
Starting with Balotelli
开局一个巴洛特利
- Status
- Completed
- Length
- 2.0M Words
- Genre
- Sports
- Subgenre
- Soccer
- Updated
- 3y ago
- English
- Request a translation
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I don't watch football much, but I keep seeing people say that Balotelli has great talent. Could someone explain in what way that talent is so great, and provide a comparison? Thanks.
Let's analyze why we can't get high-quality products. The author's novel is quite good. I compared it with other excellent football novels on Qidian and will give my brief comments. 1. So many comments, don't write about the Chinese national football team, don't write about it. Why do you have to write about it?
Couldn't you just write about a football team that isn't Chinese? Why did you have to involve the national team and the World Cup? Can one person change the Chinese team's record? Why did you have to portray one person as a god—doing a one-man show against 21 opponents, turning the tide, and snatching victory from the jaws of defeat? Isn't that exhausting? Isn't that annoying? Wouldn't it be better to just write about a foreign team?
I'm not subscribing anymore. While I don't particularly like or dislike Korean celebrities, they're playing football in England, so it's understandable that they'd like to have a foreign girlfriend – at least mixed-race babies are cute. But to include a Korean actress in a football story just doesn't feel right.
In fact, the top five European football leagues have already proven that China simply doesn't have a football market. Not many people would spend over 1,000 yuan a year on team jerseys and merchandise. Don't talk about the number of viewers; if you only watch but don't spend, what kind of market is that?
The viewing experience was poor; it was too bland. The protagonist seemed more like a passer than a striker, and there were no exciting moments. There are many stories of geniuses becoming famous overnight with exceptional talent, but even with a template and a system, the protagonist is still just average. When watching football, the problem isn't that you're using cheat codes, but that you're not using them big enough.
Author, don't actually plan to fixate the protagonist at Sheffield United. To put it bluntly, without oil-rich backers, why would Sheffield United keep the protagonist? How much could the protagonist earn at Sheffield United under Financial Fair Play? And what if the protagonist reaches the Ballon d'Or's top three level, only to earn a second- or third-rate salary at Sheffield United?
After reading over twenty chapters, the protagonist feels like a robot. It's not that the training is bad, or that the nutritional meals are wrong, but every time something is deemed undesirable, the protagonist complains. Is this even human? I can say that if anyone reading this novel were reborn, they would never be this boring.
I didn't hold back when writing about the national football team, but I just couldn't stand people using their connections and resources to help those players. Are Chinese football players bad at playing football? They just don't want to play well. I'll see how much of an impact Li Tie's entry will have on Chinese football this time, and whether we can still play well.
Seeing the Chinese national football team made me immediately drop the book.