Who Let Him Become a Goalkeeper!

What I hate most are these kinds of football stories where the goalkeeper wins the Golden Boot. If you win the Golden Boot, who's going to guard the goal? Will your teammates still be motivated? You're facing 11 opponents all by yourself.

I'm curious how the author convinced himself to write such a "brainy" novel. Was it out of necessity? Or was it a task assigned by the protagonist?

Occasionally, you can fill in for the goalkeeper if he gets injured, but if you score goals all the time and don't play goalkeeping, what striker or center forward would want to team up with you? Wouldn't they all become useless teammates? With so many goals, if the striker isn't mentioned, the head coach would be fired. This is even more outrageous than those football articles where the head coach actually plays on the field.

That's so stupid! In chapter 18, the protagonist was actually willing to trade his crippled state from being tackled to Real Madrid winning a match.

Seriously, can you even write about football? If you can't, don't write at all. A goalkeeper winning the Golden Boot and a hat-trick? Isn't that just utterly absurd? You're a goalkeeper, not a striker. You'd be making it sound like science fiction football.

Is this guy trying to apply basketball tactics to soccer? Starting with a steal and a fast break to the other team's basket before dunking? That doesn't make sense.

A 1.74-Meter tall goalkeeper with virtually no goalkeeping skills, and you expect him to score? You mean you want him to control possession the entire game, never lose possession, otherwise the opponent will lob the ball over your goalkeeper? 🥵

This isn't like basketball, which is played on a small court. On a football field, about 110 meters wide, if the goalkeeper wins the Golden Boot, who will guard the goal? Real Madrid's midfielders and forwards, worth over 100 million euros and earning tens of millions of euros a year, would be furious. Besides, football players can change positions. If you have such strong attacking attributes, why not change positions and play in the forward line?

I feel the author is a Ronaldo hater, but it doesn't matter as long as they don't fawn over Messi. I'm not a Ronaldo fan, just a casual observer. It doesn't matter who you criticize, but fawning over Messi is going too far. Don't say the organizers cheated him out of playing time. Not playing is understandable, but what's the reason for his sullen face, hands in pockets, and ignoring fans?

Don't read this book as a football novel; it's a pretentious urban fantasy. It's not that this type of story doesn't succeed because it had a prior readership; the very first chapters are designed to discourage readers.