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I’m Being Mistaken for a Soccer Genius
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297 Chapters (Completed)
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Weekly Rank: #2000
Monthly Rank: #2000
All Time Rank: #14160
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All Time Rank: #19440

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Lying seems simple… until the day you’re confronted with it.

The lie I once told returned to haunt me.

It was the point where the misunderstandings began.

But, could it be that it wasn’t a misunderstanding after all?

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축구천재로 오해받는 중입니다
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Latest Release

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05/26/24 Breaknovel c24
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Continue12
Continue12
Mar 04, 2024
Status: c24
MC is a genius soccer player (international league in Italy) with a self esteem issues, which stemmed from his mother’s and couches strict requirements and demands from him. There was also bullying incident from his former teammates. Being an introvert and a sensitive teenager he developed mental problems.

My boy was under so much pressure that he kinda broke and became completely unmotivated (didn’t play a single game in two years).

For those two years he lied to his only friend that everything was great, he scored goal after goal, had many... more>> friends and was happy. Then said friend (a girl he has a crush on) came to Italy to study and MC had to make his lies true otherwise it is too embarrassing.

Honestly, this story is a bit boring, I guess. I read a lot sports novels, mangas etc, but there were all “start from the bottom and reach the top”, MC here is already at the top. There was always this feeling of strong competition, if you don’t show results, you are out. There is nothing like that here, new coaches treat MC as a fragile flower that can break with a single touch. The disappointing aspect is that We know nothing about his teammates except the names of like three people bc author needed to name faceless npc MC passes the ball to from time to time. I wanted to see friendship, rivalry, all that, maybe it will appear in the future?

The “funny” aspect of this story comes from MC thinking he is a small insignificant player, just a stand in for the day and coaches suppressing their joy bc they didn’t want to scare the returning genius with their enthusiasm.

While gameplay didn’t make my blood boil, it was fairly interesting.

It is an okay story so far. <<less
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Ihartkimchi
Ihartkimchi
Apr 09, 2025
Status: Completed
Beautifully written! Although this is slowburn so I wont reco this to impatient readers.

MC is an unreliable character- he thinks he's a fake genius but irl he's a broken ace who had a lot of personal issues that sent him to a deep slump that he lost all motivations to play until his only friend (and crush) decided to move to Florence, Italy to study in a local culinary school and he realizes he needed to lock in lmaoo.

I do agree with the prev commenter Continue12 how the lack of... more>> named NPCs kinda ruins the immersion but its resolved later on. Kinda.
Spoiler

MC skipped from U17 to all the way to the main team of ACF Fiorentina so ig the author didn't want to invest in random NPCs that wouldn't matter later on. Although this is still a problem even in the main team but the author did introduce them one by one so it kinda feels like they just popped out of nowhere lol.

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Also actual people/teams are also starring in this novel lol so it'd be a nice tidbit for football fans but football knowledge is not really needed to enjoy this novel- highly recommended!

Fave parts!

Spoiler
    1. MC's relationship with the ACF Fiorentia is really for the books- it was so beautiful. He found himself again in the Fiorentia- from the mentors, his teammates, to the lovely people of Florence/fans. It was genuinely heartbreaking when he decided to leave for Manchester City for the club's good. Fiorentia is a small club that is having financial issues- by staying with them they'd have to pay MC huuuugeee amount of $$$ and that means they'd have to cut the budget for everything else (as observed by MC with a senior of his that had the same situation). MC left and made sure the transfer fee is huge af to help the club- this is also beneficial for him as he needed to leave the pond and grow in the ocean. In the epilogue he came back anyway so it's all good- a full circle if you will.
    1. The way MC compares himself to a flower when people are discrediting his team- the only thing a flower can do is be beautiful and the reason they can do that is because they have the roots, the stem, the leaves that does the work for it. Just like him, the only reason he can do all that is cause the coaches, the managers, the team, etc are doing all the heavy work for him- he wouldn't have been able to sprout as a beautiful flower if it weren't for the fiorentia soil/care- very fitting for Florence the city of flowers.
    1. there was a chapter where it started with FL running away from MC cause she doesn't want him to see her barefaced and MC can't understand how the female mind work- up until when he collapsed mid-fight and lost for the first time. Beautifully written chapter.
    1. When MC won the ballon d'or, he finally acknowledged himself- after 200+ chapters of eternal gaslighting about him being a fake that felt so cathartic.
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Sorry for the long review- I just need to gush about this one real quick lol. <<less
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