A moment later, manager Pearson’s first words upon entering the dressing room contained an expletive:
“Boys, fucking great job!”
“Beautiful comeback!”
“I am proud of the fighting spirit and unity you showed on the pitch!”
Clap clap clap~
After unsparingly applauding forcefully, Pearson looked around at everyone.
His gaze stayed briefly on Ling Feng and Mahrez, and then he showed a smile:
“Boys, you have won yourselves a day off with your practical actions!”
As soon as these words came out, the away dressing room immediately erupted with enthusiastic cheers!
And Ling Feng looked bewildered.
Compared to winning the game with a comeback, why did he feel that his teammates were more excited about getting a day off?
Of course, as a single dog, he naturally wouldn’t understand the beauty of a day off…
On the night the game ended, the Leicester City players took the team bus and returned to Leicester.
Returning to the Belvoir Drive training ground, after saying goodbye to his other first-team teammates, Ling Feng returned to the youth team dormitory.
Ling Feng’s home was on the outskirts of Leicester, not far away.
If driving, it only took half an hour.
However, the round-trip commuting time of one hour still made Ling Feng, who was determined to become a professional player, feel it was a bit of a waste.
Therefore, after signing his first professional contract on his seventeenth birthday, Ling Feng moved out of his home and into the youth team players’ dormitory.
In this way, he could invest that one hour of commuting time into training.
This made Ling Feng have to sigh that perhaps it was destiny for him to transmigrate into this hard-working kid.
Allowing his otherworldly soul with a cheat to transmigrate here and help him realize his football dream.
No, more accurately, to realize their shared dream!
Because, whether it was the Ling Feng of this world or the Ling Feng of ten years later, both had a simple and pure football dream!
The youth team’s dormitory was a small single room.
Inside, there was only a bed and a set of desk and chair.
If one wanted to take a shower or use the toilet, they had to go to the public bathroom and toilet.
The only advantage of the small single room was that the view was passable.
Outside the window was the youth team training ground of the Belvoir Drive base, where one could see the green grass at any time.
Since there was a free dormitory to live in, and the distance was close, there was no need…
Besides, with his current weekly wage of one hundred pounds, he couldn’t afford to rent an apartment either.
Sitting on the soft bed, Ling Feng finally found an opportunity to check his player interface.
With a thought, a semi-transparent light screen resembling a game character panel suddenly popped up:
Player Name: Ling Feng
Age: 18
Height: 178
Weight: 65
Preferred Foot: Right
Club: Leicester City
Talent: God’s Vision
Attributes: Ball Control C, Shooting D, Passing S, Defending D, Physical C, Mental B
Overall Rating: 73
Looking at his attribute panel, Ling Feng couldn’t help but curl his lips.
Except for Passing and Mental, none of the other four attributes reached B-rank or above!
If he hadn’t just obtained prime De Bruyne’s passing attribute, which pulled up his comprehensive rating, Ling Feng’s original football ability would only have an overall rating of fifty or sixty.
According to the player evaluation mechanism of football games, an overall rating of fifty or sixty would at most allow one to muddle along in the youth teams of the top five leagues, or play as a substitute in some lower-tier leagues.
In competitive sports, there are many factors that determine victory or defeat.
And the important indicators to measure whether a professional athlete is strong or not are nothing more than speed, power, technique, and intelligence.
In the professional football world, it’s a contest of speed and power, and a clash of technique and football IQ.
Ling Feng didn’t know whether, after getting a system, he could still enhance his physical fitness and football skills through daily training, or if from now on he could only increase his attributes by completing tasks issued by the system to get free attribute points.
Only after a certain period of training, seeing if his attribute values had improved, would he know.
But currently, the immediate problem he had to consider was exactly where to add these two free attribute points!
It’s worth mentioning that the six major attributes were not simple classifications, but included different sub-items.
And each sub-item was no longer graded by English letters, but more intuitively represented by numerical values.
For example, the Passing major attribute, which reached S-rank, included four sub-items: Short Passing, Long Passing, Crossing, and Curve.
Because he obtained prime De Bruyne’s passing attribute, Ling Feng’s five sub-attribute values were all ridiculously high:
Short Passing 95, Long Passing 97, Crossing 97, Curve 98
Coupled with the S-rank talent God’s Vision, the Vision sub-item in Ling Feng’s Mental attribute reached a terrifying 99!
Looking at the semi-transparent attribute panel, without thinking for too long, Ling Feng made a decision.
As the saying goes, among all martial arts in the world, only speed is invincible!
In the professional football world, speed is an important stat to measure a player’s strength.
The higher the speed attribute, the faster the running speed on the pitch, allowing one to make attacking or defending choices one step ahead of the opponent.
Whether it’s dribbling past opponents or defending, the faster side always has a greater advantage.
The Physical attribute major category included multiple sub-items:
Acceleration, Sprint Speed, Balance, Jumping, Strength, Reactions, Stamina, Constitution
The attributes closely related to speed were Acceleration, Sprint Speed, and Reactions.
Ling Feng’s Acceleration was 70, Sprint Speed was 70, and Reactions was 72.
From the literal meaning, the Acceleration value affected his explosive power, whether he could reach his maximum speed in the shortest time.
Sprint Speed was the fastest speed he could reach.
And Reactions was the speed of making a reaction; the higher the value, the faster the reaction speed on the pitch.
If ninety-nine was the highest value, Ling Feng’s acceleration, sprint speed, and reactions all reaching seventy was neither fast nor slow among all professional players.
For a midfielder, it was completely sufficient.
Of course, depending on the positioning and refinement of the midfielder’s role, the required attributes also differed.
For example, an attacking midfielder, as the core of front-field organization linking the midfield and attack, needed more passing and vision, as well as dribbling technique, etc.
While a defensive midfielder, as the shield in front of the centre-backs, needed stronger stamina, strength, tackling, and so on.
Ling Feng was very confident that with his stunning performance in the FA Cup, he would definitely be called up to the first team.
But to continue staying in the first team and establish a foothold in the fiercely competitive Championship, he had to enhance his physical confrontation ability, maximize his strengths, avoid his weaknesses, and fully utilize his passing advantages.
However, physical confrontation ability could not be enhanced overnight.
But, through building muscle and gaining weight as well as training, he could also improve his confrontation ability, so there was no need to waste precious free attribute points on this aspect.
And having stronger acceleration could also reduce the number of confrontations to a certain extent.
Thus, he unhesitatingly added the two free attribute points to Acceleration, bringing it from seventy to seventy-two.
“Seems like I don’t feel anything…”
After adding the points, there were no game special effects of his body glowing with golden light as he imagined, nor did he feel any obvious changes.
“Maybe only when running can I feel the subtle differences…”
Just as he muttered in a low voice, the iPhone 5S placed on the desk suddenly let out a crisp ringtone!
Picking up the phone to look, the phone screen displayed the caller’s name:
Mom!
(END CHAPTER)