Ender's Football

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On the second day after the trial training, Ander and Stanzel came to the training base of Uwensborg Club again. Today they are going to visit the club's dormitory, restaurant and training ground under the leadership of the staff—if If there is no accident, Ender will live and train here for the next few years.If everything is settled, Ander can then sign a one-year youth contract with the club.

"This is our player dormitory."

The youth coach who watched Ender's trial training match yesterday also came to the training base today. He introduced himself as Victor Burton. Ender, walked into a three-story red building next to the training ground together.

"Are all these kids coming to Uwensberg from out of town?" Stanzel asked.

Burton smiled, with a little pride: "To be precise, they came to Uwensburg from all over the world."

As he spoke, he knocked on the door of a room.

The one who opened the door was the little black curly who played with Ander in Group B yesterday. Ender still remembered that he introduced himself, and his name seemed to be Nathan Myron.

"This is Nathan," Coach Burton said to Ender in English, "Nathan is a kid from Mexico, and he is currently living in the base. We have connected him to a nearby school for classes."

"Hello." Ender greeted him in German.

"Hello." Nathan replied, the two of them had a temporary language barrier, so the conversation was like two elementary school students who just learned "Hello".

Burton smiled and stroked Nathan's little curly hair. It can be seen that he is very close to this child: "Nathan's mother tongue is Spanish, and he can speak a little German now, but English has always been a problem for him. , His teacher is almost dying of headaches. You two will play together more in the future, and you can practice language with each other."

"I discussed with his mother, and I want to enroll Ender in a nearby language school first, and then apply for middle school after passing the language test," Stanzel said. "Will the training courses conflict with the school courses?"

"Of course not," Burton introduced. "We don't arrange a lot of training for a child of this age. Ender can only come over on weekends and when he is free. A training session lasts about an hour."

Then they went in and visited Nathan's room. The dormitory is a double room. The room is not big, but it is very warmly furnished. The two desks are placed separately. Football is the eternal theme of this house, and many of them bear the Uwensburg LOGO The decorations, and the golden Uwensburg team logo are also printed on the wallpaper.

"This is the logo of our Uwensborg club," Burton introduced the team emblem of Uwensborg to Ender. "The golden ring symbolizes the sun and the never-ending sportsmanship, and the bird in the middle is making a predation action." The Shrike symbolizes the club's ambitions."

After leaving the room, they visited the gymnasium provided by the Uwensborg team for the training of young players. There are all kinds of equipment, and there is a restaurant not far away, which can accommodate all the staff of the club and all members of the first team. According to Burton, the chefs here are professionals and will cook very delicious and healthy food for the players to enjoy.

Ander also trained in the youth team of Lokomotiv Moscow before, but it may be limited by economic factors. Even in the Russian Super League, the hardware facilities provided by the Lokomotiv Moscow club to young players are not as good as those in the German Bundesliga Uwensburg.

He looked at it enviously, feeling that the infrastructure here is really good.

"Is this training ground for the first-team players? What about the youth team? Can we use the training ground?" When he walked to the large fields between the two buildings, Ender pointed to the training grounds next to him. field, asked impatiently.

"There are divisions," Burton smiled, and pointed him to the field next to the largest training field, "Yes, you are right, Ender, the middle training field is used by our first-team players for training. However, in order to encourage the children of the youth team, we set up the training field of the second team and U19 next to the first team, so that when the children are training, they can always see their role models. As for your U15 and U17s, the training ground is a bit further north, look, there it is - it's open to you [-]/[-], as long as the turf caretakers don't put up the 'under maintenance' sign, you can use it."

Ander was a little happy.Stanzel caught a glimpse of his happy little expression and smiled secretly.

The result of the visit was of course very satisfactory. Accompanied by Stanzel, they signed a youth contract very smoothly.

There is nothing to say about this part. In Germany and other leagues in continental Europe, players under the age of 18 cannot sign professional contracts with clubs. Only England has a slightly looser age requirement, which is why they can play from Spain, Germany and The Italian league poached young talents before they had time to sign a professional contract with their home team - one of the most famous deals was Arsenal's signing of Cesc Fabregas from FC Barcelona's La Masia training camp - Although he later returned to Barcelona*.

After signing the contract, Stanzel went to the parking lot in Uwensburg, ready to drive Ender home.

Before getting into the car, Andra tugged at the corner of his clothes.

"What's the matter, kid?" Stanzel asked.

It was rare for Ender to show a little shyness in front of him. He blinked and said expectantly, "Can I go to the gift shop next door, Stanzel?"

They have been together for almost a week, and Stanzel knew that this is a child who does not easily make demands on adults, so after hearing that his request was only to go to the gift shop, he readily agreed and gave him some euro banknotes.

"Want to buy a jersey or a football? Or you can buy both."

"No need." Ender didn't take his money, and didn't wait for him to give it to himself, and ran away in a hurry.

Stanzel was a little surprised. It wasn't until Ender trotted back to the car with a bag with the Uwensburg LOGO on it that he realized that the kid didn't buy himself a jersey or a football, but brought three very practical ones. gifts.

"This is for you, Stanzel." Ender handed over a blue sports wristband.

Stanzel took it over and praised him vigorously: "Thank you, Ender, I like it so much. I'm playing tennis recently, and I just don't need such a wristband! It's just... where did you get the money?"

Ender wrote lightly: "I saved it before."

Stanzel patted him on the shoulder and they drove home without further questions.

Li Mei and Helena also have presents.

What An De gave to Li Mei was a pair of ladies' gloves. She was pleasantly surprised when she received it, and immediately gave Ander a gentle hug.

The one for Helena was a small schoolbag for girls.

However, this gift didn't seem to be welcomed by the little princess. Helena glanced at the schoolbag, then at Ender, and said thank you in a low voice under Stanzel's urging, then picked up the backpack and left.

Ender didn't feel depressed either, he just felt that he had received too much care from Stanzel in the past two days, and wanted to repay it.

"I'm going back to my room." He said to Li Mei in Chinese.

"Wait a minute, Zizai," his mother called him, with some worry in her beautiful almond eyes, "Helena is just a little... awkward, she..."

"I can understand," Ender said. "I wouldn't be happy if I suddenly found out that I have an older brother."

"but……"

Li Mei didn't finish her sentence, but Ander didn't really want to discuss the topic of adolescent psychology with her. He nodded at his mother, indicating that he had nothing to talk about, and then went back to his room.

Li Mei looked at Stanzel a little discouraged.

The tall man didn't seem to care about the cold relationship between the siblings. He reassured Li Mei: "Don't worry, they are just not familiar with each other for the time being, and they will be fine later."

"That's the only way." Li Mei said.