In early autumn, the heat has passed, and from time to time there are still cries of acquaintance, and the second semester of the University of Tokyo has officially begun.

"Lin Jun, the coffee in that store tastes very good, don't you really want to try it?"

"Noriko, today is the first gathering of the school football team after the start of school, I must go to it, the dog didn't take the plug (sorry)" Coming out of the teaching building of the Faculty of Economics (equivalent to the School of Economics), Ringer finally got rid of this "enthusiastic" Japanese girl. Ringer's grandmother is a Westerner, so he is of mixed race, and the lines on his face are more obvious than ordinary people, which will attract the attention of some girls from time to time. In fact, the main reason is that the quality of this Japanese girl just now is not high, and she looks like an ordinary person with short legs and thick legs.

However, what Ringer said is also true, today is indeed the day when the varsity team meets for the first time in the second semester.

When I arrived at the football field, the school team was already lined up in two rows, and the head coach was standing in front with a blank face.

"I'm sorry, Coach Maeda, I'm late." Although Ringer knew that he was definitely not late, in Japan, the leader had already arrived before him, so he had to go over and apologize, which was polite.

Maeda Naoki just nodded and continued to be expressionless, and Ringer quickly went down to find a place to stand.

Forty-two-year-old Naoki Maeda is the head coach of the University of Tokyo football team, and played in the J2 and J3 leagues as a professional footballer in his early years. This is also the current situation of school football in Japan, the Football Association encourages players to obtain coaching certificates after retirement, and then helps arrange them to go to various universities, middle schools and even primary schools to become football coaches, which can not only solve the work problems of some retired players, but also allow student players to get a better football education. Of course, a large number of youth coaches have also been cultivated invisibly.

When the time came, Naoki Maeda began to speak: "We lost too many games in the previous semester, and now there is no hope of promotion, but we still have to maintain our fighting spirit, otherwise we will only fall into the same situation as the wild team (baseball team)......"

Japan's university football league divides the country into nine divisions, each district has a second and third division, that is, the first division, the second level and the third division, and each division conducts a round-robin system similar to the league, and there will be a relegation system between the three levels, the University of Tokyo is currently in the second division, but the game lost a lot in the previous semester, and there is no hope of promotion, but fortunately, there is no need to worry about relegation.

A team from the nine regions can go to the top 16 after the round-robin tournament, and the Kanto region is a more developed area for football, and four teams can enter the top 16 of the country, but this has nothing to do with the University of Tokyo, and Dongda Dalian can't make a single score, let alone the national competition.

This is also the norm all over the world, and it is easy to find top students in famous universities, but there are not many good sports. The academic level of Tokyo University is very high, and it is very bad in sports, but football is not the worst sports team in Tokyo University, not the worst, only worse, and the Higashi Ono team that Maeda Naoki just talked about has suffered a total defeat since the start of the competition this year, and it is now the laughing stock of Tokyo University. But Ringer also knew that this was just the beginning, and that the team would lose for four years in a row, until May 2015, when they won 94 games in a row, and he clearly remembered that this was a big event in his last life. The most tragic thing is the group of baseball players who entered the school in April this year, they have not won a game from enrollment to graduation, and they were beaten so much that they don't even know their mother. So, you'd better not count on the sports of the top students.

"On the weekend, we will have a warm-up match against Okei University, a strong team that has been confirmed to be going to the national championships, and playing against them will allow us to learn more experience. I'm training on Friday afternoon and Saturday and I don't want anyone to be absent. Maeda's words caught Ringer's attention.

Ringer is already planning to become a professional player, so the most convenient thing for him is to join the nearest professional league in Japan. Most of the really strong college players have already joined the club's academy, and they can play in the professional league at any time if they want to, and those like Ringer who have not joined the club normally have two ways to join the professional league, either they are recommended by someone or they are discovered by the club's scouts in the game.

Ringer currently has two ways, one is to show his strength and ask the head coach of the school team Naoki Maeda to help him recommend a club, but Maeda Naoki only played in the J2 or J3 league when he played, and his relationship was limited to those teams, and Ringer planned to ask him for help when he couldn't find a way. The other option is to get spotted by scouts at important games, but these big games are college football national championships or high school football national championships, and Ringer can't go to such competitions.

However, now there is a match against Okei University, and Okei University has always been very strong in football, and even though it is a warm-up game, maybe there will be scouts to watch it then.

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On Friday afternoon, the football field of Todai.

"Coach, I don't want to play the goalkeeper position." These were the first words that Ringer said to Naoki Maeda when he came to the court.

Ringer now has cheating glasses, so he naturally has to change positions, and he played goalkeeper by mistake at the beginning, when he played in junior high school, he grew taller than other children, so he was arranged by the physical education teacher to go to the goalkeeper position.

Ringer asked to change positions, Maeda Naoki did not object too much, Ringer was only the substitute goalkeeper of the school team, and the main goalkeeper had a physical problem some time ago, so he was able to play for a period of time to start, and his performance was also average. Ringer's height of 1.78 meters is still a little short in the goalkeeper position, even as the goalkeeper of an amateur team such as the college varsity team.

Everyone warmed up as usual, ran circles around the field, etc., and finally competed in training.

At the beginning of training, Yosuke Kitamura, the central defender of the substitute team, found himself changing around him, and although he often changed around him, this time it was different.

"Lin Jun, are you in the wrong position? Be careful if you are seen by the coach, you will be scolded. Yosuke Kitamura cautioned.

"It was the coach who asked me to come to this position, and I may be your partner in this training." Ringer didn't expect Naoki Maeda to ask him to come to the left-back position, but the school team really didn't have a good left-back, and many people were called to try the left-back position.

At the beginning of the training match, everyone was curious about Ringer's placement at left-back, but there was no fuss, and many people in the team were arranged to try left-back, but this time the goalkeeper was changed.

On the sidelines, Naoki Maeda still has a poker face. This is the common nature of the Japanese, and they all believe that leaders or superiors must not smile and hold up, so that they can have authority, and Maeda Naoki is no exception.

He put Ringer at left-back just casually, and there were no good left-backs in the team anyway. The training match went on for several minutes, and the Chinese kid didn't have anything to look out for, and there was an easy kick in the middle that was shaken by someone in the middle of the defense.

But the next attack, Maeda's eyes suddenly widened.

On the field, Ringer knew that he had just performed badly, he was a goalkeeper most of the time, and it was completely difficult to adapt to the sudden switch to the left-back position, especially when defending, he was a right-footed player and was placed in the left-back position, and he felt a little twisted.

Another time the main team attacked fruitlessly and lost the ball, defender Yosuke Kitamura got the ball, raised his eyes to see that the Chinese around him were actively stepping forward, and Kitamura used to passing the ball.

Ringer finally touched the ball for the first time on the offensive end, and the memory of his thigh muscles during this training period drove him to catch the ball with his feet, accelerate under his feet, and stride along the wing.

Ringer's current speed of 14 immediately surprised everyone, and Ringer accelerated to rush, and no one in the team could keep up with him.

Ringer quickly advanced to the midfield, and the opposite midfielder planned to come over to defend, but Ringer accelerated immediately at the moment when the opponent started, increasing the distance of the ball, and passed in an instant.

"This kid is really fast." Naoki Maeda just casually arranged for Ringer to play at left-back, but he didn't expect the opponent to behave like this: "Could it be that I didn't find his speed advantage before?" It seems that it was indeed a waste to let him play the goalkeeper before. ”

Ringer's dribbling forward was abrupt and soon passed through midfield and met the opposite right-back up front.

The opposing right-back was menacing, and Ringer shifted slightly to the left in the middle of the ball, accelerated again, and then knocked the ball across the door with his left foot. After all, the left foot is not Ringer's usual foot, and the quality of this cross is not very good, but the striker on his side reacts more slowly, and the ball rolls in front of the goal before reacting and rushing into the box, which is already too late.

"Takahashi! Stay focused, focused! Naoki Maeda was dancing and drooling on the sidelines, and just now Ringer created a good chance by passing two people in a row, but the striker and Ringer had no tacit understanding and wasted it.