Emili
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Chapter 11 The Forty-Year-Old Man Hides His Age (3) División de Honor Juvenil. Pronounced División de Honor Juvenil, this league is the highest-level competition in Spain that can be played by youth players under the age of nineteen. Here, División means league, de Honor means honor, and Juvenil means youth. So, if translated into Korean, it would roughly mean something like "the most prestigious youth league." In terms of senior football, it holds a status comparable to La Liga, the top…-
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Chapter 10 The Forty-Year-Old Man Hides His Age (2) Whether you're forty or sixteen, there's little difference when it comes to being unable to sleep deeply after changing where you sleep. “Grrrr— Grrrrrk— Grrrroooonk—” “……” My eyes snapped open at the noise, and without hesitation, I got out of bed. I picked up a bottle of bottled water from the desk and headed toward the window. Perhaps because morning was approaching, the sunlight that had been hiding beneath the…
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Chapter 9 The Forty-Year-Old Man Hides His Age (1) I woke up to the sound of an alarm ringing in my ears. It was still dawn, so the sky outside the window was a dark blue. I had spent another busy day yesterday, and my entire body was filled with fatigue. But even when you're tired, you still have to go to work. I turned off the alarm, brushed my teeth and washed my face in the bathroom, trying to clear my groggy mind. That was when I felt my phone vibrating in my pocket. Wondering what…
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Chapter 8 Something More Important Than Money (7) Orphanage. A place that takes in, raises, and educates children who have no parents or guardians. It was originally called an orphanage under a different term, but these days, everyone simply refers to it as a child-care facility in an effort to improve the public perception of such institutions. And the children who could enter an orphanage weren't limited to those whose parents had died. In special circumstances, such as financial hardship, abuse…
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Chapter 7 Something More Important Than Money (6) There are several absolute values used to evaluate players in the world of football. For strikers and midfielders, there are attacking statistics such as goals and assists, while for goalkeepers and defenders, there are defensive statistics such as clean sheets and goals conceded. But in truth, there is an even more convenient value for evaluating a player's worth. Money. The logic is simple. Good and outstanding players are…
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Chapter 6 Something More Important Than Money (5) Antonio, the Real Madrid scout—in other words, Tony—had been a rather untalented striker. He had spent his entire career in the lower leagues and had never experienced La Liga. Of course, some people might say that even that was enough to qualify as talent, but the important thing was that Antonio himself didn't think so. So, after admitting that he had no future as a player, he retired at the age of twenty-eight. He then began studying,…
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Chapter 5 Something More Important Than Money (4) The midfielder Park Min-hyuk, who had been assigned to the same team as Kang Do-in, was quite a highly regarded prospect in middle-school soccer. He was already set to attend a high school affiliated with a K League club, and he had been a regular member of the age-group national teams since his second year of middle school. Naturally, he was also acquainted with Kang Do-in. Even if Park Min-hyuk had been a starter while Kang Do-in had been a…
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Chapter 4 Something More Important Than Money (3) Somehow, about a month passed. Naturally, I hadn't spent that time sitting around doing nothing. I absolutely hated wasting time without purpose. Play properly when it's time to play, and work properly when it's time to work. That was my motto. Over the past month, I had diligently worked toward my future. Thanks to that—or perhaps despite it—I had completely adapted to my smaller body. I was currently 168 centimeters tall. That…
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Chapter 3 Something More Important Than Money (2) Nothing in this world lasts forever. Love, power, and the value of money are prime examples. Of course, the Korea Football Association was no exception. Even the absolute power of the president of the Korea Football Association, which had remained untouched despite the association's endless blunders, eventually proved unable to overcome the passage of time and public sentiment. The newly elected president of the football…
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Chapter 2. Something More Important Than Money (1) I was a successful soccer player. I became a professional, made a living playing soccer, became a member of the national team, played in the World Cup and scored goals. And I continued playing soccer even after turning forty. Although I only played in Saudi Arabia, I had never felt that I was lacking anything. I was criticized for never playing in Europe, but I made far more money than the amount of abuse I received. An orphan who hadn't had a…
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