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

Since the start of football, there have been a lot of great players whose careers were destroyed by injuries, and then there were those who had their careers destroyed by just one very deadly injury.

Those were the players who could never reach their potential because they were either seriously injury-prone or just unfortunate.

It was every upcoming player's wish to not have their careers marred by injuries and most of them worked really hard to make that possible.

However, there were players who just couldn't get injured that easily, players who could walk away okay after taking the hit of a challenge that would end up tearing the next player's ACL.

Luckily for Manchester City, Merino was one of those players. Most of the fans in the stands, especially United fans expected him to get carried out on a stretcher after a challenge like that but the winger was back on his feet.

He just got some treatment on the pitch and now he was back on his feet.

Chapter 43: A Lot To Smile About