Ender's Football

The next day's game Sieghard and Cohen both got the chance to start.

It was pure luck that Cohen got his first start in such an important game as the UEFA Youth League. One of the two players in the same position had flu, and the other was suspended for a yellow card. The coach had to let Cohen play.

Although he was gloating and teasing Sieghard with the six goals conceded in the last game, but when he was actually playing on the court, Cohen still worked very hard.

Many young players of his age who have been praised by the media as "geniuses" and "stars of hope" often have some attitude deficiencies in the game, because most of these children are offensive players. When playing, they often don't realize what kind of defensive tasks they need to undertake, and it is difficult to return to the defense with special efforts and be the first gate of the team.

But Cohen is not such a player. As an attacking midfielder, in the team's 4231 formation, he is the middle one in the "3". Before the restricted area.

Sieghard's vision is excellent, and he saw all this clearly in front of the door, and he was somewhat relieved.

Although Cohen is unreliable in his mouth, he is really reliable, which is why the two of them can become friends in U17.

But it is a pity that the strength of the Manchester City u19 team is obviously higher than them, especially in recent weeks several young players of their team have been transferred to the first team, and they have not been training together for a long time, and they lack tacit understanding, so In the 23rd minute of the game, Sieghard was forced to concede his first goal.

This goal is not fast when it is shot, and the line is short, flat and straight. It is the type of ball that is very easy to save in training.

However, in the game, since the entire back line of players had not cooperated with Sieghard, when the central defender obviously blocked Sieghard's vision, Sieghard's shouting did not Let him react immediately, but stretched his feet because of excessive tension, causing the ball to change its route during the flight, from the original route to the lower left corner to the dead corner of the goal.

And Sieghard, because his vision was blocked, he didn't even see the ball changing lanes.When the ball entered the net from the dead corner of the goal, he was still opening his arms in a rather comical awkward position, trying to catch the ball that was supposed to be shot to the bottom left corner.

That's how the first goal was conceded.

Sieghard fell to the ground in a sideways position. His shoulder hurt a bit, but it should be fine. When he got up, the central defender who had just scored an own goal walked over with an annoyed expression.

"My fault, brother," he said, stretching out his arms to lift Sieghard up from the ground.

Sieghard nodded and patted him on the back: "Be careful next time, buddy, the key is not to block my view."

For a goalkeeper, it is not good to just enter a new team. Every player in the defense line is not familiar with it, so it is difficult to predict their actions. When commanding the defense line, they may also make mistakes because of ignorance— - Such mistakes are often fatal, and many times the goal is lost in such a slight mistake.

It's even worse if it's an overly shy young goalkeeper.Reticence means that it is difficult for you to communicate with your teammates on the pitch, and being young means that most of the players on the back line are more senior than you, and it is difficult for you to command them in many cases.

Sieghard did not worry about "not being able to command" in this game. Although he did not have a tacit understanding, his teammates were still cooperative when he commanded the defense.For him, the tricky part lies in the degree of tacit understanding and the difficulty of saving.

Although in a 10-minute game, Sieghard made two wonderful saves and saved the opponent's two must-have goals, but Manchester City's U19s still scored with the strong attacking power of their frontcourt players. Three goals, plus an own goal by one's own central defender, a total of four goals fell into the net behind Sieghard.

The 4:0 score was maintained until the second half. The offensive player in the frontcourt finally scored a goal and rewritten the score to 4:1. He saved some face and was not "shaved" by the opponent.

This game can be said to be a complete defeat. Whether it is the tactical level or the actual execution level, their performance is not good enough, especially the third goal, almost rubbing his fingertips into the net, let Seager Harder was quite dissatisfied with his European Youth Championship debut.

At the end of the game, he wiped the sweat off his brow without saying a word, walked straight into the locker room without talking to anyone.

*

Ender's time at language school flies by.

He has to take several courses of basic subjects every day, all taught in German, in order to cultivate their curriculum ability and prepare for entering middle school in the future.

Ender listened carefully to these lessons.

He wasn't a good student when he was in China, but he was passable, and his grades were not too bad.

Here, in order to be able to practice daily language as soon as possible and understand what Coach Tierner said, Ender worked even harder, and almost devoted all his energy except training to the language school.

Unlike the children in groups, he is always alone, immersed in his studies, and most of the rest of the time is given to football.

Ander loves to play football, and he also took football lessons in the language school. The teacher knew that he joined the youth training in Uwensburg, and taught him some basic football words in every class. Ander accumulated a little bit from here. own vocabulary.

But not being socially active can be troublesome at times.

Especially in classes that require teams to complete group assignments, there are very few Chinese children in the school, and most of them are in the upper grade classes. There is no one in Ander's class, which leads to the fact that when forming teams, they are often European The kids were in a group with the European kids, the Middle East with the Middle East, and Ender was alone.

It happened to be a grammar class that day, and there was a group assignment that needed to be formed into a team. Ender looked around him. Most of his classmates had formed a team. Few of them had no fixed team like him, so he was a little hesitant.

The grammar teacher noticed Ender's embarrassment, she walked over quickly, smiled and asked him in German: "Have you found a partner yet, Ender?"

"No." Ender replied.

"Okay, then let's work hard together," the teacher looked around for him, most of the three-person groups had formed, only one group in the corner had only two students.

She glanced at the two children over there, and asked, "Hey, Bahza, and Sarah, would you like to be in a group with Ender?"

The two children in the corner raised their heads. They were a boy and a girl with typical Middle Eastern faces. They were taciturn in class and didn't speak much, so their sense of presence was quite thin.

Ender felt a little embarrassed at this moment, he tried to smile at them friendlyly, hoping to be accepted.

Bakhza didn't embarrass the teacher and Ender together, he readily agreed, and then moved his desk with Ender's with the teacher's help.

Sara continued to remain silent, and everything was under Baheza's command.

Ender wasn't sure where they came from, but it was sure to be an Arab country.He doesn't understand Arabic at all, so he greets them only in German: "Hi, hello, thank you for letting me join the group, my name is Ender."

"Hi, I'm Bahza, and her name is Sara." The boy introduced himself, and by the way, the girl beside him who bowed her head silently and wrapped herself in a scarf also introduced.

But this presentation is completely devoid of information.

"Well... hello." Ender said, he looked at the silent girl, hesitated for a while, but still didn't try to talk to her.

Maybe they have a custom there... not to talk to people much or something?

He thought wildly.

"Then let's start completing the group tasks, Ender." Bahza's voice brought Andra back to reality.

"Oh, yes," replied Ender, opening his textbook, "maybe... we can write some sentences about music?