Shooting Trajectory is Visible - Chapter 65



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“Come sit here, Kim.”

english.

I nodded and sat down in the chair where Jan had been sitting.

“So, have you learned any German? It’s been three months now?”

“If you’re talking about enlistment, then yes. It’s been a little less than three months and a half.”

Then an old man with white hair switches to German.

“Can you understand? Can you answer?”

“Yes, it is possible.”

When I responded lightly, the man seemed noticeably pleased.

“How far can you go? Can you speak freely in German?”

“Some of it.”

“good.”

A man was looking at every corner of my face with a big smile. I tilted my head. Aren’t you going to introduce yourself?

“You have a bold heart.”

“yes?”

“That’s because there’s no noticeable change in expression even after seeing the national team coach. Kim, very young players like you tend to get excited when they meet the national team coach.”

“······.”

What the heck! You were the national team coach? No, I thought your face looked familiar, but you were the national team coach!

I controlled my expression and answered as if nothing had happened.

“When the time comes, we all meet again.”

“Ian praised you a lot. I can see why.”

I smiled without showing my teeth.

But my heart didn’t.

Suddenly, the national team coach? My face gets hot like someone who saw Hongdukke at night.

‘Dad didn’t lie…’

I guess I really got lucky. I became the national team coach.

This person probably didn’t come to Germany to see me because he had nothing else to do, and he must have come over to talk about being selected for the national team, but I felt my heart pounding.

Even though the progress is fast, it’s too fast. It’s scary.

“Kim. How much do you know about me?”

“Coach Jurgen Klinsgel. He is a legendary German soccer player and is currently the coach of the South Korean national team.”

Cleansgel smiles at my words.

“You knew everything about me!”

I awkwardly laughed along too.

But that’s not all.

There are more things I know.

It hasn’t been long since he took office, but public opinion in the country is not good, and there are already calls for his dismissal, and he is barely able to put them to rest with just his tongue.

And this is a side note, but Eugene Ho hates coach Klinsgel.

“Why do you think I came to see Kim?”

“Uh······ You came to see Kim in Munich, but why didn’t you just stop by for a bit?”

“What? Hahaha!”

Phew. Luckily, the joke went down well.

“That’s not it, Kim. Of course I came to see Kim in Munich, but that’s not why I came.”

“Then, since you are the national team coach, you are going to select me···?”

“That’s right.”

wow.

I swallowed hard.

This is, so right now, rather than feeling extremely happy, I can’t believe it at all and I can’t feel any emotion.

Been selected for the national team just 9 months after starting soccer? You want me to believe this? Is this real?

But surprisingly, what stood before me was reality itself.

Coach Klinsgel went all the way to Hannover to see me, and after talking to me for a few minutes, if he determines that there are no problems, he will select me for the national team.

“You must know that the Asian Cup is in a month, right?”

“sure.”

Actually, I didn’t know.

No, I knew that, but I completely forgot because I was busy competing with Chiller for the starting position.

Right now, my nose is three inches long, but honestly, the national team work is someone else’s business.

You have to be the starting pitcher and have some free time to be able to turn your attention.

But I lied calmly. Without changing my expression. There was no point in saying that I forgot.

“Originally, I was going to add you, Kim, when the final entry announcement was made four days later.”

As I listened carefully, I found a word that sounded awkward. Maybe it’s because my German is still not good enough?

“But it didn’t work.”

“yes?”

What the heck? Are you kidding me?

“I talked to Hannover and they were reluctant. Of course, being selected for the Asian Cup is okay because of the mandatory participation rule, but the problem is that he is a 23-year-old national team player.”

“A 23-year-old national representative?”

“Yeah. They want you there too, Kim.”

After a few more words with Klinsgel, I learned that the Asian Cup for the national team starts in January and the Asian Cup for the U-23 national team starts in April.

Both competitions are held in Qatar, and the gap is quite long, but Hannover said it was impossible for them to send Kim to both competitions. I think I would have done the same if I were in Hannover’s shoes.

“There is no mandatory participation rule for the U23 Asian Cup, so if the club refuses, you cannot participate.”

“···Is that a problem?”

“huh?”

“Can’t U23 just not go?”

Coach Klinsgel smiles faintly and shakes his head.

“It’s not as easy as it sounds.”

Is it the adults’ circumstances?

There seems to have been some discussion about this issue internally within the association.

“U23 coach······ Well, since the position is vacant right now, it would be more appropriate to say coach-designate. In any case, the designate strongly wants you.”

“So, the director took it into consideration after some coordination?”

“You’re smart.”

It was a little disappointing. No, honestly, from my perspective, I am grateful for the age-based representatives, but I am a little angry when I think that we could have gone to the Asian Cup this time even if the internal appointee had not requested it.

“Don’t be too upset, Kim. While you’ve been impressive here, I think it’s still a bit premature to appoint you as the national team’s goalkeeper right away.”

Coach Klinsgel comforted me and gave me some words of encouragement, most of which I had heard from other people.

“······Anyway, I plan on leaving you in the U23 national team for the time being. Kim. If you keep growing like you are now, you will definitely be able to make it to the North and Central American World Cup. So work hard. You will definitely be able to work with me in three years.”

Klinsgel asks to shake hands. I nod and take Klinsgel’s hand.

‘But, Director. I don’t know if you’ll still be conducting until then…’

Coach Klinsgel is likely to be sacked before the World Cup.

It was quite reasonable for me to think this way.

It has been a while since he took office, but the national team led by Klinsgel is still winless in evaluation matches.

Defeat, or a draw.

It seemed like the first time I’d seen a national team coach fail to secure a single win in an evaluation match for such a long period of time.

In addition, he did not go to the K-League like the previous manager, and above all, he was not attached to Korea.

Even last time, you were the coach of the South Korean national team, but you went abroad and analyzed an EPL match and got criticized a lot, right?

So it’s no wonder that public opinion is so negative, because there are so many comparisons with the previous manager.

Anyway, I laughed and ended my meeting with Coach Klinsgel.

Unfortunately, I was dropped from the national team, but I wasn’t too discouraged because it was adjusted according to the adults’ circumstances rather than because my skills were lacking.

And I’m still quite young and a rising star who debuted not long ago.

‘Anyway, if you’re in the U23 league, it’s right before the national team, right? If you do well here, you’ll definitely get promoted.’

However, it seems that he was promoted to other age-group national teams such as U17 and U21 due to his performance in the league being recognized.

And rather than going straight to the national team and just watching without being able to play, it would be much better to play for the under-23 national team. That way, you can at least get a lot of stats.

*

After the conversation with Klinsgel, Jan called me aside and said:

To summarize what Jan said, it was like this.

The club can block his selection for the U23 Asian Cup, but we have already made a deal with Klinsgel. So we will let him go. You don’t have to worry too much…

I just nodded.

The German club won’t backstab a coach who is a German legend, so I will probably be selected for the U23 national team without any problems.

But anyway, there’s a problem.

[Kim Shin-ah: The Asian Cup roster will be announced soon! Our Minu Minu-chan will be here soon. Let’s wear the real Taegeuk mark~~~]

This is a fact that only I currently know.

The Asian Cup roster hasn’t been announced yet, so I can’t tell them not to drink kimchi stew since I finished talking to the coach.

Especially if I said that to someone as talkative as my younger sister, it could have been a huge mess.

‘You never know. I might put that on the internet···.’

Because Kim Shin-ah’s personality was such that she could turn to anger and write on the Internet, “I am exposing the corruption of the Korea Football Association!”, I did not tell anyone about this problem.

I even kept it a secret from my mother, who I live with.

Time passed like that.

Round 17: Holstein away game.

The starting lineup was announced, I was on the bench and Chiller was in the starting lineup.

‘You want to compare?’

Even though he played well in the last game, he started on the bench, but he didn’t care.

I had already experienced this once during Eugene Ho’s time.

I would compare the two goalkeepers directly and use the one who blocks better. And I was very confident in blocking.

And in fact, it was even advantageous.

I played my best on my home ground, and there’s a saying that even a shit dog eats half of its food in its own living room.

But the chiller is on an expedition.

It could have been a thorny path.

‘Did Jan Wright do it this way on purpose? No. That couldn’t be it···.’

Even though I fought in the living room, the team I was fighting against was a team whose ranking was right next to mine.

The team that Chiller will be joining this time is a club called ‘Holstein Gil’, which is currently in the lower-middle ranks of the league, in 13th place.

Time passed again and it was game day.

Chiller entered the game with a determined look on his face.

At times, he would get very angry at defenders, adjust his position, make excellent saves, and not hesitate to jump in and burn himself.

Thus, Chiller did not concede a goal. However, Hannover also failed to score a goal, so the away game against Holstein ended in a 0:0 draw without much gains.

‘If I were going to do it, I would have preferred to lose.’

It wouldn’t be good for the team, but if that happened, my future would be smooth sailing.

But the competition looks set to continue as Chiller has kept a clean sheet.

Keep going until someone gets eaten first.

*

It was when I was training hard day and night to build up my stats.

“Kim! Does Kim like K-pop?”

The one who suddenly approached us out of nowhere was Henrik Fischer, who had just been given the new captain’s title.

Whether it was because he heard a word from the manager or because he felt a sense of duty that he had not felt before because he received the captain’s armband, Fischer has been approaching many players first recently, and it seems like it is finally his turn.

“K-pop?”

“huh.”

Well, I hate to say this, but I don’t give a shit.

“Well, yes.”

However, if KPOP means all Korean songs, I can say that I like them in general. I’m not interested in idol songs, but I listen to a lot of Korean songs.

“What girl group do you like? I recently listened to Pinkblack’s song, and it’s good!”

“I’m a bank.”

“Huh, huh? Who? Bank? Bank?”

“I’m an old K-pop singer. Listen to Can’t Have You.”

“Uh, uh······ Okay.”

What I recommend is Bank’s You Can’t Have.

It’s a song that makes you smell like shit even if you only listen to the intro for 3 seconds, but I liked the unique sensibility of that era. It was an era I was never born in.

A song and lyrics that let you know that even old people were full of emotions when they were young.

However, Henrik Fischer, not knowing that the topic of conversation would go this way, awkwardly smiles and runs away.

No matter how I look at that guy, he doesn’t seem to have any sense of leadership…

*

Four days after the end of the Holstein expedition.

Klingsgelho announced to the press that they had finalised the list of members who would be going to Qatar.

Of course, my name wasn’t on that list.

Then public opinion began to burn like flames.

The general public was already aware of my existence, and the game highlights had already been watched by an incredibly large number of people.

So, I expected that my name would be on the list for this year’s Asian Cup, and most soccer experts and soccer YouTubers expected the same.

But now that expectation has been shattered in a spectacular way.

Even without this, the public’s opinion of Coach Klinsgel was not good due to the national team’s poor performance, but starting with this incident, it began to erupt like an active volcano.

It was as if a small detonator had been placed on a volcano that was about to erupt.

[Kim Shin-ah: No!!!!!!!!! Does this make sense!!!!!!!!!!]

[Kim Shin-ah: Why?????? Why??????]

[Kim Shin-a: The national team coach is German, right? But he doesn’t know Kim? Why didn’t he pick him? Why???]

[Kim Min-woo: It’s noisy…]

[Kim Shin-ah: I’m saying this because I’m angry… This isn’t right…]

[Kim Min-seok: This is really ridiculous. Quickly fire that coach and bring in Bento!]

[Kim Shin-ah: People hate you because you don’t have the eye for people like that]

[Choi Sung-hee: ㅠㅠ I’m so sad ㅠ]

Why is Kim Shin-ah, who is not good at soccer, acting like this now? It was simple.

Because everyone was thinking similar thoughts, making similar comments, and criticizing Kim Shin-ah right now.

When people with similar ideas come together to form a large group, their power becomes enormous.

[Kim Shin-ah: Since it has come to this, I hope they win the Asian Cup]

[Kim Shin-ah: I have to make you regret not picking our Min-woo]

[Kim Shin-ah: Ugh… I should have picked Kim back then…! She whines and gets fired]

[Kim Min-woo: Haha, thank you for the words]

[Kim Shin-ah: Haha, that’s good]

[Kim Min-woo: ?]

This kid?

End

ⓒ Doctor Am

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