I changed football.

[Main quest has been released]

[Gold Main Quest: Rise to First Team]

[Task Description: Promoted to the first team before the end of the 2015-16 season]

[Task Rewards: Adjusted dynamically based on specific circumstances]

Li Yuan was already dressed when he saw the message from the system while he was standing by the bed.

"Why are there gold-level quests in the main storyline? Are they quest levels?"

[Quests are divided into main quests and side quests. Main quests are further divided into Golden Main Quests and regular Main Quests. Golden Main Quests generally have seasonal objectives and are randomly released. Regular Main Quests are generally related to competitions and are usually released before important matches. Side quests vary in type and are not limited to competitions themselves.]

"Okay, your system is simple, not very complicated."

[It has been detected that there are only 2 days left until the user's team's next match. The second main quest is now being issued.]

Main Quest: The First Professional League Match

[Task Description: On October 18th, there will be a match between Monaco B and Grosmiias in the French National League Two. Users will have one mandatory task and three optional tasks to complete during this match. Failure to complete the mandatory task will result in immediate task failure with no penalty, but completed optional tasks will not yield any rewards.]

[Must-achieve the following objective: The player's post-match rating must be among the top two in the team.]

[Optional completion objectives: 1. Score a goal. 2. Provide an assist. 3. Score a goal after cutting inside from the right wing.]

[Mission Rewards: Mandatory mission objective reward is Messi's shin guards (left). Optional mission objective reward is a rare item: Recovery Potion. One potion is awarded for each completed objective.]

[Messi's shin guards (left): A legendary item, an equipment-type item that can be equipped directly without any usage requirements. Once equipped, it directly applies to any shin guards (left) worn by the user. After use, it improves the user's left foot's gait and increases the user's left leg's resistance to injury. It can be combined with Ronaldo's shin guards (right) to form a set bonus.]

[The Peerless Duo's Shin Guards: Equipping both Cristiano Ronaldo's shin guards (right) and Messi's shin guards (left) significantly enhances the user's footwork. During the set's duration, it accelerates the improvement of the user's various offensive abilities and has an upgrade potential.]

"What about that recovery potion? Is it like the bandage, also an item for healing injuries and illnesses?"

[Recovery Potion: A rare item that restores the user's stamina upon use. It can be used at any time and can be reused multiple times, but the effects of a single use do not stack.]

"These are all good things!"

Li Yuan became more and more excited as he looked at them, wishing he could get his hands on these props immediately.

"Weren't you supposed to be going to Team B today? It's already 7:40, aren't you getting ready to leave?"

Just then, Li Yuan's roommate, Riley Fortach, reminded him.

"Yeah, Riley, thanks!"

Li Yuan quickly put on his clothes and left the dormitory.

The Monaco youth team's players' dormitory is a bit far from the training base.

Team B informed us that training would begin at 8:00 AM.

Li Yuan arrived at Team B's locker room at 7:50.

Upon entering the locker room, there were only two or three players inside, all of whom were already dressed in their training uniforms.

Li Yuan quickly changed into his training clothes and followed his teammates, who were still in the locker room, to the training field.

As soon as he entered the training field, he saw Mbappe standing at the front of the team, and Li Yuan walked over without thinking.

"Killian, when did you get here?"

He and Mbappe were already quite familiar with each other in the U19 team, and now that they've both been promoted to the B team, they're naturally even more familiar with each other.

Li Yuan hadn't seen Mbappe for a long time, but after being reborn, his past memories came flooding back. Whether it was due to the system or something else, Li Yuan almost immediately regained those memories.

In my memory, Mbappe and Li Yuan did have a good relationship, but it was only a good relationship among teammates. Mbappe's career plan was very clear, and his schedule was always very full, so Li Yuan didn't have much contact with Mbappe outside of training and matches.

"You're a bit late. The head coach will be here soon."

Just then, Nelson Caldera walked over; he was the head coach of Monaco B team.

He walked to the front of the line.

The other players quickly formed a semi-circular formation.

Li Yuan and Mbappe stood directly on the far side.

"Today is the day that two outstanding U19 players have joined us. Killian and Lee, please come up and introduce yourselves."

Mbappe walked up to the head coach with his head held high.

Although he held his head high, he already had the characteristic of later CEO M when he spoke, speaking in a comprehensive and fluent manner.

After he finished speaking, he went downstairs, and then Li Yuan came upstairs.

Li Yuan's words were also quite proper and he wouldn't do anything out of line.

Both of them received applause after they finished speaking.

"There are still 3 days until the next round of the league, and today we have two very strong youth team players joining the team, so we will have an intra-squad training match today."

Like Monaco's youth teams, Monaco B's training matches and scrimmages are played in 45-minute halves.

Li Yuan and Mbappe were assigned to the reserve team, which consisted of players wearing blue vests.

Before going on the field, Mbappe walked over to Li Yuan.

"Li, do your best later, this is our chance!"

The word "we" immediately put the two on the same side, even though they did come together.

However, Li Yuan still marveled at Mbappe's art of speaking, saying it was something he had learned since childhood. If one didn't know what happened to Mbappe later, they would have actually been recruited into his French clique.

……

The match has already begun.

Mbappe plays as a left winger, Li Yuan as a right winger, and the B team's substitute center forward is Enzoneli Besta, an Algerian white center forward who is not very tall, only 1.75 meters, but has good attacking power and is a small tank type of center forward.

However, he's a bit inferior to the starting center forward of Team B. Team B's starting center forward is a tall Ghanaian center forward named Garrison Senna. At 1.87 meters tall, he's not only tall and strong, but also incredibly fast, and his shot is considered very powerful for a youth team and Team B level.

But even the center forward for Monaco B team ultimately failed to make it to the top league.

Well, actually, he didn't even make it to Ligue 2, nor did he make it to the French First Division, which is the third tier of French football. In the end, he played in the French Second Division, which is the fourth tier of French football, for a few years.

In his previous life, Li Yuan couldn't even find out how many seasons he played in the French second division. At least, he couldn't find any information about him on the Chinese internet, and the information on him on foreign websites was also incomplete.

In his previous life, Li Yuan had searched for all the players in Monaco B team, those players he had never been teammates with.

Very few of them actually make it to the second tier of European leagues.

This illustrates just how high the elimination rate is in professional football.

Monaco's youth academy is actually quite good by French standards; otherwise, Mbappe's parents wouldn't have given up on the youth academies of so many top clubs to come to Monaco.

Even a club like that wouldn't be able to produce that many star players who can play in the second division of Europe.

……

Because the match was only 45 minutes long, both teams played a very direct style of play.

The 45-minute game is divided into two halves, each lasting 22 minutes. Although Li Yuan didn't know where the missing minute went, that's what the head coach said, and Li Yuan didn't pay attention to these details.

The first half started with the main team kicking off.

The main team was indeed much stronger than the substitute team as a whole, so until the 5th minute of the game, the substitute team hadn't even touched the ball once.

Li Yuan wasn't in a hurry, but Mbappe was already getting anxious. He waved his hand, signaling his teammates to press upwards.

"Wow, so even back then, M's still willing to take the hits!"

Mbappé is well-known, after all, his parents once publicly criticized the club in the media, accusing the then Monaco youth team coach of not letting their son start. The key point is that Monaco eventually compromised and gave in.

So from then on, Mbappe's influence in Monaco's youth teams increased rapidly, and even the first team heard that there was such a highly valued heir in the youth teams.

The first team already knew, so the B team must have known as well. Before Mbappe was promoted to the B team, the B team players already knew that a formidable young master was coming.

However, the mentality of the starting players and the substitutes is completely different.

Among the starting players, especially the attacking players, there are those who want to surpass Mbappe, and among the substitute players, there are also those who want to follow in Mbappe's footsteps.

Li Yuancai had only been with the B team for less than an hour when he noticed that many of the substitutes had already started playing office politics football.

When Mbappe waved his hand, many substitute players had already started charging forward with him.

Team B's starters are stronger than the substitutes, but not by much. With the substitutes' aggressive pressing and pressing, possession quickly shifted to them.

Mbappe immediately displayed his speed as soon as he got the ball.

Once he charged forward, the first team's defenders couldn't stop him at all. However, at this point, Mbappe's ability to aim from a distance and then shoot close was not yet fully developed. He made a move to aim from a distance and then shoot close, but in the end, he missed.

However, this individual combat ability still drew applause from B team head coach Nelson Caldera on the sidelines.

With Mbappe already making his move, Li Yuan naturally didn't want to fall behind.

Next, he's going to start his show.