"Don't you know the rules? Even the national team keeps quiet, so what gives you, some no-name amateur team that only knows how to talk, the right to pipe up?"
"When you lose, you're not just disgracing yourselves, you're disgracing all of Great Xia..."
"Do you even know what football is?"
"Do you know what a system is?"
"Are you better than the hundreds of youth academies in Great Xia?"
"We don't play football. We play politics and favors!"
Modern-day football fan Lu Haitao transmigrates into the body of a thirteen-year-old boy in a world where football is even more rotten than it is in his own.
When he refuses to fall in line, Good Ball Youth Academy, which hides a money-making racket behind the guise of traditional youth training, secretly breaks his leg, then shamelessly doubles down and sues him for breach of contract.
Under this crushing pressure, Lu Haoyan awakens the Football God System: the harder he grinds, the more his attributes soar.
Work hard, and you can get stronger.
This world isn't home only to a football association devoted to making money. There are also people determined to clean up Xia's corrupt football scene, like Lu Dong?
Under Lu Dong, who doesn't even have a coaching license, they train using guerrilla tactics while emphasizing the importance of competition.
Facing pressure from all sides, he leaves the toxic Great Xia leagues behind and joins a top European football club.
The Great Xia Football Association doesn't believe in us, and the national team likes to eat sea cucumbers. We want no part of them.
We'll build our own grassroots amateur team, free from backroom deals, and use our skill to lift the World Cup trophy for Great Xia.
