First, I must say, even Baidu Encyclopedia might not be able to find the things about Freiburg from the previous chapter. I opened dozens of web pages and combined various materials with some fictional elements to write it. I only spent an hour on the first half of this chapter, but the second half took me five hours.

Because most of the time was spent searching for information. First, I used "German Youth Cup Final, Dortmund U19, Freiburg U19" as keywords, but I didn't find anything valuable. Later, starting with "Freiburg U19" as keywords, I didn't find much either. Then I switched to "Freiburg Youth Training," and only found a few scattered player names. So I searched for these player names one by one and found a relatively key coach name—Streicher.

After that, I found more and more, and the face of Freiburg U19 gradually became clear in my mind. Although there were still some uncertain places, this is a novel after all, and some places can be fictionalized. For example, I don’t know if Freiburg U19's tactics are like this. This set of tactics was actually implemented by Streicher after he became the coach of the Freiburg first team.

But I moved it to Freiburg U19, and I think it makes sense—the tactics Streicher used in the first team should have had a prototype when he coached the youth team, right? Just exaggerate it to a certain extent.

Anyway, I'm the author, and I'm the boss of this world.

I say so much just to tell some people, it doesn't mean that the things you don't like to read are filler, nor does it mean that the things you think you can find on Baidu are all filler—it's your ability if you are willing to spend five or six hours switching back and forth on dozens of search pages, summarizing the content of the second half of my chapter. It is also your ability to know Freiburg football like the back of your hand without using Baidu, but it doesn't mean that when I write this part, I only need to write a sentence: "Please search Baidu yourself according to the xxx keywords."

This principle also applies to Chapter 3 "So-called Physical Fitness" and Chapter 29 "Strength" in this volume. At that time, some people said that they spent money to read Baidu Encyclopedia, and I was really wronged—I really didn't copy it from Baidu Encyclopedia. In order to understand the football sports system, I also spent a long time in the most high-end bookstore in Chengdu, and found a book about football, which was a professional book called "Football Sports System Training." The content of those two chapters was basically adapted from this book. People who said they read Baidu Encyclopedia really can't find it on Baidu...

Please respect the efforts of an author. Don't deny the content I spent so much effort to find and write with one word "filler" just because the plot doesn't advance as you wish. Do you think I feel bad?

Football novels are not fantasy novels, and authors cannot let their imaginations run wild. They must create fiction based on reality. Researching information is necessary, and reflecting information in the novel is also necessary. I am not a human search engine, and I can't just open my mouth and talk about the changes in world football over the past decades. I am also not the kind of senior football expert who has a lot of research on a certain league. Most of the time, I can only use search engines and various materials to create.

This takes time and effort.

The slow writing of this book also stems from this—if I write 15,000 words a day, then I really don't have time to check any information, and can only write based on experience and instinct.

But if I want to write something different in this book, I must check a lot of information, from football to various aspects of life abroad, which all takes time and compresses the writing time. So until now, I haven't been able to explode, and the manuscript has been hovering around the red line of ten chapters—recently, because of the pain in my hand, the ten chapters of manuscript have become six chapters of manuscript, and this chapter was written before my hand was injured...

I know everyone wants to see an explosion, don't I want to write 400,000 words a month? That way I would get more money. Why not do it?

But I can't.

I have put a lot of thought into this book, from the character settings to the story direction, to the theme of each volume, I have seriously thought about it again and again, and overturned it again and again, just to strive for perfection and write something that is basically different from the past.

If you think this kind of striving for perfection and slow work is "filler", then I can also take the path of 15,000 words a day that is "not filler", but are you willing?

Too much complaining can break your heart, but some complaints really need to be made.

I hope you can understand me.

By the way, many years after the completion of *Champion Godfather*, I occasionally went to browse the historical book review area of *Champion Godfather*, and I could still see many people shouting "filler" at that time.

Whether it is filler or not is a very subjective question. Those who don't like to read it think it is filler. But as an author, there are some things that I must write even if some readers don't like to read them, otherwise the novel will not be complete.

The same is true for the character Mark. His existence is very necessary. He is also an important figure in Zhou Yi's career in Dortmund, but he needs to grow and improve. It is impossible to be liked from the beginning, but his growth also reflects Zhou Yi's growth and maturity.

He is an important side character to describe Zhou Yi.

I hope everyone can give me and the characters in the book more patience. Every character that appears is not meaningless or unnecessary.

For the role of Mark, my friend and I have discussed it many times, and the development clues of Mark have even been repeatedly overturned many times, just to be able to present to you a vivid and meaningful character and the plot story he brings, and even some ideological connotations.

The complaints will stop here. I apologize if it affects everyone's mood to read the book. If you are not satisfied with my explanation and think my attitude is wrong, it is your own business whether to remove it from the shelves or cancel your subscription. I can't go through the computer and force you to continue reading, right?

I will continue to write this book like this. Those who like to read it can read it. Like monthly tickets, I will occasionally shout a few times to ask for monthly tickets, but whether to vote for monthly tickets is actually up to you, and I can't decide. If you think it's worth voting, I'm very happy. If you don't vote, I can't do anything.

Finally, take this opportunity to ask for monthly tickets, ah ah ah ah ah!!!!