Since Hiro was unsure about what kind of talented players he’ll meet at the training camp, he had been saving his skill “Magic Vision”, so that he could use it in his time of need.
But now that he learnt about Yutaka, Yutaka’s situation extremely fascinated him and also made him curious.
Thus out of sheer curiosity, Hiro decided to use his skill “Magic Vision” on Yutaka.
And just as Hiro used the skill “Magic Vision” on Yutaka, Yutaka’s whole stats became visible to Hiro.
[Name: Yutaka Inoue]
[Age: 15 years old]
[Attributes]
Physical: C+
Dribbling: A
Pace: B
Passing: A
Shooting: C
Defending: D
Mentality: D
IQ: C+
Overall grade: B
Potential: ????
[Wow-factor: Smooth dribbler, Spatial awareness, Hawk eyes, Passing expert, Prodigy]
[Note: Please upgrade the system to see the potential and minute details of the player or coaches]
Upon reading the stats of Yutaka, Hiro’s eyes widened in shock. Afterall for the first time since he acquired the skill “Magic Vision”, he witnessed somebody who had a better passing stat than him.
Considering the fact that his passing was already good, he wondered how better of a passer was Yutaka as compared to him.
And compared to Hiro who had increased his sats with the help of system, Yutaka was the real prodigy. Which further increased his curiosity.
Even the wow-factor which Yutaka possessed were extremely useful.
And judging by Yutaka’s stats, Hiro could somewhat deduce that Yutaka played either in midfield or forward.
However the fact that Hiro had never heard about such an amazing player in his previous life greatly confused him.
‘What could have gone wrong for such an amazing player to not make it big?’ Hiro contemplated.
Just then as Hiro was about to ask Yutaka’s playing position, an old man about the age 50 or 60 appeared on the field accompanied by few other people.
Witnessing the sight of head coach of U-17 team, Hiro shrugged as he decided to not concern himself with other’s situation.
His hair, a mixture of black and white and his brows knotted, he had a very stern looking face.
And just as he walked inside the pitch, one of the guy behind him who was following him announced, “Everybody gather around.”
And since that guy was speaking on a portable announcement speaker, his voice was magnified by the speaker.
His loud voice immediately caught the attention of everybody present in the field. Be it the players who didn’t notice the appearance of the old man or the players who were busy conversing with other players.
The old guy then followed by several other adults walked towards the center of the pitch.
“Let’s go guys” spoke Shun as he began to walk towards the direction where the old guy was headed to.
Curious about the identity of the old guy, most of the players present in the field started to make different assumptions about the old guy.
“Is he the head of the selection committee?”
“Is he the appointed coach of U-17 team?”
While different players were making different speculations, Hiro who was aware of the identity of the old guy kept his mouth shut as he looked into the direction of the old guy.
As calm as the night sky, Hiro appeared unbothered while the players around him were anxiously looking at the old guy infront.
“Silence everybody” spoke the guy from before who was carrying the announcement speaker.
His loud voice which reverberated all over the pitch silenced the chatters of players gathered infront.
And although his voice made them shut their mouths, it still couldn’t dissipate the curiosity in their eyes.
That guy with the speaker then swept his gaze across the crowd of players. After that, he continued, “First of all, I’d like to welcome all of you to the selection camp organised by National U-17 team.”
“Secondly I’d like to tell all of you that starting from today the selection process will take 7 days in total.”
And while the guy was speaking, few other casually dressed people walked inside the field while pulling a huge container.
“What are they bringing?”
“Are those training equipments?”
Witnessing the sight of the container, few players present in the field questioned out of curiosity as they looked towards the direction of the container. .
Seeing the players getting distracted by the container, guy with the speaker tried to refocus their attention towards him, “Everyone pay attention. I’ll gradually explain about the container as well.”
And as he said those words, all of the players once again turned their attention towards him.
Their eyes glowing with curiosity, they looked even more curious and baffled than before.
“As you see, those containers contains your Jersey’s. Each and every one of you will be allocated jersey with different numbers. And I’m sure you all are familiar with games right?”
Silently everybody nodded their head.
“Just like in games. We’ll be allocating you Jersey based on our judgment. The lower the number the better the player.”
His words which came out like a sudden earthquake completely shook them to the core as they heard his words.
However before they could even completely display the emotion of shock which they felt, he dropped another banger, “Each day based on your progress, your jersey number will change. And as you may know that there are more than 60/70 of you in the pitch right now. And obviously we can’t take all of you. Thus out of all of you, only 26 will be selected by the end of the selection camp. Which means only the guys with jersey number 1 to 26 will be selected for the national U-17 team.”
While hearing the words of the guy infront, the look of shock on their face gradually changed into look of anxiousness.
Even so among the players with anxious face there were few players in the field who showed no changes in their facial expression. They weren’t a slight bit bothered by the announcement of the guy infront.
Among such players, one was Hiro. Indifferently looking at the guy infront, Hiro began to think, ‘I see, so they’re blatantly exposing the strength of the players to increase the competitiveness spirit of the players. But what if it backfires? Like what if the weak start to group up and ignore the strong? Afterall football is a team sport. And when grouped together even sheeps can hunt wolves.’
Hiro’s way of thinking was completely reasonable. It was true that exposing the strength of the player would increase their sense of competitiveness.
Since only 26 players were going to be selected the player outside the 26 would need to perform well to climb the ladder while the top players would require to perform well to keep their position.
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