The Card-Playing Soccer King

Dong Zeyu came up through China's youth training system, passed every trial, and was asked for 200,000 yuan by the coach as soon as contract talks began.

Dong Zeyu turned and walked away.

Can't afford to pay under the table? Then I'll make it in Europe.

Ligue 1 doesn't want me? Ligue 2 looks down on me? Then I'll start in France's fourth-tier amateur league!

Unexpectedly, on his first day with a small-town team, the System arrived.

[Through ball: 80% success rate]

[Hold-up play: 65% success rate]

[Header: 25% success rate]

As long as someone likes me, I can draw a card and grow stronger.

Brest in Ligue 2? Sorry, I'll take on the entire defense by myself.

The media call him "a mysterious force from the East."

His teammates call him "the greatest foreign player in the town's history."

But no one knows that this Chinese kid will one day win the Ballon d'Or and the World Cup, and become the king of the Bernabeu.

From amateur player to the best in the world, all it took was one card.