Capítulo 2: Chapter 2: Jakarta Youth Cup Final
A week long Nico trained based on the training schedule set up by Eos. Everyday he completed the daily training mission and the family seeing him training, they started to cheer him on. His mother started to cook him more nutritious meal, Niki always accompanied him at every training session. And last but not least, his embarrassing father even told his colleague that his son will be the best football player. It's so embarrassing...
"Well that's it for today Eos! I'm so tired. Show me my stats now."
[Name: Nicolas Emmanuel de Leon
Age: 16
Nationality: Dutch-Indonesian
Weight: 73 kg
Height: 6'1"
Pace: 76
Shooting: 60
Passing: 85
Dribbling: 65
Defending: 63
Physical: 65
Overall: 64
Value: 175.000 Euro
Badge: Passing Master
Skills: God's Benevolence
Note: Host might make into the team's starting lineup if all the midfielder get injured.]
What's with this note!!! Why would an AI start fooling around?!
"Time to go home." says Nico. Nico takes his bicycle and starts biking home. As he bike home, he starts to think about tomorrow's match. Since he was little, he wanted to become a football player. His father searched all the best footballing school in Jakarta. There's Bina Taruna Soccer Academy, UCAM Football Academy, New Camp Football Academy, and many others. As a Liverpool fan, his father joined him to Liverpool International Football Academy in Jakarta. Every year they will play in a Youth Tournament Cup with every other football academy. And tomorrow Nico will play in the tournament's final.
[Main Mission: Win the Jakarta Youth Tournament Cup
Reward: 5 draw chance
Side Mission 1: Become man of the match
Reward: 2 draw chance
Side Mission 2: Collect 3 assists
Reward: 3 draw chance]
WOAH What's with this mission? Nico looks at the mission and thinks about the lottery system. He then asks, "Eos, what's with the lottery system?"
[Host will draw a lottery based on how many chances the host have. The rewards order is common, rare, epic, and legendary item. Item may includes skills, badges, or football technique is host is lucky.]
"I see. That's it! I will win the cup and become the best player then!" Nico exclaims as he park his bicycle and enters his home. Nico can't wait to play the game and get the rewards.
"Mom, Dad, Niki, I'm home!!"
"Nico my sweet boy, did you finish your training today already? Come in mom's just finish cooking our dinner now." says mom.
Mom, dad, Nico, and Niki sit on the dining table and start to eat their dinner. "So how do you feel about tomorrow bro?" says Niki.
"Good I guess. I'll win tomorrow!"
"Good you make sure of that. You play in Liverpool Football Academy and I don't want anything that has something with Liverpool's name on it to lose bro!!"
"Children, children behave! Honestly Arjen can't you help a little bit!"
"Well honey I quite agree with my daughter. Liverpool will not lose on my watch!"
"HAHAHAHA nice one dad" says Niki as she laughs happily and high-fived our father.
"By the way son, I have a friend who is a scout for a professional football team in Europe and I ask him to come tomorrow to watch you. So make sure to play good and maybe you'll get his approval to play professionally."
"Really dad?! My baby brother is going to become a football player, for real? YEAAAAAAY"
"Why are you more happy than me? I'm the one who's going to be scouted. And for the last time, you just born 2 minutes earlier stop calling me baby bro!"
"Toma-to tomah-to, your pain my pain, your joy my joy" says Niki
"Now now dears behave. Just make sure to play safe okay dear? Mom can't help it if you get injured"
Nico and his family keep eating their dinner as they chat about their day and everyone send their blessing to him. Nico then goes to his room to get his goodnight rest.
-Next day-
Today is game day. Liverpool Indonesia Football Academy will face Bina Taruna Academy in Jakarta Youth Tournament Cup Final. Nico wakes up in the morning and starts preparing his kits. He then go the academy to assemble with his team and go to the venue. Nico starts wearing his shirt and preparing for the game. Number 8 De Leon. He calms himself down as he starts thinking about his teammates traits to look after. As the time comes, Nico and his teams walk out of the dressing room and enter the pitch. The crowd when wild as the players enter the pitch looking at the young talents that are going to showcase their skills. Nico scans the crowd and notices his family and they start shouting his name and cheer on him while wearing his shirt to support him. His father is also chatting enthusiastically with a foreign man. This must be the scout huh? Nico then focused himself.
"Welcome folks to the final of Jakarta Youth Tournament Cup as we, the commentators for you today, will hosts this event. For this final, Liverpool International Football Academy will face Bina Taruna Academy for the cup. And here comes the referee whistle to start the game!"
Nico heard the commentators unconsciously as he start to play the game. The game start in LIFA ball as the team starts to pass the ball around. Bina Taruna's player start pressing the ball player. Nico try to open up spaces for his team by off ball running and key passes. Nico suddenly cross the ball to the winger and the winger ran along the line as fast as he can. He then cross the ball but sadly it went to strong. The crowd sighs as the chance failed but clapped for the effort.
"De Leon got the ball and start to play one-two pass with his teammates.... OH! De Leon make a beautiful long pass as he cross the ball to his winger and here comes Liverpool... OOOOH the ball went wide! Good effort by LIFA team and let me tell you folks this kid De Leon looking real sharp this afternoon! He made a wonderful 30-meter long arc pass bypassing the defender" says the commentator.
Nico gets into his groove and grows into the game. He starts making more and more passes to create chances. Long ball, short pass, penetrating pass, one-two pass, wall pass. He starts controlling the tempo of the game.
"The game is in 30 minutes now folks and LIFA is controlling the game the whole time. This kid Number 8 De Leon is like a puppet master as he control the show. He looks like a young Andres Iniesta now. And here he comes again!"
Nico dribbles the ball in the middle area and suddenly he sees a red arrow with a 90% goal on it. This must be the guide system huh? Nico then makes the through pass as he pass the ball to the striker.
"De Leon is on the ball as he looks around his teammates for support.. OH What do we have here!! De Leon make a through pass and it's one-on-one with the goalie. And Aditya scores! What a wonderful finish to the more wonderful assist by the LIFA kids!"
The team celebrates to the crowd as they score the goal. Aditya pats Nico's back for his wonderful pass and hugs him.
"Good job baby bro!! He's so good!"
"THAT'S MY SON!! MY SWEET BOY MOMMY IS PROUD OF YOU!"
"Now now dears calm yourself. Since when did you like football and don't embarrass me in front of my friends dear" dad begs as he hear his friends start laughing at his wife behavior.
The game starts again and LIFA press the opponent to the core. They panicked and pass the ball backwards to the goalie and the goalie dunk the ball out. As the game goes by, Bina Taruna's player start to pass the ball to each other and Nico sees his chance. He sprint and intercepts the pass and start dribbling fast. He sees the winger cut inside and makes a beautiful curved lob pass to his feet. The winger doesn't even has to adjust because the ball landed perfectly and he shoot directly.
"GOOOOOAAAAAL! What a beautiful pass from De Leon! He sees through the oppositions pass and intercepts the ball. Then he sees his teammates runs and cross a majestic curved ball. I tell you folks this kid Number 8 from LIFA not only has a silk touch, but also an eagle eye!" shouts the commentator as he narrates the play.
Nico runs to his teammates as he joins them celebrate their second goal. They scored right before half-time as they can feel they're one foot of the cup. One more half to play to win. The referee immediately blows the whistle to end the first half.
"What a game we watch here folks as we watch Liverpool Academy leads Bina Taruna by 2 goals to nil. Half the time had passed as we wait for another cracking 45 minutes games!"
In the crowd, Nico's family keeps talking about how good he played and analyzes the gameplay. Niki is dumbfounded looking at her embarrassing parents. Her mom, Abigail keeps telling everyone around that the number 8 player is her son and his father is boasting to his friends that her brother got his genes. It's sooooo embarrassing god make it stop.....
"Alright boys we're 2 goal ahead. Nice job out there especially you Leon! Good phasing the tempo and the team's composure. Leon you got another 15 minutes, makes sure to keep the game as it is now. After that I'm subbing you out so others get gametime. Clear?"
"Yes coach!" shouts Nico seriously.
Damn it I still need 1 more assist to clear the mission! Okay keep calm and look for chances later. The team starts walking out to the pitch and the second half starts. Nico keeps looking for opening to make a dangerous chance but the opponent is too narrow and start man marking him.
"Damn it! The midfield is too crowded! Open up spaces! Wingers, try to stay as wide as possible" Nico tells to his teammates. They nod and starts to implement Nico's directions. The wingers stay wide and try to pull the opponent's defensive shape wider as suddenly Nico sees the gap. Nico runs to left side and points the winger to start running. Nico then make a through pass to the winger and trails behind as the winger starts run towards the ball. He positions himself and ask the ball back as the winger cut inside. He pass the ball to Nico and Nico sees a red arrow with 95% goal rate. Nico immediately lob pass the ball to the striker over the defender head. The striker, Aditya chests the ball and fake shots the goalie. He then scores an open wide net and runs wildly celebrating his second goal. Nico also fist pump the air as he collect an assist hattrick and securing the mission rewards.
By the 60 minutes, coach replaces Nico and says "Good job lad! Wonderful performance! Get some rest and wait until we lift the cup!". All the crowd stands up and gives a standing ovation to Nico's performance as he is being subbed out. Nico keep a beautiful smile on his face cause he just won his first trophy! The referee then blows the final whistle as the game ends at the score 4-1 to Liverpool International Football Academy wins.
Nico celebrate lifting the trophy with his teams and was crowned as the man of the match because of his 3 assists. He runs to his family and exclaims, "Look mom, dad, sis, I won!!!"
"Good job son! Dad is proud of you!"
"Yeah baby bro! You're so cool out there! From now on I'm your first fan and that's it! Love you so much *muah*"
"Nico *muah* my son *muah* you're so *muah* handsome out there *muah*"
"Okay okay okay mom, Niki stop it!"
"HAHAHA what's wrong with you son? A lot of guys will be jealous of you being kissed by two beautiful ladies!"
"AAHH DAD you always teases me!!" shouts Nico with a red face from embarrassement.
The family laugh harmoniously at seeing Nico's face and all of a sudden a blond man comes to our family. "Mr. De Leon, it was a joy watching you play" he said with a smile.
"My father notices him and smile happily says "Nico this is my scout friend that I was telling you about! So Ben, what do you think of my son? Does he had what it takes to make it to the professional scene?"
"Well first of all let me introduce myself Sirs and Ma'ams. My name is Benjamin Pelissier and I am the head scout French First Division team Olympique Lyonnais FC. From what I've seen, Mr. De Leon has a masterstroke passing ability with a long of range distribution. He also has a good work ethic to run across the field to open up spaces and creating chances. But what makes him special is him vision. He can read the game like a book. He can see through whoever and whatever is on the pitch is doing and make a calculated decisions based on the situations. He has a decent amount of defensive and offensive ability. We would only need a few fine tuning here and there and gives him more game experience. We would happily accepts Mr. De Leon at Lyon FC as reserves team and youth academy player in France."
My family are dumbfounded and their mouth are wide open. "Ben, are you really serious? I know my son can play but is he really can play professionally?"
"I'm very serious Arjen. Right now he's not ready to become a first team player but overtime he can gradually grows and establishes himself in the squad. I really rated him as a promising young talent. So you can understand better, he is a passing master like a young Pirlo or a young Ozil. That's how high I see his current talent at this moment."
All of us are more shocked by Mr. Pelissier's deduction. Mom, dad, and Niki look at Nico with wide eyes and mouth hanging.
Mr. Pelissier just laughs at us and says "I know it is a difficult decision on your kid's career Arjen so why don't you boil it down within your family and call me when you made your decision. Thank you for the invitation Arjen and to Mr. Nicolas de Leon wonderful performance and I hope we see each other on summer in France." He then shakes everyone's hands and walks away from the stadium.
Our family then went to a restaurant to celebrate my victory. We ate and chatted happily, talking about my performance, about my father's scout friend invitation, and about our family future. We celebrated until it was night and we went to home to get some good night rest. As Nico went to his room, he checks the system's mission and redeems the mission rewards.
"Eos, how do I draw the lottery?" asks Nico.
[Host can use as many draw chances as host's desired. The more draw chances the host uses, the more probability of getting better rewards items]
"I see. Okay then! Eos draw all 10 chances!"
A lottery system interface then flashes in front of Nico's eyes and starts spinning. Nico waits and then..
[Congratulations Host for getting 10 reward items:
-Common Card: Visions +1 (x2)
-Common Card: Interceptions +1 (x2)
-Epic Card: King of Steals Badge
-Legendary Card: God's Omniscience Skill
-Common Card: Long shoot +1 (x3)
-Rare Card: Injury Immunity (activated in-game) one-time used only]
"Bullseye! An Epic and a Legendary! Explain it Eos!"
[King of Steals: Enhancing interceptions, steals, and blocks abilities]
[God's Omniscience: God-level prediction ability. Increasing three dimension vision viewpoint]
"What the f*ck?!! I got a lucky hand now! What a steal. I can basically play defensive or holding midfielder now." Nico laughs happily
Nico begins to think about his new skills. His defensive capability massively increased as well as his offensive picks. Does it means I'll be a B2B midfielder in the future? Nico ponders and starts imagining what if Pirlo had Kante defense, or Ozil had Gerrard offense, or Muller had Iniesta vision. A complete midfielder.
Nico is getting more and more excited about the future. He starts imagining himself as an B2B midfielder. A position that requires midfielder with no flaws with good attributes on all charts. A position that only one person can play at its best, the creator himself, Franz Beckenbauer. Nico sleeps well that night facing his future.
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