1 Reincarnation of a Football player

'Is this a dream?'

Harry looked at his reflection in the mirror but there wasn't the 24 years old man he was accustomed to see, instead it was a younger version of himself staring back.

He walked out of the bathroom into a hallway that led to the living room, he knew this house by heart since he had grown up here but he was supposed to be living elsewhere now.

On the living room's couch was sitting a middle aged man with a cup of coffee in one hand and the remote control in the other as he swapped channels on the TV, in the open kitchen he saw a dark haired woman facing the other way and cooking.

'What's going on ?'

The man was his father Louis Alder, the woman in this kitchen was his mother Maria Alder, even though she wasn't facing him there was no way he wouldn't recognize her.

The weird thing was that he had left to pursue his dream when he was 17 and had been living alone for 7 years now.

Louis saw his son standing at the entrance of the living room with a frown.

"What's going on, why the gloomy face this early?"

His father's words pulled Harry back from his thoughts as he smiled and answered.

"Oh it's nothing dad I just had a weird dream, good morning dad and mom."

"Good morning sweety, breakfast will be ready soon so take a sit."

His mother said from the kitchen.

…

After breakfast Harry went to his room and turned on the computer, the first thing he wanted to check was the date.

Saturday 07/07/2012.

'Did I travel back in time ?'

As he was contemplating this fact a light blue holographic screen popped up in front of him, he didn't panic however.

'I guess I really did travel back in time, this should be the classic system novel trope.'

He pinched himself and although he felt pain he didn't wake up.

'There's no way this is real.'

He slowly started feeling excited, this felt way too real to be a dream, what if he really had traveled back in time ?

He started remembering what he was doing the day before, he was still 24 years old then and a player for the small English ligue 1 team of Oxford United, yesterday was a game day, they were playing against Forest Green from the same division. As he was about to score the winning goal at the 88th minute the opposing defender had tackled him like a mad man from behind and broken his dominant leg. He still remembered his wail, the bench, the stands and even the opposing team heard this soul wrenching cry.

The physical pain wasn't the reason to his scream, in that moment he realized he won't ever be able to walk straight let alone keep playing football.

'Is this a second chance given to me ?'

As the excitement kept growing inside him he focused his attention on the system, on the screen was a human figure with stats displayed on the side.

'Looks like a game status page, my stats really aren't too bad.'

The status page was split into 6 main sections with each having a few subcategories.

『Pacing, Shot, Passing, Dribbling, Defense, Physic.』

His subcategory with the best stats was the mental one closely followed by skill, while the lowest one was defense, it wasn't very surprising however as he had been playing on the wings since he was 7 years old.

And the reason why his mental subcategory was so high was probably because he had played professional football for 7 years.

'So is this a system that only gives me my stats ? Although it's pretty good since it can allow me to either focus on my strong points or work on my weaknesses but it is kind of underwhelming…'

As soon as he thought that, the holographic screen changed into a sort of main menu, there was a quest tab, a lottery tab, an inventory tab and a status tab.

'I didn't expect any less from the famous system.'

He pressed the quest tab and there was only one at the moment :

『Daily quest : physical enhancement, run 10 kilometers. (Difficulty F)

Reward : Stamina +0.1』

'Hmm this is easy, on top of that a 0.1 increase is crazy ! Since this is a daily quest I'll get 1 point per 10 days and I'll max out my stamina in a few months at most.'

Harry was surprised, this system was kind of overpowered ! With this wouldn't he be able to play at the highest level ? Maybe even realize his dreams.

'With this the Ballon d'Or, the Champions league and even the World Cup don't sound so far fetched !'

He felt his blood boiling, his only motivation in life was football but his talent was lacking so he ended up playing for a small team in England, what he always wanted was to play in one of the biggest teams !

'Today I am 15 years old so I'm old enough to play professional but I don't have any reconnaissance yet so I have multiple choices, either take part in tests to join an academy or find a way to get scouted.'

He started racking his brain to find a way to get the attention of the biggest clubs, his favorite club was Tottenham Hotspurs and he had no doubt about which club he wanted to join.

'If I remember correctly the season just ended with the Spurs ranked 5th and they qualified for this year's Europa League.

The season just ended so this might be a good time to get scouted !'

He stood up and walked towards his calendar that was hanging on the door and when he saw the 14th of July he remembered something.

'I had forgotten about this, we are playing the regional finals this month!'

This was a story from his past, before becoming a professional player he was a part of a small neighborhood club. They had managed to reach this point because of 3 key players, himself playing on the right wing, Lucas Petit who held the center back position and finally Thomas Bernard their talented goal keeper.

During the regional finals they would lose to a bigger and better club but scouts were present and each of them would have a contract offered, in the end Harry stayed in that club, Lucas ended up in a French ligue 2 club and Thomas had managed to outshine them and joined the FC Barcelona, one of the biggest clubs in the world !

'This should be a good stage to impress some scouts !'

He sat back down on his computer and started writing an email to the Spurs, he joined his resume to it and talked about the regional final that was coming soon.

The Spurs didn't do any open trials so he had to use this method, if they send scouts there then he would have a chance to showcase his talent !