Romantic on the Field

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Liam Druckman.

‘Jamie Lee…’

He was actually looking forward to today’s game from a few days ago.

Jamie Lee. A player who currently scores almost 2 offensive points per game.

Although it is in the 3rd division, it has been a long time since a player with such an impact has appeared.

Besides, he was 20 years old, very young.

Ace Killer, Prospect Killer.

Beyond dirty play, Liam, who has such a nickname, couldn’t help but be interested.

“Oh, sorry. You are weaker than you look. I didn’t know you would fall asleep so powerlessly.”

So as soon as the game started, I provoked him after committing a wild foul.

“…”

Is it because I’m still young? Jamie made no response to his provocation.

This would be fun to play with. Anticipation naturally rose in Liam’s heart.

Tok, tok.

After a while, he boldly attempted to break through even though he was soon fouled.

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Liam kept his distance and waited for the next move.

‘My main specialty is a back shot.’

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Liam watched the video of Jamie’s match over and over again. A report from the Power Analyst was also received.

I mainly use body painting and shooting painting, but I mostly used back shots when running in an open space like now. That too, a back shot that hits left.

‘Then it’s easy to deal with.’

If you know the direction in advance, it’s very easy to stop. Liam guessed so.

No matter how good you are, your opponent is also a 3rd division leaguer.

It’s not Ronaldo or Messi, and there was no reason not to stop him in the yard where he knows the technique and direction to be used in advance and even the timing of the attempt.

“Don’t back down.”

“Bump!”

Coincidentally, the Charlton coaching staff seemed to have the same thoughts as Liam.

I was ordering to bump into Jamie strongly without backing down.

You have to kill it in the beginning. He’s the type to run rampant if left alone. I was holding my heart like that, but finally Jamie momentarily sped up and approached me.

‘Now.’

Now was the timing.

As soon as Jamie got into the prep position before the back shot—legs back, he moved in the expected direction.

“aaagh!”

huh?

And I was momentarily taken aback by the situation that followed.

“Aagh!”’

1 second? 2 seconds? It was not easy to fully grasp what had happened in that brief moment.

Beep-big.

In the meantime, the referee hurriedly blew a whistle and ran this way.

‘for a moment.’

The ball was rolling behind his back before he knew it.

‘Could it be that he purposely crashed into my body?’

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Liam stared blankly down at Jamie, who was slumping on the floor.

‘I got hit.’

When I saw it, I was convinced.

It seems that the direction was read, so he sent the ball backwards in advance and instead hit it into Liam’s body first.

It was Jamie who hit him, but judging from his height, size, and current situation, it became a situation where Liam seemed to be hindering Jamie’s path with his large size.

“Referee, I…”

“Again, it’s a yellow card.”

The referee overruled Liam’s protest and declared a free kick.

“…”

In less than a second, he grasps the situation and even gets a foul?

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Liam looked down at Jamie, who was still lying down, with a feeling of bewilderment.

The corners of Jamie’s mouth twitched as if they were about to rise.

**

‘Lee, the results are out.’

Research on the cognition of soccer players has been steadily conducted for the past 20 years.

Research institutes, including the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, have conducted studies mainly on world-class players, and Jamie was included in them.

‘I wondered how he could avoid all tackles like that, but looking at the results, I understood.’

Jamie said that the frontal lobe of the brain, which is related to cognition, was particularly developed.

It is said that selection, creativity, reasoning and predictive ability in an uncertain environment are innately excellent.

In addition, by accumulating experience on various dog tackles and bad manners play that he had experienced for 10 years from the age of 20, he later moved to the extent of moving while grasping in advance even the movements of opponents who were in a piece of sight.

‘It’s about a player who has bad manners after part 3.’

Of course, if I was originally 20 years old, I would have suffered quite a bit.

But now, Jamie was a veteran who had gone through all the maternity battles.

“aaagh!”

Beyond simply avoiding a tackle, it was possible to take a narrow line without getting hurt, or rather deliberately push the body to make it look like an opponent’s foul.

Same now.

After sending the ball forward in advance, I deliberately lowered my center of gravity and burrowed into Liam’s arms. And that too, just in time for him to tackle.

“Hey!”

“Referee!”

It barely touched the body.

Conversely, it was only a slight touch.

Besides, it’s already the third foul.

The Stoke Cityrs rushed to Liam excitedly.

“Hey! What are you doing?”

The first to run ahead of them was Harry Harris.

His height is 6 feet 3 inches. About 190 cm.

His height and size were not far behind Liam.

“Have you decided to soak it at all? Are you going to give it a try?”

Harry pushed his chest in and drew closer to Liam.

“Oh, no. I just…”

Even Liam flinched at that terrifying momentum.

Beep. At that time, the referee hurriedly blew his whistle and ran.

“Liam, I’m glad you didn’t give me a red card.”

The referee immediately pulled out a yellow card and pointed it at Liam.

“No, Lee rather ran towards me.”

“Well, because this bastard wants to see you now.”

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Liam protested with an unfair feeling, but the protest rather made Harry and other Stoke players more excited.

“Everyone go back to your seats. Any more fuss than this is all cards.”

Fortunately, the referee took an active role and did not lead to violence.

“Jay! It’s fine?”

The Stoke City team doctor shouted from the touchline.

‘It’s okay.’

There was nothing wrong. There was not a single scratch on the body.

Jamie raised his arm to draw an ‘O’ and immediately prepared for a free kick.

However, the location of the free kick was a bit ambiguous. Both the angle and the distance made it difficult to aim for a direct shot.

‘Would you like to gamble?’

It wasn’t to the point of not being able to aim—especially if it was Jamie, and I’d be embarrassed if I failed, so I decided to just take the safe route.

There are about five players who can aim for a header. Stoke had many players with good physical condition. Besides, with Brian, a loose ball could lead to a goal.

‘Well?’

A person came into Jamie’s eyes as he was trying to locate the players.

It was Liam Dragman who had just committed a non-foul foul on him.

‘Why don’t you mark Harry?’

Jamie moved his gaze to the side.

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Liam Druckmann was marking Stoke central defender Eric, who is shorter than Harry, instead of Harry, who has similar physical specifications.

For once, let’s believe I wish I had more headers. Jamie thought to himself and raised his hand.

Beep-. The referee blew his whistle and Jamie crossed high into Harry’s far post.

The ball passed the fullback’s head at the near post, passed Liam’s head at the center, and eventually reached Harry at the far post.

‘done.’

Cross was correct.

If you can’t put this in, you’ll have to cut off the head. Jamie thought to himself.

squash.

Fortunately, Harry turned it into a goal.

“eee-YA!”

“Yaaa! Harry, Harry, Harry!”

“You escaped from the triangle head!”

Robin and Brian, who had been training together, ran to Harry first.

“Aww! Aww!”

Harry slapped his head with the palm of his hand and ran towards Jamie, who raised the cross.

‘What the fuck. I’m scared.’

In that militant stance, Jamie involuntarily took a few steps back.

“Jay! Jamie Lee! You fucking bastard! It’s all thanks to you. hahahaha!”

“That, yes. Calm down, I know.”

Harry, overexcited, seemed unable to hear Jamie.

Harry, who shook off his fellow players and ran to Jamie, abruptly knelt in front of him.

“Hey, put on your boots. I’ll do a celebration of cleaning soccer boots.”

“You madman. That should be done for the goal scorer.”

“Uh ha ha ha. How are you!”

The commotion-like celebration time was over for a while, and the match resumed.

‘He’s in good shape.’

Jamie turned his ankle to check his condition.

In some soccer games, a player’s condition is indicated by an arrow. When the condition is not good, the yellow arrow is pointing down, and when the condition is good, it is red and pointing up.

The condition he felt today was a red arrow soaring high as if it were going to pierce the ceiling in terms of a game.

Besides······.

‘My Mark opponent is also scared.’

He looked at the opponent in front of him and grinned.

Then Liam flinched.

Judging by the reaction, Liam seemed to be in a state of intimidation.

‘At a time like this, whatever I do will work.’

Jamie seemed to be walking towards him, then turned and caught Brian’s pass.

If it had been early in the game, I would have rushed right in and put pressure on his back.

But now Liam hesitated and showed no action.

‘Now.’

Jamie pretended to turn to the left, then turned and swung to the right.

ugh Liam groaned and chased after him, but he couldn’t catch up right away because of the reverse action.

After removing Liam’s mark with a very simple painting, Jamie started running.

‘good.’

A headwind was blowing.

From an attacking standpoint, it was advantageous to play with the wind at his back, but he was in the best condition right now.

It was good. It didn’t seem to matter even if there was a typhoon instead of a headwind.

“stick! Stop it!”

Someone shouted from the Charlton bench.

Try it if you can. Jamie, who was advancing, fired a back shot that had been sealed for a while, and overcame the Charlton defender.

It was a situation with acceleration, so I got close to the penalty box in an instant.

Brian on the side and Robin in the penalty box raised their hands almost simultaneously.

‘sorry. I’m in good shape today.’

Jamie didn’t pass.

Raise your right arm up and step your left foot back.

Per-billion.

He then kicked the lower left corner of the ball with his left foot inside.

“…!”

After leaving his feet, the ball drew a beautiful trajectory and was sucked into the upper left corner of the goal.

cheap – ah It was such a beautiful trajectory that it gave me goose bumps on the nape of my neck even when I was wearing it.

eee-·······.

“-Yeee!”

“I-Iyaaa!”

“Crazy bastard!”

The home crowd, Stoke players and Stoke staff roared in unison.

“wow······.”

“Nonsense.”

Others covered their heads with both hands as if in shock.

‘This is it. I’m playing soccer for this taste.’

Jamie tried to ignore the still tingling neck and back of his head, kissing the emblem and his fingers.

In the first half, the score was 2-0.

It was Jamie who had already recorded one goal and one assist.

**

The away locker room at ‘Bet 777 Stadium’.

“Liam! what’s wrong today uh?”

cried the Charlton Athletic manager, slapping the whiteboard with the palm of his hand.

“You said you were confident? You’ve even been analyzing that kid’s video for the past few days. is not it?”

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Liam couldn’t raise his head at the manager’s scolding.

He committed five fouls in the first half alone today.

In addition, he received a yellow card and allowed a goal starting from his foul.

“Be smart, be smart. It’s not good to just push with your size. Should I even tell you this? uh?”

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Liam was embarrassed.

I’ve never been pushed too hard. It was just that Jamie came and crashed it.

But I couldn’t tell the truth. Aside from pride, it was because he doubted whether the director would believe his words.

It was Liam who was notorious in the third division for his tough but dirty play.

In particular, he even earned the nicknames ‘Ace Killer’ and ‘Prospect Killer’ by completely destroying young aces who lacked experience.

To think that he was completely fooled by a 20-year-old kid.

The director couldn’t believe this reality, which was hard to believe even if he thought about it.

‘I’ll be replaced.’

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Liam thought gloomily.

Falling from a height is bound to result in injury.

The higher it is, the greater the chance of getting injured.

Charlton Athletic have been in the Third Division for the past few years.

In other words, Liam has been a thug in the third division for the past few years, breaking down all the tough guys.

My self-esteem was truly sky-high.

However, the self-esteem that was in that high place fell to the floor in an instant.

It was only natural that he suffered a significant blow from the inside.

‘…No, I’d rather be replaced.’

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Liam’s thoughts finally reached that point.

“It is the second half. Liam, just do what you normally do.”

Unfortunately, however, the director did not leave out Liam.

I’m anxious. I don’t want to stick Liam was nervous, but he couldn’t express it. He just went up to the ground with a dark expression.

“…”

Before kickoff, he met Jamie’s eyes.

thump, thump.

For some reason, we only met eyes, but my heart started beating.

‘Can I stop him?’

Can we finish today without getting kicked out?

Or, wouldn’t it be better to leave early.

The moment Liam’s self-esteem broke through the floor and went underground, the referee blew his whistle.

Tok, tok.

After a while······.

Jamie, who received the pass from the center, started coming towards him.

‘no.’

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Liam backed away and kept his distance.

‘I can’t stop that guy.’

Regardless of self-esteem, confidence, or whatever, I can’t stop that 20-year-old kid.

Instinct was telling me that.

“Liam! Don’t run away!”

“stick! stick with me!”

Charlton shouted from the bench.

At that moment, Jamie sent the ball forward and suddenly sped it up.

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Liam hurriedly reached out his hand, crying and eating mustard.

Even if I was sent off, I thought I should stop him first.

But Jamie didn’t even allow that.

I shook his hand with my arm and immediately distanced myself from him.

‘ah.’

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Liam looked at Jamie’s back in dismay as he walked away.

“eee-YEAH!”

“LEE! LEE!”

And I had to watch Jamie get past three more defenders, get past the goalkeeper, and score a goal into an empty net.

“When you watch Lee play, he takes us to special places.”

thump, thump.

“Oh, oh, oh. The Stoke Romanticist.”

thump, thump.

“Oh, oh, oh. Stoke’s fantasy star.”

Then Jamie did his signature celebration, and the home crowd sang his new cheerleader.