The Football Association Didn’t Want Me? I’ll Take Messi and Sweep the World Cup

[System] [competitive soccer] [face-slapping the football association] [high-octane World Cup]

“Too slight to fit our tactics. You're cut.”

Nineteen-year-old Chinese-Argentine prodigy Lu Yuan delivered a perfect performance at the Dragon Nation U20 trials, scoring two goals and assisting another. But because he refused to pay a “favor fee,” the coach ruthlessly left him off the squad, replacing him with a pack of mediocre players who had connections.

Faced with corruption, Lu Yuan didn't beg. He deleted the football association's contact information and flew back to Argentina.

He thought his career would wither away, until a 43-year-old legendary superstar with a thick beard stopped him at a street football pitch in Buenos Aires.

“Want to play in the World Cup? Come with me.”

His [Soul of the Pitch] System awakened, granting him era-defying “spatial awareness” and “god-tier off-ball movement”! No physicality? Then world-class defenders won't even be able to touch my shadow!

From a discarded castoff to Argentina's “Phantom Assassin,” Lu Yuan tears defenses apart with run after run, helping Messi make his final appearance!

And when he dominates the World Cup final and makes a name for himself worldwide, public opinion in the Dragon Nation explodes, and the once high-and-mighty football association falls into a panic...

As the system that once discarded him faces a reckoning, and belated apologies and lucrative offers come his way, Lu Yuan replies with a single, offhand remark.