"I dream of one day joining the German team and going to the World Cup!"

Per Mertesacker, born in September 1984 in Hanover, Germany, is 195 cm tall and weighs 88 kg. The pen is www.biquge.info with a resolute personality and a mellow character.

Mertesacker's father was an academy coach at a small local club in Hanover, smaller than Madiburg, so he began training in football at the age of four. Later, the teenager joined Hannover's biggest club, the Hannover 96 Academy, where he met his friend Mario Gomez.

Mertesacker is a very caring person and has participated in many community volunteer activities. In addition to training, he often has to take care of 14 disabled people, but he never brags about it.

At one time, Mertesacker didn't seem to have the slightest distinction except for his height. The assessment given to him by Hannover's 96 academy was: too silent, lacking aggression as a defender, slow turning, not suitable for high-level matches.

During that time, Mertesacker had a difficult time, no matter how hard he put in, he was not taken seriously by the club, and he became the most marginal figure in the academy. However, Mertesacker's calmness and composure on the field, as well as the rare big-picture vision of a young player, were spotted by the discerning Klopp. Subsequently, he was brought to Madibourg by Klopp after facing the elimination of Hannover 96. Through the refinement of his skills, Mertesacker quickly grew up and became the captain of the youth team.

There have been many great and legendary defenders in the history of German football, such as Vogts, Breitner, Coral Corel, Bremer, Beckenbauer, Summer, Mateus......

Mertesacker is desperate to be one of these legends.

Many years later, when Per Mertesacker lifted the Hercules Cup high as captain of the German national team, he remembered the early winter night on the peninsula.

"Zhuo, do you have any dreams?"

"I ......," Zhuo Yang said.

Zhuo Yang, born in August 1985 in Xi'an, China, is 183 cm tall and weighs 73 kg. Talented, go with the flow. The training in science has increased his height and weight compared to when he first arrived in Germany.

Zhuo Yang didn't know what dreams he had, and he had never thought about it. From a very young age, he only devoted himself to the things he was interested in, and did everything else he could, such as school studies.

Zhuo Yang has always lived very casually, his mother asked Zhuo Yang to play the piano, and Zhuo Yang went to Germany. There was never a plan for how I would spend my life or what I would achieve. In other words, you can live however you want. After studying abroad in the future, he will return to China to become a pianist or piano teacher, like his mother Yang Hong, Zhuo Yang has no opinion, and there is no pity if he can't do it. Maybe you can play football all the time, as long as your mother agrees, that's fine, but if you can't continue, then you won't play anymore, it's not a big deal.

Zhuo Yang grew up to the age of seventeen casually in this way, with no ambitions and no firm ideals.

Zhuo Yang has never insisted on anything!

If there is any insistence in Zhuo Yang's heart, it is that Zhuo Yang does not want to disappoint his father Zhuo Tongtong.

When Zhuo Yang first went to kindergarten, because of his long body, he liked to eat very much, and he kept eating all day long, and he couldn't stop at all. In the kindergarten, other children drank porridge spoonful by spoonful, and Zhuo Yang held the bowl and gulped it. Other children eat steamed buns and only eat stuffing, but Zhuo Yang gobbles up three is not enough. But the meals in the kindergarten are rationed, which is a bit cruel to Zhuo Yang.

Finally, Zhuo Yang began to grab other children's food, steamed buns, and fruits. Until one day, Zhuo Yang pushed down the little girl next to him and snatched half of the cantaloupe that had been eaten. The teacher couldn't bear it anymore and sued his father Zhuo Tongtong.

For Zhuo Tongtong, a person who is proud in his heart and has high hopes for his son, this is tantamount to a bolt from the blue.

Zhuo Tongtong could have beaten Zhuo Yang hard, at least scolded, but he didn't.

Zhuo Tongtong rode a bicycle, took Zhuo Yang, and rode all over the streets and alleys of the city to find a cantaloupe for his son.

In the hot summer, Zhuo Tongtong sweated profusely, hummed and pedaled all afternoon, and finally when the sun was about to set, he saw a small passenger and cargo car selling cantaloupe on a street in the suburbs.

After paying the money and cutting it on the spot, Zhuo Yang squatted on the ground and began to eat.

Zhuo Yang will never forget that day, he gnawed on cantaloupe and saw his father Zhuo Tongtong's eyes full of tears.

From that day on, even if Zhuo Yang was naughty, even if he would make Zhuo Tongtong angry, he no longer wanted his father to be disappointed in him, because his father had never let him down.

"I ......, I just want to not disappoint my father......"

Zhuo Yang didn't know that his father Zhuo Tongtong had never been disappointed in him. Since the day he was born, he has been Zhuo Tongtong's eternal pride!

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Six young people talk about their dreams and aspirations with great ambition, and the stars in the sky shine through the skylight.

They may separate in the future, and they may become rivals on the court, but they have always cherished this friendship as they pursued their dreams. Many years later, as they grew old after their success, they still agreed that the years spent on the peninsula of the German Canal were the most memorable moments of their careers.

The peninsula on a winter night is lonely, deserted, and deserted. Occasionally, a figure walks by in the dark lane, looking like a ghost. The hustle and bustle seen in the summer is gone. It was dark, the lights were dim, and some were just a little starlight reflected in the river opposite. The broken dead leaves scattered on it, the whiteness in the darkness, faintly made people feel the smell of plant decay and death.

Starlight sprinkled on the ground, and everywhere there was the mournful cry of crickets. The humidity of the night fills the air, weaving a soft net that envelops all the scenery. All the eyes come into contact with is covered with this soft net-like thing, no grass or tree is as realistic as in the daytime, they have a vague and empty color, each of which hides its subtlety, keeps its secrets, and makes people have a dreamlike feeling.

Zhuo Yang and the six of them took a shower and changed their clothes, and walked to the parking lot outside the club with a smile. Due to the narrow geographical restrictions on the peninsula, the parking lot can only be set up outside the club, and it is stipulated that all personnel below the club director and coach are not allowed to enter the club area. There is no way, the small place can only be a little childish. Fortunately, the distance is not far, and after a few minutes' walk, everyone has no opinion.

The six people laughed and played and came to the door of the club without a proper shape, only an old-fashioned street lamp in the corner of the dark parking lot emitted a pale yellow faint light, and the security guard on duty did not know where to hide to be lazy, and the night wind blew through the fallen leaves and quietly hit people's faces.

The trees on both sides of the parking lot are like two rows of eerie monsters in the night, swaying gently with teeth and claws, and the scattered dead leaves that have not yet fallen make a 'rustling' sound.

The atmosphere was a little weird.