Ground football: Ronaldo thought I was going to assist him

Pooh.

I should thank my father, mother, and Deng Kai. Yes, that's the correct format.

Throughout European football, apart from Portuguese fans, no one doubts Spain and Guardiola.

But Portuguese fans really can't relate, because "Guardiola" is an insult there, used to describe someone as unlucky.

Does the Spanish national team have Guardiola?

The Portuguese translation is "Spain is really unlucky!"

……

"Ding! You have won a match. Your rating for this match is SS!"

"You have received 2 star player drops!"

「葡萄牙黄金一代的荣光（2/5）：黄金一代只是一个统称，不是所有黄金一代的成员都能被世人铭记，总要有人去当配角。防守跑位+1、拦截+2、抢断+2、解围+2、封堵+2。集齐全部荣光可获得丰厚奖励！」

"Deco's Choice: Deco, a Brazilian, accepted the Portuguese Football Federation's naturalization to pursue his football dream, played for the Portuguese national team, and achieved success. You, as a Chinese, have a choice at the age of eighteen, but no matter who you choose, you will trigger the reward for the side you did not choose."

"Ding! Deco's choice has pre-determined your affiliation, and you have received the nationality selection reward."

"You have chosen Chinese nationality, and have received a 20cm height cap unlock bonus!"

"You have chosen Portuguese citizenship, and will receive a +5 bonus to unlock the maximum of three random physical assessment categories!"

This!

Does this work too?

Deng Kai was dumbfounded.

My height increased so fast, it was like a tornado!

He has completely ignored the glory of Portugal's golden generation.

This must have been dropped by Capujo; it's completely useless.

Portugal's Golden Generation: Say that again?

But Deco really delivered, and Deng Kai's request for the jersey was definitely worthwhile.

Deco's experience has been discussed before; he is the most typical example of a successful naturalized player.

His fall might not be useful to others, but it was a miracle for Deng Kai.

It turns out there are rewards for choosing a nationality!

Deco's choice is equivalent to giving Deng Kai the special effect of having two nationalities.

This is the perfect example of wanting both!

Deng Kai received both of these special effects.

The former is a reward for reaching the height limit.

This means that although Deng Kai is currently only 1.65 meters tall, his peak height in the future will be 1.85 meters.

Forget about whether this is enough; we have more than enough.

Looking at the football world, top midfielders are almost all around 1.75 meters tall, such as Modric, Pirlo, Van der Vaart, and Hagi.

The shorter players, Xavi, Iniesta, and Sneijder, are all 1.7 meters tall.

The taller ones, such as De Bruyne, Rui Costa, Lampard, and Gerrard, are around 1.8 meters tall.

Who else is 1.85 meters tall besides Zidane and Kaká?

Even Cristiano Ronaldo's actual height is only around 1.83 to 1.85 meters, right?

Luo, you'll never see those two whirlpools on my skull again!

Of course, this height didn't come overnight.

Deng Kai's first puberty has passed.

They typically don't enter their second puberty until around the age of eighteen.

This must conform to the laws of natural growth.

Boys typically experience a period of rapid growth in height between the ages of fourteen and eighteen.

But it also has stages.

If your first growth period is at age fourteen, then your second growth period won't be until at least three years later.

Deng Kai experienced a significant growth spurt last summer.

Even though he has broken the height limit now, it will probably take another two years or so for him to actually reach 1.8 meters tall.

Deng Kai was not scheming about this.

During these two years of slow growth, without saying much, it shouldn't be a problem for it to grow another five centimeters to catch up with Harvey, right?

1.6 meters is really not enough.

Messi: Cough cough, well... I think it's more than enough.

In addition to the height limit, there is also an upper limit to the overall physical rating for those who choose Portuguese nationality.

It was at this moment that Deng Kai saw a red box appear next to the various data on his overall physical assessment.

The data within the red box represents the upper limit for this data.

For example, Deng Kai's current speed is 71, but the upper limit for this stat is 80.

The burst damage is 73, and the maximum is 85.

Cadence 77, upper limit 90.

Footwork strength: 67, maximum: 85.

Jump height 63, maximum height 80.

Strength 64, maximum 80.

Flexibility 76, maximum 90.

Stamina: 71, maximum stamina: 85.

It's cruel, but it's also true.

Although technology can be continuously improved through repeated practice.

If practicing for a certain period of time doesn't help you break through, it just means you've reached a bottleneck and need to accumulate experience, not that you're truly unable to break through.

The so-called epiphany, intelligence, or talent in a certain technique are all about reducing the time required for quantitative change and helping players quickly break through bottlenecks.

Even the seemingly most unchangeable aspect of ball control can actually be changed and improved through a large number of training sessions.

However, their physical attributes are different.

Human speed has an upper limit. Once this limit is reached, even a 0.01-second improvement is enormous, and there may not even be any improvement at all.

These things have nothing to do with how hard you work, and they don't even have much to do with height or weight; they are part of your natural physical gifts.

Height and weight can cause significant changes in your speed, strength, and agility in a short period of time, but they don't significantly affect the upper limits of these attributes.

That is the wonder of creation.

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Therefore, whether in football or basketball, there is a major misconception in predicting the future of players: that small players and tall players each have their own advantages.

The basis for this is that smaller players are faster, more agile, and have a softer touch, which is something larger players don't possess.

But in reality, taller players possess height and strength that shorter players lack, and... with the optimization of species genes and lineages, they will be able to catch up with or even surpass shorter players in terms of speed and agility in the future.

This is inhumane, but these things are being realized with the emergence of Durant, Giannis, and Viktor Axelsen.

Five taller, faster, more agile, stronger, more accurate players with longer arms and shorter necks represent the ultimate path for the future of basketball.

Similarly, in the world of football, the future Ultimate Eleven should be a group of players who are taller, have shorter legs (50/50 body proportions), are stronger, faster, and have better ball control.

This is because genetic optimization based on appearance and physical inheritance, as well as the abuse of various hormones in food, have enabled us to break the invisible shackles of human attributes through physical means.

This is the same principle as Deng Kai's current approach of breaking free from constraints by relying on the system.

There are relevant books on gene optimization that you can read.

Children from traditional wealthy families are mostly good-looking and have standard, healthy figures. In addition to adequate nutrition, their parents' choice of partners is also very important. Through generations, the optimization of genes over hundreds of years has reached a very high level.

I like playing football on the ground: Ronaldo thought I was going to assist him.