The God of Football Starts With Passive Skills-Chapter 230 - 63: Wang Shuo Is Back! The Strength of a Bundesliga Star
To this day, Wang Shuo still had a vivid memory of Lucio.
It was like being crushed by a mountain.
"I couldn’t even muster the will to move, let alone resist. We were on completely different levels."
Everyone turned to look at Lin Guodong.
According to Wang Shuo’s description, Lucio was a head taller and a size broader than Lin Guodong.
The most absurd part was that he was even more agile than Lin Guodong, with better technique on the ball.
What would that even be like?
None of them could imagine it.
After all, just facing Lin Guodong in their daily training was already a killer.
"So what can we do?" Chen Dalin asked, confused.
He was only 1.75 meters tall, the same as his younger brother, Chen Xiaosen. Both of them played fullback.
"It’s simple. We don’t try to match them physically. Our strengths are our technique and our stamina."
Thinking back on Wang Shuo’s performance during his matches, they realized it was true.
In the scrimmage that followed, Lin Guodong and Wu Youqiang tried to double-team Wang Shuo.
The result? They couldn’t stop him at all.
To give his teammates a proper workout, Wang Shuo went all out. His technique on the ball was simply too good, and his movements were too fast.
Never mind anything else; he could fool them both with a single feint.
"Seriously, Wang Shuo, which move is real and which is the fake?"
After being fooled several times in a row, Wu Youqiang was on the verge of losing it.
This was too demoralizing!
Even at Mainz, Wang Shuo wouldn’t be completely open and honest with anyone, except for a very small number of people like Subotic.
But here at the Huairun Football School, in front of the teammates he’d grown up with, he held nothing back.
"They can all be real, and they can all be fake."
Then, Wang Shuo personally demonstrated why they could all be real, yet also all be fake.
This came as a huge shock to Wu Chengzhi, a young winger who also prided himself on his speed and dribbling.
He had always believed that beating a defender one-on-one was about tricking them.
His father, the former national team player Wu Dash, had told him the same thing.
But now, it was clear that Wang Shuo was on an entirely different level.
After watching Wang Shuo’s demonstration, Wu Chengzhi discovered to his dismay that while he understood the principle, just because Wang Shuo could do it didn’t mean he could too.
That was the gap!
But being able to see that gap was, in itself, a precious experience.
On the sidelines, Gao Huairen and Ma Yongcheng were equally surprised.
Even though they had mentally prepared themselves, Wang Shuo’s progress over the past year and a half had been astonishingly fast.
So fast, in fact, that Gao Huairen felt a little ashamed.
"Old Ma, do you think we’ve been holding Wang Shuo back all these years?"
Ma Yongcheng felt the same way.
How else could one explain it? Wang Shuo had only been in Europe for a little over a year, and he had already been completely transformed.
But it had to be said, in Wang Shuo, both the coaches and the players could see the standard of a Bundesliga star.
For the following week, aside from calling his family and Jiang Pengju, Wang Shuo stayed at the Huairun Football School, working with Gao Huairen and Ma Yongcheng to put his group of teammates through special training.
Over the past year and a half, Wang Shuo had trained like a madman, so he knew European training methods like the back of his hand—which drills were helpful and who they were suited for.
This not only brought his teammates immediate help and improvement, but would also be a great boon to their long-term development.
For the players of the Huairun Football School, this was also an incredibly valuable experience.
After seeing Wang Shuo’s success and Zhao Yifan gaining a firm foothold, they had started to think that playing abroad in Germany, even in the Bundesliga, might not be so difficult after all.
But after experiencing Wang Shuo’s skill firsthand, they began to have a completely new understanding of the Bundesliga.
It was on a whole different level!
The gap was simply too wide.
This prompted many of them to lower their expectations and begin to train more diligently.
After all, a player as strong as Wang Shuo had failed trials with eighteen consecutive teams just over a year ago.
If it had been them, they would have fared even worse. 𝙛𝒓𝒆𝙚𝒘𝒆𝓫𝙣𝓸𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝒄𝒐𝓶
If they didn’t train with everything they had, they wouldn’t stand a chance!
Wang Shuo finally said his goodbyes to everyone once the Germany National Team had finished its tour match in Hu City and his old teammates began preparing for their own training camp in Germany.
"Once you get to Europe, don’t feel pressured. Just do your best!"
"I’m going home for a bit. I should be back in Germany in late June, so we’ll meet up again then!"
Wang Shuo hugged each of his teammates, saying goodbye one by one.
Zhang Xiaopeng even asked Wang Shuo to take a few things to his family for him.
The two of them were from the same village and had been thick as thieves since they were children.
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There was no high-speed train from Hu City to Quanjiang.
Taking the regular train was an exhausting journey, and it only went as far as the provincial capital.
From the provincial capital, you still had to transfer to a bus to reach the Quanjiang City District.
The route from the Quanjiang City District to Lingshan State Town was all mountain roads.
The expressway was still under construction.
Since the team was about to go to Europe for their training camp, Gao Huairen had his driver, Xiao Li, take Wang Shuo home in his Volkswagen Bora.
Before the trip, he even had Xiao Li take the car in for maintenance. It didn’t just get a tune-up; it also got four new tires.
According to Ma Yongcheng, Gao Huairen had never treated his Bora so well.
The journey was quite smooth.
When he arrived in the Quanjiang City District, the first person Wang Shuo saw was the man who had discovered him, Jiang Pengju.
But unexpectedly, as soon as Jiang Pengju saw Wang Shuo, he was both happy and apologetic.
"I’m sorry, Wang Shuo. The Party Secretary and the Mayor heard you were coming back and insisted I arrange a meeting. They said you’re the pride of our Quanjiang City. I had no other choice."
