Rise of a Football God

After taking his bath and laying down on his bed, exhausted even as his captain already dozed off, Sam paid attention to his system interface.

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[You have completed matchday system mission: Win the game!]

[You played all 90 minutes of this football game as a starter!]

[Calculating reward…, please wait…]

[Calculation complete!]

[You have been rewarded with 2 Skill Points!]

[Available Skill Points: 8]

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[You have completed matchday system mission: S-ranked performance!]

>In your first professional football game as a starter, you managed to showcase an impressive performance, putting on an incredible player of the match display by scoring the first hattrick of your professional football career. Your incredible performance has been ranked by the system as S<

[Calculating reward…, please wait…]

[Calculation complete!]

[You have been rewarded with 5 Skill Points!]

[Available Skill Points: 13]

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[During today\'s game, real-time game experience accumulation was at work, witnessing your incredible performance and granting you with the corresponding upgrade!]

[Your shot accuracy has improved!]

[Congratulations! Your shooting attribute has increased by +1]

[Your one-on-one defending has improved!]

[Your man-marking skills has improved!]

[Your zonal marking skills has improved!]

[Congratulations! Your defending attribute has increased by +2]

[Congratulations! Your stamina attribute has increased by +1]

[Congratulations! You have met the requirements to level up!]

[Your overall player rating has increased to 71!]

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Player Attributes:

*Pace: 72

*Shot: 70

*Pass: 74

*Dribbling: 66

*Defending: 35

*Physicality: 63

*Stamina: 79

Overall Rating: 71

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[Your mastery over the football skill \'Knuckle Shot\' has increased to basic!]

(Skill progress to intermediate level: 18/100)

[Congratulations! Your shooting attribute has increased again by +2]

*Shot: 72

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[You have completed a hidden system mission: Score a hat trick!]

[Congratulations! The system has awakened to level 3!]

[You have unlocked level 3 perk: Inventory!]

>System inventory is a secondary dimensional space where you can store anything except living things<

[System Inventory Slots: 8]

[Slot 1: Low-grade physical conditioning elixir]

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[NOTE: A new slot can be bought in the system inventory in exchange for 5 Skill Points.]

[Snooping Tool has been upgraded to level 3!]

[You can now access the skills of players and their respective masteries]

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In a single game, Sam managed to gain so much, he was amazed.

Due to his incredible performance in today\'s game, he managed to upgrade 3 of his attributes despite the fact that none of them ever budged once even with his efforts for the past few weeks.

This once again showed the importance of professional game experience, this was the main reason why playing time was very important for a professional football player\'s growth and form.

Apart from the fact that his system finally awakened to another level, one thing that truly excited him among the system notifications was the new skill that the system just indicated in his player status.

\'Finally!\' He thought excitedly. \'I did it without spending skill points!\'

Sam could still remember that moment vividly when he scored with the knuckle shot. He didn\'t plan it, he didn\'t think about it, everything that happened was instinctive, a reflex action.

He put a mental reminder to try it out again in his next training session.

This also brought him to his skills tab, he wanted to see the updated section of his football skills in the system interface.

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[Owned Football Skills:]

(La Croqueta)

(Skill Mastery Level: Basic)

(Skill progress to intermediate level: 31/100]

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(Body Feint)

(Skill Mastery Level: Basic)

(Skill progress to intermediate level: 17/100)

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(Cruyff Turn)

(Skill Mastery Level: Basic)

(Skill progress to intermediate level: 89/100)

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(Power Shot)

(Skill Mastery Level: Basic)

(Skill progress to intermediate level: 15/100)

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(Knuckle Shot)

(Skill Mastery Level: Basic)

(Skill progress to intermediate level: 18/100)

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Sam noted that apart from his newly gained football skill at the basic mastery level, 2 of his other football skills in the form of his power shot and body feint skills were slowly showing progress to the intermediate level.

\'Sweet\'. He thought.

And finally, he paid attention to the last section of system notifications that his system had for him after the game.

Unlike the first ones, these system notifications were new, different.

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[Congratulations! You have played your first game for Enyimba FC as a starting XI player; you are now eligible for the season system quest!]

[You have unlocked Season System Quests!]

[Your club, Enyimba FC is only eligible to compete for 2 trophies, the NPFL Championship Trophy and the Nigerian FA Cup!]

[NOTE: To present the best growth and career path for host, host must compete in the CAF Champions League!]

[Recalibrating…, please wait…]

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For the first time since Sam gained his system after the 2022 FIFA World Cup final, he saw the blue screen of the system suddenly go off.

At first, he panicked, wondering what happened but his wait only lasted 20 seconds as the system screen came back on.

\'What happened?\' He thought. \'Why did the system briefly go off?\'

He had so many questions but no answers.

The system continued displaying the notifications. For some reason, staring at these notifications, Sam felt like the font was duller than normal. \'Why does it seem as if the system is suddenly working on low energy?\'

He didn\'t think deeper into it though, focusing on the notifications.

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[Reality recalibration complete!]

[Through the rule of allocation by national association, Enyimba FC has been allocated a slot to compete in the CAF Champions League for the 2022/2023 football season!]

[Your club, Enyimba FC is now eligible to compete for 3 trophies, the NPFL Championship Trophy, the Nigerian FA Cup, and the CAF Champions League!]

[Season Quest 1: NPFL Championship]

[Mission 1: Win the NPFL Championship with Enyimba FC!]

[Mission Reward: +3 increase to 5 random football attributes, +50 Skill Points, and a random bonus reward!]

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[Mission 2: Win the best player award of the league!]

[Mission Reward: Random reward]

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[Season Quest 2: FA Cup]

[Mission 1: Win the FA Cup with Enyimba FC!]

[Mission Reward: +2 increase to 2 random football attributes, +30 Skill Points, and a random bonus reward!]

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[Mission 2: Win the best player award in the FA Cup!]

[Mission Reward: Random reward]

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[Season Quest 3: CAF Champions League]

[Mission 1: Win the CAF Champions League with Enyimba FC!]

[Mission Reward: +7 increase to a random football attribute, +100 Skill Points, and a random bonus reward!]

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[Mission 2: Win the best player award in the CAF Champions League!]

[Mission Reward: Random reward]

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Sam was amazed. \'But Enyimba FC didn\'t qualify for the CAF Champions league!\'