Shooting Trajectory is Visible - Chapter 184



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184 Kim Min-woo Family Recruitment

The next day, I came to Korea with my mother.

“Hey. Are you here?”

Shin-ah and her father always came to the airport to pick us up when we came to Korea. It must be starting to get annoying now, but you still came out, right?

“Is it okay for a high school senior who is about to take the college entrance exam to come pick me up?”

“It’s good to skip class.”

“What if I fail the CSAT?”

“It’s okay. I’ve got connections.”

“Back?”

“There is something like that.”

Shin-ah giggled and did something she didn’t usually do. She stroked the back of my head, hesitating… .

For a moment, I got goosebumps and quickly shook Kim Shin-ah’s arm away.

“Are you crazy from studying? Where are you touching?”

“Look at the reaction. Isn’t it cute? I heard that girls these days are really into fangirling. Is that right?”

“what?”

“Don’t you know? These days, you’re more popular than most idols. Maybe it’s because you’re single? We’re crazy about that kind of stuff in our country.”

“… … .”

hmm.

What would people think if they found out that Sophie and I were getting to know each other?

Well, even so, we live in such a long distance that we probably only get to see each other’s faces occasionally.

“No, I looked into this and that.”

On her way home, Kim Shin-ah kept talking. About how there are brokers who connect athletes, actors, and idols, and how these days, people can instantly date by sending DMs on Instagram…

“What don’t you have?”

“Look at the way you talk to your brother. Call him brother. Brother.”

“young.”

This kid… .

I put Kim Shin-ah in a headlock.

Then he started to clap his hands on my arm and started to shout, “Oppa, oppa,” as if he was looking for a cuckoo.

When the headlock is released, he touches his neck and makes a loud noise.

“No, so what? Didn’t you shoot commercials with celebrities?”

“… What’s missing?”

“Go to Instagram.”

On the way home, with nothing else to do, I obediently followed Kim Shin-ah’s words.

The number of followers on Instagram, which I visited after a long time, has already exceeded 8 million.

“Wow. Look at the number of followers. Give me a little more.”

“Are you still on Instagram these days?”

“No? I was just thinking about it. Try DMing me.”

“hmm….”

This is an abyss.

You never know what kind of picture will pop up when you just go in.

However, after Kim Shin-ah continued to urge me to check the messages, there were countless messages from people all over the world in the message window.

“Surely celebrities must have sent messages?”

Kim Shin-ah snatched my cell phone away and scrolled down to check the message window.

And then a few minutes passed.

“… … Hey! Look at this! I found it!”

The celebrity that Kim Shin-ah found was a girl group that Kim Min-woo was also familiar with. Quadruple. One of the members sent me a DM.

[Chaewon: Hello!]

[Chaewon: I’m watching the game well ^^!]

“I was just sending a greeting.”

“Oh, Mosul smell. This is how it usually starts. Huh? I’m watching the game well. I’m going to the intuition, can you give me an autograph? That’s what it starts with when you meet each other.”

…okay?

And Kim Shin-ah typing in an instant.

[Minwoo: Don’t wag your tail, you bitch]

I was so shocked by that sentence that I snatched my phone away in an instant.

“What are you doing!”

“Kkabi~”

Kim Shin-ah giggles at my actions.

And he mutters as if it’s a new discovery.

“Wow. I was wondering if it was true, but it’s true. Do idols have to wait in line to meet our Minwoo Ham?”

“… What are you talking about? Are you delusional about sending me some kind of greeting?”

“So. If I ask you to meet, you meet?”

“I’m not going to meet you again.”

*Self-indulgence (seeking natural encounters)

Kim Shin-ah made a ‘huh’ sound at my words and then clapped her hands.

“Yes. That’s right, Confucian Boy. That’s how you keep women hooked on you for a long time. Keep being single for as long as possible. Then, without joking around, you can become the best idol in Korea, not to mention the national team.”

I shook my head. This guy definitely has a serious case of high school syndrome.

After arriving home, I rested well that day.

After a long time, I ordered chicken, played games at home to my heart’s content, and watched N-Flix…

It seemed like a daily routine not much different from what I do in Germany, but from the next day onwards I was busy going around here and there.

During my spare time, I took steps to get my driver’s license, went out to eat with my family, and during that process, I heard that Kim Shin-ah had been recommended by the school principal.

“You seem so confident… Are you getting a lot of credit from your brother?”

“Okay! Should I dance the poppy poppy dance?”

“Hey. Try dancing.”

“no.”

“If that’s the case, then why don’t you just bring it up?”

“Eeheehee.”

And I visited Suyang High School at the principal’s request.

Suyang High School hasn’t changed much. The teachers I had when I was a student are still there, and they are all upright.

If there’s just one change.

“Minwoo, Minwoo! Can you give me your autograph?”

“Let’s take a picture together, Minwoo!”

The teachers who didn’t pay any attention to me when I was a student now treat me like a boss.

The principal even asked me to give a lecture to the students of Suyang High School, but I declined because I thought it was a bit much.

‘What can a 20-year-old in Korean age do to give a lecture…?’

You asked me to give a talk on life success, but I can’t just shout in front of all the students that my success is because of Football Manager, who suddenly showed up one day!

But I hated it even more when they falsely said, ‘Everyone, try hard. If you can’t do it, try hard.’

If there was something I did at Suyang High School without being asked to do.

“Okay, everyone, pay attention! I kept it a secret from you all, but I have a secret guest today.”

The head coach of Suyang High School’s soccer team and Yoo Jin-ho’s successor looks around at the soccer team members with a solemn gesture.

“He is the best senior in our Suyang High School. Everyone, give him a round of applause! Minwoo!”

“… … Hey hey hey!?”

The coach of Suyang High School, whom I just met today, called me in a friendly manner as if he had known me for a long time, and when my name was called, the soccer team members looked around in surprise and with expressions like, ‘Really?’

I was hiding and then suddenly appeared. Then… .

“Waaaaaaaaaah!”

The soccer players screamed like orangutans.

I laughed at that reaction. When I returned to Suyang High School’s soccer team after two years, of course, all the members had changed.

To be exact.

‘Ah. So the first graders are still the same?’

Kim Jun-young’s classmates were now third-year students. I was sure that they looked familiar to me.

“Hi guys.”

“Waaaaaaaaaaaa!”

The coach and even the coaches giggled at the soccer players’ reactions. It seemed like they had no intention of stopping them.

“Hey. You guys are in third grade now!”

I pretended to know my juniors whose faces I recognized but whose names I couldn’t remember, and the Suyang High School soccer team members screamed again.

The people I pretended to know were embarrassed.

“Hello to you too, coaches.”

I didn’t forget to say hello to the coaches either.

I even remembered these people’s names.

Coach Park Hyeon-woo and Coach Kim Tae-ho.

Eugene Ho left, but these people still remained. They hugged me proudly.

“I knew you would succeed!”

Coach Kim Tae-ho, who secretly took my side even when I first joined the soccer club.

And Coach Park Hyeon-woo, who had been displeased with me, is now embracing me as tightly as Coach Kim.

“Minwoo! You finally succeeded and came to teach your juniors!?”

“No?”

“……ok?”

“I just came because I wanted to play soccer together.”

After a brief warm-up, a practice game.

I participated as an attacker, and although I only played as a goalkeeper, I had the experience of playing in the Bundesliga, so I found the kids’ soccer funny.

‘Cut this. Cut that.’

The Suyang High School soccer team kids collapsed without being able to do anything as they held the ball and folded and folded and folded.

The opposing goalkeeper approached me with a very tense look on his face, but I beat him and scored into the empty goal.

“Hey~”

And Ronaldo’s celebration.

The soccer club members were excited as if playing soccer with me was a great honor in itself.

Of course, it’s not like you can just play soccer and be done with it.

“When you’re a goalkeeper, you have to watch your opponent’s feet carefully.”

I gave my own honey tip to the goalkeepers. After all, they are my juniors.

‘Even though I got in through special recruitment, I’m still considered a saint now.’

If you succeed, you are my senior, and if you fail, you are my senior.

And I talked to the coaches too.

“That guy, Yoo Jin-ho, was a real hitter… … .”

Most of the stories were about Yoo Jin-ho, our only contact. It was very interesting to hear the behind-the-scenes stories of Suyang High School’s soccer team from the coaches’ mouths that I didn’t know about.

The same story, seen through someone else’s perspective, not the perspective I knew.

“When that guy leaves, huh? Wouldn’t it be nice if we took care of him too? I wiped his ass, and he flew away on his own…”

“If you become a big success later, won’t they call you again?”

The two coaches stared at my face at those words. Then, without saying a word, they all burst into laughter.

“Our Minwoo, are you really that naive? You’d call back the coaches from your high school soccer team, and those you only worked with for a year? That political idiot?”

“Is it political?”

“If it wasn’t for politics, how could that bastard Yoo Jin-ho become the coach of the Korean national team? Does that make sense?”

… that doesn’t make sense.

Even thinking about it now, it was a super-fast promotion.

He went in as a coach for the U23 national team, and then boarded as a coach for the national team. How did he become a coach for the U23 team in the first place? He was a coach for a high school soccer team.

The two coaches were having a blast badmouthing Yoo Jin-ho in front of me, but then they felt a little embarrassed to badmouth their teacher in front of their students, so they started to defend him a little in the end.

“… … Still, he is quite an amazing person. How on earth did a mediocre student who only studied know that Kim Min-woo would become a great goalkeeper?”

“He is a man with good taste.”

“If it weren’t for that, you would still be in Suyang High School with us.”

Then Coach Park Hyun-woo goes into confession. He says that he was very much against you back then…

I replied that I understood it well. In the first place, if it weren’t for Yoo Jin-ho’s favor, I wouldn’t have worked so hard at soccer, so it’s right to praise Yoo Jin-ho’s insight.

After that, I met up with Suyang High School’s soccer team and met my old teammates.

Kim Jun-young, Ko Young-jun, Lim Seung-min, Han Seung-woo, etc.

The meeting place was a chicken restaurant.

We met for the first time in a long time and caught up.

Most of them were stories of acquaintances.

I didn’t know because I was playing soccer in Hanover, but I heard that most of the people I played soccer with had quit soccer and enlisted in the military.

It was a realistic and sobering story.

“This world is so narrow. Maybe that’s only natural. It’s so hard to become a pro….”

Go Young-jun keeps talking as if he’s complaining.

I had forgotten because my success was so high, but the reality was that debuting in the K League 2nd division was considered a success. And even if you debuted like that, there were countless players who couldn’t last more than a few years and disappeared.

“So what’s so amazing about that? That three kids from our school have become successful.”

Go Young-jun’s gaze passes over me, Kim Jun-young, and Han Seung-woo in that order.

Even if I leave them out, Kim Jun-young and Han Seung-woo were clearly building impressive careers.

Kim Jun-young may not be the scoring champion, but he is displaying a scoring ability that is impossible to achieve at his age, and he was already a top-notch ace player in Suwon Shenyang.

Han Seung-woo is also showing great performance for his age, although he may not be as good as Kim Jun-young.

There were even frequent rumors that if these two were to leave at the same time, Suwon Shenyang would be immediately relegated.

“Then, what are you going to do, hyung?”

“Huh? Me?”

Yeongjun Shichi looks at me with a thoughtful expression for a moment, then gulps down his cola.

“I have to keep going. If it doesn’t work out, I can just go to the military. But I’m kind of the ace of our university now.”

“Hmm….”

I would like to nominate Youngjun Sic as my running mate, but that doesn’t mean I can give up Real and Manchester United and transfer to college soccer…

“I will cheer you on.”

“Okay. Thank you.”

“Junyoung. What about you? You said you wanted to come to Europe last time?”

Kim Jun-young, who was munching on a chicken leg, swallowed the food in his mouth and spoke.

“I already have offers from Europe! From Celtic, Feyenoord, Verona and Toulouse!”

“… Oh? What is it?”

Well, Kim Jun-young is a hot prospect considering his age and his performance. But is this really that great?

“Are you going to choose one of those teams? If you choose, you’re guaranteed to be a starter?”

“I have to go and prove it. First, I want to go to Europe. It seems like Suwon won’t let me go….”

I thought about it carefully.

If I bring Junyoung Kim to the team I’m going to and designate him as my running mate, wouldn’t he grow tremendously in a short period of time?

Above all, the South Korean national team has always been lacking a decisive striker.

These days, Son Heung-min is the top striker, but that is due to the absence of a solid striker.

“… … Anyway, my goal is! To play with Minwoo hyung. Whether it’s as a national team member or a European team. I definitely want to play with him! To be honest, it’s all thanks to Minwoo hyung that I’ve come this far.”

“Huh? Me?”

I was lost in thought for a moment and reacted belatedly. Kim Jun-young nodded and continued speaking.

“Don’t you remember, hyung? When I fought with Yoo Jin-ho and tried to beat him up, I kept going thanks to hyung. Even after that, when I was about to give up, I kept telling myself to keep going until hyung left, and that’s how I got to where I am now.”

There was a hint of respect in the way Kim Jun-young looked at me. It was quite burdensome… .

“I will definitely run with you, hyung!”

“Bravo~”

Ko Young-jun applauded. Lim Seung-min also nodded and applauded. Han Seung-woo also smiled and added.

“Me too, some scallions.”

“Hehehe. Well, first of all, I’m going to Europe. My goal right now is to challenge myself!”

“Aren’t you going to feel the wall and come back?”

“Then it’s a shame~”

I crossed my arms and fell back into thought.

‘It was Yoo Jin-ho who brought me here, but it was Kim Jun-young who made me start playing soccer in the first place.’

If Kim Jun-young hadn’t had a huge fight with Yoo Jin-ho, that opportunity wouldn’t have even occurred.

Kim Jun-young and Yoo Jin-ho fought because of me. That snowball rolled and rolled, creating an avalanche and leading us here.

‘There are two running mates designated.’

Rather than supporting foreigners who don’t know anything about soccer, wouldn’t it be better to support a fellow Korean, my high school junior, and the person who got me into soccer?

Even this guy treats me like some kind of role model… .

“Junyoung, if you’re going to Europe, you’ll need to learn English first. It’s a place where communication is important.”

“Yes? Since I don’t know where I’m going, shouldn’t I learn the language of that country first?”

“Listen to me. Learn English first.”

“Yes, Yonsuk. It’s advice that becomes your bones and flesh from a senior who is like the sky.”

Youngjun Shichi wittily accepted my words. Kim Junyoung nodded his head in surprise.

“Uh uh… … Yes!”

When I get home, I’ll have to tell Philip Harris to throw in one more special offer.

Then, Junyoung will grow up quickly, right?

‘You really did a good job raising your brother.’

I smiled warmly and changed the subject to another story.