[{"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-63":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},483749,734,"Chapter 63 - 39: Prestige! The Sixth Passive Skill! A Miracle for Ordinary People","the-god-of-football-starts-with-passive-skills-chapter-63",63,"\u003Cp>Wang Shuo paid it no mind, but Subotic nodded earnestly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What are you nodding for?\" Wang Shuo asked Subotic, amused.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’ve got a girlfriend.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Shuo was shocked. \"You have a girlfriend? Since when?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"A long time. Before I came to Germany.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Subotic had arrived in Mainz in the summer of ’06.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was two or three years ago.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Hold on, bro. You got a girlfriend when you were sixteen or seventeen? That’s dating too young, you know?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’That’s illegal for a minor!’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How come I’ve never met her?\" Nowitzki asked, also surprised.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Subotic finally smiled a little shyly. \"She’s the World Youth pole vault champion. She’s been in the United States recently, preparing for the Olympic trials.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Holy crap!’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, it wasn’t just Wang Shuo; even Nowitzki nearly yanked the steering wheel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’That’s ridiculous, right?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Dating young is one thing, but a world champion?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Shuo suddenly felt that being teammates with someone so incredible put a lot of pressure on him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>「Afternoon, May 18th. Mainz Bruch Road Stadium.」\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>2nd Bundesliga, Round 34. Mainz hosts St. Pauli.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Everyone, settle down. I have a few things to say.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the locker room, Klopp clapped his hands loudly, drawing everyone’s attention.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Upon hearing him, the players all quickly settled down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon, the locker room fell silent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One by one, they all sat upright and looked at the bearded middle-aged man in the center.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Klopp felt the players’ gazes. After adjusting the glasses on the bridge of his nose, he suddenly broke into a wide grin and chuckled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Let’s not be so serious. Relax a little.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone immediately started laughing along with him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You probably don’t know this, but a lot of the information about me out there is wrong.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Klopp’s first sentence took everyone in the locker room by surprise.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I was actually born in the Black Forest, in a tiny little town called Glattingen. I’m sure none of you have ever heard of it, right?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before the players could react, Klopp continued.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It’s not surprising. Our town was tiny, and deep in the forest. The year I was born, our town didn’t even have a hospital where a woman could give birth, so my father drove my mother, who was in labor, to Stuttgart, dozens of kilometers away.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So, you’ll see that a lot of the official info out there says I’m from Stuttgart.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But I’m not, really. I was just born there and only stayed for a few days.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Klopp said these words, his tone was deliberately light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Wang Shuo could sense a certain heaviness in them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because he too was a kid who had come from a small mountain village!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I got out of the Black Forest by playing football. As anyone who’s seen my resume knows, the best team I ever played for was Frankfurt’s second team, but I was also working part-time as a youth coach there.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"A year later, I left.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"In ’90, when I came to Mainz, this team had just been promoted from the third division to the 2nd Bundesliga. Our foundation was terrible. We had no players, no money, and a very low level of professionalism.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Our head coach at the time was a man named Robert Junge, from Kaiserslautern. He told us more than once that the proudest achievement of his life was getting Mainz into the 2nd Bundesliga.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Once we managed to find our footing in the 2nd Bundesliga, we gradually attracted more and more people, like Heidel and Wolfgang Frank.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They all had one thing in common: before coming to Mainz, they were all nobodies.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Just like this team. Completely unremarkable.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Klopp spoke lightly, but Wang Shuo heard the weight behind his words.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’ve always believed that in 2004, two miracles occurred in the European football scene.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"One was Otto Rehhagel and his Greek team winning the championship at the European Cup.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"He’s an amazing head coach. He once led Kaiserslautern to a miracle championship win as a newly promoted team.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The second was us, Mainz. After ninety-nine years of hard work, we finally broke out of the 2nd Bundesliga and charged into the Bundesliga!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Klopp spoke eloquently, and Wang Shuo and the players around him listened with rapt attention.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He felt a profound strength in the head coach’s words.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We’ve never been a big club. We don’t have big-name stars, we don’t have money, even our stadium isn’t big. There’s nothing about us that can compare to the big clubs from the big cities.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The way I see it, Mainz was able to break into the Bundesliga by relying on a group of unremarkable, ordinary people.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They didn’t have extraordinary talent, they didn’t have astonishing skill. They were very, very ordinary, but...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Klopp swung his arms forcefully.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They firmly believed they could change their own destiny! They firmly believed that as long as they were willing to work hard, to give their all, there would be a reward!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They saw the difficulties, and they knew the odds were slim, but they still kept quietly putting in the work, relentlessly striving.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And in the end, Mainz stood on the stage of the Bundesliga!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And I, a man who walked out of a small Black Forest town, became the person you see before you today: Jurgen Klopp!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Klopp introduced himself, he pounded his chest forcefully.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The dull thud seemed to echo right beside every player’s eardrums, deafeningly powerful!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"A lot of people ask me, why were we relegated from the Bundesliga last season?\"\u003C\u002Fp>",919,"2026-05-30T11:12:32.550Z","2026-06-01T04:31:05.348Z",1,"novelbin.me","2c67f6f4a113c5b1285b70301bf56f2bfd5e296e0afa7eebd053ef1d44b006b9","the-god-of-football-starts-with-passive-skills-chapter-64","the-god-of-football-starts-with-passive-skills-chapter-62",400,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-god-of-football-starts-with-passive-skills-cover.jpg"]