#4 Versatility

[lemonoppy]

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For ILoveZeagLe, the offseason was about technique. The last season, finding out what it took to play in a league full of everyone who was at least as fast or as strong as he was was a shock. The transition between Academy and the real SSL was a huge jump, but after a couple seasons, Zeagle could feel that change lessen. More than an extra dozen games in his legs, he'd caught up to what it took physically. He wasn't there, of course, no doubt about that, there's always more to work on, but the managers saw the change in his ability to keep up with the pace of the game and put him on a different schedule. Not only was he focusing on his technicals, his ability to play a different position was what was key for the offseason. The Rova Wombats had seen his play and after some minutes up at striker, they had decided that that's where he was going to be set for the forseeable future. It wasn't that he wasn't good at CAM, it was a reflection of the wealth of talent up at Liffey that they would trial him at Striker to see if he could play there in order to break into the main roster. This meant a lot of build up and work to get him to see the ball from a striker's perspective, that composure to see the defense and make a clean first touch and finish.

For Zeagle, it wasn't an easy schedule, heavily demanding from his managers, but he knew that he needed to meet the moment, there were too many forwards and midfielders in the organization, too much talent to slack. It was going to be a hard road to breaking into the first team but there was a secret weapon, the playing of one twos with fellow draft mate Otto. The pair had been training together and it was time for the Wombats to head into that first tier again.

[Pandar]

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Recently, Arsène N’Goussou has been looking to expand his versatility on the field. After a lot of time spent evening out his footedness, he realized that he could pretty safely move to the other side of the field. While he’d begun as a Left Attacking Midfielder, and has been spending a lot of time at Striker recently, he wanted to be able to play Right Attacking Midfielder as well. To start this process off, he and new Magyar rookie, Phil Space, took a trip to train in Shanghai with Marcel Voda and Sam Albinson. While there, they also participated in some team-bonding activities and worked on things like positioning and seeing the field. While N’Goussou had worked on being able to play the ball equally well from his right foot, he was suddenly discovering that he wasn’t used to playing with the boundary line to his right, and really needed to work on how to feel that side as naturally as he can feel the left side of the field.

After they’d wrapped up their training intensive in Shanghai, N’Goussou and Space were dismissed for a break. N’Goussou went back to France, and was able to get in touch with some of his teammates from the Pyrenees Union WFSC squad. He managed to book some time to head over to Spain, to practice and work out with Leandro Dybala and Joga Bonito. While Albinson had definitely been helpful to N’Goussou’s understanding of the position, Dybala and Bonito were indispensable to his improvement. They were far more experienced players at the position, and they were willing to work for multiple sessions to help N’Goussou get more and more confident, and gave him a lot of insight in how to see the field better from the right side of the field.

After all of these training sessions, N’Goussou was ready to head back to France, and then on to Magyar where he started to practice more with Space, and with the coaches to help him get confident enough to feel like he could start a match at Right Attacking Midfield, as well as at Striker or Left Attacking Midfield.

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