Ender's Football

Leipzig is located in the east of Germany. It used to be the second largest city in East Germany. The famous Elbe River meanders through here.

Ender came to this city together with Stanzel. They chose the train this time. This was the first time Ender took a train in Germany. He was a little excited and turned around on the train pretending to be reserved. Afterwards, he quietly returned to his own seat, just raised his head and looked around from time to time, silently observing everything around him.

Li Mei has her own job, and Helena still has to go to school, so this is the first time that their family has not traveled together, and Stanzel and Ender are the only two people on the whole trip.

Stanzel has never been to Leipzig, but as a conscientious parent, he specially organized the itinerary, listed the things to do one by one, and prepared a very exaggerated large suitcase, which was full of various things. All sorts of things that Ender thought were weird.

For example - mosquito spray.

"It's winter now?" he asked suspiciously, "Why do we bring mosquito spray in the box?"

"But we can't guarantee that Leipzig will be mosquito-free," Stanzel said.

Ender: "?"

If he didn't know that the purpose of his trip was for trial training, and seeing Stanzel so excited, he would have thought they were traveling to some mysterious tribe in South America.

Of course, Stanzel is not a fool who doesn't know anything about life. His excitement is more due to his eagerness to take care of Ender's everything—as a later parent, he always wants to Come up with a little better performance.

However, Li Mei still took out the anti-mosquito spray from the suitcase, and laughed at the father and son unabashedly.

The train soon reached the strange east.

The youth training center of the Red Bull Leipzig is located next to the Red Bull Arena.

Before entering the youth training center, Ander looked at the magnificent stadium in the distance. The staff who brought them here noticed the curious eyes of Ander among all the boys, and introduced with a smile: "That's us The stadium used by the first team matches, there are many stories about this stadium, it used to be called the Central Stadium, once the largest stadium in Germany, it was abandoned, and now it has been refurbished, becoming a symbol of the city. It can It can accommodate more than 4 people to watch the game,"

"It's the winter break now, so there are no games recently. Our first-team members have gone home on vacation. They will follow the team to the warm Portuguese winter training after a while," the staff added, "so it is very It's a pity that you won't be able to see them these two days, but after the trial training, we still welcome everyone to visit the Red Bull Arena and feel the atmosphere of our stadium."

The home field is called the Red Bull Arena, so the youth training center must also have Red Bull elements.

Ander noticed that Red Bull Group's LOGO can be seen everywhere here, appearing more frequently than the team's name "RB Leipzig".

"This youth training center was only built in August this year." During their visit, the staff introduced everything here very enthusiastically. He smiled, "You came here at a good time. Everything here is Brand new, we are the first youth training base in Germany with underfloor heating, and use the best turf. Next to the training ground, there is a world-class function room. I guarantee that even in Munich, you will not Seeing such a perfect and complete facility."

This was said so proudly that Ender couldn't help but look at him a few more times.

A boy next to him also came to participate in the trial training with Ander this time. He was probably not very convinced. He raised his head and asked the staff: "But, sir, don't you have any very famous players here?"

The smile of the staff remained unchanged: "We have just started, I believe that we will cultivate the best football talents for the world in the future—" He then quickly changed the subject, "By the way, I just mentioned the functional room, who would have thought Come with me to see over there?"

"I!"

"I want to go!"

Several boys raised their hands, and the staff quickly led the chattering children to the next place to visit.

There are even more equipment in the training hall, such as high-tech track, sauna room, rest area, and various functional areas.

Stanzel and Ender were the last ones. Looking at everything around him, he was stunned and whispered in Ender's ear: "Their facilities are really great. The venue for children is better than ours in Uwensburg. Much better."

Ender nodded too.

Although they are both Bundesliga teams, Red Bull's infrastructure is obviously much higher than that of Uwensburg, which is better than some Bundesliga teams.When Ander was in Uwensburg, he had never seen this kind of sauna and swimming pool for youth players.

After finishing speaking, Stanzel also sighed enviously: "You are rich and powerful."

Red Bull Group can indeed be called "rich and powerful".

The team owner, Dietrich Mateschitz, the chairman of the Red Bull Group, is the richest man in Austria. His name appears every year on the Forbes billionaires list in the world. When the owner Mansour and Paris Saint-Germain's King owner Al Thani are richer, Matt Hitz has already jumped up and become a member of the "super rich football club".

In New York, he owns the New York Red Bulls. In his hometown of Austria, he owns the Salzburg Red Bulls. Now in Germany, his Leipzig Red Bulls are on the right track and are actively impacting the Bundesliga next season. Hope able to expand their influence.

However, Matt Schitz did not burn a lot of money when investing in Leipzig. Limited to the financial regulations of German football and the judgment of the situation, Leipzig generally maintains a fairly balanced financial situation, which is not like Abramovich just now. Like Chelsea when he took over, he can do whatever he wants with a checkbook.

After visiting Red Bull's youth training center in the morning, it was time for the children to try out in the afternoon.

Since Red Bull's base is empty at this moment, most of the players are already on vacation, so only scouts, youth training coaches and young players who were invited to try out came over.

There are about 20 young players in this group. The coaching staff first took everyone to do a physical fitness test and warm-up training. Then they studied their respective positions and divided them into two groups. Training Course.

Ander was the only Asian kid present. Most of the other boys were German. They obviously didn't think much of Ander. When the coach arranged groups, the boys started to get together and chatter. After De was assigned to his own group, they didn't come together to discuss with him, but they all ignored him.

This is actually not a good thing.

Ander's frontcourt is a position that requires a lot of running and patience. He needs the support of his teammates. If it is in Uwensburg, everyone knows that he has the ability to complete wonderful passes and score goals, but no one here knows. He, and because he was yellow, he was probably born to be looked down upon by these boys.

He sighed inwardly.

If you are a child with a weak heart, playing football in such an environment may feel difficult.

But Ender was used to it.

Because of his skin color, when he was in Russia, others would question his ability at first sight; in Ukraine, no child would want to play with him; in Germany, too.

This is not the kind of explicit racism that will be directly on the table, but a concept that is rooted in their subconscious:

Yellow people can't play football well.

Even if Japanese and South Korean players have already radiated their own light and heat in this land, since the center of the entire football world is in Europe and America, people will subconsciously lower Asian players to a level, thinking that they will never be Superstars are not born.

If you want to succeed in such an environment, you have to face not only questioning gazes and pressure from "prejudice", but also your own psychological burden.

"Hey, guys." No one came, so he took the initiative to introduce himself, "My name is Ender, I am from Uwensburg, and I am the main striker of U15."

——In fact, he is not the main force yet, because coach Tierner has not sent him to start every game this season, but with this introduction, everyone can have a basic impression of him.

Uwensburg's youth training is not bad in Germany, and this team is not unknown in the second division of Germany. At least many of the boys present, some are from small local clubs, and some are from that kind of club. Those who come from the echelon of regional league clubs, their echelon is much less famous than Uwensburg.

Therefore, Ender's self-introduction quickly attracted the attention of his team members.

The boy standing closest to him waved him. "My name is Vanja and I'm from Serbia."

The boy, Vanya, spoke very good German, with almost no accent, and Ender smiled at him, and got a very friendly response.

Starting with Vania, the boys who didn't pay much attention to him just now introduced themselves briefly. Ender found that these boys didn't know each other very well, but their previous topics seemed to revolve around the guy on the opposite side. Group of a boy.

"Did you see the blond guy with the blue sneakers?" Vania whispered to Ender, "They all said just now that he was a talent that Leipzig had spent a lot of time poaching from England, and he was also a striker. The coaching staff said he was born to play the violin on the court."

Ender looked in the direction his eyes were looking at, and sure enough there was a brown-haired boy wearing a pair of Puma blue sneakers, talking to the people next to him with a smile on his face.

"Genius?" He repeated Vanya's words.

Vanya smiled: "I don't know if that's the case, I just heard that's what they discussed just now."

"Thank you, I understand, but there is a saying in my hometown," Ender pointed to his eyes, "'Hearing is believing, seeing is believing', I have to see it on the court, what is that like? 'Genius'."

As soon as he finished speaking, the coach blew a short whistle to remind everyone that the training match was about to start.

Vanya patted Ender on the shoulder before running away: "Good luck."