Kemal's stamina training and discovers he's part of the reserves team for a soccer match and how does Kemal prepare for matches he doesn't know about.

Cologne, Germany. Thursday 22nd February 2024. (Off-Camera)

As things were almost coming to a close with Kemal shipping off to Atlanta Wrestling Alliance in April, one thing that has changed since December was the remarkable improvement both the stamina and the main coach had seen in Kemal. He was near enough on par with the other stamina struggling player now, although they were introduced to another player that also struggled with stamina but fantastic at catching balls, it was a goalkeeper who was pretty overweight known as Manuel Wagner.

So it gave Kemal and Noah someone to talk to and certainly when Kemal leaves, gives someone for Noah to work with as well. Kemal was told multiple times over the past two months that his stamina was improved to another level. Granted he was still doing wrestling training that also helped improve his stamina, but so did his football work as well. Granted, it wasn't really to get him into playing football, but the possibility of Kemal doing one or even two reserves matches for FC Koln two team was not ruled out.

If anything, it was an award for Kemal with his progress, still he knows that Noah had played both reserves and for a while, the main team when he was needed, but that was rarely. Of course, he had been doing time trials each time like with Noah to see if they've improved and they did, especially with Kemal. Kemal who saw Manuel really struggling with the drills when he did it first time as it was only the second week Manuel had been training with them.

Kemal Yilmaz: “Manuel, you will get there. I mean Noah's told you his story, but with me, the only reason I was here because my stamina is the only thing lacking in my wrestling.”

Manuel Wagner: “It's so difficult bro, like so much running drills. I feel exhausted each time.”

Kemal Yilmaz: “I know it's hard.”

Noah Klein: “But the fact you came back here and wanting to improve is a result. Most people who struggled like you quit after the first day.”

Manuel Wagner: “I guess because of my passion for this sport that keeps me going.”

Which was the main reason for Kemal in a way, but only it wasn't football that kept him going, it was the professional wrestling side of things as they were going through drills while they were all talking to each other, even if Kemal was getting that much closer to being ready to play in the reserves team, especially there were a few players injured right now and the main coach of reserves, Evangelos Nessos was looking on at the stamina training situation. Because Manuel and Kemal were still pretty new and hadn't seen Evangelos watch them on before, it did concern them which Kemal had to point out.

Kemal Yilmaz: “Why is Evangelos watching over us?”

Manuel Wagner: “It's distracting to say the least.”

Noah Klein: “Usually, when he does, it means I'm going to play in a game pretty soon.”

Kemal Yilmaz: “Oh, I guess that makes sense, but he's really looking at me as well. Not so much Manuel who's only just started a week ago.”

Noah Klein: “I wouldn't worry about it you guys, just keep up doing the stamina training. You will find out usually after training what happens and why he's watching over us more than usual. It's how it is with us.”

Although Manuel got Noah's story, it still didn't make sense to Manuel on Kemal's story of why he was doing the stamina, let alone football training and he had more questions to ask as they were still running, but at the same time, they were kicking balls into the net as well.

Manuel Wagner: “If your dream is to be a professional wrestler than a football player, why did you need to do stamina training with this sport?”

Kemal Yilmaz: “Because I lost my real dream of being an MMA fighter in an earthquake in Turkey. I lost everything actually and I was so skinny that I lost my strength and stamina I had. Everything, including my family was taken from me. Konrad did football as a way to improve his stamina, the same reasons as you actually.”

Noah Klein: “He isn't lying, my dad used to play football with and against Konrad and did it to improve on his stamina for wrestling.”

Which was the story Noah gave to Kemal when he first came to the stamina training group which was nice for it to be bigger. Of course, there was going to be more players to come in and needed work on their stamina, but Kemal's reason was really different and Manuel had to step back and think about what Kemal said.

Manuel Wagner: “Wait, was it when back in February last year when Turkey and Syria had that earthquake?”

Kemal Yilmaz: “Yes.”

Manuel Wagner: “Wow, I'm so sorry, that must've been devastating for you. Losing everything must've been rough.”

Kemal Yilmaz: “It was and I lost my entire family to the earthquake as well, even my mum dying in an ambulance in my arms. I can't ever get over that. If it wasn't for Konrad coming to Turkey on rebuilding buildings, homes, flats because he's so big on climate change to encourage me to be a professional wrestler, I wouldn't be here and would've been dead.”

It was still hard for Kemal to speak about as it was very devastating, it wasn't like other tragic things of losing parents like some people had with illnesses or crashes or something of a sort. Still he knew he had to move on and he explains about the changes in his life while still focusing on the drills he, Manuel and Noah had to do.

Kemal Yilmaz: “But since being in Germany, I got to meet Konrad's twin brother Lord Raab who's also a wrestler and I also got to meet Konrad's tag partners of Ludvig Eriksson and Dakon Theron as well. They are helping me train to be a wrestler too. Since Konrad said I'll be in the team with him and those two guys too. They are from Sweden and Norway.”

Noah Klein: “Woah, I didn't know this at all.”

Kemal Yilmaz: “To be fair, I've only met them for the first time last week and they said they also wrestle in a company in Atlanta that I'll do some tag matches with them. I aim to do solos matches there too. Konrad's considered my family but he said to consider Dakon and Ludvig as my family members too.”

Manual Wagner: “Seems like Konrad sees so much potential in you.”

Kemal Yilmaz: “He does, he's already promised me that when he retires from wrestling at the end of two thousand and twenty five, because I have the least money in the team, I'll be the leader of a tag team. So he has big plans for me.”

Which was a major shock because it was totally news for all of them, although Kemal hadn't really said anything about the leader team stuff even if he was told back in September he was going to be, but he wasn't allowed to because he hadn't seen his other tag partners, until last week for the first time.

Noah Klein: “Wow, no wonder why he's pushing you to improve on your stamina and since you first got here, you've improved a ton. I wouldn't even thought back a couple of months ago to see you start slow with zero confidence to now improving some confidence. You're certainly more confident talking to more players now too.”

Kemal Yilmaz: “I guess it's because I've gained a few pounds and gained muscle mass. I've had a look in the mirror in the past few weeks and I've gained a ton of muscle and I feel like my stamina is as back as where it was before the earthquake strike too. See, you can do it if you keep coming to the classes Manuel and who knows, you'll be a professional football player like Noah.”

Manuel Wagner: “I mean you had to work a lot to get where you are. I think yeah, you're really lucky that Konrad helped you out and you even met him. I was pretty lucky to have parents that could afford everything to get me to play football. Just got a problem of my weight because I love food, but I love football more.”

Bastian was overseeing everything, despite noticing that Evangelos was watching from time to time as well as he went over and whispered to Bastian's ear about possibly a match for Noah to play in where they nodded and agreed quietly to not give spoilers away and Evangelos went away to train with the reserves players.

Bastian clapped at Noah, Kemal and Manuel for keeping up with each other and even talking to get used to one another and to have some communication which was needed in football at times.

Bastian Schulz: “Good job the three of you. I know Evangelos is looking this way a lot more than recently, but there's a reason for that. The fact there's lots of talking is great. Ten more minutes until you go for a break and look at the next game reserves board.”

Noah nodded as he already knew how it all works, but something tells him that he wasn't the only one that Bastian mentioned this because sure, Bastian has mentioned this before, but it seemed every different as it wasn't targetted at one person, nor was there a wink or pointing at Noah like the previous times.

Noah Klein: “Hm, that's something I don't see everyday, but never mind, we'll keep working out until after training our stamina.”

Kemal and Manuel looked at him but they did continue as they didn't know the difference between the usual and what occurred today. They continued doing running drills until the alarm on Bastian's phone went off and told them to go to the board to have a look. Of course Manuel didn't as he went straight to the locker room and Kemal did as well, until Noah went to have a look on the board and he notices his name, but he notices another name.

Noah Klein: “Hey Kemal, you want to check this out.”

Kemal as he was going to the showers came back and he looked at the board of the players listed to play in the reserves team and there it was, Kemal was selected as a striker to play for FC Koln two reserves team against Oberhausen. He went straight to Evangelos and had to ask him a question.

Kemal Yilmaz: “Are you serious?”

Evangelos: “Kid, I've watched you a lot the past two weeks and I know the improvements you've made since you've been with us so I was talking to Bastian and he and I feel you're ready for the challenge. You deserve it kid.”

Kemal Yilmaz: “I didn't think I was ready.”

Evangelos: “You are and your dedication shows it along with how much your stamina has improved. Tomorrow onwards, you and Noah will be training with the reserves team to prepare you both for the match.”

This left Kemal tears in his eyes that sure, he knew he had impressed The Raab Brothers lately at the wrestling school, but this meant so much more that he barely knew the football players in FC Koln two reserves squad and he was accepted, he was finally invited to something that wasn't just things in the wrestling school.

Kemal Yilmaz: “This means a lot Evangelos, thank you very much.”

Evangelos: “Come back tomorrow, but I do suggest telling Konrad and Lord Raab about this match you're doing. We're honoured to have you be apart of this match for one time. Get changed and head on back to your wrestling school.”

Kemal nodded as he did just that, sinking in the feeling that he had finally made it to the FC Koln 2 squad to play against a pretty top team as he was about to discover and went in the showers and got changed to head back to the wrestling school all by himself to tell Lord Raab and Konrad the news he got who were delighted and proud of Kemal to make it to the squad. They went out to a local Chinese buffet restaurant to celebrate before Kemal heads off to sleep in his wrestling school room.

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How does Kemal prepare for this event of not knowing what will happen youtube.com shoot. (On-Camera)

“Honestly, I have no idea how to prepare for this stupid event that I consider a waste of my time when the matches I want aren't going to happen so what's the point of telling the world what I want? I want an ultimate submission match with Glory Braddock because it's never happened in this company, I want an Lions Den match with Just Some Loser because it would be something new and to test our MMA skills in the ring. I want another title match, but of course, you get these boring wrestlers saying earn it which we know that concept is outdated.

I mean tell me what you want me to say because honestly, I don't have a story that I've not told already about myself or I want to get out of this whole event. Sure, things have changed in regards of Konrad no longer leading the team, that responsibility comes down to me. I know that Federico and Oskar have said brutal words to each other and that's the thing, nobody understands how different the three of us are. I'm the more the boring, serious one, or it comes across that way, considering I'm wearing a venom mask and want to throw acid to people's faces because I'm the Turkish acid after all, a toxin that can inflict the entire roster that I want to do. Oskar is the high flying cocky guy that has a lot going for him and Federico, as we discover is a bodybuilding maniac.

But what do I know? Like I know the chances of me facing against Federico or Oskar are high, but we will beat the living daylights out of each other like we weren't friends at all, like we aren't tag partners at all. Like we want to destroy and brutalise each other because we will not have one of those friendly fights that will be five star classics, it will be a brutality show. Light In The Darkness and Frost Family would be scared to face each other and their matches will be off putting for anyone to watch.

I really don't know how I'll prepare because I want to say I'm going for championships or I'm facing Glory, Just Some Loser or any other technical wrestler that wants to get their hands on me and tap me out, but it won't happen so what is there to talk about? I've beaten the horse to death about my life and challenges I had to go through, but one thing I've never spoken about is the lack of stamina I had.

Did you know that I had to play soccer to work on my stamina? Because I lost a lot of it during well, you know the story and it took me so many months to bring that back, along with my muscle mass too. It was fun admittedly working with Gavin, being the only guy outside of EFN that respected me and actually spoke to me. How come it took for him to speak and care about me to get that respect and understanding? Because we show zero respect for everyone. I think you all know why I show zero respect.

Because I was left for dead in the streets and barely to nobody came to help me when I was begging for food and drink in the street, while all the other people were selling illegal drugs to get money. I never done that because it goes against my religion. You also know something, you know when all of you go off and celebrate Christmas? I didn't celebrate Christmas because it doesn't exist in my religion. It's forbidden. Since I don't have family, celebrations are irrelevant to me.

So instead, I went to Muslim European countries that are Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Kosovo countries to seek out not only wrestlers to come to the business, but to get some friends as well as I don't have any Muslim friends so I can move on with my life, to build a family and guess what? It seems to have paid off because I got to meet a few Muslim wrestlers that were inspired of what I do, but there was one problem.

They lack the money to come to Germany to learn to wrestle. But I offered a few of them to come to Germany for free because Muslims are pretty much poor, unless you live in middle east where they are rich as hell, but these countries aren't so fortunate. But what I'm proud of is getting more European Muslims to get into professional wrestling.

Getting back to the task at hand, I don't care who it is, I would trade anything to batter someone down and make them all tap out because that's something I will do as the leader of EFN where I got to check on all of my members doing fine and even in other companies as well because it's more than just us. We have Lorenzo Ortiz and Evzen Cech doing their bit to represent EFN in UGWC, we got Hungarian wrestler who's debuting in ICW pretty soon, we got Leo Hoffmann who currently won the Gladiator championship in IWF. We got a Spanish guy going to another company.

There's a load of us and it took Konrad and Lord Raab's hard work to get European wrestling worldwide, to give European wrestlers a chance to be in the business and succeed like Lorenzo, Oskar and Leo have. The point is I'm going to wrestle and use my acid power to inflict the toxin in all of you to feel the pain I've been through because I might hide my anger well because I don't use swear words to get my point across, but none of you will understand unless your family have been hit with a hurricane or an earthquake to understand the affects it has.

None of you understand also how hard it is for me to be in a relationship, let alone be married and have kids because Muslims operate differently in that department. The point is title, no title, stipulated match, non stipulated match, whatever it might be, I may not be sure how to prepare for a random match where I don't know who'll I face because change isn't something I'm good with as you can tell.

But I have to in order to bring restore to European Fiery Nation and there's a bright future in all of us that you lot are too dumb to see. If you want to call us jokes because we don't win matches, so be it, but we are not the boring wrestlers you all want us to be ourselves. We refuse to be ourselves outside of the wrestling world because you should be different to how you are outside of the ring and I believe in that.

I believe in being someone different from the norm, I believe being different with the mask on because you ever seen a technician and submission wrestler wear a mask in the ring? No, I didn't think so and I wear it because I stand out and inflict acid on all of you. Inflict acid even on my tag partners. Because I will give you a match everyone will enjoy and that's the end of it. That's all I have to say.”