[Football] Born to Be a Champion

Synopsis:

Jing Yan is half German, half Chinese, and widely recognized as the world's number-one striker. He's also a rare breed in football: a true center forward.

He's handsome, technically gifted, and kind, combining South American flair with European elegance.

But at the very beginning, when Jing Yan was just one of countless aspiring youngsters in Real Madrid's youth academy, he thought of himself as an ordinary person.

The only unusual thing about him was that he was a little better-looking than everyone else.

Whenever he played, there were twice as many spectators in the stands as usual.

That summer, when his dream first set sail, a reporter asked him, "What do you hope to achieve in the future?"

The blue-eyed, black-haired boy rested his chin on his hand, a blade of grass between his lips, and leaned against the railing. His smile was more dazzling than the sunlight over Madrid.

He said, "If I win a championship before I'm forty, I'll be perfectly satisfied!"

Four years later, Jing Yan achieved that goal ahead of schedule.

And he didn't just win championships. He completed the full set of team and individual honors.

That year, Jing Yan was twenty-three.

People say Jing Yan is lucky, that he has the Midas touch. Every team he joins is guaranteed at least one title by the end of the season, without exception.

But only Jing Yan knows how many nights of extra training it took to climb from an unknown rookie to the summit of glory, how many videos he studied with painstaking care, and how many rivals he had to beat.

He wasn't born a champion.

He made his own way.

Fame, fortune, cheers, and love,

everything he has,

is what he deserves.

Note:

Jing Yan is a Real Madrid youth academy and Germany national team what-if.

The timeline starts in 2009.

(Competitive spirit and the everyday life of a young man.)

(A fairly traditional progression story. He won't be amazing right from the start.)

(The overall mood is still lighthearted.)

(Contains a sunny little puppy.)

Important points:

1. There are a huge number of people crushing on Jing Yan.

2. The story is serialized by season:

Early on, his career is on the rise, with no romance. Everyone's just friends.

In the middle, his career develops steadily, and romance and various crushes begin.

Later, he has both fame and fortune, while romance and palace intrigue develop side by side.

3. It's an all-ships story with arrows pointing at him from every direction, and there are love-triangle showdowns, but no group sex. (I heard the rules have loosened up now, so everyone can get an ending.)

*This story has no secondary couples.

*Everyone around Jing Yan is an introvert. He barrels into their lives like a husky and "kidnaps" them into becoming his friends.

*Jing Yan is not a naive, sweet fool.

Theme: Friendship, hard work, victory