Chapter 56 The Days That Rolled By... II
**3rd February 2020**
After the big victory against Vitoria de Setubal two days ago, Jason intensified his efforts at training, his patience to wait for a game having decreased by a huge margin.
There was also going to be a Taca de Portugal first-leg semi-final match against Academico de Viseu tomorrow and he hoped the manager would finally give him a chance to feature in the match, even as a sub.
So he was at training the day before, working on his individual attributes, and was going even harder at training today in a bid to impress the manager enough to have a chance at cracking the line-up.
Today the head manager had adopted an even more winger-specific internal scrimmage.
The players on the team were now restricted to two touches on the ball and only the wingers were exempt from the restriction making the training even more job-specific than ever.
This did not really hinder Jason and he worked harder than ever, managing to score two goals today but only managing one assist today.
**4th February 2020**
Jason was at the CTFD Portogaia training center for the entirety of the day as he still wasn't added to the team's line-up.
He could not deny that a little annoyance crept up in his mind when he had not heard his name being called in the matchday line-up when other players in the second team who weren't doing half of what he was doing in training had been called.
Luckily, he realized this early and could work on it, so he went to training with a mind to take whatever decisions that the head manager made concerning him in stride and not let it rile him up anymore.
This did not mean that he would just let things be though... rather he'd put in so much effort(without over-training, of course), that the manager wouldn't have any choice but to involve him in the line-up eventually.
**6th February 2020**
New changes happened in the training session and Jason was moved to the first team's squad for the internal scrimmage winger-centered training session, but he was on the bench and would not be starting the scrimmage match.
Not that he minded as this meant that he was slowly but surely moving up the ranks in the team despite not having participated in any actual matches.
Training started with the coach being in a little of an annoyed mood and increasing the punishments of the attacking team for not scoring after every five-minute interval.
Jason thought this to be because the team only had a draw in the match against the Academico de Viseu team and his thoughts were correct.
Despite it not having much of a big impact on their cup run as there was still a second leg match to play at the Estadio do Dragao, it was still quite embarrassing for his team to be drawing against a mid-level team in a lower-ranked league, hence why he wanted the players to work harder in training.
The players didn't have a choice and could only go along with the arrangements from their manager.
It was worth noting that Jason managed to get four goals and five assists in the training session today.
This could be attributed to him being on a higher-quality team and playing against a weaker side so it felt almost like easy mode after being up against the first team's players all this while.