Football System: Classic Number 10
Episode 9: Selection Day (Late Part)

Finally my long wait was over, the second half had just begun, Giovanni's training instantly gave me a chance to prove my worth.

No longer do I think scared, nervous or anything, I am instead very excited and can't wait to show them all how much determination I have to pass the selection today. And this is the time.

Derry smiled at me, his smile as warm as the sun in the morning, even though it was late afternoon. He gave me a few words of encouragement. "Show them my friend!" Clenching my fist at me, and I returned the fist.

Of course I will show them, I already have a little trick that can benefit me a little here. I have a system and skills given by the system, unlike all of them.

Although I have a system and a little bit more benefit, the name of football can not be played with just one person. Football is a game that relies on a system that runs perfectly. And the system cannot run just because of one person's effort, the whole team must be involved to run a system given by the previous coach.

Therefore, football consists of 11 players who have different roles, there are goalkeepers, defenders, midfielders or midfielders, wingers and attackers.

It cannot be that a goalkeeper is told to play as a defender at the same time, or an attacker is told to defend at the same time. All of them have their respective roles and that is why a network of systems is formed, which is usually referred to as a tactic or a formation.

Coach Giovanni has also given me confidence so I will repay that trust as best I can, he also gave instructions for me to play like Ward Prowse, he wants to see! Then I'll show him.

"Eeeh, the team next door is good too. There's a cuckoo player like an outcast" the unbraided mouth of Yoga's back in action, he lured me and Derry to get provoked emotions. But it seems that my existence on the field this time more makes Derry a little calm, he even ignored what was just said by Yoga, whereas before he was always provoked because of the talk of Yoga.

"Good job! I'll destroy you both then" Yoga got angry again because we were not provoked at all.

What Yoga said earlier was not a joke, he could have destroyed us with the goals he was going to make. Top score in the SMP championship in Banjarmasin indeed can not be doubted, I have checked the status of all team A players with God's Eye skill. On average they have a pretty good status, but there are some players who have a higher status than team A and team B players. He is a team A midfielder named Zaki Iskandar who has a football skill above the value of 50, and of course Yoga who has a shoot 61, which is very good, although still SMA level but the value is almost equivalent to some pro players.

On team B? Just average value, nothing conspicuous at all except Derry.

Derry should not be equated by all of them, Buceros is one of the best Academies in Kalimantan, even they have been training since junior age. The value of the ability of goalkeeper Derry who is above 50 is proof, how good the system owned by Buceros.

Kick off the whistle of the second half is rung, kick off starts from our Team B.

I got my first touch, it was so happy to play ball like this until I forgot that Yoga was pressing myself to lose the ball. But I have a little bit of other advantages, stamina. My stamina is still awake and after drinking the Energy Booster does have a considerable impact on me.

Because the skill of the ball is still low, I do not dare to do dribling skills to pass Yoga, I prefer to pass on other colleagues rather than having to pass Yoga by inviting him to duel 1 on 1.

Several times I did such a thing in front of Yoga and it made her so angry, I could see a black face from frustration gathered on her face. Then when the winger gave the ball to me as we started to make up the attack, Yoga hit me with his tackle and knocked me down.

"You think you've been great at doing things like that ha a little fellow?" Yoga was really frustrating, but I just kept quiet and focused on the game.

The game didn't change much in the second half, because of the obvious difference that only my eyes can see, obviously B team can't say much. Zaki Iskandar of team A showed some of his abilities, measured passes and a few times threatened us, but unfortunately the final completion of team A was as bad as our defense.

Derry who captained the B team can't do much about this difficult situation, because he's just a goalkeeper then he can only give a little direction for us from the back. But it seems like a lot of B team players don't understand the basics in football, so every Derry gives instructions presumably less B team players can catch what it means.

For example, when we were all being pressured, the winger of team A attacked from the left side that was quite fragile. Derry gave instructions to the defenders to docked, but they docked without thinking about the space they created.

The winger of team A looks at the space opened by our player and gives a pass into that space, there Yoga is running and preparing to snatch the pass given by the winger of team A.

"I'm stupidly hoping for all of them!" Derry swore and went ahead to take a big risk, he intended to block Yoga who was preparing to welcome the bait.

Yoga managed to welcome the bait very well, the ball control was so brilliant. Derry, who had gone ahead and left the net, made Yoga's chances of scoring wider, but he did not choose to take a first-time direct shot like he did in the first half.

He chose to dribble the ball past Derry and that fooled Derry.

"Ah shit!" Derry again cursed when he was dead step because of Yoga skill.

"I'll be the son!" yoga said before he fired a shot towards an already empty goal.

The ball was sliding but not too hard, Yoga wanted to make Derry mentally destroyed by kicking a weak ball that rolled into the goal slowly. But he forgot my figure that had been shadowing him ever since, I deliberately allowed Yoga to take that space and give him a chance to get past Derry, because I was sure he must have dribbled before kicking.

So I chose the path around the body of Yoga and when he kicked, I immediately did sliding tackle to drive the ball into the goal. The ball was stopped and did not go into the goal, I just threw the ball far forward to secure our goal again.

"It's cool, man!"

"Nice clear!"

That's what my ears heard when I managed to do that.

What happened to Yoga? His eyes began to empty, he did not believe the golden opportunity he got failed to become a goal. I could see a frustrated look that was like I had just lost gold in that hand, it seemed like mental Yoga had started to be attacked.

For the rest of the time his gaze was always downward, he already did not have the burning spirit in his eyes like at the time he chattered wanting to destroy myself and Derry.

In the final minutes, we had a chance to turn things around. Zaki Iskandar's bait is so measurable as ever, looking for the existence of Hilmawan Yoga where there is. But Yoga Hilmawan who had lost his fighting spirit was unable to find the ball that was pointing well towards him.

The full-back of our team swiftly cut the direction of the ball, he then brought the ball into the middle of the field while scanning the area. Then he gave the ball to me, I dribble the ball up close outside the penalty box while scanning. I see there is space to be used up front, the forwards are also in a position ready to welcome the ball.

I gave a lob pass to the front, the forward started running towards the space I was heading towards. My team's attacker immediately jumped and headed the ball, but it could still be blocked by team A's goalkeeper.

The rebound ball moved wildly, there was a crash in front of team A's goal but there was no conclusion to the incident. Until in the end the defender of team A threw the ball, but the sweep was weak due to too panic, the ball bounced weak and turned towards me.

For a few seconds I thought about returning to give a feed to the front, but somehow at a moment like this even heard a notification sound in my head.

[Mission Held!]

[Make a goal in the moment]

[Gift: Random skill card]

[Punishment: Decreased skill by 12 points]

In a situation like this? Just be right! The current mission was too sudden just like its name. Inevitably I had to kick this ball and hope the ball leads into the goal, because this was my first-time kick.

But before launching a kick, the corner of my eye could see the existence of Yoga who tried to prevent me from kicking the ball, he intended to tackle me and make me fall.

I didn't care, I turned my body to kick the ball with my strongest foot, the right foot. Then I threw a hard volley kick once even Yoga could only see the ball drifting towards the top right corner of the goal.

What happened after that was a goal! The goal keeper cannot reach the ball and ends up with the ball entering freely into the goal.

"Oraaaaa!" I screamed out loud to the end of my voice to celebrate my first goal in football. My colleagues immediately came to me one by one to celebrate the goal.

I was so happy that I forgot the mission I had just received and finished it, just like that, we celebrated the goal with great joy and after that the time was over and team B won with a narrow score of 0-1.

Derry returned to bearhug to me and to be honest it hurt so much, I was congratulated by my teammates and also some from team A including Zaki Iskandar. Yoga did not comment much, in fact he was always down from the end of the game until coach Giovanni called us all to come together once again.

"Good work for all of you, you've shown us all your abilities on the field"

"With the end of the mini-game match, then the selection today also ended. For the names that will pass the selection we will notify two weeks from now. That's all I can tell you, now clap for all of you and disperse!"

We all clapped and dispersed. As usual, Derry and I went home together. He went back to talking about the last goal I made earlier, I can only smile grinning because it continues to be discussed.

"It's just a coincidence" I told Derry not to talk about it anymore.

"I know it's no coincidence, I can see the corner of your eye that wants so badly to destroy that man called Yoga! Ahhh must be feeling like you are in heaven after destroying the person who always bothers you"

What Derry said was true as well, I feel very high at the moment. The euphoria after scoring an important goal can still be felt, or the feeling of relief after defeating Yoga.

The twilight sun was a witness to how happy I was right now, maybe today was the best day I ever had.