I changed football.

"Nelson, I watched yesterday's game. Killian certainly lived up to my expectations; he's a true talent. But that Chinese player, Li, really surprised me. Was he this strong in the U19 class?"

The next day, all the B team players were given a day off, but the B team's head coach, Nelson Caldera, still arrived at his office on time.

As soon as I arrived at the office, I received a call from the first team head coach, Leonardo Jardim.

Nelson was originally Jardim's assistant coach, but before the start of the season, the B team's head coach resigned, and Nelson temporarily took over as the B team's assistant coach.

However, this temporary period has now come to an end.

Although Nelson is the head coach of the B team, he is actually still part of Jardim's coaching staff, and his salary is still paid by Jardim.

Jardim's idea was to promote Mbappe and Li Yuan to the B team.

Jardim has always been a head coach who likes to use and promote young players.

This may be related to his background. Jardim never played professional football; after becoming a professional coach, he started by coaching youth teams.

He then played in the Portuguese and Greek Super Leagues, where most teams profited by selling youth players or using them as stepping stones for South American players. Using young players had become his coaching habit.

"When the national team matches come around, we can promote these two players to the first team to train with them for a while."

Upon hearing Jardine's words, Nelson naturally had no objection.

Jardim watched one of their matches and immediately decided to promote them to the first team for training during the next international break, which is undoubtedly a recognition of their abilities.

Nelson did not choose to hide the matter for the time being; he announced the news directly to the entire team during the training session the next day.

Li Yuan was not surprised at all by Mbappe's selection to the first team. In his previous life, he had been Mbappe's secretary for a period of time, and he knew that Mbappe was first selected for the first team during this international break.

He was still quite surprised to be selected for the first team, considering that he had only played one game in the French second division and was not like Mbappe, who was under continuous scrutiny and development by the club.

However, being selected for the first team is definitely a good thing. Li Yuan and Mbappe stood in the middle of the team and listened to their teammates' applause. They couldn't help but applaud themselves.

To be honest, Li Yuan was really looking forward to it. He originally thought that he might not have a chance to be promoted to the first team until next year, but he didn't expect that he would be promoted to the first team during the national team match next month. This was something he really didn't expect.

Before that, Team B had several more games to play.

Li Yuan knew that this promotion to the first team would likely just mean a short period of training with them. Staying on the first team would be difficult; a single performance wouldn't be enough to secure a place. To remain, he needed to consider whether the first team needed a player in his position, and he also needed to perform well in the B team. Only then might he have a chance to stay in the first team.

It's worth noting that in his previous life, Mbappe was only officially promoted to the first team in March 2016. Before that, he had been shuttling between the B team and the first team, and he was almost always on the bench in the first team.

He waited for his chance until February 2016 when he scored his first goal for Monaco's first team, and then in March he signed his first professional contract with Monaco.

Li Yuan could roughly guess that Mbappe's talent was also "legendary".

However, as the saying goes, even legendary titles have their differences.

Before joining the first team in November, the B team had two league matches and one cup match.

Speaking of the cup that Team B participated in, Li Yuan couldn't even find it on the Chinese internet. It's a cup competition for teams from the French National Second Division and the French National League, which are the fourth and third divisions, respectively.

If we had to translate it, it should be called the French Football Championship.

This cup competition is somewhat similar to the English league championship, consisting of teams from League One, League Two, and the Premier League U21 team, with a group stage followed by a knockout stage format.

The original intention of this cup competition was very simple: to give teams in lower leagues a competition title to compete for.

Team B's match is the fourth round of the tournament. If they win this round, they will advance to the round of 16 of the French Football Championship.

……

In the subsequent daily training of Team B, Li Yuan appeared to be extremely diligent.

This surprised Mbappe a bit.

"I thought you were the kind of person who was talented but didn't like to train."

Why do you say that?

"You didn't train this hard in the U19 team—"

"I want to seize this opportunity and strive to stay in the first team."

Mbappe nodded: "Then let's work hard!"

Li Yuan has recently grown closer to Mbappe, but they are not friends yet, a fact that Li Yuan can clearly sense.

In Team B, Li Yuan's closest friend is Mbappe. He doesn't have much contact with the others, mainly because he focuses most of his energy on training and does extra practice in his spare time.

The reason is simple: his talent is much better than before; it's now a [legendary talent], which gives Li Yuan ample motivation to train and practice more.

When he first practiced free kicks at night, he had hardly ever practiced them before and didn't have the ability to do so. But after a night of extra practice, he had already gotten the hang of it and his free kick ability was starting to look promising.

After two extra training nights, Li Yuan could feel his free-kick ability improving rapidly.

Only at this moment did Li Yuan realize that this was the [Legendary Talent]?

You must learn any new skill faster, and master any new football technique faster and more proficiently than the average person.

From then on, Li Yuan chose to practice extra almost every day, and he fell in love with the feeling of improving himself.

And he can't wait to test his talent in an official match.

The opportunity came soon.

In the fourth round of the French Football Championship, Monaco B faced Vitelli.

Vitelli is also a team in Ligue 2, but in Group D.

This opponent isn't too strong; they're in the lower half of Group D.

Facing such an opponent, Li Yuan, who started the game, helped his team open the scoring with a free kick.

Mbappe, not wanting Li Yuan to have all the glory, also made crazy dribbling breakthroughs in the following matches.

His speed is a deadly weapon in any competition, let alone in the French second division. Soon, the second goal came, with Mbappe scoring a curling shot from the left side of the arc.

The match ended with a score of 2-0.

Li Yuan and Mbappe continued to perform excellently.

Goal! We won!

But Li Yuan only felt a little regretful.

Because the system did not issue any tasks before this match.

This made Li Yuan feel like he had lost out by not getting the props.

But the opportunity came very soon.

Because the system issued a new task to Li Yuan the day before the 9th round of the French Ligue 2 Group C.

[Main Quest: A Man Can't Stop. Mandatory Target: Score a goal in the next league match. Optional Targets: 1. A brace. 2. A hat-trick.]

[Required Completion Reward: Language Bread. Users can choose one language to master after using it. Optional Completion Reward: Completing one reward will grant one Recovery Potion.]

"Wow, there's even language bread? Are you Doraemon?"