Chapter Three: Not for Sale to Northport

【CHAMPIONSHIP COMPLETION: 46% → 53%】 No ability had appeared from nowhere. Two misused players had simply reached positions from which they could understand each other. That weekend, Seabridge played Northport in a preseason friendly. The media cared only about Bello's debut. Northport posted a photograph of Duran beside their new South American midfielder under the caption THE RIGHT FUTURE. Lin sat at the highest analysis desk, unnamed and outside every broadcast frame. In the nineteenth minute, Bello cut inside and lost possession. Northport's new man drove forward. Kovac charged out of defense. Duran rose from the away bench, expecting the familiar prelude to a red card. Vidal slid five yards back.