Romantic on the Field

7.

The second half has begun.

Stoke, who could not sit down, carried out a player replacement. Harry, who scored an own goal, was removed and Mikel came in. The defensive line also went up.

On the other hand, Barnsley, who scored the opening goal, lowered the overall line.

Opponent is Stoke. In the midst of winning, he decided that there was no need to overdo it.

Therefore, in the second half, Stoke had a lot of time in possession of the ball. However, clear opportunities rarely emerged.

‘At times like this, I have to use my personal skills to break through…’

Turning the pass backwards, Jamie thought.

Brian has a good kick, but he wasn’t a player with strength in breaking through.

Mikel was a player with excellent air control, but that was it.

Harry, Jack, Ralph, Eric… I thought of other players, but I couldn’t find an answer.

‘As expected, I should do it.’

Jamie, who received the pass again, attempted to break through.

It was not difficult to peel off the opposing striker who was pressuring him. However, the midfielder behind him immediately covered it.

It was a bit short of the half line. Because there was enough space.

‘Let’s do some tricks.’

Jamie tried a 2-on-1 pass to a teammate who was close by, then pretended to lose his back when he got the ball back, and cast a Marseille turn.

The result is a neat success.

Oh oh.

The away Stoke fans, and some Barnsley home fans, roared in admiration.

Yes, admire more. more, more. Jamie stifled a burst of laughter and moved forward.

However, as he approached the penalty box, more than three players surrounded him. Jamie quickly looked around.

Should I aim for Mikel’s head? no. For that reason, there are many defenses inside the penalty box.

“Well?”

At that time, a fellow player came into Jamie’s field of vision.

A player with a blank face standing near the left touchline, a bit farther away.

Jamie thought no more

uh? Why give it to me at this timing? Brian received Jamie’s pass with a look that seemed to say so.

Either way, Jamie got into the penalty box.

‘Focus on what you’re good at.’

At that moment, Brian remembered what Jamie had said yesterday.

‘You have it. kick force. That’s your strength.’

he didn’t hesitate

Instead of Mikel already entrenched inside the box, he crosses towards Jamie, who is penetrating.

The reason was simple. Because it was more likely.

‘Ah, I don’t want to head.’

The problem is that Jamie is not good at heading.

puck.

It was a cross that you just had to touch your head while rushing. It was a very fast and accurate cross that would be sucked into the goal by itself if it hit the head.

But Jamie dared to jump, and Brian’s cross hit him in the face.

‘uh?’

Expecting to be sucked into the net, the Barnsley goalkeeper hurriedly threw himself. However, the ball hit Jamie’s face and rolled around at an unexpected angle and direction.

That turned out to be rather lucky.

“What, are you in?”

“Hey, you’re in!”

“hahahahaha! It’s worth the name.”

Stoke fans and players cheered a beat late.

“eee-YEA!”

“Leee! LEE!”

The same goes for away fans.

“…”

However, Jamie fell to the floor and could not get up.

because it was sold out.

**

It was embarrassing that it didn’t happen, but Coach Charlie replaced Jamie out of concern for an injury. Afterwards, neither team had a clear chance, and the game ended in a 1-1 draw.

“Well done. We got one point from Barnsley away.”

In the away locker room, coach Charlie seemed in a good mood. Anyway, I got 1 victory point against the difficult opponent.

If Jamie hadn’t been taken out, it would have been 3 points instead of 1, but at this point, manager Charlie didn’t know that.

“It is a victory point earned through passion. You can be proud.”

It’s a victory point earned with a face. Harry Harris wanted to be sarcastic, but he couldn’t because he scored an own goal. I just thought to myself with my molars clenched.

“The flow is not bad. Tomorrow is the weekend and the day after the game, so I’m only going to do a short recovery session. Everyone take good care of your condition, see you tomorrow.”

After the coach’s words, the players got on the bus.

“Harry, we are supposed to go to Reflex Hanley today. Would you like to come with us? Just to change my mood.”

Central defender Eric, who sat next to him, said. Reflex Henry was a downtown club with a large proportion of young people.

Harry glanced at him and shook his head.

“sorry. I have an appointment.”

“what. In addition? Did you know that you’ve been rejecting me for two weeks in a row?”

I knew.

“Well, I don’t know. Instead, I know I’m too expensive to go to cheap clubs like Reflex Henry.”

“Crazy.”

Eric laughed, and Harry laughed along with him.

Shortly thereafter, the bus arrived at the Stoke City training ground.

“’Harry, are you really not going?”

“Yes, you guys go.”

When all of his teammates had left, Harry quietly took a training cone from a corner of the training ground and placed it in the center.

Stoke City are not very involved in the personal training of adult players. However, individual training was prohibited on the day of the match. Because there is a risk of injury.

‘Well, there’s no one to see.’

After getting ready, he started a full-scale physical training after a brief stretch.

Of course, the standard of ‘full-scale’ was the Harry Harris standard.

Unfortunately, he was still in the middle of the strength training he received as a youth. There was no such thing as a personal trainer, and it was because he felt that the physical training he received during team training did not suit him.

In other words, even though I was training hard, I couldn’t expect a big effect.

‘Jamie.’

Jamie Lee. Now, the reason Harry was overdoing the personal training he didn’t normally do was purely because of Jamie.

A week has passed since he joined. And his total attack points were a total of 2 goals and 2 assists, including the goal he scored today.

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Last season, Harry had more offensive points than he built all year.

‘Unlucky baby.’

It wasn’t that I hated Jamie from the start.

Quite the opposite.

In his youth, Harry wanted to be friends with Jamie.

Even in a youth game, there are not many players who break through two or three defenders by themselves as if it were natural and score a goal from a distance of 2 to 30 meters.

Harry admired him for that.

I wanted to be like him. I wanted to be like him.

‘Jay, what’s the secret? What kind of training do I need to do to be like you?’

So I asked with my eyes shining.

‘I can’t even train.’

However, Jamie gave a completely unexpected answer.

‘It’s innate.’

To be precise, I gave a very unlucky answer.

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Little Harry had suffered quite a few wounds. I secretly shed tears, blaming myself for not being born like Jamie.

[ Jamie Lee joins Stoke City ]

[Stoke City embraces the ‘dark-haired fantasy star’. ]

[ Stoke City, who won the derby with the performance of the freshman ]

However, the unlucky guy returns as an adult and takes all the attention.

Harry couldn’t help but feel sick to his stomach.

‘I’ll do what I’m good at.’

It is for this reason that he is now doing strength training.

If kicks and skill are difficult areas to overcome through training—he didn’t even think to fact-check them. I just believed that because Jamie said so, let’s further develop the field I am good at. that’s how he decided

To say it was fortunate or to say it was over, Harry was in good physical shape and Jamie was not.

‘No matter how good you are, what are you doing? It’s useless if I can’t play.’

Harry continued muttering to himself, engrossed in training until the sun went down.

And when time passed and evening came, I finally returned home after training.

‘Ahhh.’

Harry fell right onto the bed.

I was tired. I only played the first half, but that doesn’t mean I don’t have a loss of stamina. In addition, it was a situation where I did personal training for several hours. I felt like I could fall asleep right now.

However, there is still work to be done.

He lay down and took his cell phone out of his pocket. And right away, I started looking for soccer articles, related communities, and twitter.

It was a routine he finished his day with, and a hobby he invested the most time in.

[ Jamie Lee makes up for a colleague’s mistake with a header. ]

“…”

However, from the first article, it made him uncomfortable.

‘Heading is a bullshit, shooting in the face.’

Harry quickly scrolled down to another article.

[Lee, who saved the team again, presents 1 point to Stoke City. ]

[Director Charlie Adam, who believes in Lee that “it can be improved”]

The other articles were all favorable to Jamie.

‘No, why are you focusing more on the equalizer than the one that caused the run?’

He frowned and turned off the internet article. And immediately went to the ‘Reddit’ football tab.

Apparently, the community is more direct than articles, and it is easier to bring out the innermost words. In addition, ‘Reddit’ is a place where a lot of malicious posts are posted in the community.

Maybe there was a lot of criticism about what caused the conceding and scoring the goal with the face, not the head.

Harry scrolled down excitedly.

[ Lee’s performance is great. Stoke City is like winning the lottery. ]

B [That’s right. Twenty years old, homegrown. Could there be a better player for Stoke? ]

Unfortunately, the community reaction was no different from the article.

‘No, it’s just such a favorable content? Didn’t Jamie get a viral part-time job?’

He couldn’t understand it. Of course, the performance in the last two matches wasn’t bad, but I wondered if it made sense that only good things were being uploaded.

[Lee is the most talented player among Stoke’s prospects, or in all of League One. ]

b [ How is Harry Harris? He’s also from Youth. ]

Five. Harry’s eyes widened slightly.

This was the first time it was mentioned on Reddit, not on the Stoke City fan page.

Harry, who secretly likes to receive attention, frowned and checked the comments below.

[ Harry Harris? He didn’t grow as much as expected. Didn’t you see he scored an own goal today? ]

B [Your stamina is good. You played in almost every league game last season. ]

B [What do you do if you have good stamina? It was the cause of conceding in the last game, and today you scored an own goal and was substituted in the second half. ]

ㄴ [No, he’s good at scoring. Today I saw the possibilities. Now you just need to learn how to tell the goalposts apart. ]

Unfortunately, there was nothing good about it.

[ Harry’s biggest flaw is that his last name is Harris. If he was a ‘porter’, he would have become a wizard who would change the flow of the game]

ㄴ [Then you could have changed the goal post with magic. ]

b [This comment is funny. ]

b [ Ha ha ha. right. The wizard of Stoke City now is Jamie, not Harry. ]

There were even openly mocking comments.

[ The Stoke players need to take private lessons from Jamie. ]

b [Especially Harry Harris. He has to pay Jamie his salary and take private lessons. ]

In the end, Harry got angry and commented on the comment himself.

[ Harry is much better than Jamie. Jamie has only played two games now. Harry said he’d been playing for Stoke for several years. He is a loyal and hardworking player. Better to have one player like Harry than ten Jamies. ]

It wasn’t long before there were a lot of comments.

ㄴ [Appearance of Harry Harris himself]

Harry deleted his own comment.

**

The next day, after recovery training, Harry approached Jamie.

“Jamie.”

“…”

Instead of answering, Jamie looked at him with an expressionless face.

Also, this kid is not good. Seeing Jamie’s thick expression, I naturally thought of that.

“Boo, let me do one favor.”

Nevertheless, Harry said his purpose with a feeling of ‘I don’t know’.

“no.”

Nevertheless, Jamie refused Harry’s request without listening.

“No, don’t you usually refuse after hearing something?”

“Then I will listen and decline. tell me quickly I’m busy.”

Also, this kid is not good. Harry replayed that fact in his mind.

But I couldn’t leave like this.

“What should I do?”

Because the team’s victory is more important than pride.

“…”

Jamie was still staring at him in silence, but unlike Harry, who was beginning to feel the pressure, he had completely different thoughts in his heart.

‘If I do this well, it will be quite helpful to the team.’

Currently, Harry is the main midfielder for Stoke City.

It could be said that his development was essential in order to quickly conquer the third division, promote to the championship, and immediately go up to the Premier League at once.

“How tall are you?”

Jamie asked with an expressionless face.