Soccer System: Legendary Goalkeeper
Chapter 32 - The New Round
Sunday, 25 September 2022.
After the fourteenth match of Harapan High School, Reza was directly met by the principal and some coaching staff. They intend to accompany Reza's departure in defending the U-17 national team for the U-17 Asian Cup Qualifier 2023.
Reza is currently in the principal's room. There Cahyono The headmaster, coach Sofyan, assistant coach Berto was sitting opposite Reza who was still wearing his goalkeeper uniform. Reza just kept quiet, sweat started flowing from his forehead.
“So nervous are our school stars?” The headmaster named Cahyono started to open his voice eliminating the silence.
The headmaster's body was quite short, but the arrival was very clear, the aura of his leadership continued to pressure Reza to the point of becoming nervous. Meanwhile, coach Sofyan and assistant coach Berto just fell silent while holding back laughter seeing their star goalkeeper so nervous.
“Hahaha! Too nervous to be able to lead you to death!”
“Ke-head of school don't be like that! I can also be like this if you look at you like a prey,” shrewd Reza.
Amidst the silence after Reza's remark, a knock on the door rang out from outside. The door opened without any warning from Cahyono.
From behind the door his friends Reza came with beaming faces, but there were still faces of fatigue there because the match that had just ended about 2 hours ago against Nusantara Poso High School.
“You?”
“We want to take you there!” Good to lead all his friends.
Cahyono took off his glasses, he stood up while giving a sheet to Reza. It was the ticket borne by the school for the departure of Reza to Jakarta in the framework of the Indonesian U-17 national team Training Center with the aim of Asian Cup Qualification U-17 2023.
Reza stared at the ticket in silence. He found it so hard to talk, everything was going on so fast. He already knows that tomorrow Monday he will soon go to Jakarta and prepare for the day there before September 27 the start of the Training Center.
But Reza did not expect that his departure for the U-17 national team will be accompanied by his club friends and also directly the principal.
“You think we're the only ones driving you?” Haikal added.
Cheers from outside the room sounded.
From behind the window in the room, the large field for the ceremony was filled with many disciples from various fields of exkul. There are those from the field of basketball, volleyball and so forth.
That's because Reza is the only one chosen from Palu in defending the U-17 national team in the U-17 Asian Cup Qualifier 2023. Therefore, of course, all students of Harapan High School feel proud.
“Ya ... alright, thanks for everything!” Reza could only say that.
“Kak Riyandi, don't concede ya? I've been tired of keeping a total of conceding that only 2 of it until now.”
The corner of Riyandi's lips twitched. He covered his face with his hand as he said, “Let's see.”
Meanwhile, a tall, well-built man figure came directly into the room. His clothes were so neat with a suit and also his black hair neatly combed.
“With Reza Kusuma?” ask the man.
“Oh, Bryan!” greet Cahyono.
The man called Bryan looked over. He looked at Cahyono in silence.
“Cahyo!” Bryan immediately approached the principal.
“A long time ago, yes?”
“New yesterday, woy! I came here as you said yesterday, wanting to offer the young goalkeeper as my client.”
Meanwhile, the cheers of the other club members began to die down. They also return to their respective activities. For the members of the football club themselves just wait outside the room.
Now, the only ones in the headmaster's room are Cahyono, Sofyan's coach, Berto's assistant coach Reza and Bryan.
“Alright, do you want to be my client?” Directly, without further ado Bryan said so.
Reza himself has not been too interested in football agents. He is so young, not yet famous, he can still take care of some things about the world of football.
“You think it must be too early a problem like this, right?” bryan continued, taking out some documents.
“Hey, why did it become like this? Should be more important is the Focus of U-17 national team training later!” Coach Berto interrupted in a high tone.
“Come on, we have to make this star shine even more. With the help of agent Bryan, he will get a lot of facilities and at least a club offer later!” obviously Cahyono while looking at coach Berto.
Although coach Berto has a big body, but he will obviously squeak in front of the headmaster. How not, the principal is the direct manager of the club. Anybody he can fire!
Then Bryan looked at the worried Reza.
“Yes, I still want to focus what will be faced. Asian Cup U-17 qualification in plain sight.” Reza explained with a reassuring look.
A new stage for him in the world of football, especially as a goalkeeper. He wants to immediately bring at least the U-17 national team following his ‘kak-kak’ who have qualified, namely the U-20 national team and also the senior national team.
Reza still doesn't care about agency. He still wanted to take care of everything using his own abilities. Surely he'll need an agent, but that's later. Especially if he gained success later in the Asian Cup U-17 Qualifiers, then the possibility of club offers in Indonesia will start to appear. That's guess.
“Alright, young man. Agent Bryan is waiting for you to be ready and receives an agent to help you.” Bryan took out a business card and placed it on the table.
Coach Sofyan stared deep into Reza's bead of eyes. He saw the seriousness of Reza who reached the maximum limit, even the limit seemed to start breaking. How serious Reza is about this.
“Alright, just get ready for you. Tomorrow morning at 06:14 is your flight time to Jakarta!” Cahyono stood up and immediately approached Reza.
Everyone in the room stood up. They started staring at each other before one by one stepping towards the exit. Cahyono stared at Agent Bryan's business card on the table.
He stared at the card that Reza left behind.
‘Looks like my best friend didn't provoke your interest, huh?’ cahyono Inner sat back in her chair.
He leaned back with a wild thought. He began to imagine how great Reza would be in the future and bring Indonesia to the World Stage.
“Ah .. it feels impossible. But I believe in the younger generation now.”
***
Reza on the way home, he who had never opened the status of the user interface also voiced it in his heart.
‘Open user interface status.’
...[.Bringing up the User Interface!]...
...[ Name: Reza Kusuma...
...Age: 16 years 2 months 29 days...
...Profession : Goalkeeper...
...Level : Not Used --...
...•ikipedia•...
...Power: 85...
...Stamina: 85...
...Acceleration: 95...
...Speed: 95...
...Jump: 95...
...Flexible: 94...
...Catch: 100...
...Teak: 45...
...Power: 91...
...Stamina: 93...
...Acceleration: 100...
...Speed: 97...
...Dribblings: 90...
...Ball control: 90...
...Remote feed: 93...
...Short feed: 91...
...Shots: 92...
...Shooting power: 91...
...Accuracy: 95...
...Curve: 92...
...Penalty Kick: 75...
...Free Kick: 90...
...Tactical awareness: 85...
...Game vision: 90...
...Reflexes: 98...
...Rescue: 90...
...Defense: 80...
...Throws: 80...
...•_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________•...
...~Increasing Goalkeeper's Pamor around the World (Progress Step 1.9%) ]...
Reza looked at his every status. He feels like a Goalkeeper master in the world of football, in his imagination.
“But what I think in reality is not like that. This body is kind of hard to adapt after a few months with him. Then experience is the one who speaks later.”
Reza has arrived in front of his house. He saw his mother sitting on the porch while enjoying the twilight.
“Let's start a new round, namely Asian Cup Qualifier U-17 2023!”
Her mother who heard her son's voice was so excited, her son's equipment was also finished she packed. Waiting for departure tomorrow.
“Bring victory, Son!” exclaim Citra as Reza opens the gate.
Reza nodded in spirit.
...----------------...
...The Arc 2 Start...
...Asian Cup Qualifiers U-17 2023...
