[{"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-316":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},484052,734,"Chapter 316 - 75: Golden Ball Award Ranking! The Fourth Superstar of World Football! The Making of a Legend! The Shock from China","the-god-of-football-starts-with-passive-skills-chapter-316",316,"\u003Cp>\"We’re short on players for the left flank right now.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Shuo nodded, showing he understood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The veteran Van der Heyden hadn’t been heavily used during the Klopp era, and under Tuchel, he had lost his place entirely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Marco Rose was still a very capable player.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After meeting with his former teammates, Wang Shuo truly felt the new face of Mainz.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although Mainz earned 20 million euros from selling Wang Shuo, their total spending in the transfer market was less than 1 million euros.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The club has too many things to take care of. For example, the youth academy needs to be expanded, the first team’s facilities need to be improved and updated, and a lot of the youth teams’ buses have to be replaced...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Tuchel spoke, he spread his hands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Twenty million euros?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It sounded like a lot, but after accounting for installment payments, the first deposit was only about 5 million euros.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’How much could that really accomplish?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A single bus from Mann cost several hundred thousand euros, and a high-spec model would be well over that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bayern’s custom model was said to cost as much as 800,000 euros.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’How many of those could you buy?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"By the way, Heidel asked me to tell you to come back and visit more often when you have time.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Shuo nodded in agreement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t bring up Zhao Yifan with Tuchel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because he knew that with Tuchel’s personality, if he didn’t mention it, Tuchel would provide assistance where he could.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bringing it up would only be counterproductive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dortmund defeated Mainz 1-0.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At home, Bayern drew 1-1 with Bayer Leverkusen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Van Gaal’s team remained in 9th place in the league.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two goals were scored in the 6th and 14th minutes, respectively.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In this round of matches, Hamburg lost 0-1 to Bochum at home.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The most eye-catching match of the round was Werder Bremen’s 6-0 demolition of Freiburg away from home.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, Hoffenheim thrashed Cologne 4-0 away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With this victory, Rangnick’s team surpassed Hamburg in the league standings, rising directly to 4th place.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Backed by a powerful financial consortium, Hoffenheim had been making consecutive high-level investments.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This season, for example, they had once again invested 15 million euros.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the Bundesliga, this was already considered a fairly impressive level of spending.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And this was reflected in Hoffenheim’s league position, as well as the team’s fighting strength on the pitch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bundesliga Matchday 14 featured Dortmund challenging Hoffenheim away from home.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just two minutes after kickoff, Wang Shuo assisted Kuba for a goal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But at the start of the second half, Hoffenheim launched a counterattack, and in the 48th minute, Demba Ba scored the equalizer for Hoffenheim.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neither side was able to score again after that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Immediately after the match, Bild published a commentary arguing that although Wang Shuo only had one assist, he was still the most threatening player on the field.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"He single-handedly drew three yellow cards from Hoffenheim’s defense!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But in the end, Dortmund failed to secure all three points away from home.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the same round, Bayer Leverkusen thrashed Stuttgart 4-0 at home, thanks to a hat-trick from Kiesling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bayern, meanwhile, secured a complete 3-0 victory over Hannover 96 away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mainz drew 1-1 with Hamburg at home.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dortmund continued to lead the table with 33 points.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bayer Leverkusen was second with 30 points.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, with the three points from this round, Bayern shot up directly to 5th place.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Midweek, Dortmund welcomed Vienna Rapid for the fifth round of the UEFA Europa League group stage at home.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since the team had already qualified as the group leader, Klopp adopted a rotation strategy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But given that it was a home game, Wang Shuo and other key players were on the bench.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a hard-fought first half, neither side managed to score.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The most ridiculous part was that Vienna Rapid had received four yellow cards in the first half alone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Players like Reus and Götze all performed exceptionally well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After play resumed in the second half, Reus received a brilliant pass from Götze and broke into the left side of the penalty area to open the scoring for Dortmund.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just six minutes later, Schmelzer assisted Valdes for a goal from the left flank.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the end, Dortmund achieved a resounding 2-0 victory over Vienna Rapid at home.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The day after the UEFA Europa League group stage match, as announced well in advance, France Football Magazine was set to gradually release the rankings of the 30-man shortlist for the 2009 European Golden Ball Award on its official website.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After training, Wang Shuo and his Dortmund teammates all gathered in the lounge, waiting for the final list to be announced.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But unexpectedly...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No way! It crashed?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They tried to open the official France Football Magazine website on the lounge computer, but all they got was a 502 error.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was ridiculous!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Is this year’s Golden Ball getting an unusual amount of attention? This has never happened before. What’s going on?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"There’s nothing that special about this year, is there? Isn’t it a sure thing that Messi will win?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The only suspense was what the editor-in-chief of France Football Magazine said before—that it wouldn’t be a surprise if Barça swept the top three.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That still shouldn’t be enough to cause this.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yeah, for it to crash like this is crazy.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No, if you want to talk about what’s special this year, it’s definitely the addition of our Wang Shuo,\" Foyelner chimed in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When it mattered, he still looked out for his buddy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone thought about it, and it seemed plausible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’But do I really have that kind of influence?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Shuo himself had his doubts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He recalled seeing many fans on Chinese sports forums discussing the event the day before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Could it be that the fans from China are all trying to access the France Football Magazine website?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’If that’s really the case, then it’s time for Europe to feel the shockwave from China!’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The France Football Magazine website had crashed, but the media outlets in Germany were unaffected.\u003C\u002Fp>",1008,"2026-05-30T11:12:32.829Z","2026-06-01T04:31:05.348Z",1,"novelbin.me","610fe66f6d478e74293615f771d54b89104e513dc1ad6507c329982a970e1cac","the-god-of-football-starts-with-passive-skills-chapter-317","the-god-of-football-starts-with-passive-skills-chapter-315",400,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-god-of-football-starts-with-passive-skills-cover.jpg"]