545 The Future King of Football (1/2)

Dai Li met Frast and his son in the meeting room.

In the beginning, Dai Li did not pay attention to the boy. He only paid attention to his father.

Frast looked like a rambunctious Argentinian man. If one were to say that he was a sports coach, most would believe it.

In truth, Frast was indeed a football coach, he just wasn't well-known. As such, he was not wealthy. His lifestyle was not yet at the middle-class level. He was just able to meet the demands of life. In Argentina, a lot of people loved football, so there were a lot of people working in the industry. The number of football coaches who just made it past the minimum living standard could be found everywhere.

Dai Li sensed Frast was a coach, so his immediate assumption was that Frast was there to look for work.

It was only when Frast spoke that Dai Li found out that he was wrong.

”Coach Li, please help my son. Coach Claude told me that only you can help him,” Frast said. His accent was very strong. He sounded more like he was speaking Spanish. It made Dai Li have to take the time to understand his words.

”Your son?” Only then did Dai Li notice the short boy, who looked to be around 12 years old, in front of him.

”My son has a growth hormone deficiency. It restricts the growth of his bones, which also makes it impossible for him to grow taller,” Frast explained.

”Growth hormone deficiency? Is it dwarfism?” Dai Li asked.

”Yes,” Frast answered.

”Then you should look for a doctor. Ask the doctor to prescribe you growth hormone drugs or the like. If you use it in the long-term, it should be able to treat dwarfism. I'm only a coach, treating diseases isn't my specialty,” Dai Li answered.

”But I also know that undergoing scientific sports training will also help a person grow taller, especially children in their growth and developmental period. That's why I came to you,” Frast stated.

Dai Li nodded, ”That is indeed true. Suitable training does indeed facilitate the growth and development of adolescence.”

Although Dai Li said the words, his mind was jumbled.

Generally speaking, if one were to have dwarfism, one would first go to the doctor. Medical methods are the best way to cure the disease. As for improving the growth and development of the body through sports training, that should only be a supplement to medical treatments. Besides, my fees are among the highest in the entire United States. Training at my place is certainly much more expensive than getting injections of growth hormone through medical treatments. Only the extremely rich would choose to train at my place as a supplement to their medical treatment. It should be more cost-effective for a normal person to just go to the doctor.

As he thought this, Dai Li sized up Frast again. Frast didn't look like a rich person.

If he can afford my fees, it would be better if he used that money to find a good doctor for his son for better treatment. Dai Li became even more confused.

Frast did not intend to hide anything. He directly said, ”Coach Li, my son received treatment from doctors before, and he has already been injected with growth hormone, but the treatments aren't good enough. Moreover, the X-ray showed that his Wagner's line has already closed. Even if we continued with the growth hormone injections, there wouldn't be any significant effect.”

”His Wagner's line has closed! That is indeed a little troublesome!” Dai Li furrowed his brow. As a professional coach, of course, he knew what it meant.

”Coach Li, I know that you are the world's greatest coach, which is why I want to ask you to help my son. As long as you can help my son get to 170, no, 165 centimeters, he will be able to continue playing football! My son really has a gift in football, if he continues playing football, he will definitely be a star,” Frast pleaded earnestly. ”Coach Li, please!”

When talking about football, Dai Li's first instinct was that to assume it was American Football. After all, in the eye of Americans, football meant American Football. However, Dai Li remembered the father and son in front of him were Argentinians. That country was really a kingdom of football.

Dai Li glanced at the short kid in front of him and used the detector on him.

Football talent, S+! This talent, he can become the king of football of the next generation! Dai Li finally started looking carefully at the boy named Halls Frast.

Dai Li used to work in Dingtian Football Club and, back then, although the top foreign talent the in the club was a world-class football star, his talent grade was only A+.

Later, when Dai Li followed Dingtian Football Club to the Asian Cup, he saw many Japanese and Korean, as well as West Asian world-class players. Among the players in the Korean and West Asian football clubs, some used to play in the top five leagues of Europe. However, among them, only the core leaders of each team had A talent potential. Suffice it to say that at the Asian Cup level, most players had a talent potential of B.

Now, Dai Li actually met an S+ grade player. Based on the assessment of the system, an S+ player was one that could dominate an entire generation. Without a doubt, this kid could be called the ”King of Football.”

However, the detection result also showed a weakness of Halls Frast, and that was dwarfism.

This child is only 13 years old. Although his Wagner's line has closed, he is still going through puberty and can continue growing taller. If I use the athlete's patch, it should be able to supplement the growth hormone he needs to grow and develop, which will solve his problem of growing taller. An athlete with S+ talent. It's definitely worth using three athlete's patch, Dai Li thought.

Humans are complex individuals. The growth and development of the human body are not determined merely by growth hormones. There are other hormones involved. The growth hormone is only the hormone with the largest effect on a human's growth. It is impossible to manufacture and synthesize all the hormones required in the human body based on the technology of today.

From primates to modern homo sapiens, evolution spanned over 50 million years. The result of 50 million years of natural selection isn't something biologists and scientists can research thoroughly in a few decades. When scientists really do succeed in synthesizing all the hormones required for human growth, then humans will become ”Gods.”

The effect of the athlete's patch was to supplement whatever was missing so, as long as he let the child use the athlete's patch, it would mean that he would receive all the hormones for his growth during his puberty. Moreover, scientific training really did help people grow taller.

To groom a king of football. That should also be quite an achievement! As Dai Li thought this, he told Frast, ”Mr. Frast, I promise you I will provide your child with the most scientific training available to help him grow taller.”

”Really? That's great!” Frast was so happy he almost leaped off his feet. However, he looked sad again a second later.

”Coach Li, in truth, we are not rich, so I don't have that much money to pay you. However, I can work for you. I can use my wages as payment to offset the training fee. I'm a football coach and I can also train athletes. Perhaps I can do other work. Even janitorial work is fine! As long as my son can stay here, I'll do anything!” Frast said in earnest.

Dai Li leaned back in his chair instead and clasped his hands together. He stared straight at Frast., ”Mr. Frast, I'd like to ask you a question. How many children do you have?”

”I have four kids. Three boys and a girl.” Frast did not understand why Dai Li cared.

”Are they all adults?” Dai Li continued asking.