Trails
*Tweeeet* assistant coach Miller blew his whistle and shouted " group on the furthest right will be 1 st group and the next will be 2 nd group so on and so forth " miller signaled the attended next to him as he led people to every group to write done their names. after around 5 minutes the trails officially started. the attended who was assained to his group was a woman named Lucia who was in her early 30s. " your group number is 4," as she checked with the paper in her hands " our first test of the day will be stamina test, so you guys will be running 5 miles or around 8 K.M, and you have 35 minutes to complete the run" she flipped the pages and started calling names of her group " if you cannot run anymore you stop at any time but that means you will be disqualified from the trails ".
Markus was a bit worried that his fitness wouldn't be up to Mark but surprisingly even after finishing half of the test he still found himself fully energetic. Markus was feeling comfortable running, seeing he still had the energy to spend Markus up his speed gradually to where he was running at 80 % of his maximum speed. as he tried to go even faster he found out that running any faster was not ideal and this was not a short sprint. Markus finished at 1 of his group and the fourth of the entire trail.
" as we have just announced the top 150 names will stay for the second round. the rest may go back, we thank you for participating in the trials, and best of luck for your future. " jhon turned to the second group who qualified for the trails " congratulation for getting selected for the trails since its already noon we will begin the second section after lunch. the food will be provided in the cafeteria. before you go for lunch go to your respected group attendees and register your playing position and other details, we will see you guys after the lunch break. please gather at the east side of the stadium at 2.30 pm, thank you "
" congrats mark, you came out at the top 5 of the camp huh " William hugged and congratulated him " even the main coach took notice of you because of how easily you completed the test, you even had enough stamina to jog across the ground to pick up your bag " Markus knew his father was delighted at his performance " dad lets go eat lunch, I'm starving " "ok, let's go" William took his bag from his shoulder and said.
the lunch was nutritious and tasty, and they were given as much as they want to eat, after his body remodeling his metabolism have increased at least three folds from the original. he started to eat more food to the point his mother nearly took him to a doctor which was stopped by his father by saying it was because of a growth spurt and his increasing load of exercise. when he first said that he wanted to attend for trails his parents didn't take that seriously thought that he was saying that at the spurt of interest and will abandon it soon, after seeing that he was increasing his workload and persisting for one month they started to support him and took him seriously.
Markus was starving after expending a lot of energy through the test and feasted upon the lunch till he was full. it was 12.45 p.m by the time he finished eating Markus took a rest for 20 minutes and started light stretching and small warm-ups to help with digestion and to warm up for the rest trials. by 2.30 he was in his peak condition.
as all 150 selected players gathered together at 2.30. " as the information given to us by you we will create 10 teams with 15 players each. luckily we have enough goalkeepers to equally distribute to every team. now we will announce the teams " head coach handed the list to his assistant to read out loud.
Markus was in 8 the team, his team contained 1 GK ( Rufus Gildon ), 3 DEF ( Morris Nash, Ivor Martin, Wilmot Walters ), 5 MID( Caldwell Harper, Elmer Shillingford, Brooke Henry, Chase Row, Markus William ), and 6 FW ( Aubrey Todd, Edric Peters, Andrew Bush, Barrett Kinsman, Shane Swanson, Tom Fernandez ). Markus frowned when he saw the list. it was an imbalanced team and there were not enough players to go around in defense just as he was thinking about it Lucia walked toward them and blew her whistle and said " ill be your trainer for the rest of the day. now we will be doing basic drills and passings to build a few team awareness, we will start with warm-ups "
as the standard training started Markus followed her instructions and trained with the rest of the team. after warm-ups they paired up randomly every 5 minutes to do simple passings. as they more progressed into the training Markus started to notice that he could assess what that player was capable of and 90 % of the prediction about that player was correct. he seriously started studying his teammates and memorized their traits, play style, strengths, and weaknesses.
although he felt unlucky to be grouped with an imbalanced team he was glad that the 3 defenders on the team were of high quality. three of them had speed and high areal presence. the most outstanding one Markus noticed was Brooke who preferred to play as a defensive midfielder. his game awareness was off the chart, coupled with his agile and strong body he was a competent player. although his shooting accuracy was a bit low that was not enough to hide his potential. he was sure that broke will get selected for the academy. of the rest of the squad, some of them were better than the rest but they were not at the same level as Brooke.
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