Ender's Football

Ander, who was caught, blushed immediately.

Seeing the boy holding the jersey and blushing, Honda Kazuya achieved his goal of playing a prank. Then he laughed very kindly, and then helped Ender out: "Okay! Kid! Work hard!"

"En!" Ander nodded wildly.

B-Peris watched them interact and couldn't help laughing too.

He rubbed the boy's head, and said to him, "Train well, boy."

After the players thanked the fans, they went back to the locker room.Ander ignorantly followed them to the player tunnel, while Honda Kazuya asked him, "What's your name?"

"Ender," Ender said, "I'm playing for Uwensburg U13 now."

Honda Kazuya is also a little emotional: "Now more and more Asian players have come to the Bundesliga."

Ender nodded and smiled at him.

In a blink of an eye, the players' locker room also arrived. It was the exclusive area for the first-team players. Ender couldn't go in, so he bid farewell to Honda Kazuya in the corridor.

*

While Ander was picking up the ball as a ball boy at Stein Energy Field, Sieghard and his teammates got off the plane and took the bus to the hotel.

The bus is an indispensable part of a team, and its mileage in each season is often the mileage of a team.Players often travel by bus during domestic games, and everyone has their own exclusive place.

Although Sieghard's bus is not as luxurious as that of the Bayern first team, it is also provided by the sponsor Mann, with complete facilities and comfortable seats.

Sieghard's fixed seat on the bus is in the fourth row, which he likes because there is a coffee table behind him, and he can always get hot coffee.

The seat next to him belongs to his good friend Cohen in the team. Both of them are native Munich boys. They came at the age of 8, and both of them were promoted to U15 at the same time this season. At present, Sieghard has occupied a starting position, and Cohen has always been a substitute.

The two of them leaned back in their chairs and relaxed, Sieghard was looking at his phone, Cohen was listening to a song with an earphone plugged in, and his teammates were talking in the row behind him.

"The first-team bus has a starry sky roof! The seats are also wider, so it can be used as an RV!" A voice with a North Rhine-Westphalia accent said, "It is said that Mann provided them with a special bus, and it was only customized One, with several four-seater seats reserved in the front row, playing cards for Muller and the others—"

The boys all laughed.

The ethos of playing cards in the Bayern team has a long history. If you really want to trace it back, it can even be traced back to the last century, the generation of the current team chairman Rummenigge.What they like to play is a traditional Bavarian board game called "sheep's head".This tradition is now carried out by team captain Lahm, vice-captain Schweinsteiger, Thomas Muller, and team goalkeeper Manuel Neuer. They all joined together and became the name of the team.

There is even a joking saying that the reason why the sponsor Mann designed a four-seater for the Bayern bus that can sit opposite each other is to make it more convenient for the top stars in the team to play sheep's head cards.

The boys in U19 are full of longing for the first team, and they still have some imagination.

Although they are closer to the life of the first team than the young players of other teams, there is still a layer between them.

Everyone knows the cruelty of the giants. Even though they are currently in the youth training team of the giants, only the lucky few can really set foot on the turf of the Allianz Arena in the future and become the superstars that everyone is looking forward to.And most of them, according to the countless bloody lessons in the past, must accept their mediocre reality and wake up from the unrealistic superstar dream.

Sieghard sometimes felt that it was like walking on a balance beam. You knew that you might fall off the log, but there was still a voice in your heart telling yourself—"Hold on," "Go!" Go on", "You will succeed", "Why can't that lucky one be you".

It sounds like chicken soup, but this is the reality of U19 players, everyone is running forward on the road to success, in order to run to the next track.

The coldness and cruelty of competitive sports coexist with its grandeur, and the wealthy players are particularly impressed by this.

"Didn't you enter the locker room of the first team, Lucas?" The boy with the North Rhine-Westphalia accent asked other questions curiously, "What's the difference from us?"

The boy who answered him had a very natural attitude, as if entering the first team is as simple as eating and drinking: "I took a look when I went in... It doesn't feel special, it's just like us... Every player has a locker, I even touched the jersey that belonged to Robben."

"Does he use tonic?"

"Hahahaha, how do I know? When I went in, most of the players hadn't arrived yet, and I didn't know where I should sit. David kindly pointed me to a place."

The boys winked and laughed.

David Alaba is very popular among young players, because he also came from the Bayern youth training, and also left home to play and live in Germany when he was a teenager, so he can understand the situation of young players, and there is no big name The shelf of a star, every kid from the youth training likes to find him.

Lucas Sauer, who just spoke, has the most special status among these children in the youth team.

His father, Melmut Sauer, was once the darling of Bayern. The fans here have affectionately called him "Sauer" since he came to Munich at the age of 21 until he retired at the age of 36.In the Bayern team at the beginning of the century, Sauer's agility and elegance made him the team's commander, and he spent almost his entire career at Allianz.On the day he retired, Bayern specially replaced Sauer wearing the No. [-] jersey with another French young man wearing the No. Career draws a happy ending.

With such a father, Lucas Sauer has earned a lot of attention since the first day he came to Bayern's youth training.

The media compared him with his father and speculated whether he would be the next owner of the No. [-] jersey. Media interviews, short films of the team, and even the eyes of the first team all bet on this young man.

The head coach of the first team Guardiola even prematurely called this young man who was only 17 years old into the first team to train with big-name players.

And those big-name players, such as the aforementioned David Alaba, even once learned free kicks from the father of Sauer Jr.

Compared with Lucas Sauer, who is full of glory, Sieghard, who has been in the limelight in U17, is not so eye-catching.

Especially since his position is still a goalkeeper, he has less attention than an offensive player.

There was a lot of excitement behind him, and Cohen, who was next to Sieghard, bumped into his shoulder.

"Hey, buddy, don't keep talking," he whispered, "you'll be in the first team sooner or later—not like that," he tilted his head, pointed behind his chin secretly, "Depend on Dad."

Sieghard didn't buy it: "Thanks for the affirmation, but I don't think Lucas can go to the first team training because of relationships," he said and shrugged, "Could it be that Guardiola will rely on relationships? Praise your head coach?"

Cohen puffed up his cheeks and looked a little discouraged: "Well, who knows, I'm just a little...you know."

He and Lucas Sauer are both attacking midfielders, but the situation is very different, and the gap in Cohen's heart can be imagined.

Seeing him slump, Sieghard patted his shoulder: "Let's think about tomorrow's game, Cohen."

Tomorrow they will play Manchester City U19, which is not an opponent that can be underestimated. You must know that Bayern U19 also encountered Manchester City U19 in the Youth Champions League last year, and the score between the two sides was 0:6!

——They are the 0, and the Manchester City U19 is the 6.

The smile came back to Cohn's face, this time a gleeful grin.

"Yeah, dude," he said, "I feel better just thinking about the possibility that you might get six tomorrow."