My Girlfriend Wants Victory - Chapter 38



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“Gino! From tomorrow onwards, don’t come near this place!”

I nodded indifferently to the words of U19 team coach Hannes Wolf. I think I thought, ‘It’s finally come?’

“Hehehe! Starting tomorrow, you can go to the first team training center instead of here.”

I had a strong feeling that he would be promoted to the first team today after seeing the article about the relaxation of the age limit for playing in the German football league DFL last night.

‘By the way… .’

Hannes Wolf, is that guy calling that humor?

Anyway, I said I wasn’t humorous because Germans are known to be boring.

While I was shaking my head at the coach’s words, my fellow players who heard the coach’s words began to congratulate me.

“Ohhhhh!! Congratulations Gino!!”

While there are children who truly congratulate me on my promotion.

“Tch… .”

We also saw the eyes of children filled with a variety of emotions, including envy, jealousy, and jealousy.

It was inevitable.

Because we are colleagues and competitors.

Of the dozens of players on the roster, only 11 are eligible to start in a first-team match. If you include the youth players, there would be hundreds of players.

When someone is called up to the first team, it means that the position they can advance to becomes narrower.

At the U19 level, only players who are seriously aiming to become professionals remain.

Antonio Rudiger looks determined among his friends who are sincerely congratulating him on his promotion.

Maybe he was trying to transfer after seeing my promotion. I didn’t know that Antonio Rudiger was a member of Dortmund’s youth team because he didn’t debut for Dortmund.

It would have been nice if we could have played together in the first team, but there’s nothing we can do about it.

The world of professionals is one where yesterday’s enemy becomes today’s colleague and today’s colleague becomes tomorrow’s enemy, so you have to get used to it.

Anyway, being promoted to the first team isn’t everything. It’s also a competition to get a spot in the first team… Well. For now, let’s just be happy.

I went back home and told this to Gyul-woo and my mother-in-law.

“Oh! 1st Army!!”

“It’s a nice day today, so should we go out to eat?”

When Winter and his mother-in-law heard the good news, they were overjoyed.

When I saw a scene I thought I would never see again, I just looked at it with a smile on my face.

***

the next day.

I stepped foot into the Dortmund first team training ground.

Dortmund were in a pretty good mood as they were competing for the title with Leverkusen, seven points behind.

“Hey! Kagawa! A rival has come to take your spot?”

As soon as I stepped foot onto the training grounds, Kevin Grosskreutz playfully called out to Shinji Kagawa.

“Oh, my hand!”

Shinji Kagawa, who carried Dortmund hard in the first half, is visible.

Shinji Kagawa, who was injured in the Asian Cup semifinal match against South Korea on January 25 and was out for the season, has now returned to the training ground and is slowly regaining his match fit.

Perhaps, he will come on as a substitute in the last game of the season and play lightly.

No matter what anyone says, he is the biggest contributor to Dortmund’s championship this season along with Nuri Shahin. He deserves to receive applause from the crowd.

“Nice to meet you.”

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I heard Korean awkwardly coming from Shinji Kagawa’s mouth.

My brain stopped for a moment at the sudden greeting in Korean, and I blurted out any Japanese word that came to mind. They had greeted me in Korean, so I thought I should greet them in Japanese, too.

“It’s okay! Mo! Yamete!”

However, the problem is that I was so flustered that I ended up reciting Japanese lines that I often see(?).

There was an awkward moment between us. As befitting my age, I came to my senses before Shinji Kagawa and continued speaking urgently in German.

“Japan’s AV industry is the best in the world!”

Shinji Kagawa patted my shoulder with a look of understanding on his face and burst into laughter.

***

Training began in earnest. Dortmund was preparing for the 29th round of the league against Hamburg.

“Give me the ball!”

Jin-ho Son trained harder than anyone else.

“Oh. Are you looking pretty?”

Son Jin-ho’s happiness circuit was ignited under Klopp’s gaze looking at that scene.

“Masaka, Watashi, are you going to start as a starter like this?”

Shinji Kagawa burst into laughter and encouraged Jin-ho Son’s terrible Korean.

Since ancient times, hasn’t it been said that language is confidence?

“Good job! Good job! Your pronunciation was good!”

“Watashi, the language emperor?”

Under such encouragement from Shinji Kagawa, Jin-ho Son’s Korean became increasingly more terrible.

***

[Korean Derby in the Bundesliga? Both Son Heung-min and Son Jin-ho are on the substitute list!]

[Dortmund manager Jurgen Klopp hints at Son Jin-ho’s participation in the match? ‘Jin-ho is already a complete player.’]

[Hamburg’s hand vs. Dortmund’s hand. Which team will the goddess of victory support?]

[Jin-ho Son having a brief interview with local Japanese reporters upon entering the stadium!]

[After an interview with Japanese reporters, controversy over Shinji Kagawa’s character erupted in Japan, with people claiming he taught Jin-ho Son strange words.]

└ ?? How did you interview?

└ They only use lines that would appear in adult videos or animations.

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└ And you even mixed Japanese with Korean? Is that something that’s popular among young people these days?

└ There’s no way that’s possible lol

└ It seems like Son Jin-ho was just trying to interview Japanese reporters in Japanese.

└ Why? ㅋㅋㅋㅋ Isn’t it just that you have a bad image among Japanese people?

└ Why do you hate that? Would you hate it if a Japanese soccer player was interviewed by a Korean reporter in awkward Korean?

└ Ah lol I guess I’ll get a free drink lol

└ In the Japanese community, they’re saying that it’s a cultural victory for otakus, saying that they’ve corrupted ikemen (pretty boys). ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

└ But isn’t the reason people hate otakus not because they like anime, but because they’re just ugly?

└ … You were really bad

***

Volksparkstadion, where the match between Hamburg and Dortmund will take place.

Son Jin-ho sat on the bench as expected.

No manager would start a prospect who had just joined the first team, especially one who was called up in the middle of the season.

It has only been a few days since he joined, but he has already been included in the substitutes list, which is impressive enough, and shows that Dortmund and Klopp value Son Jin-ho highly.

“Fuck school and work (Fuck school and work.)”

Hamburg took an early lead with home advantage. The cheers of the blue-clad Hamburg fans resonated through their home stadium, the Volksparkstadion.

“They don’t make me happy.”

“I think about you all week long HSV!”

Even though Dortmund is ranked first in the league, it was not easy to play in this atmosphere.

In addition, Hamburg’s attacking power was formidable. The legendary striker Ruud van Nistelrooy, who transferred to Hamburg, was the main character.

Although Van Nistelrooy has come a long way from his prime due to frequent injuries and aging, his wealth of experience and brilliant career cannot be taken lightly.

Eventually, Dortmund conceded a goal in the 39th minute of the first half. Van Nistelrooy easily converted the penalty kick earned by Hamburg’s ace Mladen Petric.

Hamburg, who was ahead by one goal, took the lead in the second half and played the game leisurely. Dortmund was helplessly dragged along by Hamburg’s dominance.

At that moment, the atmosphere changed when Hamburg’s Anis Benhatira, who had been cautioned in the first half, received a yellow card in the 28th minute of the second half and was sent off the pitch for his second caution.

‘… I need Jin-ho’s attack ability, but won’t it be too burdensome?’

Jurgen Klopp continued to ponder with a serious expression on his face.

“Jin-ho!”

Klopp, who had been agonizing for a long time, gestured towards Son Jin-ho.

The look in Son Jin-ho’s eyes, full of passion for wanting to enter the stadium and play, made Jurgen Klopp’s worries disappear in an instant.

“Jin-ho! Show me the same form you showed in training!”

Jurgen Klopp lightly tapped Son Jin-ho on the back of the head with a smile on his face.

***

[Ah… . Unfortunately, it seems like the Korean Derby is ending like this.]

[Yes. Both Son Heung-min and Son Jin-ho were on the substitute list. Unfortunately, they were unable to play in the game… .]

[…Dortmund’s next substitution! South Korea’s Son Jin-ho is substituted!]

[In a desperate need for an equaliser, Jurgen Klopp’s choice was a 16-year-old South Korean boy!]

[Dortmund players are encouraging Son Jin-ho, who was substituted onto the pitch, by patting his head!]

[It’s a very good team. And Son Jin-ho is adapting well to the first team!]

[Ah! According to the news just now, Son Jin-ho has broken the record for youngest player to play in the Bundesliga, held by Nuri Shahin!]

[The previous youngest record was 16 years and 335 days, but Son Jin-ho reduced it to 16 years and 138 days.]

[Following Son Jin-ho’s substitution, there will be a substitution for Hamburg. Hamburg, who is at a numerical disadvantage, will bring in attackers and add defenders to protect the points!]

[Son Jin-ho, who entered the stadium, begins to take the first touch!]

***

Extra time at the end of the second half with not much time left until the end of the game.

I poked the ball into the penetrating Jakub Blaziskowski and played a fantastic penetrating pass.

“Fick!”

Jakub Blaziskowski received a pass in front of the goal and swung his right foot to shoot.

Phew─!

Unfortunately, the ball went out of bounds after being blocked by the Hamburg goalkeeper.

Dortmund’s corner kick follows.

All extra time has already passed and this corner kick will be Dortmund’s last attack.

Nuri Sahin took a corner kick, pointing to a set pattern play.

But the ball was caught on the head of a Hamburg defender.

The ball rolls towards me after the defender heads it away.

At the same time, the sound of the crowd echoing through the stadium disappears.

It was as if time had stopped except for me and the ball, and the only sound in the stadium was my heart beating.

After trapping the flying ball with my chest, I calmly swung my right foot as my body told me to.

Iron-thud!

The ball resting on the instep shook Hamburg’s goal net.

“Waaaaaaaaa─!!”

Time that had stopped flows again, and the audience erupts in cheers that seem as if they will collapse.

“Hey BVB!!”

And I was so excited by the passion of the crowd that I immediately took off my shirt and ran to the corner flag where the away fans were gathered and roared.

“The black and yellow people of the Ruhr region.”

The away fans at Hamburg’s home stadium, Volksparkstadion, begin to sing their anthem as they are left silent after losing three points right before their eyes.

“I will always be by your side.”

With the cheering of the Dortmund away fans in the background, his teammates, filled with joy, ran to him and hugged him.

I quietly looked at the away fans and spread my arms.

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