Dream Training : The Champions

It was very difficult to describe Kazuki's true feelings for his father. There was a part of Kazuki that was disappointed because his father didn't support Kazuki's decision to become a soccer player. Another part is the feelings of a child that wants to acknowledge by his father. Kazuki wanted his Father to acknowledge his success as a soccer player. Kazuki's feeling for his father was not pure hatred. It's a complex feeling.

Knowing the complicated relationship between father and son, Kazuki's mother immediately turned her attention to inviting her husband and son to dinner. Finally, the Kazeshima family started a full 3 member dinner for the first time in many years.

Too bad, The warm atmosphere that Kazuki's mother wanted to create failed. Kazuki was busy eating his food, and so was Kazuki's father. The two of them were still not chatting, so the atmosphere at the dining table turned cold. Kazuki's mother continued to talk about many things to try to warm up the atmosphere.

Just as Kazuki thought this atmosphere would last until he left, but his father suddenly spoke up. After finishing his meal, he looked at Kazuki and said, "You did a great job in England."

Kazuki suddenly fell silent. He felt his feelings explode. His eyes suddenly became wet, his vision became a bit blurry. He dropped his head and wept his eye.

He pleaded, "Yes, I am. Because that I don't need your help to achieve it. Therefore, don't try to use your company to help me." Of course, what Kazuki meant was Avisca that had made Kazuki as their product brand ambassador.

Kazuki's father added in his words, "But that's not enough, you have to do better. If this is all, then being my successor to manage the company is better than continuing your career."

"I know, stop talking like that. You don't need to motivate me. I'll do better."

Kazuki suddenly felt that his father seemed to have given up on forcing Kazuki to stop his career as a footballer. However, after thinking for a while, Kazuki felt his father gave up because the career of a football player wasn't that long. Most players retire at the age of 30 or more. At the age of 30, it was not too late for Kazuki to learn to manage a company.

After guessing his father's thoughts, Kazuki felt a little relieved. He didn't know what he would do after retiring from the world of football, but at least Kazuki was relieved because it meant that his father would not interfere with his career as a footballer anymore.

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After finishing dinner, Kazuki immediately said goodbye to his mother and father. The next day, he must immediately gather with other players to practice before the World Cup qualifying round 4 group B.

In this group b, Japan was accompanied by Australia, Jordan, Oman, Iraq. Among the four countries that are Japan's opponents, only Australia, who could be trouble for the Japanese national team. The other teams left behind in terms of quality to Japan and Australia.

Japan's current coach is Luis Arragon. Although not a famous coach, but this coach had known about Japanese football for so long. However, Arragon had been coached on several Japanese clubs over the past 5 years. You could say he was very familiar with the Japanese league itself. Under Arragon's coaching, Japan used pretty neat ball possession tactics. At least against Asian countries, Japan had always managed to maintain high ball possession, even when they met with South Korea.

While being coached by Arragon, Japan often came up with a false nine strategy with Okazaki as a striker. This made Kazuki wonder what Arragon would do to him. There's no way Arragon could turn a Japanese team that had played with false nines into a striker-centered team. It will only make the Japanese national team's training in vain. The only thing left was to adjust Kazuki's position.

Firstly, even though Kazuki could play as a false nine, his scoring ability would only be wasted if he was far from the goalpost. The thing that Arragon could do was move Kazuki aside. True, the wing position had always been a position that plays a major role in scoring goals in Arragon's gameplay.

The right-wing position is frequently filled by Kagawa so Kazuki will probably play on the left-wing to compete with Yuya Osaka. This is a little funny because Kazuki chose his career as a striker because Japan did not have a reliable striker, it turns out that after Kazuki played in the Japanese national team he instead played as a winger.

On the next day, Kazuki arrived at the Saitama training center. When he arrived there were lots of cameras taking pictures of his car and even some reporters were trying to communicate with Kazuki who was in the car. Kazuki ignored them, he told Shiraishi to go ahead.

After entering the training center, Kazuki was greeted by the coaching team. Arragon's assistant, Miyatake, greeted Kazuki happily.

"Welcome to the Japanese national team, Kazuki. I'm so glad you could attend the call we've been given. Your presence is eagerly awaited by everyone."

Kazuki smiled slightly and replied, "As a Japanese citizen, I am also very grateful for this opportunity you had given to play for this country. It is my dream to wear blue t-shirts and perform on the international stage."

A while later, Kazuki changed his clothes and came with Miyatake to the field. On the pitch, he saw some players had arrived at the training center and were doing a little warm-up. Overall, today's training hadn't started, yet there was still about half an hour before the official training started.

Kazuki's arrival was welcomed by the other players. Especially the captain of the Japanese team, Makoto Hasebe, his position in the Japanese national team is a midfielder. Hasebe has been playing at Wolfsburg since 2008. Apart from Hasebe, another player that Kazuki recognizes is Okazaki.

However, he did play against Okazaki at Southampton. The other players might not be so clear on Kazuki's abilities, but Okazaki who saw Kazuki's play firsthand knew how admirable this young player was.

As Kazuki expected, Arragon communicated with him about Kazuki's position. Kazuki himself agreed to Arragon's request to play on the left flank. Although in this half of the season his achievements as a young player were outstanding, but he didn't want to so arrogantly spoil the strategy that Arragon had built. Kazuki only asked for one thing from Arragon, which was the right to execute the opportunity.

The ability that Kazuki had confident was his shoots. Because of that, Kazuki asked for the right to take most japan opportunities in the match from Arragon. Arragon knew that well, however, the 17 goals Kazuki had scored in the Premier League was enough to prove how good Kazuki's shot was. Therefore, the coach from Spain agreed to Kazuki's request.. That way, Arragon had to devise a scheme where Kazuki could make the most of his abilities.