Rise of a Football God-Chapter 364 : Just another day at the office
That morning, after making his food and eating, Sam relaxed in his room, idly playing a game of FIFA in career mode on his PS5 console.
After which he slept, fully enjoying the rare day of rest.
Sam woke up when it was already late afternoon.
He woke up to the grumbling of his stomach, and so the first thing that Sam did was to order a take-out online from his girlfriend's restaurant right here in the City of Barcelona.
Kayla may be back to Netherlands already, attending to her academic activities but even in her absence, her restaurant thrived.
Afterall, she was Samuel Moses' girlfriend.
Sam's fame in the city of Barcelona was not small, he was a celebrity.
After devouring the take-out, Sam idly went about his day, doing anything that entered his mind till it was evening.
Around 5:00pm in the evening, putting on new training clothes, he finally jogged out of his mansion, entering the streets of Barcelona.
Like the others, he was tired and wanted nothing more than a day off to recover not just physically but mentally.
But unlike the others, Sam didn't have that luxury.
Afterall, if he went a day without completing his daily system quest, his system had a penalty waiting for him.
And so, that evening, alone, Sam jogged through the streets of Barcelona.
Thud! Thud!
Alone jogging again after a long time of jogging with his training buddies, Sam realized how much he missed it. There was a nice ring to it.
And the experience was made even better by the sound spreading from his JBL headset into his ears as he jogged.
It was a popular song in Nigeria.
[Spotify:]
[Playing from your Library: Liked Songs]
[Joy Is Coming- Fido]
With that song on repeat blasting into his being through his ears, jogging didn't feel like a chore at all, rather Sam was having a blast and enjoying himself.
Before he knew it, he already arrived at the Spotify Camp Nou.
He already met his daily jogging target.
After that, he entered the Spotify Camp Nou, quickly accessing the gym where he went about completing the remaining task targets in his daily system quest. His arrival was met by surprise by the stadium workers.
"Good morning, Sam".
But they greeted him enthusiastically nonetheless.
Since he was alone, a few of the Spotify Camp Nou stadium staff who never had the privilege to ask him for autographs before now took advantage of the opportunity, asking him for autographs.
Sam obliged all of them, signing and making their day with that little gesture as he entered the gym.
In less than an hour, he was done.
Jogging back home, Sam opened his iPhone, focusing on something, FC Barcelona's fixtures to determine the next game.
(La Liga:)
(Barcelona – Leganes)
(Date: 15th December, 2025)
…
(Barcelona – Atletico Madrid)
(Date: 21st December, 2025)
Sam focused on the last of the 2 fixtures.
'I guess the Leganes game will be my last club game for the year'. He thought as he continued on his way home.
On the spot, he made the decision.
Like every other Nigerian who was a football fan, Sam wanted to win the AFCON tournament with his country. Doing it would make him an automatic legend of the Nigerian professional football team.
And of course, the glory that comes with it.
Thinking of all the benefits that comes with it, the joy, Sam wanted to do it and he was determined to sacrifice club football for it.
This was why before getting home, Sam put a call to Hansi Flick, informing the coach of his decision.
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Hansi Flick already expected this ahead of time, so he didn't object.
He only had one request.
"Make sure we win the next game before you go".
Sam chuckled. "Of course, we will".
"Good".
…
The next day, Sam went back to default settings.
He and his training buddies were back to their normal training schedule, all in preparations for the next game which was a league game against Leganes.
When Hansi Flick released his starting XI, all 5 of them made the line-up.
Using that as motivation, every training session, every day in the prelude to the game, they kept on giving their all, pushing themselves to the ultimate level.
Like this, in a short period of time, D-day was here.
On 15th December, Barcelona welcomed Leganes to Barcelona.
Like expected, against an FC Barcelona side that was in imperious form, Leganes was like an egg that was smashed against a wall after making the trip to the Spotify Camp Nou in Barcelona.
Raphinha opened the scoring early, lashing into a Frankie De Jong pass, exploding towards goal with speed before putting 1 past the goalkeeper.
In just the 6th minute of this game, Barca went ahead.
And that goal set the motion for the rest of the game.
In the 22nd minute of the game, FC Barcelona did it again, this time the Sam and Yamal partnership shining again as Sam set up the Spanish teenager to evade his man before rifling it into the roof of the net.
2 nil!
Yamal celebrated his goal excitedly with Sam.
The first half ended 2-0 in FC Barcelona's favor.
During half-time, Hansi Flick didn't tell his players much, simply telling them to go out there and enjoy themselves on the pitch.
When 2nd half started, that was exactly what the Barca players did.
The attack simply turned on, leading to incredible samba football as the FC Barcelona players ran circles around the Leganes defense, torturing them.
In terms of dribbling, the Leganes players suffered as their Barcelona opponents humiliated them.
At the late stages of the game after a stalwart Leganes second half defensive performance against Barca's attack, when it seemed like Sam was finally going to break his goalscoring streak, he just went on and did it again.
Sam was able to score the simplest of goals in the 88th minute, taping home at point-blank range from a Raphinha cross that flashed across the face of goal.
Sam celebrated his goal excitedly.
And with that, the game came to end with a convincing 3-0 scoreline.
FC Barcelona and Sam in particular were simply in imperious form.
To Sam, it was just another day at the office.
