I changed football.

"You two performed beyond my expectations today."

Leonardo Jardim kept Li Yuan and Mbappe behind after the afternoon training session.

"You two have only been playing in the professional league for less than a month, and it's only the fourth-tier league. Now you've gone straight to the training intensity of Ligue 1. You both persevered on the first day, which proves that your physical condition is at least up to par."

"Tomorrow's training intensity will not be lower than today's. Before you go back tonight, you can go to the rehabilitation room and soak in the ice pool to reduce the buildup of lactic acid in your muscles. You trained so hard today, soaking in the ice pool will be good for you."

After saying this, Yardin left.

Li Yuan and Mbappe exchanged a glance.

"So? Are you going or not?"

"Of course we'll go. The youth teams don't have anything like this. We just make our own buckets and put some ice in. The first team is better; they have an ice pool."

Mbappe remarked and then walked with Li Yuan into the rehabilitation room.

"It seems that today's training intensity is nothing for these first-team players," Li Yuan remarked.

Mbappe had already taken off his shirt, leaving only his shorts, and slid into the ice pool.

"Yeah, after they finished training, they just looked a little tired, but they were still in the mood to chat and laugh, unlike us who looked so disheveled." Mbappe was clearly a little embarrassed to be collapsed on the ground after training today.

Li Yuan could understand. For someone like Mbappe, whose image had been carefully crafted since childhood, it wasn't a good image to be exhausted from training and then collapse on the ground.

"It's not that. Didn't you notice that this ice pool wasn't used at all before we arrived? That means the first-team players had a pretty light training session today, so they didn't need to relax in the ice pool at all."

"Sigh—I wonder when we'll be able to train like them."

"Of course you can. This kind of thing is all about practice; you can't train talent."

Li Yuan was just expressing his feelings when he said that.

Then he and Mbappe stopped talking and focused on feeling the cold of the ice pool.

You can't stay in this ice pool for too long, as it can damage your muscles. So there's a timer next to the ice pool that beeps when the time is up.

The time was up very quickly.

Only then did the two of them get up and leave.

For Li Yuan, the first day of training was over.

He gained a lot.

If the training is this intense, he feels that he should be able to adapt to the intensity of the competition in another two or three days.

He is very confident in his ability to adapt.

In other words, this system doesn't have any attribute value settings, otherwise he felt that he would definitely have a high score in the "adaptability" category.

That evening, Li Yuan leaned against the sofa in his dormitory, lost in thought.

He turned on his computer and created a new document on the desktop.

"What needs to be done next"

After typing out this sentence, Li Yuan continued typing.

1. Strive to adapt to the training intensity of the first team as soon as possible.

"2. I can't rely solely on the system. Starting tomorrow, I need to add extra training to develop my arsenal. I need to make my shooting ability fully develop, including shooting with my dominant foot, shooting with my weaker foot, heading ability, free kicks, and penalty kicks. This is a long-term task that I need to persevere with."

"3——"

Actually, by the time Li Yuan got to the third point, he didn't know what to write next, so he thought for a while longer.

3. Write a diary every day. You never know when you might need to write an autobiography, so just record what happened each day.

Li Yuan also felt that what he was doing might seem quite abstract to outsiders.

However, Li Yuan himself quite likes this method. Writing a diary is also a way of reviewing his day, and when he looks back on it later, he can recall exactly what happened that day.

Human memory is amazing; often, you only need a trigger to recall something.

After seeing this introduction back then, all those past events surfaced like big fish that had been caught.

……

"Sigh, I still have to go back to Team B."

"Killian, we'll be back sooner or later."

"Of course I believe that, but after these few days of training, I really don't want to go back to Team B."

Li Yuan and Mbappe returned to the B team near the end of the international break.

Jardim did not choose to keep the two players. They stayed with the first team for a total of 11 days before returning to the B team.

Just two days after returning to Team B, the 11th round of the French Second Division arrived.

Morocco's B team will play away against Pau City.

This team is quite strong, ranking fourth in the French Ligue 2 Group C, only 3 points behind second-placed Monaco B team.

This match was clearly not going to be easy.

However, once the match started and Li Yuan actually stepped onto the French second division field, he noticed something different.

He was faster.

It's harder for opponents to defend against him now.

This discovery is quite obvious.

Not only him, but Mbappe also noticed this.

The two almost immediately exchanged a glance on the field.

Although they were far apart, Li Yuan immediately understood what Mbappe wanted to say.

The rest of the match became very simple.

Li Yuan and Mbappe completely dominated the game.

Li Yuan contributed a goal and an assist, while Mbappe scored twice, leading the team to a resounding 3-0 victory away from home.

"The most important thing is that after playing this game—I played for 90 minutes—I wasn't as tired as before."

"This is the result of the first team's high-intensity training."

"The more you say that, the more I want to go back to the first team."

"You even used the word 'back'?"

"I believe I belong to the first team."

……

Seven days later, Monaco B will face Montois.

Li Yuan went on a scoring spree in this match, scoring twice in the first half alone.

In the second half, after drifting to the middle, he received a cross from Mbappe on the left wing, jumped high, and headed the ball into the goal.

Just as Li Yuan was happy about completing a hat trick today, he received some news after the game that made him less happy.

"You're going to the first team again?"

"Yes, I just received the notice. I need to report to the first team first thing tomorrow morning."

"What's the reason?"

Did you watch the first team's Europa League group stage match yesterday?

"I saw it, they lost 0-2, didn't they?"

"The first team lost 0-2 to Anderlecht, a direct competitor for qualification. Anderlecht has 7 points and the first team only has 6. They must win the last round and hope that Anderlecht fails to win in order to have a chance to advance."

"You've said so much because—"

"The head coach felt a bit of a change was needed, so he promoted me to the first team," Mbappe said happily.

Looking at the happy Mbappe, Li Yuan thought to himself, "Mbappe, aren't you supposed to be very emotionally intelligent? Why are you saying these things so happily in front of me? Don't you think I'm a little sad?"

Perhaps sensing Li Yuan's low spirits, Mbappe, who already considered Li Yuan a friend, immediately added, "The last Europa League group stage match is on December 11th, which is still two weeks away. You definitely have a chance to return to the first team!"