Ender's Football

Time passed like this, and at the end of February, due to the sudden drop in temperature, the school had a week off.

The training field has also been covered with a thick layer of snow at this time. Every morning, the ground administrators have to work hard to shovel the snow off the turf, and then turn on the geothermal device buried under the training field to dry the turf, so that The players were able to train smoothly.

——Of course, the hard work of the staff does not mean that the training ground can avoid the troubles caused by snow.Although most of the snow has been wiped out, and the geothermal system has also melted some of the snowflakes that came up from behind, the soft turf is still soft due to the open-air environment of the training ground and the water marks left on the turf after the snow melts. It became slippery and affected the players' training.

Schuylman simply moved part of the U16 training indoors, and let the children finish the training in advance, so that they can return to the warm dormitory earlier.

In the world of "tyrants", such tolerance is rare, so the boys cheered so loudly at the end of training that even the other two echelons who were training outside could hear the cheers of the U16s.

Ender was naturally also very excited, but it wasn't because he ended the training early, but because they had no training tasks for U16 tomorrow, and with the school holidays, they could free up nearly three days, which was enough for him to take the train back to Uwens fort.

He packed his backpack in his dormitory and was about to say goodbye to Sighard before leaving, but he didn't see Sighard back before he left.

Ender lay on the window of the dormitory and looked at the training ground. The snowflakes on the training ground had started to fall again, and there was no one on the U19 field. It must be that the training was over, so he waited in the dormitory again. For a while, but Sieghard never appeared.

A little bit of grievance rose in Ender's heart. He told Sieghard in advance that he was going home. They couldn't see each other for a few days. He thought that the other party would at least come to say goodbye——

Forget it, don't be hypocritical.Ender thought again.Maybe Sig just forgot—it’s not good to forget—maybe he thought it was okay to be away for a few days, and they rarely played together these two days anyway.

Thinking of this, he sighed in his heart, packed his bag and left the dormitory.

***

Uwensburg's home has not changed much from two months ago.

The snow covered the roof with silver, Stanzel and Li Mei prepared the heating equipment early, and Li Mei also cooked a big meal to celebrate Ender's return home.

It happened that Helena was also at home on vacation, and the family had a sumptuous dinner together.

Helena was still the same as when we first met. She hadn't grown much in the whole winter, and she could still dangle her two calves when she sat on a chair in the dining room, touching Ender's chair from time to time.

Ender was a little amused.

When he left, Helena didn't seem very reluctant, and even a little angry - maybe angry that he didn't say goodbye to her properly, or something.

But now, her calf was kicking and kicking on Ender's chair leg, which made Ender think she was a little childish and cute.

Although his sister was originally a child.

He didn't talk to Helena at the dinner table, but he also raised his calf and kicked it back rather childishly, the instep bumped into Helena's restless calf.

Afraid of kicking and hurting his sister, Ander didn't use any force, but raised his eyebrows when Helena looked over, reaping the little princess' undisguised "childish" mouth shape.

Ender said silently to Helena, "You're more childish."

Helena: "You're older than me."

Ender: "But what can it do?"

In order to prevent the adults from forcibly interfering, the two children lip-synched each other at the dinner table.In this way, there is no way to use any complicated vocabulary, and Helena almost choked on her own saliva when she was still talking.

Ender snickered, then handed water to his sister, telling her to quickly calm down her trembling chest.

Li Mei and Stanzel looked at each other from the side. The couple smiled and lowered their heads to eat quietly. Occasionally, Li Mei said a few words to Ender, but it didn't reveal that the siblings were kicking each other under the dining table. Childish lawsuit.

After eating, Helena went upstairs first, while Li Mei grabbed Ander and asked him about his life in Leipzig, asked him about the new coach from the new dormitory, and started asking him a series of questions about eating and dressing, everything was fine.

Ander has always reported good news to Li Mei but not bad news. Although he had had an open and in-depth exchange with Li Mei before going to Leipzig, their mother and son had been separated for a long time due to divorce, and An Guoqing couldn't stay home. Back then, An De had always taken care of himself in a foreign country, even if he was reunited with Li Mei now, he was still a bit unnaturally unfamiliar between mother and child.

Therefore, when Li Mei asked Ander about his own situation in Leipzig, he only said that he was very good, his teammates were very good, his coach was very good, and there was nothing else to say.

Li Mei was a little disappointed, she lowered her eyes slightly to hide the emotions in her eyes, got up and went to the kitchen.

Stanzel didn't notice that his wife was in a bad mood. He drank a few glasses of wine today and met Ender coming home again. He was very excited and chatted with Ender.

Ander and Li Mei were speechless, but they were much more relaxed when they got along with Stanzel.

And they have a common topic, football.

"The Red Bulls are coming on strong this season," Stanzel said. "A lot of commentators think that they will definitely be promoted to the Bundesliga this season."

Ender nodded: "Of course."

He had no doubts about it.

"The first team has a very good configuration this season, with a stable lineup and a variety of tactics. We watched their friendly matches several times in January, and they all scored cleanly," he said, paused, and added, " Everyone at the base believes that Mr Rangnick will take Red Bull to the Bundesliga."

As mentioned earlier, Rangnick is the head coach of Red Bull this season. The famous "professor" in German football was originally the sports director of Red Bull, but the failure of Red Bull's breakthrough last season allowed the tactician to sit in the position of sports director. Can't hold it anymore, this season, he directly took over the head coaching affairs of the first team, and really started to practice those few Internet quarrel words——

"proceed if you can!"

Rangnick: OK, I'm really on it.

He is also the key to the attention of the Leipzig Red Bull this season. This young team swept away the decline of failing to enter the top three of the Bundesliga last season, and began to score steadily, and the situation in the first division is very good.

Red Bull this season is very good, but Uwensburg is not so good.

Their situation at the beginning of the season can barely be seen, and they have been hovering between 4th and 7th in the Bundesliga Bundesliga. The games before the break seemed to be sleepwalking, and they fell directly from No. 12 to No. 18. There are 16 teams in the Bundesliga Bundesliga. Among them, the No. 17, No. 18 and No. [-] teams at the end of the season fell into the relegation zone. The season was eliminated to the lower level of the Bundesliga.

"We lacked that kind of hard work," Stanzel said of his home team, a little frustrated. "I don't know what happened in the locker room. . I am too confident that I can win... Unlike last season, everyone is united and has been working hard for the Bundesliga."

Ander also sighed. Uwensburg is his home team, and he certainly hopes that the home team will continue to do well.

He and Stanzel chatted for a while about the upcoming Bundesliga match, and finally, Stanzel asked about Sigerhard.

"Why didn't you mention your friend 'Sig' today?" Stanzel teased him, "Your mother always told me that every time I called you, you had to say the name several times, no Stop 'Sig' 'Sig', she's a little jealous."

Ender blinked: "Is there?"

After he asked this question back, he belatedly realized that this was a Stanzel joke.

"Sig is my roommate, and we are often together..." Ender explained, "And my former friends, Nathan and Alexey, don't they often come to our house to play together?"

He explained a little seriously, Stanzel smiled and stopped teasing him.

"So did you quarrel with your best friend?"

"No," Ender said, "it's just... it's just that Seager has been a little busy recently. I don't know why, the U19 coaching staff didn't put him in the starting list for a few games, so Seager has been training himself recently. .”

He was a little melancholy, and said with his chin: "I think he is much better than their team's current starting goalkeeper, but Mr. Heyman has been pressing him on the bench. Everyone is actually a little puzzled... Because of this, Seager I don’t talk to other people very much recently, they always look at him with a sympathetic look, as if he committed some serious crime and was imprisoned..."

He originally wanted to say "into the limbo", but for a long time he didn't think of how to say the Chinese word "in limbo" in German, so he had to change his words: "Being abandoned by the coaching staff... It's annoying, to be honest."

Stanzel had a very good impression of Sighard, and he became concerned after hearing the words: "Did the coaching staff not explain the reason? Could it be the same as Mr. Tierner did to you..."

Mr. Tierner also put Ender on the bench because of his physical fitness, but he explained it very clearly, and set a standard for Ender, encouraging him to grow taller.

Ender lowered his head and muttered, "I don't know. We haven't had dinner together in days, and I didn't see him until I got home."

Now Stanzel understood the crux of his silence when he mentioned Seager today.

"If you want to know what happened, you can take the initiative to ask him, Ender," Stanzel encouraged him, "You are afraid of hurting your friend's self-esteem, but maybe he doesn't think so, but hopes you How about caring about him? Your mother used to be like this, she didn’t tell me when she felt unhappy, but I’m not the kind of smart person who is proficient in human nature, so I pestered her to ask, and she would tell me, and she wouldn’t feel I'm annoyed... You guys are good friends, if Seager needs extra training, you're also a striker, you can help him.