Growth Template, Destroyer Midfielder!

The match resumed.

Team A kicked off from the center circle.

They did not launch a massive high press just because they were behind.

Instead, they began a well-structured, flexible, multidimensional attack.

It had to be said that Germany's youth training system in this timeline placed tremendous emphasis on collective play.

The formation structure of Team A's midfield and attack shifted with incredible speed.

The defensive coverage density in Team B's back line also kept changing in response to the positions of the opposing attackers.

By 2015, modern football had become brutally competitive. To establish themselves in Europe's top flight—no, even in second- or third-tier leagues—every player had to learn to play with their brain from a young age.

Havertz called out to Leo Kang and made a "rectangle" gesture with his hands.

Leo Kang nodded.

Next.

Topp and the assistant coach were stunned once again!

The black-haired youth on the pitch seemed to possess God's Perspective.

He always appeared in exactly the right position, working with his teammates to defuse the opposition's advances and cut off their forward passing lanes!

At the same time.

His movement, together with that of his midfield and defensive teammates, maintained a rectangular four-corner defensive shape!

"His positional sense is insane! Has he really never received German youth training? Havertz gave him one gesture, and he completely understood the team's general defensive intentions?"

"His vision and awareness, his understanding of space and time—he's absolutely a top student from La Masia!"

"If his tackling and speed weren't so awful, he would've had countless counterattacking opportunities already!"

"Oh! Another bad habit left over from La Masia. Did you see that? After winning the ball, he always wants to keep it at his feet instead of clearing it in the safest way possible right away! Hardly any teams play technical defending anymore!"

"He's even more eye-catching than Havertz out there!"

"It's still that ingrained bad habit from La Masia. I don't know what kind of template their youth academy director used to train him, but this style of play demands far too much possession."

"The template seems to be La Masia's number four role? Too bad his technique and overall abilities are terrible, apart from his passing."

"No, he can't play for the first team with this style! Record it truthfully and submit the report to the first-team coaching staff."

"Damn it, are Chinese players really just unsuited to football? Leo Kang clearly has this kind of football intelligence, yet his technique is such garbage!"

Twenty minutes later.

The assistant coach blew the whistle to end the training match.

Team B claimed a 3–0 victory.

The young teammates all ran over to Leo Kang.

"We played Barcelona in the Youth Champions League. How come we never saw you? You're way smarter than they are!"

"With Son Heung-min, our first team now has two Asian players!"

"Next week, we'll definitely destroy those idiots from the Monchengladbach Youth Team!"

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Leo Kang merely responded with a faint smile.

He had never felt such warmth at La Masia.

His passing-and-possession technique had been too poor for him to fit into the team, so he had rarely made the squad list for youth matches.

A moment later.

The youngsters finally remembered: he was mute.

The assistant coach clapped his hands and dispersed the crowd.

Then he pulled Leo Kang aside.

Topp scratched his afro and said seriously, "Leo, I need to give you some advice. At Bayer Leverkusen, you don't have those La Masia teammates! German football emphasizes the collective! No matter how crazy Völler is, he won't build a pansy system around you as its core!"

"Not even in the youth team! You won't be playing many youth league matches with us!"

"You need to make changes as soon as possible!"

After a pause.

He lifted the hem of Leo Kang's jersey and sighed. "Not bad. Nicely proportioned muscle definition. Keep up your previous training attitude!"

The youth team manager could not bear to say the rest: in football, physical attributes depended far too heavily on talent.

Leo Kang nodded seriously.

He recognized the old man with the afro before him.

In his previous life, he had seen him in the newspapers: the decorated manager from Bayer Leverkusen's Triple Runner-up King era.

The youth team's lunch break was very long.

After having lunch with his teammates, Leo Kang returned to the dormitory alone.

It happened to be the Bundesliga offseason.

There were not many staff members in the first-team dormitory.

Only a few security guards greeted him warmly.

Bayer Leverkusen's first-team stars did not live in the dormitories.

Leo Kang returned to his room.

A mechanical electronic voice immediately rang out in his mind.

[Detected that the host is about to begin his journey in the German leagues!]

[Growth template triggered. Adapting... 1%... 50%... 100%! Optimal template selected: Destroyer Midfielder!]

[Greatly increases training effectiveness for speed, leg strength, physical contact, tackling, and stamina!]

[Exchange condition: greatly suppress dopamine reward neurotransmitters!]

Leo Kang froze slightly.

Four years ago, he had exchanged his language ability for God's Perspective.

What were dopamine reward neurotransmitters?

He took out his phone and searched the keywords.

A moment later.

Leo Kang took a deep breath, seeming to have made a very important decision.

[Ding! Congratulations, host, on obtaining the growth template: Destroyer Midfielder!]

A three-dimensional human body model suddenly appeared before him.

There were two small black shadows in the model's brain.

Of them, the shadow restricting his language ability had doubled in size compared to four years ago.

Leo Kang glanced at the numbers floating around the human body model.

[Ball Control: 69; Passing: 81.]

[Shooting: 60; Heading: 59; Set Pieces: 50.]

[Curve: 64; Speed: 58↑; Leg Strength: 57↑.]

[Jumping: 66; Physical Contact: 68↑; Stamina: 69↑.]

[Defense: 68; Tackling: 64↑; Goalkeeping: 30.]

[God's Perspective.]

[Rui Costa's "Godlike Through Ball" module (incomplete).]

With these attributes, by China National Football Team standards, he wasn't completely useless, right?

The little arrows behind them.

Probably meant that the training effects would improve.

The afternoon training was not particularly intense.

After a simple team session.

Leo Kang and his teammates went to a classroom.

A fat man wearing black-rimmed glasses drew one complex line after another on the blackboard.

"Conte and Tuchel have led the trend of the three-center-back system!"

"Today, we'll discuss the strengths and weaknesses of this tactical system!"

What followed opened Leo Kang's eyes.

The fat man kept drawing lines and moving magnetic markers.

He broke everything down layer by layer.

There were as many as sixteen derived formation variations.

These were teaching methods Leo Kang had never encountered at La Masia.

Because Cruyff had once set a rule: La Masia players were not allowed to receive tactical instruction too early.

Leo Kang did not dare let his attention slip for even a moment as he struggled to take notes.

Only when the fat man paused to drink water.

Did he begin reviewing the situations he had faced on the pitch.

With God's Perspective as his foundation, many tactical details he had previously failed to understand gradually lifted a sliver of their dark veil.

He could not help but sigh inwardly: Modern football... was it really this competitive?