Football: King of Penalty Area
Ch. 10 - Increase

27 June 2007, Leverkusen, Germany.

*hah**hah**hah* Raynaldi is currently sitting in the gym while breathing in. A month ago he and other members of the youth team experienced a terrible hell-level workout after almost everyone other than Alex, Raynaldi and Victor had excess body fat.

However, Raynaldi himself had also experienced a terrifying level of training given his overly weak confrontational strength. Jorge arranges a series of trainings to keep strength, flexibility, balance, and speed at a similar level.

Jorge advised Raynaldi to increase his strength until he reached the standard of professional players, adding more authority and increasing his weight that was too thin. Raynaldi also received training focusing on leg strength, waist muscles, and shoulders to increase his confrontational strength.

Raynaldi also does one hour of swimming training every day to maintain body flexibility and improve stamina. After undergoing hell-level training for one month Raynaldi's stats also improved quite a lot especially on the physical part.

“STATUS” Raynaldi muttering

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Name: Raynaldi Indrasta (16)

Height/ Weight: 181 cm/70 kg

Nationality : Indonesia

Vision/Aerial: 18

Dribbling :11

Passing :11

Shooting: 17

Ball Control: 11

Off The Ball: 18

Headers :11

Jump 11

Speed: 14

Acceleration: 13

Body Balance: 11

Strengths :8

Stamina :12

Adaptation 15

Mental 18

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“It seems like this training is really useful, for more than two months practicing alone is really not comparable to the directional training of professionals. Especially my physical ability actually improved a lot.” Raynaldi was satisfied with his stats now, at least a month of hell training had actually succeeded.

“Ray, it's almost time for the gym to close. Change your clothes immediately before, Coach Jorge starts to get angry again.” Victor who saw Raynaldi was still sitting in yelling at him.

“Oh, yes. I'll wash and change clothes soon.” Raynaldi immediately rushed to the bathroom to wash and change clothes.

After 20 minutes of rinsing and changing, Raynaldi went back to Victor to pick up their diet in the cafeteria, among the many Leverkusen SC juniors only Raynaldi and Victor were not from Leverkusen. So they both received boarding treatment and ate a diet 3 times a day from the club.

Raynaldi and Victor ate their meal quickly and returned to the dorm afterwards. Anyhow tomorrow is the day of the physical fitness test and the registration of the junior team members who will take part in the German Youth League.

After walking for ten minutes, Raynaldi and Victor arrived at their dormitory. The two of them entered their rooms and placed their luggage. It is now 07:00 p.m., but just like most areas of Europe the sky is not too dark.

Raynaldi returned from his room and sat in the lounge and turned on the TV. Before long, Victor also came out of his room and saw Raynaldi was relaxing and not nervous which made him wonder, how could this child be so relaxed?

“Ray, aren't you nervous about the assessment tomorrow?” Victor asked Raynaldi.

“What to worry about? As long as you do your best surely the result will not disappoint you, besides we have been training with hell level for one month, so should everyone in the team will pass the assessment.” Raynaldi replied casually while watching TV.

“Really?” Victor was still hesitant with Raynaldi's answer.

“Remain assured, the only problem is who will be the starting line-up and who will be the replacement. Of course in the youth team will definitely be a lot of rotation and equal playing time, but the starting line-up will definitely have more playing opportunities.” Raynaldi continued on casually.

“Entah, why after hearing your words, I want to hit someone.” Grumpy Victor with a stiff face.

“Hahaha... Relax Victor, you better relax now so you can impress the coach tomorrow.” Raynaldi replied, then continued watching the TV show.

Meanwhile, Victor just sat next to Raynaldi while thinking about what Raynaldi had said before.

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06:00 AM, June 28, 2007, Leverkusen City, Germany.

The next day, Raynaldi dragged Victor who had eye bags in both eyes early in the morning. He intends to invite Victor to be a partner in the morning training.

“Hei, Victor? Didn't you sleep last night?” Raynaldi asked when he saw two eye bags darker than Victor's skin.

“I'm really nervous for today's assessment.” Victor was really sleep deprived last night, being too nervous he could only fall asleep at 02:00 am and Raynaldi had woken him up at 06:00 am to make him sleep deprived.

“Contact, after today's test, we will get a day off tomorrow.” Raynaldi told Victor to be more calm and relaxed while taking the test.

“OK, Ray.” Answer Victor succinctly.

After that, they trained for an hour before changing into their clothes and going to the cafeteria to have breakfast and rest for a while before taking fitness and assessment tests from Timo and Tony.

After relaxing for a while, the time is 08:30. As the ability test will be conducted at 09:00, Raynaldi and Victor return to the dressing room to change their clothes to the training uniforms and prepare for the training ground again.

Half an hour passed and finally all the juniors were already on the training field. Shortly afterwards, Jorge, Timo and Tony came to the training ground.

“Because everyone is already present, let's start with stretching and warming up. Then the test will start after.” Timo announces training begins.

Raynaldi and the rest of the junior team began a warm-up. After heating for half an hour. They were gathered in front of the coach.

“Now we will do physical tests, including flexibility, endurance, speed, leg and muscle strength, as well as reactions. Everything will be done until noon. And in the afternoon there will be a training match to know the ability of each player.” Tony explained in a loud voice.

“The physical deck will be re-done under the supervision of Jorge. I hope your results this time improved much better than when you first met a month ago.” Timo.

“Let's start with the kecepata test, we start with a run of 30 meters and 100 meters.” Jorge started the physical.