Ender's Football

Today is also a day of harmony and joy for Brisenkiss Primary School.

Helena finished her math class and walked out of the classroom with her bear biscuit backpack on her back.

Her good friend Demi is in the painting club at school today, and Helena has to go over there to wait for her.But she didn't want to stand too close to the painting club, lest she be seen by the painting teacher.

Miss Miriam, their drawing teacher at the club, was a mean woman - at least in front of Helena.She once commented on Helena's paintings in that very cold tone, and showed great disdain for her painting techniques, including but not limited to standing aside while Helena was painting, shaking her head and sighing, and Her imperfect works were pasted next to other well-drawn works for the students to rate together.

Although Miss Miriam did not express any dissatisfaction with Helena in words, nor did she treat her coldly or violently, but she treated her differently, and it was very obvious. At one time, Helena hated going to the painting club and hated attending classes. this woman.

She found a corner where she could see the painting club classroom door, and stood there waiting for Demi.

Before Demi came out, Yael ran over first.He was playing football with some boys, his little face was flushed red from the heat from the exercise.

Seeing Helena, he immediately stopped and greeted her.

"Hey, Helena, what are you doing?"

"I'm waiting for Demi," Helena said wearily. "She's in the painting club today."

"Oh." The little boy blinked his big eyes.

He glanced back and saw that his partners had already caught up, so he simply threw the football under his feet and threw it back to the boys, and ran over to talk to Helena himself: "Then I will wait for Demi with you." Bar."

"Why?" Helena asked strangely, "Don't you like football the most?"

Yael's face became even redder from the steam, with a cute smile unique to little hamsters: "Yes... yes," he stammered, rubbing his head while talking, "I like football the most, but ...Uh... By the way, didn't you say that your brother is in the Uwensburg football team? I want to ask if he has played recently!"

When he said this, his tone changed from stuttering to brisk: "I'm going to watch the game! Learn about the strength of our echelon team in Uwensburg! Maybe soon I will be able to go from the children's club to the U8 level team! "

As soon as he mentioned Ender, Helena's expression immediately became a little speechless.

"He..." Just as Helena was about to say something, Demi came out of the painting club and ran to the little sister.

"Helena! Good afternoon! And Yale is here too!" Demi chirped like a happy bird, instantly dispelling Helena's strange emotions.

The two little girls stuck together arm in arm, and Demi asked, "Helena, what were you talking about just now?"

"Yel wants to know if my brother has played recently," Helena replied, "The answer is, no...Unfortunately, he seems to have lost the election, and this incident has caused the atmosphere in our family to become weird recently. I annoy him so much."

"Why, your brother must be very sad," Demi said, "you'll have to comfort him."

"But I got angry with him just a few days ago," Helena said, "I said 'I've always been No.1', and he laughed at me."

Yael finally broke into the topic of the two little girls, and said weakly: "He really shouldn't laugh at Helena, she has always been the best girl in the class."

Demi agrees: "Well, it's your brother's fault."

"But..." Helena, who was supported by her friends, hesitated again. "I said before that a player is a 'loser' if he has no achievements. Will he think that I will talk about him..."

Demi looked at her little sister with a serious expression: "Helena, you are so smart, you should know, if you guessed it yourself, you can't guess it right, you should ask him directly, just like I don't know this question When choosing A or B, you can turn to the answer book."

"You're right, Demi." Helena thought for a while and nodded in agreement.

For this sentence, she specially gave the little sister a hug: "You are so kind!"

Yael watched the girls huddled together again, with a little envy in his eyes: "I want to hug too..."

His request was sternly rejected by Demi: "No, this is the hug Helena gave me, not for you. If you want a hug, you have to work hard."

*

While Helena was spending campus life with her friends, Ender and Stanzel went to the office building of the Uwensburg training base together.

The first and second floors of this building are the offices of the staff, and the third floor is the site of the club management, and Ender has never been there.

He knocked lightly in front of a door at the corner of the second floor, and he heard a "please come in" from inside before he walked in.

Coach Tierner was looking at something on the computer. When he saw him and Stanzel, the old man immediately smiled: "Ander! And Mr. Schneider!"

"Hello, sir." Ender greeted him very politely.

But he couldn't believe Tierner's smile anymore. Since yesterday, the image of this old German man in his heart has plummeted, from a kind and kind grandfather to a wolf in sheep's clothing.

Tierner didn't know if he could see his indifference. The old man smiled and beckoned him to come over and sit down while showing him his computer screen.

Yesterday's game video was playing on the computer, and there was a notebook in front of the screen, with a lot of densely written German on it, which Ender couldn't understand, but he caught a glimpse of his name on the top line.

"You may be a little disappointed, why didn't I let you play yesterday." The old man said, his voice slowed down, trying to pronounce every sound well, so that Ender could hear clearly, so that Stanzel could translate for Ender The part he didn't understand, "Because you're so excited, boy, I can see you're very excited about this game, which is a good thing, we need players to be competitive on the court, but sometimes it's also A bad thing."

"Why?" Ender frowned.

He didn't understand what Coach Tierner said at all.

The old man played back a video for him. It was the scene of the Uwensburg team's starting striker being knocked down by the Stuttgart players yesterday.

Pointing to the scene, he asked Ender, "Tell me, boy, what would you do if it were you?"

"...I'll dribble past him," Ender said, "and let him know I'm not that weak."

"Then you get tackled and knocked over by them," Tierner said. "I know you've got great skills, boy, but you're also the shortest, thinnest guy on our team, and the easiest to play against your age." defeated in human hand-to-hand combat."

"I'm not afraid of that," Ender retorted, "I can avoid—"

Tierner looked at him seriously: "This shows that you still don't know how to protect yourself, Ender. Protecting yourself is the number one priority on the court, and you were so excited yesterday that it was difficult to calm down."

After he finished speaking, he looked at Stanzel: "Our children's club, as well as the youth team, have always been aimed at letting children learn football happily. We care about their studies and physical health, followed by football. That's why I have been encouraging everyone, not always criticizing the children. The boys need to know that the most important thing for them to come to Uwensberg is to grow up healthy and happy. I don't want them to play football to delay their studies and finally live a happy life. I’m not happy, and I don’t want them to be hurt, to suffer from some kind of disease.”

He spoke very sincerely, Stanzel looked moved and nodded repeatedly.

"Yes, I admit that we are indeed a selection-based club. It is impossible for many children to complete the transformation from young players to professional players here. They will be brutally eliminated step by step in the process of growing up, but because of this, We need to ensure that these eliminated children will be better in the future," Tierner explained, "I say this not because Ender is bad, but because he is too talented and competitive. I hope he To be able to 'cool' myself down a bit."

He said with a smile: "I know it's a bit demanding to say this to such a young child, but I think Ender can do it."

Stanzel seemed to have been conquered by Tierner. He smiled and thanked him sincerely: "You are very kind, coach, and Ender's mother and I have always believed that the healthy growth of children is the most important thing." .”

Ender was worried: "But I want to compete."

"You will play, Ender," Tierner promised him with a smile, "As long as you grow another 5 centimeters, I will let you play."

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