
Tense attacked Rizaldi from the moment they were in the tunnel before entering the field, he did everything he could to relieve the tension but still he was difficult to eliminate.
Because of the tension, Rizaldi's ears seemed to be a little wind-piercing throbbing and buzzing but feeling cool. Rizaldi still felt a slight side effect as he boarded the airplane earlier, but it was not as severe as it was from two days ago.
"Are you okay, man?" asked Zaki who was a little worried about Rizaldi whom he saw like a person lost in the middle of the road.
Rizaldi answered him with a bit of nervousness. "I'm fine" she said, then she tried to notice something else to ease her nervousness a little.
His eyes unintentionally looked towards the line of Jayapura Black Diamond players. The Jayapura Black Diamond players also looked quite tense, their faces no one was smiling at all. Their jet-black bodies stood upright like flagpoles, they were like a line that was ready no one took out a word.
Rizaldi was even more nervous and tense to see it, finally he could only be silent during the player tunnel. Until finally the organizers told the two team captains to immediately enter the field, Rizaldi was increasingly nervous and became-so and it was unknown to his other colleagues.
Rizaldi stepped out, the scorching sunlight welcoming his arrival. The cheers of the audience were also waiting for his arrival, while he felt the horror and goosebumps in one frame, he no longer knew what to look like. His nervousness was even forgotten just like that, although in fact his heart was still beating very fast like the beating of a war drum.
Especially when he sang Indonesia Raya song, Rizaldi felt his body shivering like there was a sharp sword that was so cold behind his back and could have pierced him sometime. So Rizaldi understood what it was like for the footballers on the first day of history for them, they had all that nervousness and fear. Only the people who can beat their fear and nervousness can become the star players of the future, that's what players like Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi, do, or Erling Halland and Kylian Mbappe.
Rizaldi also tried to make himself a little more comfortable, he tried the method of throwing and taking slow breaths to relax the muscles of his tense body. Throwing away useless thoughts, thoughts that could make him so nervous and frightened all of that he threw away was like throwing a pile of paper into a garbage basket.
Toss coins already done a while ago, the result of which the opposing team gets the first advantage to start kick-off. Zaki approached Rizaldi who still had a slight tension on his face, actually the tension was caused by another problem that Rizaldi could not explain to anyone even ants.
"Buddy, relax. Let's just play fun" said Zaki trying to ease Rizaldi's mind. Rizaldi just smiled as he nodded once, he remained focused on his game.
The thing that makes Rizaldi face like a person who is holding back his stomach pain, is a mission of the system that suddenly appears without prior notice. Actually Rizaldi was used to it, but still if he received such a sudden mission he might have a heart attack.
In that mission, Rizaldi was told to make 500 passes and make 10 chances whether it was a goal or not. Rizaldi had no problem with that, but there was one mission that left him a little confused and ended up expressing himself like a person who was struggling above Toto.
His mission is, Rizaldi must dive and must be successful to be an advantage for himself and the team.
Of course this makes him confused and surprised, only the first time he got a mission that requires him to do diving. Diving is a common thing in football, but that does not mean it is an easy thing to do.
Usually someone diving to benefit from their misfortune, but the advantage is also there are other factors that support it, namely the referee in charge. Sometimes there are referees who do not see clearly the events on the field and give an advantage to players who do diving, but there are also sometimes referees who are very firm and know very well the blangsak players who often do diving and the referee will not hesitate to give cards to that player.
Rizaldi had never done diving all this time, he was often violated but he never dropped himself intentionally. But he had to do it today, or else he instead had to get a punishment from the system for not successfully completing all the missions that the system had given him.
[Do passing 500 times]
[Make 10 chances]
[Do diving and successfully make a profit for the team]
[Gift: Skill Card Grade B]
[Punishment: System inaccessible for 7 days]
"Arhhh! Why is it like this?" Rizaldi took a deep breath after once again seeing his mission today.
Whistles blown by the referee, the opposing team has started to kick-off. Jayapura Black Diamond players first play the ball around their defensive area. The ball continued to roll back and forth for a few minutes, several times Jayapura Black Diamond players wanted to attack the Cananga Youth Mining defense, but the tight line made them back to flow the ball back again.
The ball was at the feet of Beni Bonsapia, he commanded his colleagues to carry out the strategy prepared by Coach Tiago Anderson. Rizaldi advanced to face Beni Bonsapia, but Beni easily passed him, even Beni managed to pass Zaki who also confronted him.
Beni looks to the right and left side, scanning the area, looking for the position of his colleagues that he can love the ball and make chances. The choice was to Emanuel Bonai who had run first before Beni Bonsapia did a flat pass that was so mature.
The ball landed smoothly at the feet of Emanuel Bonai, Emanuel just sprint piercing the Cananga Youth Mining team defense very quickly, then he gave a cut-back pass to the front of the mouth of the goal.
Ferdinand Pahabol who had been waiting there immediately cheated the ball, but unfortunately it can still be pushed aside by Cananga Youth Mining goalkeeper Derry and only produced a corner kick.
The corner kick was taken by Emanuel Bonai, a beautifully curved ball looking around Ferdinand Pahabol's head. But Derry well read the direction of the ball, he went forward and immediately caught the ball uncompromising, had he hit with Ferdinand Pahabol but not too sick seems.
Derry immediately kicked the ball forward, the ball was successfully received by Martin but unfortunately the control was not good so it was successfully taken again by Jayapura Black Diamond players. The ball was once again picked up by Beni Bonsapia, once again they were build-up attacks and just as before, the attack started from the flank that Emanuel Bonai was there on.
Just like before the fast movement of Emanuel Bonai could not be driven by Cananga Youth Mining defender, but unlike before who made a cut-back pass, he said, Emanuel Bonai is now plying a shot into the far side of the net.
Derry again showed his skill, he managed to pull the ball away and punch him up to secure his goal. Once again the Jayapura Black Diamond team had to bite a finger.