Ender's Football

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"Beep-"

The long whistle hanging on the coach's chest cut through the silence above the court, and the 5v5 training match officially started.

Ander was in possession of the ball at the moment. After hearing the whistle, he immediately pretended to pass the ball to the left. While leaning forward with his upper body, he nimbly poked and kicked the ball to his front right.

The striker on the opposite side was deceived by his fake action, and failed to stop the football from leaving. The white ball went straight around the forward defending Ender, and Ender also left. own feet.

At this time, the defensive players on the opposite side have also rushed over, one of them is marking him, and the other is blocking his passing route, preventing him from passing the ball to his teammate who is running over to meet him.

Faced with this situation, Ander slowed down his speed first, and calmly controlled the ball under his feet.

In fact, before stepping into this field, he still had some unknown anxiety in his heart.

When An Guoqing played football in the Russian league in his early years, he had no time to take care of his family. Li Mei took Ander to live in China. He showed the same love for football as his father since he was a child. He went to the Jiangcheng football class, where he completed his football enlightenment.

Later, An Guoqing gained a firm foothold in Russia's Moscow Locomotive team and took Li Mei and Ander to the ice and snow Moscow. Ander joined the Locomotive Club with his father and became a member of the U8 children's team.

Ender was still immature at that time, and the Slavic children of his age were generally taller and stronger than him, so no one took the initiative to communicate with him when he first joined the team.They also played very few official games, basically all training games.Children were not good at playing football, and Ander was not bad at that time, but he had a common fault of talented players - he liked to show off his skills, so he was often pushed and shoveled by defenders who were taller than him, and he learned a painful lesson Only then did he gradually get rid of the problem of showing off his skills.

However, his minor problems were resolved, and An Guoqing's career at Lokomotiv Moscow came to an end. The club believed that he could no longer help the team, so they sold him to the Ukrainian Super League.In the Ukrainian Super League, because of the collapse of mentality across the board, An Guoqing's state was in a mess. He slipped from the top club in Ukraine to the second-tier league, and then never recovered.

An Guoqing's life was not stable, and even with Ander, he was no longer able to enter the youth team of a higher-level team.When he returned to China, most of his former football school friends were scattered all over the country. In Ukraine, he had no friends because of the language barrier and frequent relocation. It was difficult for him to find a benchmark for comparison with his peers. I am not very sure about my football level.

But Ander is an opportunist, no matter what the youth training coach's purpose in assigning him to this group, he believes that the other party will be happy to see him show his skills and abilities.

Facing the defender who was half a head taller than him, Ender lowered his center of gravity. When the opponent followed up and wanted to stretch his leg to steal the ball, he shook it quickly, and lightly moved the football from the inside of his right foot to the ground. Left front, and then flexibly buckled with his left foot to complete this breakthrough.

"Fried meatballs!" Stanzel, who was watching from the side, cheered happily.

This is the signature move of the Spanish star Iniesta. It is simple and practical, not fancy. Many famous stars like to use this move on the court.

Ender passed the first defender with "Fried Balls" and continued to move forward. The second defender had also covered up at this time. He had just seen how Ender easily passed his companion. , so with 12 points of energy, he stopped in front of Ander, paying attention to his movements attentively.

The success of the first dribble did not make Ander relax. He took the ball, and while observing the second defender's movements, he was also scanning his teammate's position from the corner of his eye.Noticing that a teammate was approaching from his right back a little further away, Ender once again made a fake change of direction with a very fast pace, and at the same time quickly touched the ball with the outside of his foot, and kicked a The arc passed the ball to the teammate on the other side.

Stanzel, who was watching from the sidelines, cheered again.The youth training coach nodded, and praised him for the first time: "The foundation is very good."

After passing the curve ball, Ander quickly moved forward again. What he was thinking at this time was that his teammates could pass the ball over again, and he could score the goal with one kick.But unexpectedly, the teammate who responded to him took the ball forward by himself, forced his foot under the guard of the two people on the opposite side, and missed the ball.

At this time, Ander, who had already run into the penalty area, did not have time to sigh. He quickly turned back and waited for the opposite goalkeeper to serve the goal kick.

The leading kid before played in the midfield position, and the other two obviously gave him the ball often to organize the offense.

It was difficult for Ender to communicate with them, but he was very active in running, and when his teammates shot, he was very calm and did not complain. This made the leading boys look up to him, and he started to pass the ball to him, allowing him to participate in the team in the attack.

The opponents are also playing well, but they seem a bit restrained under the offensive of Group B, and their striker's breakthrough ability is obviously not as good as Ander's. Ander, who rushed over to help defend, interfered, and then lost the ball or missed the shot.

After a three-and-ten-minute training match, the final score between Group A and Group B was fixed at 10:3. Ander scored three goals, completing a "hat-trick" and becoming the highlight of this unofficial game. "Top Scorer".

Just as Ender was wiping the sweat from his brow and walking towards the edge of the field, the boy who had just given him a few beautiful assists on the field came over.

The boy was wearing a simple white T-shirt with a yellow vest uniformly issued by Group B. He had a darker complexion, a head of black curly hair, big and bright eyes, and looked cool when he was not smiling. Now that he won the game, he grinned widely when he smiled, looking a little... stupid.

He was the leader of the kids in Group B, and Ender had tried to talk to him about speaking English before, but the other party ignored him.

At this moment, he came over on his own initiative, and stretched out his hand to Ender: "My name is Nathan, Nathan Myron." He introduced himself in his ambiguous English, and then seemed to be Not knowing what to say, I struggled to find a few English words from my mind, "Nice to meet you (goodtoseeyou)."

Ander now believed that he didn't talk to him before because he was aloof, and it was probably because the other party didn't understand what he said at all.

He suffocated a smile, pointed to himself, and said in a friendly way, "Ander."

The two of them shook each other's hands twice to confirm their friendship, and then the two children walked to the sidelines together.

Nathan seemed to know the youth training coach. When he walked over, the coach happily said a long word to him, probably as a compliment, because he seemed very happy.

Then the coach turned to Ender again.

When facing Ender, the young German man changed his language to English, with a loving smile on his face that he didn't have before: "I have to admit, you are amazing, kid! Your dad has been worrying about you just now, I think you will have communication problems, and I have been paying attention to this. I put you and another foreign boy in Group A and Group B respectively, just to see if you can effectively communicate with local children on the court Communication. You did a great job! I have never seen Nathan praise a foreign kid like this, he has always been very proud, but today he is willing to admit that he did not play as well as you..."

He spoke so fast that Ender couldn't keep up, but he knew he was praising himself, and the teacher seemed to be calling Stazel ​​his father...

Ender didn't interrupt—which was a bit rude—so he didn't correct a mistake that bothered him a bit.

The teacher continued to praise him: "The talent is very good. It can be seen that the foundation is very solid. Some small skills can be flexibly applied to the game. This is the meaning of our training. And the overall situation is also good. Although I took the initiative to ask for a forward position, but not greedy for merit, not just thinking about shooting for himself, but willing to cooperate with teammates to score..."

Ender got goosebumps from his praise, he lowered his head and smiled secretly.

Seeing that he was shy, the young coach patted him on the head teasingly: "Okay, Chinese kid, congratulations, I think the U13 coach of Uwensburg will welcome you very much, and you are likely to play regional games with us." Oh league."

After speaking in English, the coach said to Stanzel in German: "Although I personally think that with Ander's talent, he can completely train and compete in Uwensburg, but we still hope that he can continue to play in the future." During this period of time, he has grown up well... He is a bit thin and weak. Although his skills are very good, he may not be able to keep up with the confrontation... Children of their age are still in the stage of physical development. If the confrontation is too strong, or If the training intensity is too high, it will increase the risk of injury. Once the injury is below the knee, it will take a year to recuperate before playing football. Parents need to understand these risks and be mentally prepared. Of course, our club will Players are provided with a more scientific and relaxed training plan, which will not make them too tired."

Stanzel listened carefully to his long list of words and nodded frequently to express his agreement.

Ender carefully observed their expressions and found that Stanzel hadn't shown any negative emotions, so he finally relaxed.

Today is a very good start, at least on this court, he has taken another step towards his career as a player.