - 2: It Feels Great to Have a Cheat","the-god-of-football-starts-with-passive-skills-chapter-3",3,"\u003Cp>Wang Shuo’s consciousness entered a very strange space.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The soft turf under his feet felt incredibly real.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The surrounding stands were blurred, but he could still feel an imposing presence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was definitely a magnificent, massive, modern stadium.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before him, a massive football three meters in diameter floated in mid-air at eye level.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If Newton saw this, he’d probably be rolling in his grave.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To the side was the Personal Attribute Panel, displaying the personal attributes he had just seen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The thing that caught his attention the most was the Passive Value.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had a very strong feeling that this was an extremely important stat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But what it was for or how to obtain it, he didn’t know yet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On this giant football, every pentagonal panel was dim, making it impossible to see what was on them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each corner was connected to the adjacent pentagons by a faint, almost invisible thread, forming the sphere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Wang Shuo selected \"Yes,\" the giant football began to rotate slowly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It spun faster and faster.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Shuo found it amazing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’This must be the random draw.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’What will I get?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the football reached its maximum speed, it began to slow down again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Slower and slower.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finally, it stopped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The pentagon facing Wang Shuo instantly lit up, bursting with a dazzling light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A system message immediately appeared in Wang Shuo’s mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Congratulations, Wang Shuo. By using the Passive Skill Card, you have drawn the Professional Level Passive Skill: [Breathing].\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"[Breathing]: Improves stamina and endurance by regulating breathing.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Holy crap!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Shuo was ecstatic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’It’s that awesome?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This Passive Skill called [Breathing] could actually improve his stamina and endurance?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Didn’t that mean he could run more and for longer during training and matches?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Back when he was in youth training in China, the Huairun Football School had the most advanced philosophy, placing great emphasis on footwork.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Gao Huairen, having played in Germany for many years, also knew very well that on the football field, physical fitness was everything.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was especially true after seeing the success of Hiddink’s South Korean national team in 2002.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, at the Huairun Football School, in addition to drilling their technique, every student had another important task: building their physical fitness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As one of the top players in the school’s youth academy, Wang Shuo’s fitness was among the best.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And now, he could improve his fitness even further.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At 17, Wang Shuo was mostly done growing. Standing at 1.8 meters tall, his speed and explosive power were his sharpest weapons.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the football field, the most dangerous applications of speed and explosive power were high-speed sprints and shuttle runs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But these were also the most draining.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With the [Breathing] Passive Skill improving his stamina and endurance, wouldn’t he be able to leverage his advantages in speed and explosive power more frequently?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Wang Shuo focused his attention on [Breathing] under the Passive Skills section of his Personal Attribute Panel, more information instantly appeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"[Breathing], Current Level: Professional Level. Next Level: Regional Level.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Upgrade requires 50 Passive Value. Current Passive Value: 0.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This meant the Passive Skill could be upgraded further, becoming stronger and stronger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’If I upgrade this Passive Skill to the highest level, wouldn’t I become a tireless bull?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Sprinting all over the field for a full 90 minutes, repeatedly charging without a care for stamina... that’s just insane!’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Shuo was in a state of disbelief.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he quickly calmed himself down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because he hadn’t yet found a way to acquire Passive Value.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>points might not seem like much, but they were surely difficult to obtain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After exiting the Personal Attribute Panel, Wang Shuo once again looked at the enormous football floating in mid-air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of the many pentagons, only one was lit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Does this mean that every panel holds a Passive Skill?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’What would it look like if they were all lit up?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the faint threads connecting the corners of each pentagon also seemed to represent some kind of connection.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This system still had so many amazing functions waiting to be discovered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this thought, Wang Shuo was fired up!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He clearly realized that the Five Major European Leagues might not be so far out of reach after all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next morning, when Thomas Essien came to call Wang Shuo for breakfast, a sweat-drenched Wang Shuo had just returned from practicing outside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This had been Wang Shuo’s habit for years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He always trained the hardest and with the most effort of anyone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thomas Essien also felt he deserved better.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The kid was clearly talented, willing to work hard, and had good skills.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So why wasn’t any team willing to give him a chance to prove himself?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he were a Brazilian—no, any South American player—he probably would have been signed long ago.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he just had to be from China.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After breakfast, Thomas Essien drove Wang Shuo to Mainz.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the way, he explained the current situation at Mainz while driving.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Among the 36 teams in the Bundesliga and 2nd Bundesliga, Mainz has always been the most looked-down-upon. They have a nickname: Arsch.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Arsch?\" Wang Shuo’s German was decent, but he still didn’t understand the word.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thomas Essien, who was driving, turned his head and chuckled. \"It’s German slang. It means ’ass.’ To put it crudely, ’idiot’ or ’trash.’\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Shuo learned something new.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It seemed this team had always been a target of contempt.\u003C\u002Fp>",900,"2026-05-30T11:12:32.829Z","2026-06-01T04:31:05.348Z",1,"novelbin.me","f5c35bd9135d7c46c7785c1099513153b47eadbe9fd1583a01f6a28e8457bd68","the-god-of-football-starts-with-passive-skills-chapter-105","the-god-of-football-starts-with-passive-skills-chapter-104",400,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-god-of-football-starts-with-passive-skills-cover.jpg"]