Chapter 325 A mysterious figure
After that previous encounter with Yuya, contrary to Hiro's expectation, Yuya became rather distant. Instead of opening up, he became even more reserved. It was like as if he was intentionally trying to avoid Hiro and the rest.
Experiencing Yuya's aloofness, Hiro and the rest were quite stunned by his behavior. All they wanted was to help him but Yuya had built up an invisible wall around him.
"All I wanted do was help but he isn't even willing to listen?"
Sounding extremely furious, Shun who had been shut down by Yuya a moment ago when he tried advising him about the mistakes he was committing complained.
Hiro however remained silent despite hearing his complaints while sizing Yuya with his eyes.
Witnessing Hiro's silence, Shun didn't feel like talking more as well.
"Fine you can do whatever you like"
Furiously speaking such, Shun then headed towards his position to resume the training. Unlike Hiro, he had been fed up with Yuya's behavior and he no longer wanted to concern himself with him.
Currently they were doing some shooting drills. And Shun being the keeper had noticed some flaws that if corrected would enhance the shooting of Yuya. But Yuya wasn't willing to listen to him.
Fweeee!!
"Everybody gather around"
No sooner had Shun started to walk towards his position, the trainers immediately ordered the players to gather around. And immediately as the trainers voiced their orders, players began to gather around the coaches.
"Now everybody listen up. For our tomorrow's match as you all know, we'll be facing Aomori who currently are ahead of us and also the league leaders. And since both Shun and Hiro, our two core players will be leaving for the u17 world cup, they won't get to play some of the final matches. Which means that for us to attain the top spot, this match is very important to us. Do you guys get it?"
One of the instructor, sternly reminded the importance of tomorrow's game to the players. Just from the sheer tone of his voice which sounded rather grievous, one could tell how important this match was for the team.
Thus, everybody present at the field, ardently listened to his words without making a single noise. Even without his reminder, the weight of this match was quite evident in both on and off the field.
As for past few days, players of Kawasaki had become rather serious while training. And almost everybody were putting more effort than required. It had also been a common sight to see players training in the field even after the end of the training.
But as he reminded the players, all of a sudden the atmosphere around the training ground became rather heavy while the mood around the ground became quite tensed.
Rumors such as the team was nothing without Hiro had already started circulating among the fans and players of the team were quite aware of those rumors as well. Still almost nobody was able to raise their voice against such rumors because the results spoke the truth.
And unwilling to admit it was akin to being stubborn and shortsighted.
Thus despite the rumor floating around, nobody had the guts to say that it was a false rumor. Yet almost nobody in the team had thought of putting the blame on Hiro or the fans. They were trying their best. But lack of Hiro had been quite evident on the field and almost everybody in the team felt the absence of Hiro while playing.
Sensing the flames of determination burning furiously in their hearts and eyes, the trainers felt quite satiated with their attitude this time around. And although, he was planning on saying more but he upon witnessing their attitude and the mindset they had built, he didn't feel like telling any further.
He could somehow feel that his players were quite ready for the match.
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After an intense training session while the luminous sphere of moon was relatively high up in the sky while lying on his bed, Hiro's eyes were currently fixated on his mobile phone. In pretense of analyzing the previous matches of his team during his absence, he had got his coaches permission to use the mobile during off hours.
However right now, he wasn't watching the matches of his teammates. Rather he was watching the match between Argentina u17 and Brazil u17.
"What?!"
All of a sudden, his pupils enlarged as he abruptly rose from his bed upon seeing a play made by Mateo who had just come up from a substitution.
"Who is this number 19?"
Hiro murmured to himself in disbelief.
Although he didn't know much about the players of u17 team of both footballing giants like Brazil and Argentina, he still knew about the notable players that would later go on to make an impact on the world football.
Yet even in his past life, he had never heard of this player called Mateo Gomez from Argentina.
He knew about Kaua Elias, a notable player from Brazil who at this time was playing for Fluminense or Claudio Echeverri from Argentina who currently was playing for River plate but later would go on to sign with Manchester City, a dominant team in Europe who had made Premier League one of the toughest league in the world look like a farmers league by bagging multiple championship.
Yet he had never heard of this player called Mateo Gomez who right now was outshining almost every possible future stars in the field despite coming off the bench.
"Just how could I miss such and amazing player in my previous life?"
Just by the looks on his eyes which were glowing with admiration and the tone of his voice which was fawning over Mateo, one could tell how much impressed Hiro was at the moment.
But strangely enough, he had never heard of this player in his previous life which was arousing some doubts in his heart.
Just then while he was fawning over the playstyle of Mateo, sound of the notification from the system rung in his ears.
Ding!
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