Ender's Football

The Uwensburg U15 where Ander is currently playing is in the C-Jugend league, which is still played in the entire state of Baden-Württemberg. Only the U17 team that has been promoted to a higher level will be with them The opponents of the game can be expanded to the U17 teams in the first-tier teams in southern Germany.

Uwensburg's first team also failed in their efforts to hit the top league last season, so the team will continue to struggle in the second division.

Ander's current agent - also the grandson of the president of Uwensburg - Jack, originally had a player of Uwensburg, Kerber, under him.

During the last winter break, Kerber transferred from Uwensburg to Leipzig Red Bull. Originally, he wanted to enter the Bundesliga with full confidence. Like the first team of Uwensburg, they have not been able to get a ticket to enter the Bundesliga and must continue to play in the Bundesliga.

This also means that Kerber has to meet his old club, Uwensburg, who is also his youth team, on the field.

During the recent period, Jack has been busy with Kerber's affairs, constantly contacting the media and fans to appease the players' emotions. Ander felt that Jack was about to forget himself.

——Of course, it doesn't matter. After signing this agent, Jack hasn't played any role yet, and Ender has almost forgotten about him.

Entering September, the German Cup ushered in the second round of the draw ceremony. Ander and his U9 teammates watched the TV broadcast of the draw together.

The German Cup is a domestic cup competition hosted by the German Football Association. The principle is that all German teams can participate in it, even amateur teams-that is, teams composed of amateur players!These "players" have their own jobs in normal times. They can be chefs, policemen or restaurant cashiers. As long as they can beat the professional league teams in the game, they can continue to advance and rush forward!

With this rule, the first round of the German Cup will often turn into a very unbalanced battle of strength and weakness. Although sometimes the Bundesliga team will lose unexpectedly, the results of most games are actually not suspenseful.

Uwensburg is an exception. It is not easy for them to win this round, because the lottery is not very good. In the first round of the German Cup, they got 1860* Munich, which just returned to the second division from the third division this season.

This club is also located in Munich, and it is a sworn enemy in the same city as Bayern Munich. Because the Chinese player Shao Jiayi once played there, it was once a club well-known to Chinese fans.It’s just that due to poor management and club internal strife, the Munich 1860 club has been relegated to the Bundesliga since 2004. Since then, it has been struggling and sinking in the Bundesliga. The glorious era of the league championship.

However, Uwensburg and Munich 1860 are very different, and no one can laugh at the other. Both teams have always dreamed of returning to the top league, but they have not been able to realize this dream for a long time, so there is not much difference in strength. Be stronger.

The first round of the German Cup match was indeed very anxious. The Uwensburg team finally won the 2 team in Munich with a score of 1:1860 and won the qualification to enter the second round.

The German Cup only plays one round, without the procrastination of the two-round system of other cups. The winner is determined in one round, and the winner will advance. It is very simple and rude.Moreover, in order to take care of weak teams when drawing lots, the weak teams—that is, the team in the second box at the time of drawing lots—are generally allowed to be the home team and host games in their own home courts.

Ender, Nathan, and Grande huddled together on a sofa, staring nervously at the lottery box on the TV screen.

Nathan clasped his hands together, pretended to be praying, and muttered: "No Bayern, no Dortmund, no Borussia Mönchengladbach..."

Grande complained about Curly's faking: "You don't look like a Catholic at all, and, Nathan, why don't you just read the Bundesliga list?"

Nathan stopped his thoughts, opened his eyes and looked at Grande with an innocent expression: "Don't you think I read it right?! Don't you want to kick Bayern Dortmund and Borussia!"

"I just don't think there's any need to be so scared," Grande shrugged. "If you all have this mentality, then even if we get a weak team this round and get into the third round by luck, won't we still be drawn by these strong teams?" Eliminate it?"

"Enter one more round to earn more rounds of broadcast fees, ticket fees, and game bonuses!" Nathan emphasized, "This is the most important thing related to the survival of the club!"

He spoke plausibly, and Ender also felt that it made sense: "That's how it is."

Grande sighed: "Nathan, you're actually starting to worry about this? I don't think the club has reached the point where we can't pay us wages, right?"

Nathan grinned at him, the little curly hair flicked twice on his forehead, revealing two pointed canine teeth: "Have you ever cared about your salary? Ender, Grande, you two are probably the kind Someone who never saves money!"

"Of course I have saved money!" Although he didn't know how the topic turned into such a strange place, Ender still responded to Nathan, "Part of my salary is handed over to my mother, and the other part is saved for Helian. Na and grandma buy presents! Still very useful!"

"Then you're probably talking about me," Grande shrugged, "Well, I really don't care too much. I was so happy when I got the 300 Euro* for the first time, and invited people to dinner everywhere. There are only two steel coins left."

Nathan was heartbroken by his behavior: "That's 300 euros! It's a waste of money!"

Grande was indifferent: "Really? Maybe."

"You don't even understand what kind of effort I - we - have gone through to...!" Nathan even seemed a little angry.

Ender didn't understand his sudden emotion, but he immediately inserted into the topic of the two good friends, comforting Nathan: "Okay, okay, Nathan, I understand you, I will carefully consider how to save money, but then The 300 euros were earned by Grande himself, and he has nothing to spend by himself..."

——His comfort on the left, affirmation on the right, he can be called the master of Duan Shui.

Although they are all youth teams, the youth training echelons of regular top league clubs are completely different from the wild teams outside for self-entertainment.

The echelon will provide regular coaches, more scientific and complete training content, more professional training venues and fitness equipment for young players... Bundesliga teams like Uwensburg have restaurants outside their training grounds. The players provide healthy three meals a day. In addition, they also provide dormitories for young players and connect them with local schools to ensure that young players can grow up healthily and smoothly.

After signing the contract, young players can also get a certain amount of money in return from the echelon. Many children from poor families have embarked on this path, and even frequently change jobs between major clubs. They all have the goal of making more money and supplementing their families. ——Of course the echelons of big clubs will give more money than small clubs.

But at the same time, it is very difficult to enter the echelon of regular clubs, especially the youth training echelons of the Bundesliga and Bundesliga teams. They generally adopt a selection method and eliminate them layer by layer to screen good seedlings from across the country and even the world for themselves. .

If young players are not appreciated by the youth training of the Bundesliga and Bundesliga teams, there are also some lower-level teams or self-entertaining wild teams that can go, but the above conditions cannot be guaranteed there.It is even difficult for non-professional teams to find regular licensed coaches. Generally, members who know a little bit about tactics serve as coaches themselves.In such a team, it is of course difficult for young players to make great progress. Unless they are very talented, entering the professional league in the future is tantamount to nonsense.

Nathan has always been a lively and happy boy, he is silly all day long, and everyone in the club likes him.He rarely mentioned his past to others. Today, he was so emotional that he almost spoke his mother tongue, revealing some shadows of his past life.

"In Mexico, there are many boys like me who are more talented than me, but they didn't come to Europe smoothly... I was also lucky. I brought me to Germany with my own money," said the little curly hair, with a sad tone, "300 euros may be nothing to you, but to my Mexican friends, as long as they have this money, they can change their life. lifetime."

Ender and Grande looked at each other. They really didn't know about Nathan's previous life. Today, they were suddenly told by his friends that he still had such a past, and they didn't know what to say.

The more Nathan talked, the more sad he became, and the little curls that were raised on weekdays seemed to have collapsed limply: "I haven't contacted my friends for a long time. If they can't enter the club's youth training echelon like me, they will get Salary, maybe it will all go to the gangsters there... We don’t like studying very much. We either play football to get ahead, or we can only hang out with the local gangsters, help them sell du//, or replace them They take street warblers to America..."

Thinking of this scene, he himself felt ridiculous: "You may not have seen how poor a city can be... In my hometown, the largest slum and the rich area are separated by a barbed wire, and we live in the mud every day. Kick the ball and look back at the gangsters partying in the open-air rooftop pool."

"Nathan," Ender thought for a while and licked his lips before saying, "Well...we may not know much about these situations, and I'm sorry to hear that."

Grande also put his hand on Nathan's shoulder, put away his smile, and said seriously: "Nathan, you know, I was just joking, and I have no other ideas."

The two of them became so serious that Nathan didn't quite get used to it.

He explained a little flusteredly: "I'm not blaming you, Grande, I'm just, just... thinking about the past, I feel a little bit sad for my friends."

"Then is there any way we can help them?" Ender asked curiously, "Maybe we can donate money to them, Nathan?"

Little Curly shook his head: "I don't know either."

He didn't seem to have thought about this question. He only started to think about it when he heard Ender mention it, but it didn't take long before he became more depressed: "I can only support myself now...it seems that I can't help them yet."

"Then get better," Grande said, and his hand on Nathan's shoulder patted him hard, "get stronger, go to the best club in the world, become a super club. If you are a celebrity, you can earn a lot of money, and you can set up a foundation to support children like your friends and help them realize their dreams."

"You can also help your hometown build an elementary school or middle school," Ender also suggested, "and if you become famous, even if you don't do anything, it will be an encouragement to the children in your hometown! I know, the best way to have a future is to work hard, whether it is studying or playing football."

Both of their words actually carried a beautiful vision of the future, but they were a little deeper than Nathan's.

Nathan nodded heavily, and the little curly hair shook with him: "You're right, I will work hard!"

His fighting spirit was high, but the host's excited voice could already be heard on the TV screen.

Ender vaguely heard Uwensburg's name, and he sighed, "Dude, don't you think our topic is off topic? It's drawing lots!" while raising his head.

The other two boys looked up after him.

The three of them looked at the TV screen at the same time. At this time, the lottery guests on the screen had already taken out the Uwensburg lottery from the box, and their opponents who had been drawn out before were precisely——

Bayern Munich!

The three boys present looked at each other.

Grande poked Nathan's curly hair and regretted it very much: "If I had known, I wouldn't have stopped you from praying, Nathan, maybe you thought about God more at that time, and he could help us a little bit."

Nathan used his hands to protect the small curly hair on his forehead from Grande's claws, and his expression was also desperate: "Why did you interrupt me just now! I knew it! We are done! One round...ah, no , two rounds - at least we won another Munich team before."

"Think about it, guys." Ender is probably the one with the best mentality. He can even imagine the scene of the stadium full of seats and fans singing in the future. A lot of media, we're going to be on the front page of Bild."

Nathan and Grande looked at him together, and finally Nathan sighed sincerely: "Ander, you must be very suitable to be an Arsenal fan*."

"Why?" Ender was puzzled.

"The mentality is good enough." Nathan, who is an Arsenal fan, explained to Ender, "None of the Arsenal fans are as positive and optimistic as you are. What a failure. I should learn from you after every round of the Champions League group stage* If you think about it that way, you might be happier.”

"That may be because," Ander said blankly, "I was already a fan of the Chinese team before I had time to become an Arsenal fan."

Nathan and Grande stood in awe.