A family thing

Chapter 51 Number 11

Zinedine Zidane walked through the halls of the club office on the training grounds. On his way there he walked past the lounge with the television provided for the players as a team building area. A game was on and it wasn't from any Europe nation's league, as far as Zidane could see. 
"What's that?", he asked his players who were lying lazily on the couch with popcorn and chips bowls displayed on the coffee tables. All of them quickly stood up. 
"Coach.", they all greeted him. 
"Men, what is that?", he asked them again and pointed at the TV-screen. 
"Uh... Sae's game in Japan. You know.", Ramos answered and reminded their coach of the job, Sae was doing. 
"Well then, is their still a place on the couch?", he asked them. 
"Yes sir.", Luna answered. Kroos moved a bit so Zidane could sit down to watch the game with them. 
"2:0 already?", he asked them as he looked at the score. 
"Yes.", Luna said. "Apparently it's the team of a special training facility for football called Blue Lock against the Japan men's U20." 
"Is that the reason why you went to Japan four weeks ago?", the coach asked him. 
"Yes.", Luna answered with a smile. Why wouldn't he? He made so much money that day. An easier opportunity simply didn't exist. 
"And what are your thoughts on it?", the coach interviewed his players. 
"Well... I don't know... That boy with the number 11? I think, has a great vision of everything.", Ramos commented and took a chip from the bowl. 
"Oh yeah. He was the one that made the most goals against Loki, Silva, Blake, Pablo and me happen.", Leonardo exclaimed and smiled. "There was this crazy pass that kinda reminds me of that Charles kid from PXG." 
"Is that so...?", Zidane muttered whilst keeping his gaze on the television screen. 
"...2-0 for Blue Lock eleven!!! A perfect goal scored by Eita Otoya. Is the U20 really able to stop them?", the international commentator shouted with Euphoria. 
"But that goal was all work from number 11, huh?", Zidane muttered and recalled that boy preventing Sae's magnificent goal and then catching up with the offense at a needed time. "What do you say, Toni, ain't he just the same as you are right now? Both offensive and defensive midfielder in one?" 

"What would you have done if I went to block the other path?", Sae asked Yoichi as he was just watching his teammates celebrate and not joining them. 
"Then I would have gone for the left and for the glasses guy, as he was faster than Neru.", Yoichi answered without even flinching. "It's only logical. Whose idea was it to bench Shidou in the first place? You'll need him to even stand a chance, super star." 

Noel Noa had the television on. His boss told him to look over this special football match between Japan's U20 and a facility's team. Blue Lock was its name. If Noa remembered correctly, his former rival Ego was the manager of it. 
"There...", he muttered to himself as he spotted the four-eyes sitting on the bench as the coach. A brief moment before he turned his attention back to the real game happening in front of him. 
"Bachira Meguru has the ball. He manages to get past Hayate and crossed it into the box.", the English commentator said. "Aiku comes out to clear it, but so does Kageyama Yoichi with an insane jump. He reaches the ball before the U20 captain and GOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLL. One, nill for Blue Lock!!!!!! What an insane goal..." 
Noa stopped listening and concentrated on the replay he has put on only. Then he picked up a pen that was lying on the coffee table in front of him and started noting numbers of players from both teams in a small note book. 
'Perhaps this Japanese project, Hoeneß wanted to enter so much, is actually quite interesting.', he thought as he wrote down the name that was written over the number 11. Kageyama. Then he put it back down and started to write his proposal-Email to apply for the upcoming project of the FC Bastard Munich. Getting somewhere to secure foreign talents for the club, but also international, professional football has always been part of his destiny and his job. Most importantly though, having Kageyama Yoichi in the U20 team of Bastard Munich would just be the missing piece in order to make Michael Kaiser, the star striker explode. That combination might just be the next destructive generation of Bastard Munich he was trying to go for, when he becomes a coach.