[{"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-85":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},483771,734,"Chapter 85 - 42: Good Job, Wang Shuo! The New Season’s First Upset! Clickbait and Image Rights","the-god-of-football-starts-with-passive-skills-chapter-85",85,"\u003Cp>Kicker Magazine gave Mainz a positive review.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The team’s new signings had all performed well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, Wang Shuo could tell that this ’well’ actually meant there were no real surprises.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>High hopes had been placed on Hainauer, but he hadn’t performed particularly well in the opening round.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Players like Helle and Van der Heyden could only be said to have had an average game.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Considering their transfer fees, you couldn’t really ask for more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For free transfers and signings worth a few hundred thousand euros at most, what more could you want?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Shuo, on the other hand, was hailed as Mainz’s biggest surprise of the opening round.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Is our head coach known for strong starts to the season?\" Wang Shuo asked, having noticed Kicker Magazine’s mention of Klopp’s old problem.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Subotic nodded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Never mind last season. Back in the ’04\u002F’05 season, after Mainz got promoted from the 2nd Bundesliga for our first-ever season in the Bundesliga... after eight rounds, guess where we ranked?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Where?\" Wang Shuo hated it when people tried to be dramatic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’So lame!’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Third.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Holy shit!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Now that was seriously impressive.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The eighth round of the season wouldn’t be until mid-October.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But after that, our ranking just kept dropping. We finished in 11th place, but that strong start shocked everyone and made them remember Mainz and Klopp.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Shuo thought about their last season in the 2nd Bundesliga.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Who could have imagined that Mainz, after dominating the first half of the season with unstoppable momentum, would perform so terribly in the second half?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Shuo had a feeling it was related to the team’s tactical style.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was just like the match against VfL Wolfsburg, where they played far better in the first sixty minutes than in the last thirty.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The league season as a whole followed a similar pattern.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a consequence of their tactical style. The team didn’t have the financial resources to maintain a large squad, which would have allowed Klopp to rotate players effectively. This was the end result.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was why Kicker Magazine also stated in its report that Klopp’s teams had to be evaluated over the course of an entire season.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In addition to Kicker Magazine, Wang Shuo also saw plenty of news about himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He couldn’t help but feel a little smug inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Performing well and making the papers... that was what it was all about. It was no fun achieving great things if no one knew about it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once the team bus was out of VfL Wolfsburg and cruising steadily down the highway, Subotic and the others around him began to close their eyes and rest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Shuo, however, took the opportunity to enter the Ball God System.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Match Summary: Passive Value Gained: 11.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Huh?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’I actually got 11 Passive Value from this match?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was a new career high for Wang Shuo!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’VfL Wolfsburg’s environment, and Magat’s tactics, they’re really something special,’ he thought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Ugh, no, I mean dirty!’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Magat’s tactics are just brutal!’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After opening his Personal Attribute Panel, Wang Shuo saw that he now had 35 Passive Value.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this rate, he figured he could save up enough for a Passive Skill Card after just a couple more matches.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Shuo realized that even though he was in the Bundesliga, Klopp’s tactical system was extremely beneficial for his own performance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Why so much Passive Value?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Because I’m taking such a beating.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Shuo swore he didn’t have the slightest masochistic streak, but earning Passive Value still felt pretty damn good.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was just that desperate to improve!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Earning a lot of Passive Value proved he was a threat on the pitch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In short, it was one word: Awesome!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the first round of the league, the teams tied at the top of the table were Schalke 04 and Hoffenheim.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thanks to a brace from Kuranyi, Schalke 04 defeated Hannover 96 3-0.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hoffenheim, meanwhile, secured a resounding 3-0 away victory over Cottbus, also powered by a brace from Ibisevic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mainz’s 3-2 upset away victory over VfL Wolfsburg was no less impressive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although the scoreline wasn’t as lopsided as Hoffenheim’s, Wolfsburg was a team with the strength to contend for the title.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the other newly promoted team had a miserable time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Borussia Mönchengladbach suffered a crushing 1-3 defeat at home against Stuttgart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They conceded three goals in the first half alone and only managed to pull one back in the second.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But if you had to pick the most miserable team of the round, it would have to be the Bundesliga overlords, Bayern.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the Allianz Arena, Klinsmann’s team went up by two goals, only for Hamburg to score two of their own to level the match.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not only were their defensive problems laid bare, but critically, they were also hit with a wave of criticism after the match.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the 2-2 draw with Hamburg, Rummenigge expressed his disappointment with the result.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If you can’t get results, then all the changes you’ve made here are meaningless.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even Beckenbauer said after the match, \"Klinsmann is always talking about a bunch of philosophies and ideas, but I think he should be more focused on how to turn those into results.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Former head coach Heynckes also commented, \"If you’re leading a match 2-0, you absolutely have to win it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The implication was clear: failing to win was the head coach’s fault.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the first time Wang Shuo had witnessed such a spectacle firsthand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’If I were in Klinsmann’s shoes,’ he thought, ’I’d definitely be frustrated.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’It’s the first match of the new season, and it wasn’t even a loss, just a home draw. And people are already blasting him like this?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’The crucial thing was, if it were the fans or the media lashing out, that would be one thing.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’But now it was the club’s top brass—Rummenigge, Beckenbauer, and Heynckes, their own people—who were lashing out. How could anyone endure that?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This just proves I was right not to go to Bayern!\" Wang Shuo said with a laugh during a phone call with his agent, Thomas Essien.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"In that kind of atmosphere, I’d probably be coughing up blood every week.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Back in China, Wang Shuo’s eye-catching Bundesliga debut, where he scored a goal and provided an assist, had naturally earned him a flood of praise.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And things were different now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the past, his games were only streamed online, but now, Capital Television’s sports channel was broadcasting them directly.\u003C\u002Fp>",1075,"2026-05-30T11:12:32.550Z","2026-06-01T04:31:05.348Z",1,"novelbin.me","96c8f652139f2a53253de0fd53d891d35ab9e035a8d75cd606cff6e632b0fe0f","the-god-of-football-starts-with-passive-skills-chapter-86","the-god-of-football-starts-with-passive-skills-chapter-84",400,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-god-of-football-starts-with-passive-skills-cover.jpg"]