MC is a genius soccer player (international league in Italy) with a self esteem issues, which stemmed from his mother’s and couches strict requirements and demands from him. There was also bullying incident from his former teammates. Being an introvert and a sensitive teenager he developed mental problems.

My boy was under so much pressure that he kinda broke and became completely unmotivated (didn’t play a single game in two years).

For those two years he lied to his only friend that everything was great, he scored goal after goal, had many... more>> friends and was happy. Then said friend (a girl he has a crush on) came to Italy to study and MC had to make his lies true otherwise it is too embarrassing.

Honestly, this story is a bit boring, I guess. I read a lot sports novels, mangas etc, but there were all “start from the bottom and reach the top”, MC here is already at the top. There was always this feeling of strong competition, if you don’t show results, you are out. There is nothing like that here, new coaches treat MC as a fragile flower that can break with a single touch. The disappointing aspect is that We know nothing about his teammates except the names of like three people bc author needed to name faceless npc MC passes the ball to from time to time. I wanted to see friendship, rivalry, all that, maybe it will appear in the future?

The “funny” aspect of this story comes from MC thinking he is a small insignificant player, just a stand in for the day and coaches suppressing their joy bc they didn’t want to scare the returning genius with their enthusiasm.
While gameplay didn’t make my blood boil, it was fairly interesting.

It is an okay story so far. <<less