"Lisbon Daily News": "Sporting Lisbon U15's true core returns and declares a championship charge after victory!"
"Bola": "One pass and one shot are certainly eye-catching, but isn't it too arrogant to set the goal as winning the championship?"
"Jiang Yunzhu's Column": "Four assists and five goals in three games. What you call arrogance is, in the eyes of a genius, nothing more than walking on flat ground! Conquered mortals, please don't speculate about Caesar!"
"Morning Post": "Thirteen threatening passes in one match. The talented midfielder returns and helps the team upgrade!"
"A Bola": "Kai's passing should not exist at the U15 level. This kind of pass already has the power to cause damage in professional football!"
"Record": "The good news is that only Cristiano Ronaldo in Sporting Lisbon U15 can currently catch Kai's passes. The bad news is that if the others are trained properly, they might also be able to catch them!"
More and more news about Kai and Sporting Lisbon appeared in the public eye.
On the one hand, everyone felt that Ronaldo was already so strong that there was no excitement left in reporting on him.
Cristiano Ronaldo had long since topped the scorer charts in the region.
After scoring twice in this match, he directly surpassed Porto U15 striker Hugo Almeida in the neighboring region, becoming the top scorer across all five U15 regions.
And at his age, he should technically still be playing in the U13 age group.
Fans were already numb to these achievements.
In contrast, although the guy nicknamed the "Football Caesar" was constantly in the news, there had previously been very few positive reports about his actual strength.
Three games. Four assists. Five goals.
A decisive European-style battle.
This set of numbers was truly eye-catching.
It was time to officially introduce Kai to everyone—the new midfield core of Sporting Lisbon U15!
…
"Ding! You have obtained a victory. The match rating is S…"
Kai had almost grown accustomed to winning.
An S-rated match usually didn't produce anything good… huh?
A blue fragment critical hit!
"Ding! You consumed 20 blue fragments and obtained a blue-tier player skill: No-Look Pass."
No-Look Pass: Look into my eyes—now witness the miracle! When passing without looking, your passing accuracy and quality will be greatly enhanced.
Another skill unlocked.
And it was both practical and flashy.
There have always been many legends surrounding no-look passes.
In the future, Ronaldo would often use this trick when playing with ease.
Real Madrid's crown prince Marco Asensio once became a laughingstock after pulling off a perfect feint in the Champions League, only to smash a no-look shot straight at the goalkeeper.
In reality, passing without looking is far more difficult than people imagine.
During high-speed movement, losing visual reference greatly affects follow-up actions.
More importantly, the soul of a no-look pass isn't just losing sight of the target—it's performing a reverse movement.
Kick the ball to the left, but look to the right.
Looking right is itself an action. The head and body rotate, and the entire balance system responds accordingly.
This is completely different from kicking left while looking left.
Anyone who doesn't understand the difference can try this:
Open your eyes, toss your phone into the air, and catch it.
Now close your eyes, toss it, and catch it.
Now close your eyes again, toss it, quickly turn your head left and right, then try to catch it.
Enough… enough. Your phone screen probably has so many cracks now that you can't read the rest.
And this "no-look pass" perfectly matched "Tintin's stream-of-consciousness pass."
Because when Tintin passed the ball, there were many moments where he didn't even look at his teammate.
This meant some of Kai's passes now enjoyed four layers of buffs.
Speaking of which, the impact of Kai's passing in the last match couldn't be ignored.
Whether a pass is good and whether it results in assists are sometimes completely unrelated.
Kai had previously scored twice and assisted once, yet no one thought his passing was particularly sharp—at most, they praised his chemistry with Ronaldo.
But in this match, he only recorded one assist, and people praised his passing like crazy!
Forget long distance—just look within the team.
Were the young players convinced by Kai?
They definitely weren't at first.
At the beginning, everyone rejected Kai because he was the worst performer in training.
Later, the high-pressure tactics arranged by coach Maxa forced everyone to focus on Kai, which only deepened their contempt toward him—even after his strength had begun to improve.
Although Kai relied on statistics and victories to recover part of his image in his teammates' eyes, redesigning the entire front-court pressing system and shifting the offensive core entirely to him still felt excessive.
That was pure royal treatment.
Did he recharge his account or what?
It wasn't until this time—when Kai spoke up for everyone after the match—that things truly changed.
He didn't shift blame, nor did he play favorites, yet there was still a lack of mutual understanding.
Gradually, many players changed their views on Kai.
And more importantly, Kai's passing ability genuinely surpassed everyone else's.
It really wasn't that Kai couldn't pass—it was that they couldn't receive it.
That realization made his teammates finally acknowledge his leadership status.
Being able to pass the ball and have it caught is impressive.
But passing balls that can't be caught is also impressive—sometimes even more so.
That's exactly why so many people praise Kevin De Bruyne's passing.
Because… they can't catch it.
Of course, another reason everyone admired Kai was his visible progress.
He was no longer the weakest player on the team.
Over this period of training and matches, Kai's attributes had improved dramatically:
Possession: 1 → 64
Shots: 1 → 52
Long Pass: 1 → 55
Interceptions: 1 → 53
Steals: 1 → 40
Explosiveness: 1 → 56
Foot Strength: 1 → 52
Jumping: 1 → 45
Strength: 2 → 49
Stamina: 1 → 54
Left Foot: 1 → 3
This kind of growth might take an untalented youngster half a year.
Kai achieved it in just over a month.
The biggest surprise was the improvement in his left foot.
During this time, Kai deliberately strengthened left-foot training. As a midfield core, he didn't need to use his left foot often—but it absolutely couldn't be useless.
Of course, this didn't mean stats would rise endlessly with training.
Every attribute has an upper limit. Once that ceiling is reached, improvement becomes extremely difficult—classic "ten times the effort for half the result."
…
That day, after training, Kai and Ronaldo walked out of the base with a ball at their feet.
They were competing to see who could get home first.
Ronaldo still hadn't fully adapted to Kai's passing, so he tried to defeat Kai's dominance in other areas.
"Chris!"
Someone called out to Ronaldo from not far away.
Ronaldo turned his head, recognized the person, and immediately smiled.
"Brother! Why are you here? I missed you so much…"
Ronaldo rushed forward and hugged his older brother, Hugo Aveiro.
The brothers had a very close relationship.
Hugo was ten years older than Ronaldo and was now twenty-three—the final age where a "big kid" could still go wild.
After that, you had to grow up.
But at the touching moment of their reunion, Kai noticed several flashy-dressed youths nearby, watching Hugo and Ronaldo closely.
There was no doubt—they were a group of street thugs.
Maybe the names were different, but in every country and every city, there was always a group of idle young men who caused trouble all day and specialized in doing dirty work.
Cristiano Ronaldo's mother once mentioned in an interview that Hugo had been addicted to drugs in the past. At the time, Ronaldo—already in Sporting Lisbon's youth academy—paid to help his brother quit drugs and saved him.
This was exactly around that period.
Seeing Hugo here today… could it be—
Kai's brows furrowed slightly.
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