[Football] The Coach Is a Godsend Again Today

[Football Coach + Female Lead's Career Growth]

After finishing a busy day, Han Shuang had just settled down to rest when she was suddenly summoned to her superior's office.

In her boss's eyes, she had always been conscientious. Was she about to be assigned another new task?

With trepidation, she pushed open the office door, bracing herself for a storm.

"You're here! Congratulations, you're going to be the head coach of a Premier League team!"

"?"

"Me?" Han Shuang, who had only just gotten the youth team on track, stared in bewilderment.

"That's right, you. Good job, you're a fully fledged head coach now. Ms. Han, please lead us to safety in the Premier League!"

*

When Han Shuang first took the job, fans and all sorts of media sneered at the unknown female coach.

They thought the "first female head coach in Premier League history" was nothing more than a gimmick cooked up by the club's executives to attract attention.

Crystal Palace fans were just as unhappy with the appointment.

When Han Shuang first took over, the fans said:

We're screwed! Looks like the team's getting relegated!

Six months later:

Our great Coach Han Shuang, please stay!

Reader's Guide:

The female lead is a professional football coach. Starting out as a rookie first-team coach, she takes on the world of football. She begins at Crystal Palace, then moves on to top clubs~ She's already coaching a powerhouse club now.

The male lead isn't in the football business. He's mainly a supportive husband type. (Not important.)

The career plot takes center stage!! The romance is sparse.

The food novel I plan to publish alongside this one:

After three years stuck in a food desert overseas, Chen Yu finally made it home. Just as she was about to indulge in some delicious food, she died in a car accident.

After transmigrating into a book and being reborn as an NPC in a novel, Chen Yu was full of resentment and resolved never to put off enjoying good food again.

But when she returned to the original body's home in a remote borderland and saw everyone wolfing down boiled meat that was nothing but salty, and chomping away happily on bread as hard as branches, she fell silent.

How did I go from one food desert to another?

It had come to this, so she could only cook for herself. Chen Yu rolled up her sleeves, ready to put her culinary skills to work earning a living and satisfying her stomach.

Word had it in the capital that a new restaurant had opened recently in Yuanshan City, a remote border town.

Its dishes were unusual and its combinations fresh. Everyone who tried them was full of praise.

A worldly merchant glanced at the food on the next table. "These black beans with garlic are so fragrant? Get me one too!"

The waiter smiled. "One serving of ribs with black beans and garlic rice, coming up~"

A haughty foreigner was drawn in by a familiar aroma and ate until his eyes grew moist. "You people of the East, where did you learn to cook? This tastes just like home!"

In the busy kitchen, Chen Yu thought: Three years studying in Britain did teach me a bit of French cooking.

A skeptical young nobleman from the capital came all this way. "It's probably just country bumpkins bragging. What good food could there be in a backwater like that?"

After finishing a meal, he walked out of the restaurant leaning against the wall. "Tell Father I want to marry her. No, I want to marry into her family..."

"Young master, please behave yourself." Inside the restaurant, a cool-faced man in a skirt said sternly.

The young nobleman turned around. "?"

Why would the lord of Yuanshan City leave his post to work as a waiter here?

From glass-crisp roast chicken, tiger-skin Dongpo pork knuckle, sweet-and-sour plum duck, eel with black bean sauce, and scallop and corn soup... to beef bourguignon, French duck confit, Basque chicken stew, and cream of mushroom soup...

With her constantly changing menu, she turned a little borderland restaurant into an internationally famous hotel.

When the days of war from the original novel arrived, Chen Yu watched the people of two nations, who should have been on the brink of conflict, drink and feast together in her restaurant. She smiled, finally at peace.

The world is vast, but eating comes first. Wherever you are, remember to eat well.

[Reader's Guide]

1. The focus is on food. Chinese cuisine dominates at first, with dishes from around the world gradually appearing.

2. A fictional ancient setting, very loosely based on anything real, with a mountain of original worldbuilding.

The next football novel I plan to write: #10555889, [Football] Reborn with a System to Save Bayern

Meng Zhao is a Bayern fan.

That year, she stayed up all night watching her team lose the Bundesliga title, then suffer a last-minute Champions League defeat.

Sigh, another night of being served crap by my own team.

After the match, she uninstalled Dongqiu Di, closed Xiaohongshu, deleted Weibo, then resolutely opened Football Manager, hoping to save the team in a virtual world.

Once the game started, she couldn't stop. Meng Zhao became so obsessed that she played herself to death...

*

Thankfully, she was reborn after dying.

And not only was she reborn, she became the head coach of Bayern Munich.

At first, she was terrified and tried every possible way to turn down the job.

But when she arrived at the club and saw the familiar Football Manager UI and editor icon floating in midair, an idea came to her.

Could this really be her chance to be reborn and save Bayern?

Thinking of all the crap her team had served her over the years, then looking at the System interface before her, Meng Zhao decided to give her team a cheat.

*

The first step to building a dynasty! Let's check out the academy's young prospects.

Meng Zhao arrived at the club and said this as she watched ability and potential ratings appear above the heads of the academy kids walking past.

The second step to building a dynasty! Keep the dressing room stable and say no to football's Hollywood drama!

In the conference room, she looked at the System's recommended position floating above Joshua Kimmich's head, put a hand on his shoulder, and said solemnly:

"Joshua, you're a number six. I said so! Even Jesus can't change that!"

"Upa, I've always believed in you. You'll become a world-class centre-back."

"Thomas! You'll always be one of my key starters!"

"De Ligt, I'll make sure you stay!"

"What about me?"

Manuel Neuer had heard the coach say something inexplicable to each of his teammates, and wondered what she would say to him.

"Uh..." Meng Zhao looked at Neuer, who was grinning broadly, and her expression suddenly grew complicated. "Remember, Manu, don't go skiing. Seriously."

*

When Bayern announced their new coach, the outside world erupted.

[Shocking!! After six-title-winning Flick leaves, Bayern hires an unknown rookie coach!!]

Seeing her former friends and family on a Chinese football app, all using familiar usernames to attack Bayern's executives, Meng Zhao smiled with understanding.

Meng Zhao: I may not know that much about football, but the System does. With my golden finger, all I ask for is fairness and impartiality.

Reborn in this life, I want the Champions League and the Ballon d'Or!

[Reader's Guide]

The focus is on competition and the team's everyday life, with very little romance. No definite couple, but other characters do have one-sided crushes on the female lead.

At first, the story is almost entirely focused on Bayern. Later, she might coach Germany (?).

A Bayern fan's work to make up for past regrets. Those years were truly painful to watch...

The timeline begins after Flick's dismissal. I hope to give Thomas Muller and Bayern a happier ending.

Theme: Independence, self-reliance, and an enduring spirit of life.