Ender's Football

On the second day, Ander and Sighard didn't have breakfast in the restaurant downstairs of the youth training center as Lynch said yesterday. They got up early and went to the street together to buy a lot of daily necessities.

It was exactly noon when the two boys brought the things they bought back to the base in boxes. Uncle Kuko, who was in charge of managing the dormitory of the youth training center, saw them coming back, smiled and waved, and asked them to come over and meet the other boys in the youth training center. Let's eat together and give everyone some time to introduce themselves.

"Come on, let's get to know each other, we will be a family from now on," Uncle Cuco said with a smile, "Let me introduce myself first, my name is Nikolai Bapnovich Hochho Erdinger, the name is too long for foreign boys to remember, so they call me Uncle Cuco."

Uncle Cuco had gray hair and a beard, and he looked about 60 or 40 years old—in fact, he was only in his [-]s, which really surprised Ender.

He is a very friendly person. When Ander arrived at the youth training center yesterday, he was the one who was busy helping them complete the procedures and clean up the dormitory. He also enthusiastically talked a lot about the youth training center with Li Mei and Stanzel. topic of life.

At this moment, he looked around and found that the boys had already attracted his attention. All the children were looking up at him, and couldn't help but smile, and then said: "I have served the Leipzig Red Bull club for seven years. La! He was a staff member of another club in the same city of Leipzig until 2009, when the Red Bull Group bought Marklandstedt*, a fifth-level team not far from Leipzig, and recruited staff from the public, so I also came here to work.”

If he hadn't mentioned the name today, Ender would have never heard of the club Marklandstadt.

In fact, before the Leipzig Red Bull was born, the entire eastern part of Germany—that is, the East Germany before the Berlin Wall was demolished—had been silent in the German football world for many years. When the teams in West Germany were fiercely competing for the league championship, East Germany The team always rarely played in the Bundesliga.

In the 2008-2009 season, Cottbus from East Germany fell into the relegation zone and was finally determined to be relegated. Since then, there have been no football clubs from East Germany in the Bundesliga. All Bundesliga teams are from West Germany. , This situation has continued until now*, becoming a scar on the hearts of East German fans throughout the country.

When these thoughts flashed through Ender's mind, Uncle Cuco continued: "...we will form a big family in the future, and we will be responsible for all aspects of your life. If you have any difficulties, please come to me. I hope Everyone can spend the most meaningful time in their lives at the Red Bull Youth Training Base."

After he finished speaking, Lynch took the lead in applauding, and Ender followed suit.

Then it was time for the boys to introduce themselves to each other.

There are more than a dozen boys living in Red Bull's youth training center. There are foreigners like Sieghard and foreigners like Ender. Lynch and Louis, who played games with them last night, are the provocative The boy who lost Sieghard was among them, as well as the two boys who watched together last night.The remaining few children are relatively young, and they are not yet old enough to play U16.Ender listened carefully to the self-introductions of each of them, and found that there was actually a 15-year-old boy who came from the United States. He could only say hello and goodbye in German, and shyly nestled in a chair when he was called laugh.

After everyone else finished their introductions, it was the turn of Sieghard and Ander who just moved into the youth training center yesterday.

It was rare for Sieghard to be less indifferent than yesterday, but his self-introduction was still calm and short: "Sighard," he simply said his name, and added, "kick the goalkeeper."

Uncle Cuco seemed a little surprised that Sighard had so few words. He probably thought that Sighard was shy, and encouraged him: "Tell me more, Sighard! Can you tell me about your age, previous experience, Or what do you like to do! What if we have someone here with the same interests as you?"

After he finished speaking, he looked at Sieghard expectantly.

The latter, however, was silent for a moment.

From this moment of silence, Ander got a glimpse of Sigurhard's state of mind.

From the indifference towards Lynch last night, to Louis's immature provocation, to today's reticence, in fact, the Sigurhard that Ender just met a year ago was not like this.

At that time, Sieghard was willing to show kindness to a foreigner he was unfamiliar with. He would show a friendly smile and enthusiastically explain the German team's games to strangers. When Ender asked about his relationship with the German team, He was able to subtly flash a confident smile that contained a thousand words and the pride of a player who could stand on the field and wear the captain's armband, saying:

——"Let me introduce myself. I am currently the main goalkeeper of the Bayern Munich U17 youth team and the captain of the German U17 youth team."

He was a sunny and cheerful team leader. The media often used to describe him as a genius boy or a wealthy new star. He was a dazzling, eye-catching, and charming boy. It seemed that just by looking at him, one could know that the road ahead was leading to success. Kangzhuang Avenue.

But all this has come to an abrupt end in the heavy snow in Munich.

The Sieghard in front of him has changed a lot since then.

Although he didn't look different when facing Ender, the upside-down of his life finally brought him something else.

He was unwilling to say where he was from at first, and the name of the club that would make him proud when he mentioned it usually became an invisible shackle. He used to be full of aura, but when the aura was removed, he began to become embarrassed.

Ender keenly noticed this in Sieghard's silence, and he wanted to steal the focus and shift the topic to himself: "Uncle Cuco, I should come first..."

But a calm voice interrupted him.

"Sighard Meyer, 18 years old, from Munich," Sieghard Meyer sat upright and upright like a green pine tree, and he gently but firmly pressed Ann, who was about to change the subject, with his right hand. De, with a steady tone, "I don't have any special hobbies."

Anyone can see that Sieghard doesn't want to talk about himself very much, and of course Uncle Cuco is the same.

He smiled, patted Sieghard on the shoulder, did not continue, but looked at Ander: "Okay, it's up to you next, kid, what did you want to say just now? No problem, say it boldly .”

Ander smiled at him, took over the topic naturally, and introduced himself: "My name is Ander, I am Chinese, I played in the Uwensburg youth team before, I am very glad to meet you here. "

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard the boy on the opposite side whistle and exclaimed: "Chinese!"

Ender didn't understand what he said, so he raised his eyebrows.

Then he found that under the table, Sigurhard did not take back the hand he had pressed down before, and now he put that hand on Ender's back again.

It's winter now, and you can't really feel any body temperature through the thicker sportswear, but Sieghard's move gave Ender a lot of security and warmed his heart.

He didn't care what the boy on the other side meant, he didn't answer, and quickly shrank back.

A table of children quickly finished introducing themselves, and Uncle Cuco introduced the chefs in the restaurant downstairs and the daily food supply to everyone in turn, and the lunch was over.

When the time came to the afternoon, Ander woke up after a nap, and found that Sieghard was not in the dormitory, so he went out too.He has asked Uncle Cook and the equipment administrator in advance, knowing that during working hours, the training ground will always be open to the children of the youth training center, so he put on his equipment in the dormitory, and is going to the training ground to practice the basics action.

The journey went very smoothly. All the staff members who saw him gave him gentle smiles, and Ander's cautious heart gradually relaxed.

Just as he was about to run and sneak into the training ground with the football given by the equipment manager uncle, he bumped into an unexpected person head-on at the corner.

"So--sorry?" Ender's blurted apology paused, and then his voice quickly rose in surprise, with a rather questionable effect, "Jeremy?"

The boy he almost ran into was the British genius who played with him on the field some time ago-Jeremy, who was also a chatterbox.

The other party changed into casual clothes, but he was still wearing his pair of blue Puma sneakers. When he saw Ender, he froze for a moment, and then quickly realized that he was about to jump up to give Ender a hug happily.

Ender accepted Jeremy's hug dumbfounded.

"Hey! Dude! Did you come to Red Bull too?" Jeremy put his arm on Ender's shoulder very kindly, "I said they would definitely want us, not us They're all fools, how about it? That's right!"

Ender is still not quite used to his way of speaking, and now he is at Red Bull's base, even if Jeremy speaks English, he feels a little embarrassed, so he has to change the subject: "Did you just come today? Just now, those of us who live in the youth training center had lunch together in the restaurant, and we didn’t see you.”

Jeremy didn't notice Ender's embarrassment, and he started talking nonsense: "Of course not! I've been here a long time ago! I'm living outside with my mother~ My mother is my manager, so she Now also in Germany~"

"That's good," said Ender. "Do you live around here?"

"Yeah, it's just a few minutes away from the youth training center," Jeremy said with a smile. "It was funny when I rented an apartment...Did I tell you? She is Swedish and doesn't know German at all. Back then she knew After I was invited to play by Red Bull, she was very surprised and thought it was a liar, and asked me: 'Isn't Red Bull an energy drink?' Hahahahahahahahaha!"

Come, come, this familiar feeling.

Ender clenched his fist with his right hand and coughed lightly on his lips. He really didn't know how to describe his current mood.

A person who may be exceptionally talented in one aspect may be exceptional in another.

He thought so expressionlessly.