Ender's Football

Ander did not receive Li Mei's worries.

He has devoted himself wholeheartedly to the training, sometimes doing training with the ball around the pole on the field, and sometimes carefully observing the actions of other people around him, and while doing it, he uses the specific movements with the specific pronunciation in the coach's mouth connect together.

By the end of the training session, Ender had learned several German commands for "warming up", "passing the ball", and "catching the ball".

His speed of adaptation is undoubtedly considered fast. Although he still doesn't understand what the coach said specifically, he is already able to keep up with the training items.

Coach Tierner seemed quite satisfied with him. Before leaving, the fat old German man patted Ender's head with a smile and gave him a thumbs up.

But Ander didn't dare to be complacent about it. During this short training period, he found that Tierner's teaching was definitely a praise style. I have already learned these two German sentences.

Most of the training sessions are individual and group contact, but occasionally there will be passing drills that require two-person teams.

This is a bit difficult for Ender. He is a newcomer, and the U13 team is all Germans except himself and Curly. The other children are familiar with each other and have a fixed team. was pulled down alone.

Fortunately, the assistant coaches were still on the sidelines. A middle-aged assistant coach named Fowler took the initiative to take over Ender and led him to complete the double training program.

For a child, loneliness can be fatal.Especially when other people around you are in a team, but you are left alone, doing tasks alone, you can easily feel the embarrassment of being isolated.

But Ender had already made such preparations in his heart.

When he was in Moscow, he was out of place with the other children around him because of his typical Chinese characteristics. Even though he finally learned Russian, he did not make friends with even a single child in the Locomotive children's team.When he arrived in Ukraine, he was alone most of the time. The children in the neighborhood didn't like him very much, and they didn't talk to him very much. He was used to playing football in the corner by himself.

When he is loneliest, football is his favorite friend.

This friend can't speak, but is loyal enough, it can dance with Ender's toes when he is happy, and can also be like a cannonball for him to kick out hard to vent his emotions when he is upset.

Ander is familiar with the names of every football he owns. He loves the ball "Tango-2012" used in the 12 European Cup and the "World Celebration" used in the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, but his favorite is the ball launched by Adidas and UEFA. Football for UEFA Champions League, Finale series.Each UEFA Champions League ball is decorated with stars, and the UEFA Champions League logo is printed among the stars-representing that this is the football used by the world's high-level football league, the UEFA Champions League.

To be honest, which kid who loves football doesn't yearn for the Champions League?It is the arena that great players have conquered, and it is the supreme hot spot.

Of course Ender also dreamed of the future.

He clearly dreamed of himself wearing a jersey and standing on the turf while the Champions League theme song was resounding, and he was fascinated by it.

At this time, his loneliness has been relieved to the greatest extent.

*

When the northern hemisphere's midsummer arrives, the World Cup finals will also begin.

It was the summer holidays, children were playing football outside every day, everyone in the streets and alleys was talking about the upcoming World Cup final in Brazil, national flags were hung outside bars and souvenir shops, even beer mugs All are stamped with the German logo.

Ever since Germany slaughtered hosts Brazil with an improbable scoreline in that faraway land of South America, they have been favorites for the final of the World Cup against Messi-led Argentina.

Both Argentina and Germany are traditional strong teams. This Argentina has Messi, Aguero and Di Maria on the front line, and its tactics are very pragmatic. These three lines are even more star-studded. To some extent, their lineup is more balanced and thicker than the Argentine team, and they may even win the support of most fans in the stadium——

Although Argentine fans are closer to Brazil and are likely to overwhelm the number of German fans (according to media reports, [-] Argentine fans flocked to Brazil, hoping to celebrate their team's World Cup victory), but this is in Brazil. !On the land of Argentina's sworn enemy!

Even if we put aside the differences between the two countries in terms of geography, history, and culture, and only talk about football, as the two most famous football powers in South America, around the question of "who is the best football team in South America", the Brazil team and the Argentina team There were enough arguments to fill a book.This time, the Brazilian team was scored 7 goals by the Germans in the semi-finals. The Argentine gloated immediately, and Maradona sang a song on the TV show. The lyrics were "Brazil, tell me that I lost 7 goals." How does the ball feel?"

On the night of the World Cup finals, Stanzel took Ender to the Central Stadium to watch the game as usual.Li Mei and Helena also came together. Although the mother and daughter may not love football very much, it is a national event after all. The little girl painted black, red and yellow and held a small flag with an excited expression on her face. , Ender and Stanzel also each wore a German team jersey.

Stanzel chose his second favorite German player, Schweinsteiger's No. [-] -- as for his first favorite, Mario Gomez, who unfortunately missed the World Cup due to injury.

And Andre is wearing Milo Klose's NO.11 jersey.As a striker, he still prefers those impactful midfielders.

Today's stadium is more lively than the semi-finals a few days ago. Vendors are pushing carts and selling beer on the sidelines. Many families look like the whole family is out, from the elderly to the children. Everyone has a smile on their faces .

Ender looked around, he kind of liked the atmosphere now.

"Hey, Ender!"

In a jubilant atmosphere, someone greeted him.

Ender looked back a little strangely, and found that it was the Mexican curly Nathan who was also training with the U13 Uwensburg.There was also a boy standing beside him, who was also very familiar. It was the blond boy who was assigned to the opposite group A on the day of his trial training.

"Hello, Nathan." Ender responded pleasantly. He can now speak a little bit of everyday and basic spoken English. Although he can't have a friendly conversation with Nathan, at least there is no problem in greeting him.

Nathan enthusiastically introduced the little boy beside him to Ander: "This is Alexei Lotnikov, from Russia," as he spoke, the enthusiasm of the little curly fell down again. "I can't understand him, and I can't understand you."

Ender was very pleasantly surprised. Alexei was indeed "Slavic" in appearance, but the European blood was sometimes quite confusing, so he didn't dare to misidentify it.Hearing this introduction now, he immediately spoke Russian to Alexei: "I used to live in Moscow."

Alexei's eyes also lit up, probably because the two of them were suffering from the same illness, and they also couldn't speak the same language in this strange land, so they chatted quickly.

During the conversation, Ander knew that Alexei was currently in Uwensburg U15, one level higher than both him and Nathan, and he was also two years older than Ender.He came to Uwensburg because of a joint project, and had previously played in a youth academy in St. Petersburg.Now the energy company that sponsored Uwensburg made a connection, so that the club over there reached a cooperation with the two clubs they sponsored, Uwensburg and Stuttgart, and Alexey got the opportunity to play in Germany.

"Although I'm lucky, I still have some difficulties..." Talking about his life in the training camp, Alexei felt a little bit stuck, "I want to talk to my teammates, but German is too difficult... I His English is also very bad..."

"I thought I was going to die when I learned retroflex," Ender reassured him, "but look, didn't I learn Russian later?"

They chatted happily, and Nathan's face was wrinkled into a bitter melon.

"Guys, I feel abandoned by the world. Are you chanting some magic spell? I can't understand it anymore." the little curly from Mexico asked in Spanish.

Ender and Alexei looked at each other, completely unable to understand what Nathan said in the long string of Spanish.

"He is asking if you have any magic spells." A crisp voice broke into the conversation between the three chickens and the ducks.

Helena was biting a lollipop that was shaped like a Hercules Cup—that is, the World Cup championship trophy. The three-color oil paint on her cheeks added a bit of special beauty to her.The little girl's expression was cold, but her tender and white face was so cute that Nathan couldn't help but want to pinch it.

"Stop, stop—" Helena covered her face with her hands, and said seriously in Spanish, "If you pinch my face, I will stop translating for you."

"You speak Spanish?" Nathan exclaimed in surprise.

Helena raised her chin, and glanced at Ender out of the corner of her eye: "Of course, I'm very smart—even though I'm biologically related to a certain person, I'm much smarter than him many."

"Helena," Ender sighed, reminding her in English, "Although I don't know what you're talking about, I have a hunch that it might have something to do with me."

"Who knows, you don't understand." Helena shrugged.

The siblings looked at each other, and Ander suddenly laughed softly.

He walked up to Helena and introduced to the other two friends: "This is my sister, Miss Helena Schneider... Well, she is a little genius."