Akira_Kun_2398

Diogo Jota was one of Portugal’s brightest football stars—until the world believed he died in a tragic accident.

But legends don’t fade. They are reborn.

Jota awakens in the body of a ten-year-old boy in a quiet rural village called Penedono. No lights. No stadium. No one knows who he truly is. As he struggles to adjust to a life of poverty, quiet streets, and schoolbooks, the instincts of the pitch still burn within him.

Alongside his loving mother and curious little sister Ana, Jota begins his journey again—from dirt fields and local tournaments to a dream that once shook the world. Quietly, patiently, he laces up a pair of old boots, ready to prove that greatness cannot be erased.

> He was once a legend. Now he’ll become one again.

Reincarnation of a Legend

Chapter 19 – The Space Between Applause

April rains returned to Lisbon like a memory—soft, cold, familiar.

Jota woke early, as usual. But something about the day felt different. The sun tried to peek through the clouded sky, and the pitch outside shimmered with dew, like silver veins crossing green skin. He sat on the edge of his bed, letting the silence of the morning settle into his lungs.

The Barcelona match had changed something. Not just on the outside—where people stared longer, where coaches whispered his name with a certain weight—but inside him, too. Something had shifted.

He wasn't chasing anymore. He was being watched.

"Double session today," Coach Nuno said after breakfast. "Morning tactics. Afternoon inter-squad match. Everyone needs to bring tempo. Intelligence. Identity."

Jota nodded. Bruno rolled his eyes playfully. "Here we go."