Football System: Classic Number 10
Chapter 149: After Whistle

After winning at home to Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors in the opening AFC Champions League match of the season, Rizaldi seemed dissatisfied with the results he got in the game that occurred last Sunday. It has been two days since that game, the club also got two days off before returning to compete in the league.

Different from his friends who were satisfied despite winning with a thin score of 1-0 only, Rizaldi still could not accept the thin victory. Although in fact he was happy to help the team to achieve the full 3 points at home, and also Rizaldi became the only goal scorer in the game at that time. Still, there is something lacking in taste by Rizaldi.

It happened because Rizaldi felt a loss. Yes, Rizaldi felt a loss in the game that day, because he had used a player card that could be said to be of high grade but could not even give super maximum results. Rizaldi's expectations were too high back then, he had thought that when using that high-grade player's card he could fly much higher again, but he was wrong. There is one thing that Rizaldi forgot when he used the card of a high-grade player, a thing that he always noticed since deciding to plunge into the world of football.

Teamwork. That is what Rizaldi Fatah forgot at that time.

It is true, at that time Cananga FC Mining was playing as usual, they played modern football which is more likely to play short passing-passing from the bottom to build attacks. But there was one thing that was less done by the Cananga FC Mining players at that time, they played less loose and under the pressure of Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors players. The Jeonbuk players were unwilling to allow the Cananga Mining players to play loose and free, so they tried to push back and proved the myriad of opportunities they created. Fortunately there is still Derry Yanuar under the bar who appeared crazy in the match, then there was also one fatal mistake made by the goalkeeper Jeonbuk which resulted in the only goal in the game when it was created.

That's what pissed Rizaldi off. When he uses Kvaratskhelia cards, he feels he can do anything and feels he is above the other 21 players. But Rizaldi thought too naive, he forgot even the class of Cristiano Ronaldo alone could not save the club Manchester United alone. Moreover, himself who is a nobody, what can he do without the help of the system with all its magical power? It is only a strange man who spends his time in the library cursing himself because of his inability to socialize with other members of the social creature.

Rizaldi answered all the questions of the subjects of History before him at this time with a burning feeling, one was upset with his naive attitude, he said, then because Derry who was called up to the national team to do training before competing in the AFF U-17 Cup to be held in Bangkok, Thailand.

Today is UTS day or midterm. Rizaldi had already passed the previous two tests and now there was a final test before the break rang. Rizaldi had already finished his test after the fifteen-minute test run, he wanted to immediately collect the answer sheet but the teacher who became the supervisor this time did not let Rizaldi go straight out of class first. Finally Rizaldi spent his time playing football through blank paper media to fill the void.

Salma who happened to see Rizaldi in the middle of his own cool was not able to resist his curiosity, he asked Rizaldi. "What are you doing Rizal? It looks so cool" said the beautiful woman.

"I was playing football through this paper media" Rizaldi said while pressing the pen as if he was passing to his team-mates on green grass.

Salma raised one eyebrow in her eyes, she grew more curious and immediately pranced to see what Rizaldi was doing. And as Rizaldi said earlier, he was playing football through a blank paper from his book.

Knowing that Salma was a little disappointed, but he was also happy because of it. But what was done by Salma had invited the attention of the test supervisor this time, until Salma was finally reprimanded for his actions earlier. Salma apologized in a cute tone that was followed by the whole class with laughter, it was the first laugh on the first day of this quite heavy test. Seeing such a flowing class made Salma slightly entertained.

The break bell reads, after collecting the answer sheet Rizaldi directly out of class to go to the cafeteria. Salma was after Rizaldi, she said she wanted to go together to the cafeteria because she also felt hungry after thinking hard in the test. As it is still a day off at the club, Rizaldi wants to eat freely for the day before his meal is again arranged by a nutritionist owned by the club. For this reason, Rizaldi does not bring supplies from home as usual, he wants to change the taste of his tongue for today.

After arriving at the booking table, Rizaldi was even confused about what to order. For a long time he stood there, fortunately the cafeteria guard was still serving other students so he still had time to choose his order.

"What did you order Rizal?" salma asked, which made Rizaldi a little confused.

"Fried rice with chicken katsu huh? Drink what?" ask Salma again.

"Es brown!" answer Rizaldi quickly.

Salma smiled after hearing Rizaldi's order, she advanced to the counter and directly mentioned the order belonging to Rizaldi and herself, for a few moments waiting while slightly talking about the usual thing, which was the usual thing, finally their order was ready and they then looked for a place to sit now.

"How about sitting there?" Salma pointed at the empty chair near the exit of the canteen.

"I'll come with you!" rizaldi said, and they sat there.

Since they were both seated, they became the center of attention of the other children. Many began to talk about the two of them, but Rizaldi never thought about it even being distracted though never. This time, his thoughts flew deep into yesterday's match against Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors which still irritated him a little.

Seeing that Rizaldi was not disturbed at all, Salma followed Rizaldi. He ignored all the eyes that were on him and Rizaldi, then he asked about what made Rizaldi behave as if he was dissatisfied today.

Rizaldi was confused as to what to answer, there is no way he replied naively if he was upset because he did not use the system as it should be in the game against Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors. But, after rethinking Rizaldi can answer it with a slightly right and slightly wrong answer.

"Salma says, if anyone gains a great advantage over others but he cannot use it properly, is he among those who are not grateful for his blessing?" ask Rizaldi.

Rizaldi's question like that of an ancient philosopher, Salma was not sure that he could answer it correctly and made Rizaldi satisfied with the answer, but he tried to express his views about what Rizaldi had said earlier.

"I don't think he's less grateful for his blessing, but he's a little confident to the point of forgetting something important. Eventually he met his own naivety and upset him with it" Rizaldi permeated Salma's speech.

It is true what was said by Salma earlier, even Salma like a psychic who can know what really happened to him even though Rizaldi never told it to Salma. Rizaldi did feel a little high when getting a high-grade player card and using it in the game against Jeonbuk, he thought he could bring the Cananga FC Mining to maximum results, he said, but he forgot one important thing that eventually made him feel less satisfied even though Cananga Mining could win and gain 3 points.

Salma again said a sentence that made Rizaldi again feel excited and began to forget his frustration. "There's one word that my dad used to say when I was upset. The annoyed person will usually target higher things to cover up his sense of regret, so the point is if Rizaldi is upset then keep walking and target higher things again yes"

Rizaldi was flabbergasted to see Salma's smile at the end of his sentence, he could not see the smile until Rizaldi finally covered his embarrassment by pretending not to see it and continued to eat his fried rice that had started to cool.