126 Advanced Technology
After thinking for a while, Hiro took the risk and joined Yuya and the others.
Sneakily walking on their toes, Hiro and his friends were making their way towards the pitch, carefully.
Yuya who was walking infront was responsible for checking people coming from infront and updating them with the path infront. And Shun who was at the last of the queue was responsible for checking the people coming from behind.
Finally after walking on their toes for a while, they made it out of the building, totally undetected.
And as they walked out of the building, they noticed a bunch of people swarming beside the fences to witness the trial. Few small time local reporters were also present there, interviewing some of the players and spectators and covering the event.
“Quick hurry!!” Waving his hands, Yuya spoke hurriedly and began to run towards the crowd.
They then hurriedly ran towards the crowd of peoples gathered infront to hide themselves from the coaching staffs.
Hiro and Shunta being the fastest among those four, quickly reached the crowd and mingled in the crowd. Yuya and Shun, the two of them took a little longer to reach the crowd of peoples.
Sigh!! 𝒷𝒹ℴ𝓿𝓁.𝓬𝓸𝓂
Successfully blending in the crowd without being noticed, they then released a long sigh of relief.
“Phew!!” Yuya released a deep breath. “Luckily no one noticed us.”
“Yeah!! Thankfully we made it without getting detected. My heart is still pounding.” Mumbled Shunta while feeling his heartbeat.
“We’ll go to the U-15 pitch since we’re still playing for U-15 team.” Spoke Yuya.
“Okay. Be careful on the way.” Hiro responded while nodding his head.
Yuya and Shunta then headed towards the U-15 pitch, skimming through the crowd. Witnessing them leave, Hiro and Shun too began to skim through the crowds to get a clear view of the U-18 pitch.
Finally after some searching and skimming, they arrived at a place where they could get better view of the pitch infront.
Looking from behind the fence, they found about 70-80 players in the field. The coaches were sorting the players in different groups in the field.
“Do you know any of them Shun?” Hiro questioned while looking at players infront.
“You see that guy close to coach Kensuke?” Shun spoke while pointing at one of the guy.
“Who?? That bulky guy or short guy or that bald guy?” Hiro asked.
“That bald headed guy who looks like a monk. His name is Akihiro Yamada. I’ve played against him when he was playing for Tsubaki Middle School.”
“Is there anything special about him?” Hiro questioned out of sheer curiosity.
“Yeah. His long passes and ball holding ability. He’s an excellent player.” Shun replied. “Although he was criticized a lot by his teammates after the match when we faced against Tsubaki Middle School.”
“If he’s that excellent of a player then why was he criticised?” Hiro couldn’t understand the logic behind Shun’s statements.
“His crosses were a little too advance for the forwards of his team. They simply couldn’t match the speed to catch up with his crosses. And later in the game when his teammates couldn’t score the goal, he tried to do everything by himself. Although he did hold the ball well against some of our players, he still couldn’t score any goals. And later because of his selfishness, he was substituted by the coach.” Shun elaborated about one of the players in the field.
“I see. So he was simply getting hold back by his teammates.” Hiro nodded his head.
“Then what about these players who are getting interviewed right now?” Hiro questioned again while pointing at some of the players who were getting interviewed.
“May be they played exceptionally well in the nationals. Since we don’t play in nationals, I don’t know about them. But that jerk with two block haircut, do you see him?” Slightly scrunching his brows, Shun then pointed at one of the fair-skinned guy with two block haircut who was getting interviewed at that moment.
Just by listening to the tone of Shun’s voice and looking at his appearance, Hiro could tell that Shun didn’t liked that guy whom he was pointing at.
Thus, he too pretended that he didn’t like him, “Who? That arrogant looking guy?”
“Yeah you’re right. That bastards name is Renji Igarashi. He’s so full of himself. Just because he scored two goal against me, he was acting so haughty after the match.” Shun intoned while gritting his teeth.
Monolid black eye, short black hair, fair-skinned, Renji’s facial feature were well defined.
Flaunting his perfect smile by showing his clear white teeth, Renji was getting interviewed by a female reporter at that moment.
Beeeeeeeep!!!
“Everyone gather around.” Blowing his whistle, coach Kensuke ordered everybody to gather around.
Hearing the coach’s command, all the players including the players who were getting interviewed rushed towards the coach.
“Shh!!! The trial is about to begin.” Mumbled Shun.
And as all the players gathered beside the coaches, the coaches then began to speak something. Since Hiro and Shun both were far away from the coaches, they couldn’t hear the conversation taking place in the pitch.
After a while, except twenty something players, the rest of the players began to head towards the stands.
The remaining twenty players then positioned themselves in an running position outside the pitch.
“So for the first round they’ll test their speed?” Hiro mumbled.
“You’re half correct and half wrong.” Shun spoke while shaking his head. “They’ll be sprinting in the sidelines and slowing down in endline. And they’ll be doing this for 5 laps without stopping. And while they’ll be doing this their data will be calculated by the analyst present in sidelines.”
“You see those 4 guys dressed in complete black dress with laptops?” Shun continued while pointing at four guys seated in the stands opposite to them.
Turning his gaze towards the four guys, Hiro nodded his head. But he still couldn’t get how those four guys could calculate the data of that many players. Since there weren’t many people present their to record the data.
And thus, feeling all curious, Hiro questioned, “But how will those four guys record the data of this many players?”
As if Shun was expecting that question from him, Shun grinned and replied with a confident tone, “Do you see those black bibs with the numbers which the players are wearing?”
Hiro nodded his head.
“There’s a tiny chip installed in those bibs. And there’s also a sensor placed at each corner of the pitch. So everytime those players reaches the corner, their data will be collected by using some kind software by those analyst. That’s how they’ll record their data.” Puffing his chest, Shun explained in a confident tone.