Football System: Classic Number 10
Chapter 90: Marukawa-Yoga Duo

Igarashi Maeda looked very serious about the match that was taking place before him. The match between Sugar Crossed FC against Bali Tera FC for the ticket to the semi-finals.

Although he wanted to watch the match with a calm and relaxed mind while spending time, Igarashi Maeda could not do that at this time. Here, he has a mission, a very important mission.

During I-Youth, from the group stage to the preliminary stage, Igarashi Maeda kept a close eye on the young players who played in the top competitions. For a mission, the mission is to find the right player for him to bring to be part of the young Indonesian national team that he will bring to compete in competitions that are already in sight.

Later Igarashi Maeda will be a Coach in the Indonesian U-17 national team. In less than 3 months, he must have prepared this team to compete for the AFF U-17 Cup. The time that Igarashi Maeda has is not much anymore, he has to think of a name that he thinks can play in his scheme.

In his list, Igarashi Maeda has got some names but he still digs further and does not want to rush to make his decision.

"So has Coach Maeda got names that might be part of the U-17 national team?" Albert Rachmadi, the FSI chairman, asked Maeda every time.

Igarashi Maeda was actually a bit uncomfortable with always hearing the question, he was even uncomfortable seeing the face of Albert Rachmadi who he considered not very competent in his field. Igarashi Maeda did not like Albert Rachmadi when they first met.

For Maeda, who comes from Japan, that discipline must take precedence. Igarashi Maeda had to wait 2 hours from his scheduled meeting with Albert Rachmadi, and at that time Albert Rachmadi did not even apologize for his delay and instead talked about his son who had entered Junior High and entered a football club at his school which had nothing to do with progress football in Indonesia.

Igarashi Maeda actually does not like the football system in Indonesia, according to him there are still many things that must be addressed especially in the management section. FSI itself according to him is still too one eye about football, the proof is that their chairman, Albert Rachmadi, even doubles as one of the members of the people's council.

Although actually he does not like it, but still his heart seems called to build and train young seeds of Indonesian football players. Especially with the existence of I-Youth, according to Maeda, Indonesia has one step towards the advancement of Indonesian football.

"I've got a few names, but I still want to see if they really fit into the style of play I'm going to bring" Maeda said to answer the curiosity of Albert Rachmadi.

"Oh really? It's a pity then" Albert Rachmadi said, acting as if he was thinking the same thing as Maeda.

Maeda smiled politically, he himself knew and believed that Albert Rachmadi was forced to accompany him to watch this football match. Maeda believes that football is not a sport that is in demand by the FSI chairman. Maeda believes that Rahmadi would like to spend time on the golf course while talking about conspiracies or discussing funds that he and his friends can play with.

Then Albert Rachmadi noticed a Japanese player owned by Sugar Crossed FC, who was a former player, he did not know who the young man from Japan was so he looked at the screen next to him which showed the data of players from both teams competing.

"Tori Marukawa" he said. "Did Coach know about the player" Albert Rachmadi tried to start a new topic.

Igarashi Maeda also noticed the Japanese player, Maeda had seen the player while in Japan even he wanted to call the player if his age was enough.

"It turns out he's playing here huh"

"Does Coach Maeda know the Marukawa?"

After Albert Rachmadi asked like that, Marukawa managed to score a goal that made the score to 1-0 for the superiority of Sugar Crossed FC. The goal was created in the 33rd minute, through a quick counter-attack scheme and good cooperation between Marukawa and Yoga Hilmawan that made the defense of the Bali Tera FC team poranda, porak, until finally Tori Marukawa managed to score goals and make Sugar Crossed FC temporarily superior.

The letter O is directly formed on Albert Rachmadi's face. "Can we convince him to play for our national team?"

It's a hard question, but it's also a stupid question. But Igarashi Maeda tried to remain polite and answered questions from Albert Rachmadi very kindly. "Unfortunately, I cannot Mr. Albert Rachmadi, who I heard he has received attention from the Japanese national team and he definitely chose to defend Japan rather than defend Indonesia. After all he has no blood or descent from Indonesia so I guess it will be very difficult"

"Oh so, too bad when he's a great player in my eyes"

After that before the first half ended, Sugar Crossed FC managed to double the advantage through a hard kick Yoga Hilmawan from outside the penalty box. Bali goalkeeper Tera FC could not do anything to dispel the hard kick of Yoga Hilmawan, thus making the score to 2-0 for the superiority of Sugar Crossed FC.

Seeing the goal earlier made Igarashi Maeda a little confident with the options in front of him later. Maeda has been monitoring the development of Hilmawan Yoga since the group phase. Yoga Hilmawan always shows his best performance and he proves himself that he is very dangerous in front of the opponent's goal.

Until now, his choice to Yoga Hilmawan has been more than enough. Maeda is quite confident in the ability of Hilmawan Yoga and he thinks also Hilmawan Yoga fits the style of play that will be brought by Maeda.

But that does not mean that only Yoga Hilmawan is noticed by Maeda in this match, there are also other names on the Sugar Crossed FC team or in Bali Tera FC that he is monitoring as well. Maeda intended to watch this match until the end, so that after the first half he did not immediately go and return to his inn.

In the second half the match went pretty hard. Both teams attack each other, Bali Tera FC clearly do not want to lose to Sugar Crossed FC so they provide resistance until their final blood point.

Their efforts did not betray them all, in the 67th minute Bali Tera managed to score a goal back through a corner soccer scheme that was successfully headed well by their defender and managed to get into the goal Sugar Crossed FC.

However, in the 79th minute Hilmawan Yoga goal after receiving a brilliant breakthrough pass from Tori Marukawa, ended the match Bali Tera FC and made the score 3-1 until the game ended.

Man of the match in this match is Yoga Hilmawan who scored two goals and one assist, but the value is not much different from the slick performance of Tori Marukawa who managed to record 2 assists and 1 goal, not to mention with other records.

Igarashi Maeda was completely satisfied with what he witnessed today. First he was satisfied to see the figure of Yoga Hilmawan who is increasingly becoming-so since the first he monitors its development, and the second because of the appearance of Tori Marukawa is very beautiful today.

Igarashi Maeda did not expect that Tori Marukawa would become such a great player, because he used to know the past experienced by Tori Marukawa so he thought Tori Marukawa would not play football for long. But Maeda's assumption was wrong against Marukawa, even Marukawa played longer than what Maeda expected.

He was eager to go to meet Marukawa and congratulate her, but Maeda could not do that now, because he has another mission and no one should know about it other than himself and Albert Rachmadi as the chairman of FSI.

"Tonight was Mr. Albert Rachmadi's having a show?" suddenly Maeda asked Albert Rachmadi for his agenda.

Albert Rachmadi thought for a moment as if he was trying to remember his solid agenda for the next few hours, so remember he was acting like a person who had just gotten his memories after so long. "I just remembered that tonight Mr. Mayor of South Tangerang wanted to stop by the house to discuss one or two things, so sorry if you can not accompany Coach Maeda to watch the game tonight"

Igarashi Maeda hastily said that it is not a big problem, even for Igarashi Maeda the absence of Albert Rachmadi will make it a little more calm than to be followed continuously by the figure of Albert Rachmadi. "Then it's okay, I'm alone to watch it" Maeda replied with a fake smile.

Then they both shook hands because soon they wanted to part ways, Igarashi Maeda first wanted to go somewhere so he refused to invite Albert Rachmadi to come with him to ride his service car.