[{"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-305":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},484041,734,"Chapter 305 - 74: A Genius’s Dilemma","the-god-of-football-starts-with-passive-skills-chapter-305",305,"\u003Cp>As he said this, Heynckes pointed to Bayer Leverkusen’s number 39 on the sideline.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tony Kroos!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The German prodigy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"He told me that when he was playing for Bayern, he often ran into similar problems as you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Shuo was taken aback.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Is this a dilemma unique to geniuses?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But that’s Bayern!\" Heynckes laughed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Football has never just been about science and data. It’s also a kind of metaphysics, something that relies on a certain feeling.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Whenever people are involved, feeling is especially important.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this, Heynckes laughed again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"When I was talking with Klopp just now, I told him that you guys are using a sort of ’thuggish’ style of play.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"After winning the ball in the midfield or backfield, you quickly pass it forward to launch a fast break. If you score, great. If you lose the ball, the whole team pushes up and immediately applies a high press, forcing the opponent into mistakes.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Win the ball, and you immediately launch a fast break from right there. If you don’t win it back, you fall back while continuing to press. You just keep pressing until you get the ball back.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Press, fast break, press, fast break...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I told Klopp, if this team of yours wants to achieve results, your peak will last until 2012 or 2013 at the latest.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Why?\" Wang Shuo was surprised.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’He can even predict that?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It’s simple. Your average age right now is 23. By 2012, your average age will be 25.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Did you know? After the age of 25, a professional player’s susceptibility to injury starts to increase dramatically.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Before 25, players are still very young. Some are even still developing physically. They recover exceptionally fast. Even if they pick up a minor injury, it won’t affect their performance in a match at all.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But after 25, their physical functions decline, and their bodies recover more slowly. Trying to maintain such a high-intensity, high-stamina style of play is simply unsustainable. Widespread injuries are inevitable.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is the so-called Klopp Syndrome!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Shuo had a sudden realization.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had thought about this before, but not with Heynckes’s certainty or depth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Of course, Klopp’s style of play, which wears down the opponent at a high cost to his own team, is much better than Magat’s, which is almost purely self-destructive. More importantly, it doesn’t demand exceptionally technical players, yet it’s highly effective.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"As you know, technical players are often very expensive, and Dortmund can’t afford them!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Shuo understood what Heynckes meant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Come to think of it, the Bumblebees had to practically sell the farm just to buy me.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Is it realistic to expect them to assemble a squad of technically outstanding players?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every team has its own way of surviving.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Forget Dortmund.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bayern is loaded, right?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But what’s the result?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Van Gaal is having a huge headache over his midfield’s lack of creativity and ball control.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the end, it’s also because they don’t have enough technical players.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Alright, I’ve said enough to you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Heynckes saw his own players about to head off the pitch, so it was time for him to go as well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You little rascal, you refused to join my team back then. It’s pointless telling you all this.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After his laughing admonishment, Heynckes told Wang Shuo to call him if he had any questions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Shuo watched Heynckes’s departing figure, a warm feeling spreading in his heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’The old man is actually really nice, incredibly capable, and has extraordinary insight.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’But in recent years, his coaching record has been pretty mediocre.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sometimes, Wang Shuo also found it very strange.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’This must be that ’metaphysics’ Heynckes was talking about!’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’He’s so capable, his coaching level is high, and his insight is extraordinary, yet his coaching record is a complete mess.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Who can you even complain to about that?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for Klopp...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His tactics were indeed just as Heynckes had described, and he would indeed always be plagued by the Klopp Syndrome.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Klopp himself was a very special person.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Shuo had always felt that half of Dortmund’s fighting strength came from their tactics.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The other half came from Klopp, the man.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How to put it?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That guy who came out of the Black Forest possessed a unique kind of charisma.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking of this, Wang Shuo walked over to Klopp.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The away draw against Bayer Leverkusen didn’t affect Dortmund much.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Come the midweek DFB-Pokal round of 16 knockout match, Klopp once again fielded a reserve lineup for the away challenge against Osnabrueck.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Young players including Götze, Letalek, and David Fuzojić all started.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Playing away, Dortmund actually did quite well for the first half-hour.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The turning point of the match came just before the end of the first half.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Osnabrueck launched a series of attacks, creating several consecutive corner kick opportunities.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a result, they scored two goals in quick succession in the 37th and 42nd minutes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although Dortmund pulled two goals back in the second half through Valdes and Tinga, they ultimately lost 2-3 to Osnabrueck and were regrettably eliminated from the DFB-Pokal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This loss really didn’t look good.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Osnabrueck was currently in the Third Division League, the third tier of German football.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What level was that, exactly?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Many Bundesliga teams’ second squads, like Dortmund II, Bayern II, and Stuttgart II, were currently in the Third Division League.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, Osnabrueck was considered a strong team in the Third Division League; Dortmund II had lost to them 1-4 in an away match.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This match also showed that Dortmund’s youth development over the past few years had actually been quite poor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Especially the young players.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Other than Götze and Letalek, there were basically no others who could get playing time with the first team.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since it was a cup match, Wang Shuo, along with teammates like Shahin and Kuba, wasn’t included in the squad. 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