Franklin_Nwakamma

"As a footballer, what do you desire the most?"

For most footballers, the answer to that question was very simple, they all wanted the same thing.

Besides the goalkeepers, they all wanted to score more goals and win more awards because that was the criteria used to judge the best players.

However, Axel was different, just like every other footballer, he wanted to become one of the GOATs of the game if not the goat but he wanted to do it his own way.

Why do all the great players and legends have so many goals compared to the assists and none of the so-called great playmakers has been able to reach five hundred assists while a good number of great goal scorers has crossed that number for goals?

Is it because assists are harder to pull off compared to goals? No, it's because they are neglected.

If most players were to choose between a goal and an assist, they would pick goals all the way but assists are just as important, they all lead to the same result which is contributing toward winning the game.

If they are going to put goals ahead, then I am going to put assists ahead, I will surpass all their assists records and put an unbelievable gap between me and them.

I will become the first player to reach an unimaginable number of assists, I will become the god of playmakers and no one will ever come close.

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This is my second attempt in trying to write a good football novel so please give this one a read, thank you.

The God Of Playmakers

After that goal from Arlan in the thirty-third minute, many expected City's game to start getting a bit sloppy because they believed some of them would be demoralized after that goal but the opposite was the case so far.

To put it simply, they had no reason to feel demoralized yet since this was just the first half, recovering from a two-goal wasn't something impossible for them.

After all, they recovered from that two-goal deficit against Juventus even though they ended up ultimately losing the match, three goals to two.

The match was in the thirty-ninth minute now and so far, City were doing everything they could to keep the ball away.

For four minutes straight they had possession of the ball but they hadn't really done anything threatening, it looked like they were just passing the ball around for the sake of it, at least that's what it looked like to most people.

Chapter 38: Try A Different Approach