In fact, there is nothing in this world that cannot be understood.
The reason you don't understand something is simply because the information you obtained is different from the information obtained by the person who made the decision.
When people receive the same information, they will most likely make the same choice.
And as a person's social status and the importance of their identity increase, the convergence of these choices becomes higher.
Kai is not from this era—he is a time traveler.
Before traveling through time, he was a football fan, but was unable to play football due to physical reasons.
Now he has traveled back twenty-five years into the body of a Portuguese–Chinese child with the same name and surname, and has awakened the "King of Football System." Of course, he chose to play football.
Nothing can stop his love for football.
When he crossed over, "Kai" was participating in the Portuguese Golden Boy Cup final, and his opponent was Cristiano Ronaldo!
He was crazy with joy.
This was Ronaldo!
This was the Ronaldo who would rule football together with Messi for more than ten years in the future, hold the all-time scoring record in world football, and become the king of the Champions League who would never admit defeat in his lifetime!
There is no doubt that on the day Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi retire, they will immediately become the third generation of football kings after Pelé and Maradona.
They never truly lost to anyone in their careers.
They only lost once—and that was the one time all humans lose: to time.
As a fan who missed the peak of CR7 and Messi, being able to see the young Ronaldo with his own eyes was incredibly satisfying. In his previous life, he didn't even own an authentic signed jersey.
But now the system actually required Kai to defeat Ronaldo. This was really difficult… to refuse!
The system rewarded Kai with an experience opportunity, pushing his technical ability values to the level of players in the five major European leagues.
So he brutally tortured everyone as a child.
He won the championship trophy.
But after the match, through the system's data panel, Kai accurately understood his true level.
The football ability of this body was excellent among ten-year-old children, but the talent level of this body was simply too low.
Dead wood, mediocre, excellent, gifted, peerless talent, unparalleled genius, peerless genius!
Among the seven talent levels, Kai's talent turned out to be mediocre.
If a "peerless genius" can gain one attribute point from a single training session, then a "mediocre" player may need dozens of training sessions to gain just one point.
After competitions of the same level, the rewards obtained by "mediocre" players are far inferior to those of "unparalleled geniuses."
As time passes, the gap in strength between players who originally stood at the same level will continue to widen.
Moreover, a "peerless genius" can continue to improve from the moment they touch football until the age of twenty-five. A "gifted" player may still improve after the age of twenty. But a "mediocre" player may stop progressing entirely after the age of twelve or thirteen.
No more promotion.
The upper limit is extremely low!
With such talent, even if he does not fall behind for the moment, he will never be able to play professional football in the future.
European football's youth training system is complete and highly developed, yet the proportion of youth players who eventually become professionals is still terrifyingly low. This is because most young players stop growing after the age of fourteen or fifteen and gradually fall behind.
The kind of players who dominate everyone when they are young but become mediocre when they grow up either lack self-discipline, suffer injuries that prevent them from reaching their expected level, or simply have an upper limit that is too low, causing their strength to stagnate early and be overtaken by others.
The latter are not worth expecting at all.
After carefully reviewing all the system's instructions, Kai finally found a breakthrough.
As long as you complete the corresponding system tasks, you can modify your talent level.
The task for a peerless genius is: "Become the president within three years."
The task for an unparalleled genius is: "Become the richest man in the country within three years."
How should this be put… If you can complete either of these tasks, then you can still play football!
Only Kai, with his extraordinary talent, could challenge the task:
"Complete Portuguese compulsory education within three years and enter university."
After all, in his previous life he was Chinese—studying and taking exams were the easiest things.
So Kai temporarily gave up football and went all out to conquer the Portuguese education system.
In three years, he completed the next eight years of coursework, achieved excellent grades, and was admitted to the best university in Portugal.
At that moment, Kai suddenly realized something.
Thanks to the exam-oriented education of his previous life, which greatly enhanced his learning ability, there was no problem that couldn't be solved by doing exercises. And if there was—then just do a few more sets.
Those who advocate so-called "happy education" are basically cutting cock and fooling people.
After his talent level was upgraded to Unparalleled Talent, Kai immediately called Trigueira.
This was the person he trusted the most—the football coach who had stayed in contact with him for three years.
The scouts from Barcelona, Real Madrid, Manchester United, and Bayern Munich had long since disappeared.
Kai had no doubts about Trigueira's ability to help him enter the Sporting Lisbon youth academy.
But he didn't expect that Trigueira would secure him a substitute spot in the Portugal Diamond Generation Invitational Tournament in just one day!
He must have put in tremendous effort, and may even have exhausted all his personal connections.
It seemed that this assistant coach from Lisbon, who was unknown in his previous life, truly had confidence and dared to gamble.
Such a person would either soar to greatness—or fail completely.
Judging by the results of the previous timeline, Trigueira obviously lost badly.
But this time, Kai could tell Trigueira responsibly:
You made the right bet!
…
June 1st arrived in the blink of an eye.
Fifty thousand fans gathered at the Alvalade Stadium.
More than seventy mainstream media outlets focused their attention on this Diamond Generation Invitational Tournament.
In addition to Portuguese football media, there were also football media from England, Spain, Italy, Germany, France, and other countries.
The first ceremony of the invitational tournament was Eusébio's appearance, as everyone followed the footage to relive the life of this football legend.
The second ceremony was the appearance of Portugal's new king, Luís Figo. In front of an audience of fifty thousand, he read out his personal declaration, stating that he would definitely lead the Portuguese national team to the European Championship two years later.
This became the highlight of the event and ignited the patriotic emotions of the Portuguese crowd.
Then everyone sang the Portuguese national anthem together with Figo.
At the same time, the young players from both teams were gathering inside the players' tunnel.
Unlike normal matches, where only the starting players emerge from the tunnel, in this invitational tournament all forty young players from both teams would walk out together, and everyone would receive playing time—even though there were officially only three substitutions per match.
A bit troublesome.
"Line up from shortest to tallest. It's almost your turn to enter."
The staff directed the young players to arrange themselves.
Unsurprisingly, Kai stood at the very front.
His birthday was August 5, 1985—half a year younger than Ronaldo—and he was the third youngest among the forty players.
But that didn't matter, because he was the shortest among them all.
Conspicuously so.
Even the youngest João Moutinho was slightly taller than Kai.
This was also the second major problem Kai would need to solve in the future—his height!
The maximum height of this body was only 1.65 meters. If nutrition couldn't keep up, it might end up even shorter.
Don't ask why nutrition can't keep up. All I can say is that rebooting is necessary.
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