Football System: Classic Number 10
Chapter 39: First Practice With A-Team

With the promotion of Rizaldi Fatah to the A-team certainly makes Dery so happy and happy. Eventually he had another fight-mate in the A-team besides Zaki Iskandar and Axel Raihan.

Rizaldi, who is considered by Dery as his closest friend, can make Dery more eager to undergo heavy exercises in the A-team. Yes, training in A-team is much different from B-team.

Their training is quite heavy, even arguably almost equivalent to the training menu of senior players competing in the Indonesia League or I-LEAGUE. And it is still not known by Rizaldi for sure. Rizaldi like Flyod Mayweather who still does not know how to do the submission lockdown.

Now all the A-team, whether it's the middle of the bread or the rim, gathered on the field to do the exercise today as usual. But a little bit different today, because there is a new person who is promoted to the A-team then it should be that person will go forward and introduce himself in front of many people.

That is what Rizaldi Fatah will do. He stood before everyone, like a world-class dictator preparing to give a full oration of the revolution.

All those eyes were on him, making him a little nervous but Rizaldi could handle it. He took a few breaths to relieve his nervousness, calling this technique a 4-7-8 technique.

"Let's have a new child, the time and place we've prepared for you" Coach Satria has given his final ultimatum to Rizaldi starting his introduction, or today's training will end just like that.

Rizaldi nodded slowly, he went back to doing the 4-7-8 technique and finally he began to relax to do self-introduction.

"My name is Rizaldi Fatah from B-team, I'm here ready to be the best in this team!"

With Rizaldi speaking like that, all the eyes were immediately shocked. They did not expect it to come out of Rizaldi's mouth. Especially to Martin.

Martin is a mainstay striker in the A-team, he's an Ace and there's no doubt about his ability. Many are convinced that Martin will be promoted to the first team in the near future, team-A is just a stepping stone for him. But for this season Martin started with a bit of grey.

Because, from the 16 games they have lived, Martin was only able to score 5 goals only. Different from last season which made him the top scorer in I-Youth, now it feels like Martin is so bad.

The cause was his bad behavior that he could not control at all. Since entering and playing for Youth-A and become an Ace. Martin has really become a different person. He feels great because he feels his effort is what makes Youth-A successfully become a champion in the last season.

He was very confident in his abilities, indeed there was nothing wrong with his abilities. His ability is like the ability of an expert who was born every few years, call it Maradona-Messi, or like Muhammad Ali and Mike Tyson. But with his arrogance he finally created a gap between himself and other players without him knowing.

'It's rude, an untalented person can talk like that' Martin said in his heart, obviously he was not happy with the presence of Rizaldi in team-A.

Coach Satria gave an applaus to Rizaldi, but it was not an applaus to reward someone. It is an applaus to underestimate someone, yes Coach Satria is known to like it so. He would not immediately consider someone good if he had not seen with his own eyes whether the figure was truly valuable to him.

"Well you all get together soon, we'll do a little muscle stretching first before we start our training menu today!"

"Good Coach!" say them all at the same time.

They all do a little stretching. Start by running a few rounds. At that time Dery and Zaki had more frequent conversations with Rizaldi again, they wondered about his development during these few months.

Rizaldi just smiled. "You'll see" he said.

Zaki and Dery slightly chuckled at hearing that. "Hohohoo. So can't wait to see it, can you, Zaki?"

The three of them then laughed together, before Axel Raihan overtook them and immediately entered into the chat of the three of them.

"How much you've improved, it's still me who's going to be the best player in the team" Axel won't lose to Rizaldi.

"Ow ow seems like someone doesn't want to lose" Dery acted like an ABG girl who often makes trouble at school

"Hey hey look out for someone angry bro" Zaki also responded in style.

The duo returned to laughing so badly, making Axel annoyed and having to give them both a lesson to give. Axel rewarded the two of them by pinning their heads together to remove a lump like a lohan fish.

Rizaldi could not comment any more, he could only pray for his two friends the best after receiving a story by Axel Raihan. "Maybe nosy be a person" that's all Rizaldi can say.

Training continues, now to the side of the main training menu. Coach Satria wants to do a mini game with a 5vs5 match. Not using a full field, only half of it.

There is a small wicket guarded by each team. There is no goalkeeper in the game this time, the goalkeeper is not allowed to touch the ball with his hands.

"This exercise aims to strengthen our defense. You know for yourself how bad we have been this season and I don't want any more failures. This week's game we have to win, no matter how hard it is!" coach Satria.

After dividing into several small groups, Coach Satria blew his whistle and began his practice. For the first to turn is a group of Rizaldi consisting of Dery, Zaki and Axel and one more player who plays as a full-back, Amat. Amat is one of the breadcrumbs on this team.

While the group they will face is a collection of players who are always the main meal in the team. Martin, Romeo, Fauzi, Galih and Bagas.

"It is time to teach them that lesson. They are the reason why we become slumped" said Martin who was followed by his four other friends.

Noticing the gaze of Martin's group, Dery interrupted. "It looks like they have a feeling of resentment with us"

Rizaldi, Zaki and Axel glanced at Martin's group after Dery had spoken like that and it seemed to be true what Dery had said.

"What's really going on, aren't you team-mates?" Rizaldi who just joined does not know about the problems that occur in the Youth-A team.

Axel stepped up to briefly explain to Rizaldi the problem in the A-team. "We all regarded them as mere breadcrumbs so that we were not considered equal. Because we are not considered equal then we will never get the ball at the time of the game"

"Why is that Axel?" Rizaldi was so shocked by the information, he did not expect there to be such a thing in team A.

Now Rizaldi only realized after seeing the atmosphere in the A-team. It's so different from B-team, it's like the sun and the moon. And so Rizaldi knew what to do, he had to prove himself here to be a whole loaf of bread.

"Let our friends show them our greatness!" rizaldi said with confidence and a burning spirit.

Axel, Dery and Zaki who heard the words of encouragement from Rizaldi were immediately burned by the fire of the burning spirit, even though this was just a mini game, but it was just a mini-game, but they are determined to teach those who feel elite a lesson.