Ender's Football

"Good morning."

It was the weekend again, Ender finished his study at the language school this week, relaxed a little, and didn't get up until he woke up naturally.

When he went downstairs, Li Mei had already prepared breakfast and was listening to music, while Stanzel was reading magazines—their family subscribed to several daily newspapers and magazines, although the Internet media has gradually replaced paper media. It is more time-sensitive in news reports, but Stanzel still seems to prefer traditional paper media. In his words, "newspapers are still more authoritative than the Internet."

What he opened was the first half of this week's "Kicker", an old football magazine headquartered in Nuremberg, Germany. In its nearly 100-year history, it has always insisted on reporting and commenting on the sport of football , is a well-known authoritative football media.

Every season, Kicker publishes their season ratings of Bundesliga/Germany players, and its strict evaluation criteria for "world-class" players is a characteristic of this media, sometimes because the evaluation standards are too strict and only evaluate The performance of the players in the current season may even appear in the "world-class" level where no players can be selected.

So Chinese fans joked that "Keiner (vacancy)" is the No.1 in football, and can even take over all the world-class lists of "Kicker" from forwards to midfielders to defenders to goalkeepers.

As Ender came down the stairs, he caught a glimpse of Stanzel reading the Kicker's review of the previous day's Champions League match.

There are four Bundesliga teams shortlisted for the Champions League this season: Bayern Munich, Dortmund, Leverkusen and Schalke 04. Among them, Bayern and Dortmund are the Champions League champion and runner-up in 2013, and they are relatively competitive in the European war , and Leverkusen and Schalke 04 are relatively less powerful than Bayern and Dortmund, so Stanzel is very concerned about the promotion of these two teams.

——In the early stage of the UEFA Champions League, the competition system is a group points competition. The 32 teams will be divided into 8 groups for competition, and the top two points in each group will enter the knockout stage.

Leverkusen and Schalke 04 were assigned to very good groups this time, avoiding strong opponents, so they have great hopes of qualifying.

"So you like Leverkusen and Schalke in the Bundesliga?" Ender asked Stanzel curiously.

The other party paused, and then laughed heartily: "No, no, Ender, I don't like any team! I don't have any special likes and dislikes towards Bundesliga teams!"

"But I see that you are very concerned about these two Bundesliga teams." Ender said.

"That's why I hope that in the European war, German clubs can go a little further," Stanzel said, "Let the British guys know that besides Bayern and Dortmund, we have other good teams! "

Ender finally understood Stanzel's psychology, he nodded and continued to eat without further words.

Today he has a training session and will arrive at Uwensburg's training base at noon.

As soon as Ender finished his breakfast, he couldn't wait to put on his football bag and prepare to go out. By the way, he measured his own size on the height wall as a matter of routine.

Contrary to his expectations, today when he was leaning against his head and drawing a line with a pencil on the wooden height wall, he was surprised to find that he seemed to have jumped two centimeters overnight!

1 meters 65!

This is the height line drawn by Mr. Tierner!

Ender confirmed it ecstatically, then quickly ran back to the restaurant, and gave Li Mei and Stanzel a big hug.

Stanzel cheerfully hugged him, but Li Mei was frightened and almost knocked off the earphones in her ears.

"I've grown taller!" Ender announced at the dining table, "I've grown to 1.6 meters five!"

Stanzel and Li Mei looked at each other and congratulated him in unison.

An De happily repeated it in his heart. The haze of not being able to play in the game last time was swept away in his heart, and he said to them: "I will be able to compete soon! I will participate in the U13 official competition!"

"Okay, okay," Li Mei straightened his messy hair and the crooked backpack due to the big movement, "then you have to work hard, baby."

Ender went all the way to the Uwensburg training base in such a good mood.

He arrived very early, and the other children hadn't come yet, and the players of the first team and the second team hadn't started training. The training ground of the whole base looked deserted.

Ender didn't care about this, he trotted into Mr. Tierner's office, knocked on the door symbolically, and couldn't wait to open the door and go in, to report the good news to the old German man.

"Hey! Coach! I'm tall enough!" he shouted excitedly.

"..."

What responded to him was silence. Three people were sitting in Tierner's office at the same time. Apart from Tierner himself, there was also a middle-aged man with brown hair and beard in a suit and leather shoes, and another silver-haired but also An old man in formal attire with a very elegant demeanor.

The three of them seemed to be talking, and upon hearing this, they all turned around and looked at Ender.

Ender didn't expect such a situation in the office, he froze in place, looking at Mr. Tierner innocently.

"Ender, it's okay, come in, come and sit next to me," Tierner said. The old man still looked cheerful, and he beckoned Ender to sit down, and then introduced to the other two people, "This is our U13's most Smart kid, pretty good."

The elegant old man nodded when he heard Ender's name, and smiled very kindly: "I know this child, Burton and I have praised you several times, boy, do you know me?"

Ender blinked his eyes, he didn't understand what was going on, but of course he knew this old man!His name was Gabriel Schwartz - he was known all over Uwensburg, his name was printed on the front of all the club documents!In the eyes of the outside world, he is synonymous with this club!

"Of course, I know you, Mr. Schwartz, you are our chairman—"

"Hahaha," the old man laughed, "That's right, my office is on the third floor. If you have any questions in the future, you are welcome to come to me."

Ender nodded obediently.

Regardless of whether he will really look for it in the future, anyway, nodding first, it can't be wrong.

What happened next was beyond Ender's ear. Neither Mr. Chairman nor Mr. Tierner introduced the identity of another man in a suit to him. Mr. Tierner quietly slipped him a lollipop and sent him off. Go to the team's equipment administrator and ask him to ask the other party for the equipment that will be used in training for a while, and then go to the training ground to play by yourself.

Most of the excitement in Ender's heart had passed at this time, knowing that the adults might have serious things to do, so he listened to Mr. Tierner's words quite obediently, and quickly walked out of the office.

As he closed the office door, he vaguely heard a word mentioned by the men in the room.

"Transfer".

*

While Ender was happy that he had grown taller, Sigurhard also had a smooth life during this time.

He first gained a firm foothold in U19, and then achieved a very good grade in a class, which made Sieghard very happy.

Nowadays, social media is prevalent among young people, and Sieghard is naturally not immune. Because he is in a good mood, he posted several updates on Instagram one after another, and even looked through his Instagram comments with great interest.

Not many people pay attention to Sieghard now, most of them are his friends, classmates, teammates in clubs and national teams, and some fans.Therefore, each of his dynamic comments is generally only a few dozen, at most a hundred or so, and it is easy to read.

Sieghard flipped through it, and his fingers flicked over an account with a blank avatar. This fan seemed to have been following him for a few days, but he only occasionally sent a smiley face, never texting.

——Probably which fan?

Sieghard thought uncertainly, but he didn't know whose interest it was, so he glanced over this person casually, and began to reply to some messages from friends he knew in reality.