NOVEL NEXT Chapter 28: 1 year
[COMMENTATOR]
' Magical scenes here in the colovray stadium. They've done it. Valencia u19 are your UEFA youth league champions. None would've guessed this ending.
They came and they saw it through and now they reap they rewards for their hardwork '
Izan collapsed on the ground tired. He had exhausted himself in the match.
The match between Valencia u19 and Porto u19 had ended in a 3-2 win for Valencia u19s.
Winning the copa de campeones juvenil last season qualified them for the uefa youth league.
They entered the tournament with no hope as their group was very tough.
They had drawn the likes of Bayern Munich u19, Copenhagen u19 and Young Boys u19.
The uefa league format was such that out of 8 groups only 8 teams could qualify for the playoffs.
Valencia u19's first match was against Copenhagen u19 which they won by 1-0.
The match was tough but Izan made a nice pass which was converted by Hugo.
The second match however was shocking. Valencia U19s played against Bayern u19s and the match ended in a surprising 4-0 Victory for Valencia u19s.
Izan scored a brace and made 1 assist in that game.
Izan had caught attention as he was on the forefront of an article about the match between Valencia u19 and Bayern Munich u19s.
The third match ended in a 0-0 draw against Young boys u19. The match was however exciting as it was full of attacking football.
The fourth match against Young Boys was however different from the third one.
Valencia u19 won 2-0. Izan got the player of the match award as he provided 2 assists. He was now leading the assist chart with 4 assists.
The 5th match against Copenhagen was a stalemate until Izan scored a cracker from 30 metres out in the 89th minute winning it 1-0 for his team.
Valencia u19s were leading the table with 4 wins,1 draw and 13 points. Followed by Bayern 4 wins and 1 loss with 12 points. Copenhagen were third with 1 win, 4 losses and had 3 points Finally Young Boys were last with 1 draw and 4 losses with 1 point.
The last match between Valencia u19 and Bayern u19 was exciting to say the least. Full of attacking moments, the match ended in a 3-3 draw.
Izan had once again shown his attacking prowess and had netted all 3 goals for valencia.
Bayern u19s were devasted as they walked off the pitch. Only one team could qualify from the group and it seemed it wasn't meant to be for them.
8 teams made it out of their respective groups and they were Valencia u19, Porto u19s,Real Madrid u19s, Rc Lens u19s,Inter u19, Manchester City u19s, Feyenoord u-19 and lastly Salzburg u19.
The playoffs before the final was a single knockout tie meaning no second legs.
Valencia u19 faced Salzburg u19
Feyenoord u19 faced Real Madrid u19
Inter u19 faced Manchester City u19.
Porto u19 faced Rc lens u19
And the results were as follows.
Valencia u19[2]-[1] Salzburg u19
Feyenoord u19[2]-[0] Real Madrid u19
Inter u19[1]-[3]Manchester City u19.
Porto u19[2]-[0] Rc lens u19
The shocks of the knockouts were the Valencia u19 against Salzburg u19 and Feyenoord u19 against Real Madrid u19 as the teams that lost had very strong academies.
The next round of matches were:
Valencia u19 vs Manchester City u19s
Porto u19 vs Feyenoord u19
Valencia u19s match against Manchester was a very gruelling match for the team.
They started the match on the back foot when they went behind by two goals early in the game.
A stroke of Genius by Izan from the freekick spot brought Valencia back within contention.
The match continued like this for a while until the after the break.
In the 60th minute Izan sent a cross from the right flank which was headed in by Hugo.
The match continued after a long celebration by Hugo which earned him a warning from the referee.
Nothing happened again as the match went into extra time. In extra time,Manchester City spurred into life once again and tried to kill the game but couldn't score the goal.
In the 117th minute, A pass from Izan was deflected into the net by a Manchester City u19 player.
The scenes were amazing as Valencia u19 qualified for the uefa youth league final for the first time in their history.
[Present]
And in the present moment,they were celebrating their final win against Porto.
Valencia u19 had lost a few players like Pietro and Mark who were called up to the senior team but they were still able to hold their own against the top academies across Europe.
Izan heard a ding sound and couldn't help but smile.
[Host has won the uefa youth league final]
Rewards: First team callup
30 stat points
1 trait and one skill move
5/5 star weak foot
Izan smiled at the the screen before being woken up from his stupor by Sosa herrera who had broken through the u19 level after Izan and had performed spectacularly after pietro left.
Izan saw that the podium was almost setup. He walked up to the other players and celebrated with them.
Izan looked around as he thought "I'll probably be stepping into the Real world of football after this".
The officials came to the stage and started with the individual awards. They announced the MVP of the tournament and it was none other than Izan who had also won the player of the match with 2 goals and one assist.
Izan had tied with Anderson poco for the Top scorer award and ultimately it was given to Izan since he won the trophy.
After the individual awards were given Izan received another set of notifications which he decided to check once they were on the plane.
Izan had been made captain ever since Pietro left.And now Izan walked up to the trophy and with a resounding shout and cheer,he lifted the trophy.
' Campeones Campeones ole ole ole '
This resounding chant was heard as the Valencia u19 players sang.
Izan who was celebrating heard his name and turned towards Coach Moreno who was smiling at him.
"Well done Miura and Thank you for Improving my Coaching resume " Coach Moreno said when Izan was near.
"And although we didn't qualify for this year's campeones de juvenil, I hope the kids who are coming in next year perform as good as your year"
Valencia's youth team had been told to prioritise the uefa youth league at the start of the season by the head of the youth system.
As a result, they came second in their group and didn't qualify for the Copa de campeones juvenil.
"Oh and the new Senior team coach wants you in the team after we get back" Moreno said bring Izan out of his thoughts.
Coach Moreno smiled at the kid infront of him before walking off.
Izan remembered the coaching change in February. He had been excited to play under the then Coach, Italian legend Gennaro Gattuso since Izan knew he could help his defensive game.
But a string of bad results got him the sack and Valencia legend Ruben Baraja was appointed on February 14th.
Izan searched for Ruben baraja after picking up his phone from the bench because he didn't know much about Valencia legends.
He was surprised to see that he was a central midfielder and although Izan was an attacking midfielder,he knew the coach could still help him with his football iq.
"Finally. Its my turn" Izan thought as he looked into the night sky.
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The plane back home was mostly quiet as the players were tired. The match had taken its toll on them and the celebrations afterwards didn't help in that regard.
Izan who was still brimming with energy from the conditioning and recovery elixirs he drank sat on his seat and the holographic image was infront of him.
PLAYER INFO
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NAME:[IZAN MIURA HERNANDEZ]
AGE:[15]
HEIGHT:[1.84m(6'1)]
PROFESSION:[FOOTBALLER]
STATUS:[YOUTH PLAYER]
TEAM: Valencia Under-19s
SYSTEM EVALUATION: [A Gem of a player]
PLAYER RATING:[76/100]
POSITION:[Wing forward/Attacking midfielder]
POTENTIAL:[91]
LEGEND POINTS:[122,800/507,000 to lv5]
SIMULATION POINTS[ 300]
STAT POINTS:[48]
STATS
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Speed:80
Body control:77
Spatial awareness: 75
Technique: 77
Shooting:75
Passing: 78
Body strength: 75
Defending:65
Weak foot strength: 5 stars
Skill move :5 stars
SKILLS POSSESSED
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Stepovers:92% Completion
La croqueta:82% completion
Cruyff turn:84%Completion
Roulette: 85% Completion
Sombrero flick: 60% Completion
Elastico: 50% Completion
Traits
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Izan looked at his stats and reflected over how much he'd grown over a year.
The system had stopped giving him stat points for daily tasks. It seemed the system didn't want Izan to grow exponentially by hogging up status points.
Now the only ways he could earn stat points were after matchdays and that would only give him one stat points and by winning things like Man of the match awards,top scorer awards and trophies.
Izan was looking at the notifications he had received on the pitch.
Izan first redeemed the rewards for winning the uefa youth player trophy. The 30 stat point reward had increased Izan's stat points to 78 and his weak foot level was now Maxed.
Izan then decided to redeem his trait.
Traits
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Acrobatic finishing: enables host to score in flexible and unnatural positions.
Knuckeball: Help host to learn the Knuckeball or shot move.
Trivela passing : Enables host to pass accurately using the trivela move.
Flair finishing: Adds flair to host's and finishing
Boulder: 15% increases in defensive stats.
Izan looked at the multiple options infront of him and chose the Knuckeball trait. He would have loved to choose the acrobatic finishing but felt that Knuckeball would be helpful in his Midfield position.
Izan after choosing his trait opened the other notifications.
[Congratulations to host for becoming the Mvp of the tournament]
Reward: 10 stat points
1 recovery potion.
[Congratulations to host for becoming top scorer]
Rewards: + 500 simulation points
Izan stared at the second message and smiled. His stat point is now 88 in total. He now knocked at the simulation points and a wide smile appeared on his face.
This was part of the upgrade the level 5 system brought him. Izan could now train his freekicks and simulate matches with opponents he had played before.
It also had a tactical aspects where it would explain any football tactic Izan didn't understand.
It came at a hefty price though as it cost 50 simulation points per hour and the system hardly gave Izan any simulation points.
Izan decided to upgrade his stats before going to the senior team. He had held off on upgrading for two months and now that he was going to the Main team, he felt he needed to make his presence felt.
Izan opened the stats tab.
STATS
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Speed:80
Body control:77
Spatial awareness: 75
Technique: 77
Shooting:77
Passing: 78
Body strength: 75
Defending:65
Izan already had [48] stats points and the rewards also gave him an extra 40 stat points making it [88] stat points in total.
Izan first opened his spatial awareness Attribute.
Spatial Awareness: 75
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Vision:77
Positioning: 73
Izan added [3] stat points to his vision and [7] to his Positioning
Spatial Awareness: 80
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Vision:77>80
Positioning: 73>80
Izan moved on to his shooting Attribute.
Shooting:77
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Finishing:78
Long shot:77
Freekick:77
Penalties: 77
Izan added [4]stat points to finishing and [3] each to Long shots,freekick and penalties.
Shooting:81
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Finishing:78>82
Long shot:77>80
Freekick:77>80
Penalties: 77>80
Izan moved onto his passing stats.
Passing:78
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Short passing:82
Long passing: 80
Crossing:78
Izan once more added 3 stat points to his short passing,5 to his Long passing and 7 stats points to his crossing bringing his passing attribute to 85.
Passing:85
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Short passing:85
Long passing: 85
Crossing:85
Izan, stopped with his upgrade and thought for some time.
"I will be playing professional football in one of Europe's top flight league and I need to have some stats that will help me with my breakthrough ability"
Izan who had decided to do a bit of targeted upgrading opened his speed stat.
He looked at his sprint speed and Acceleration which were both rated 80.
He stared for some time before adding 10 stat points to each of them.
Speed:80>90
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Sprint speed:80>90
Acceleration: 80>90
Just then Izan heard the systems voice.
[Host seems to be doing targeted upgrading. Host must also upgrade his body strength to at least 80 to prevent the situation where the body can't handle you abilities]
Izan hearing this information opened his
Body strength attribute. Izan added 3 stat points to both stamina and strength and added 9 to shot power.
Body strength:75>80
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Stamina:77>80
Strength:77>80
Shot power:71>80
Izan had 19 stat points left and decided to use them all on his technique giving 8 stat points each to the two stats.
Technique:78>86
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Dribbling:78>86
Ball control:78>86
Izan saw his Player information and was satisfied now that his points had been exhausted.
PLAYER INFO
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NAME:[IZAN MIURA HERNANDEZ]
AGE:[15]
HEIGHT:[1.84m(6'1)]
PROFESSION:[FOOTBALLER]
STATUS:[YOUTH PLAYER]
TEAM: Valencia Under-19s
SYSTEM EVALUATION: [A Gem of a player]
PLAYER RATING:[80.5/100]
POSITION:[Wing forward/Attacking midfielder]
POTENTIAL:[90]
LEGEND POINTS:[122,800/507,000 to lv5]
SIMULATION POINTS[ 900]
STAT POINTS:[0]
STATS
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Speed:90
Body control:77
Spatial awareness: 80
Technique: 86
Shooting:81
Passing: 85
Body strength: 80
Defending:65
Weak foot strength: 5 stars
Skill move :5 stars
SKILLS POSSESSED
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Stepovers:99% Completion
La croqueta:95% completion
Cruyff turn:90%Completion
Roulette: 92% Completion
Traits
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'Ding'[ host Ovr is now 80].
Izan remembered that the player with the highest rating in Valencia had an OVR of 82.
And he was now even close to 81. Izan smiled at his progress before closing his System interface.
He laid back and drifted into the night.
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