I Am Scouted by Real Madrid

Chapter 253: Chapter 6: Arc (New Badge)

Moreover, from Chen Zhong’s expression, it seems my Spanish isn’t too bad?

Beckham is feeling very confident now, extremely confident!

Until Chen Zhong let out a small ”pfft” sound.

”Nothing, I just remembered something happy.”

”Oh!” Beckham nodded, and just happened to see a few footballs scattered on the ground ahead. He jogged forward and showed off his leg skills, a beautiful arc flew through the air and directly landed into the goal.

”Wow!” Chen Zhong uttered a sound of amazement, and seeing Chen Zhong’s expression, Beckham smiled and said, ”Want to learn? I can teach you!”

Beckham said this with a joking tone, after all, if his ”Beckham’s Arc” and ”Crescent Blade” were that easy to replicate, the football world would be full of Beckhams.

Many people have tried studying Beckham’s Arc, wanting to know how to kick such an arc, but none have succeeded, hence the nickname ”Beckham’s Arc,” signifying it’s Beckham’s exclusive.

The characteristics of Beckham’s Arc include a large arc in the air, fast speed, and precise landing.

Beckham has watched Chen Zhong’s games, Chen Zhong’s body is outstanding, his positioning in defense is accurate, capable of providing positive feedback, and when he needs to participate in offense, he always finds himself in the needed spot.

Perhaps Chen Zhong is a genius, but learning his unique skills is absolutely impossible.

Chen Zhong thought about his poor stats, and the pitifully low score, and didn’t intend to reduce his physical advantages because of the ”arc.”

Just as Chen Zhong was about to politely refuse.

The almost dormant system surprisingly issued a mission!

[Special Badge: Arc]

[Description: Beckham’s unique arc, applicable in passing, shooting, free kicks...]

The design on this special badge is dynamic, depicting balls making large turns in the sky.

[Detected Beckham’s Arc owner David Beckham wishes to teach ”Beckham’s Arc,” would you like to start the special task for learning.]

Chen Zhong’s eyes widened immediately, he looked at Beckham, and nodded decisively in agreement: ”Okay!”

”Haha.” Beckham chuckled, though he didn’t believe Chen Zhong could learn his unique skill, he didn’t mind guiding Chen Zhong on the techniques.

At the same time, he demonstrated two more kicks with the balls scattered on the ground.

Just then, Ancelotti came over, first greeting Beckham, then smiling at Chen Zhong: ”Chen, are you learning Beckham’s free kick?”

”Very well, then practice a bit here first!”

Beckham’s arrival changed a lot, and Ancelotti hadn’t decided how to train Chen Zhong, so he simply let Chen Zhong do activities freely this time.

After all, Chen Zhong’s self-discipline is clear, he definitely wouldn’t slack off.

Chen Zhong agreed without hesitation because the system’s task had been released.

[Special Task (1): Initial Mastery of Arc.]

[Task Objective: Complete 1000 instances of free kick practice.]

[Task Reward: Upon completion, the Arc (Bronze) badge will be awarded, and Special Task (2) will be unlocked.]

Ancelotti and Beckham left, and Chen Zhong started practicing alone in a relatively secluded area of the field. When he set up ten balls consecutively in front of him, ready to kick free kicks to get the feel of the Arc.

Beckham’s figure appeared before his eyes, everything about Beckham was magnified.

Including his exertion postures, the meaning of each action, even the hand movement’s help to the body, all were understood by Chen Zhong, and now what he had to do was to find the ”Beckham’s Arc” that suits his body characteristics during these 1000 free kick practices.

No, when Chen Zhong perfectly masters Beckham’s signature skill ”Beckham’s Arc,” it would no longer be Beckham’s Arc but a ”Chen’s Arc” with Beckham’s Arc characteristics and Chen Zhong’s own unique traits.

”Bang!”

Chen Zhong hit the ball hard, and his low-lying arc caused the ball at his feet to fly straight into the sky, which made the people watching nearby laugh uncontrollably.

”Who is that?”

”Seems to be Chen.”

”Is it the one from Real Madrid?”

”Looks like he’s practicing free kicks? At this level, and he’s doing free kicks?”

”Such a kid, just practicing for fun! Probably give up after practicing ten or twenty times.”

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Chen Zhong practices free kicks, each time needing to immerse himself in feeling Beckham’s movements, then fine-tuning himself slightly, and developing muscle memory, adjusting his power output.

This is a patient water mill job.

This also resulted in Chen Zhong taking about 2-3 minutes to kick each free kick, and after doing 10 times, he still needed to retrieve the ball himself, meaning 10 free kicks took nearly 40 minutes.

At first, some people were interested, watching Chen Zhong practicing free kicks by the side, but seeing every free kick was so poor, it simply turned into mockery.

And in the Milan Club a rumor began to spread.

The rumor was that Real Madrid’s genius seemed to have gone foolish, spending a lot of time every day on practicing free kicks on the training field.

Ancelotti also heard this rumor, he initially wanted to intervene a bit, but seeing Chen Zhong not only doing free kicks but also normal training, he just let it be.

Moreover, he asked Beckham and learned Beckham had guided Chen Zhong on free kicks...

Alright! To call it guidance, it was essentially just a brief explanation with a few demonstrations; if Beckham’s free kicks were that easy to learn, the world would be full of Beckhams, wouldn’t it?

Seeing Chen Zhong hasn’t interfered with overall training and life, Ancelino didn’t interfere much either, thinking Chen Zhong would likely give up once realizing he couldn’t master it.

But then one day passed, two days, three days---ten days, half a month!

days passed, Beckham had debuted in the league, but Chen Zhong seemed to be at loggerheads with free kicks, practicing them steadfastly every day.

And due to low arc stats, Chen Zhong’s free kicks were simply unspeakable.

”Look, he’s going to practice again.”

”Practicing in the day, practicing at night, some things rely on talent.”

”He seems a bit less bright, shouldn’t someone remind him!”

”Reminded him! But he simply doesn’t listen...”

The surrounding workers’ discussions made Ancelotti frown, he looked at David Beckham, then after choosing his words carefully, walked over and said, ”David, Chen has been practicing free kicks continuously for 15 days now, should we advise him to put his energy elsewhere?”

”I’ve talked with him.” Beckham was also quite speechless: ”I don’t think he has any talent for free kicks, his arc is terrible, the kicked ball barely has any curve, honestly I’m starting to regret it.”

”Though he’s only with the team for half a season, I can’t watch him waste away like this.” Ancelotti, after confirming Chen Zhong was doing futility, went with Beckham to persuade Chen Zhong.

And when they arrived at the field, they happened to see Chen Zhong kick a horribly bad free kick, completely devoid of Beckham’s free-kick grace, and Chen Zhong’s eager attitude to retrieve the ball made them feel like Chen was insane.

”Chen! Chen!”

”Here, Coach! But, wait a minute, just one last time, one last time!”