Cottage of Friendship, Cottage of Friends.

"Hey, morning." First-team assistant coach Hoffman stood by head coach Bojan Prashnika.

The Slovenian Prašnika glanced sideways at him: "You're a little late today, Guido. ”

Hoffman explained: "I went to the Under-19s and signed a one-year apprenticeship with a Chinese kid. ”

"Chinese kid? Did I hear me right? Prashknika turned around and looked surprised, "When will our scouts be able to go to China?" ”

"Of course not," Hoffman shrugged, "it was Shao's recommendation." ”

Prashnika frowned, visibly displeased.

"I was only going to give him a one-month tryout, but this kid's basic code was really surprising, so I signed it." Of course, Hoffman saw his feelings, and explained a few more words, "Although he is Chinese, his basic skills are more solid than Shao, and his overall situation and awareness are not inferior to German players of the same age, and ...... His long-range burst was really shocking. Trust me, Bojan, I'm not going to look away. ”

"Oh?" Prashnika loosened her brow slightly, "What's this kid's name?" How old is it? ”

"GOOD-QIN, I will turn 17 in half a month." Seeing that the coach was a little interested, Hoffman hurriedly replied, "Let Franklin train them well, maybe they can become a qualified substitute player in two years." ”

"I hope so," Prashnika nodded, "Are there any good seedlings found in the U19s?" ”

"Centre-back Baris Donsey and right midfielder Mitzal Spalletko are both worth following up," said Hoffman, who is also responsible for scouting the young players as an assistant coach, and is of course always available to report to the leadership on the situation of the Under-19 hopefuls. ”

"14?" Prashnika couldn't help but be dumbfounded, "What position?" ”

'Right wing-back,' Hofmann rubbed his chin, "but I'm worried that going into the Under-19s too early will help me grow, so I'll talk to Jace in a few days." ”

"It should." Prashknika agreed, then blew the whistle to assemble the players.

The first-team players, who were warming up on the training ground, immediately stopped their movements and stood in front of him in three rows. The 188cm Shao Jiayi is very eye-catching even among the tall German players.

"Shao," Prashknika was the first to call his name, "I hope you can stay healthy this season, the team needs your cousin." ”

Shao Jiayi didn't expect the head coach to suddenly come to such a sentence, and after being stunned for a moment, he hurriedly nodded: "I will definitely work hard." Of course, he knows that because of injuries, he could only mix up some games in garbage time last season, and even handed in a poor result of 0 goals and 0 assists, and if this season does not change, I am afraid he will have to leave in disgrace.

He subconsciously looked down and looked at his ankles wrapped in socks-

Qin Goode stood on the U19 training ground, and suddenly felt a trace of pressure in his heart.

There are only 28 players in this team, which can barely play an 11-11 match, but those German defenders who are only fifteen or sixteen years old, with a body size of more than 1.9 meters and 80 kilograms, can't help but think of the big black men in Manchester City's academy who are like beasts.

Except for a fellow first-team manager, the rest of the people are all from East Germany, after all, Cartbus is only a Bundesliga relegation team, neither traditional heritage, nor strong financial resources, the so-called youth players, most of them are only recruited from local schools at all levels, they look burly, but there are very few who can really become professional players and enter the first team.

Although Qin Gude only understands the most basic football terminology - Shao Jiayi has just taught him - he can barely train with his teammates thanks to the gestures and demonstrations of his coaches. I don't know if it's an illusion, but he really feels that except for two or three people, the skills and consciousness of the rest of his teammates are ...... They are not on the same level as themselves, and they have no advantage at all except for their burly physique and full of strength.

The most talented player in the team is a defender who doesn't have much height advantage, Barris Donsey. As a centre-back, the 15-year-old is only 175cm tall, but with accurate anticipation and great speed, he can snatch the ball in front of his team-mates who are half a head taller than him.

Another hopeful, Mitzal Sparako, is a right wing-back, who can be regarded as a direct competitor of Qin Goode, who is ten months younger than him, but in addition to running speed and a reliable cross, other basic skills still need to be honed, poor endurance, slow dribbling, defense is completely relied on, shooting is basically blind, and running without the ball and coordination awareness are completely incomparable with other teammates.

Qin Goode only saw him carry the ball once, and knew that this little guy could not pose a threat to himself at all: how could he take a step and look down at the ball? What country are you from?!

So, despite the language barrier, he quickly won the praise of these German tough guys with his confrontational ability and tenacious fighting spirit honed in England, and with his unpretentious but extremely fluid dribbling skills, he was able to go into a no-man's land in team training.

Coupled with his heavy artillery that can shoot from 25 meters away, it almost took less than half a day to conquer all the coaches in the youth team.

"You said you were kicked out of Manchester City's Under-18s?" Franklin was a little incredulous, he looked at his colleague and exclaimed, "How good is Manchester City's academy?" Why have I never heard of it?! ”

Qin Gude, who didn't understand what he was yelling about, had to shrug his shoulders-

When Qin Gude returned to his residence with Shao Jiayi, Shao Jiayi introduced him to a slightly stocky little fat man: "Wen Xiaofeng, an international student, a graduate student at Brandenburg University of Technology, 22 years old, heard that you were going to play football in Cartbus, so Mao recommended himself to be a German teacher for you. ”

"Thank you, Brother Xiaofeng." Qin Gude hurriedly shook hands with him, "But I don't know anything about German now, I have to learn it from scratch, if I delay your studies, then how can I be embarrassed?" ”

"It's okay, I like football too, but I prefer beer......" The little fat man is also an easy-going personality, and said with a smile, "I leave class at four o'clock in the afternoon every day, if you have time, how about learning German for an hour or two in the afternoon or evening?" ”

"Okay." The other party has already begun to discuss the class time, and Qin Gude no longer shirked, nodding in response, "But I can't let you teach me ...... in vain."

Wen Xiaofeng interrupted him: "If I can come to Germany to study, how much money will I still lack?" If it's Chinese, don't be polite with me! Play football well, become a professional player one day earlier, and enter the national team one day earlier to win glory for the country! The World Cup is not expected, winning the Asian Cup, the goal is not high, right? ”

Qin Gude couldn't help but be dumbfounded-

As a result, in addition to participating in training every day, Qin Gude also had to receive German tutoring from Wen Xiaofeng.

He was not a stupid man, and he was able to barely pass the sixth level of university when he was learning English, but after a month of learning German, he still couldn't figure out the basic rules of the German language.

There are probably two most terrible places about German: one is pronunciation, I don't know if it's because his tongue is too hard, or other reasons, anyway, he can't learn the so-called small tongue sound, and many words look very similar to English, but both the pronunciation and the meaning are very different, and he himself even feels that not only has he not learned German, but he is afraid that even his English level has greatly deteriorated......

The second is grammar, a word should not only be divided into yin and yang neutral, but also add four declensions - can you imagine, the TV set is neutral, the blackboard is feminine, and the table is masculine......

"Oh yes, most of the plural forms of nouns are feminine, one TV is neutral, and two TVs are feminine......" Wen Xiaofeng scratched his head, "but it is not excluded that there are special circumstances, there are no fixed rules in German grammar, and you can only master it by rote memorization......"

Qin Gude rolled his eyes, he genuinely felt that training on the grass for ten hours was much easier than memorizing a word.

I'm playing public football today? Or is it the women's football? Or is it unfair and motherless neutral football?