158 Challenges

On July 10, the whole team of Freiburg went to Belek, a coastal city in Turkey, for a half-month overseas training camp.

Belek, a small coastal town on the Mediterranean, had been to the Mediterranean city for winter training before, but at that time, the afterglow was full of football, and they didn't pay attention to anything other than football.

This time was completely different, and Sunset looked at the scenery around her with relish, full of appreciation and curiosity. It's not that I slack off after sitting in the main position, but I have learned to value life, draw beauty and motivation from it, and then feed it back into football. Although football is no longer everything, it has changed from deliberate to natural, and it is more relaxed.

Belek in Andalya is a seaside city in Turkey and a beautiful tourist city, with white sand beaches and beautiful golf courses that are all picturesque and picturesque as far as the eye can see.

The same Belek, Freiburg has changed to a seaside resort outside the city this time, and the feeling is very different. The last resort featured a golf course and was located between two golf courses with picturesque views.

The residence of Xia Xun was changed to the seaside, and the rooms on the hillside overlooked the Mediterranean Sea and white sand beaches, and were full of tourists on vacation, which was beautiful and full of life.

The long sandy beach was not as nice as it used to be for the Freiburg players. After a period of recovery and adaptation in Freiburg, fitness coach Isak took over the training as soon as he arrived in Belek, and a morning and evening run on the beach became a nightmare for the Freiburg players.

The sand is so soft that it takes more leg strength to run, and the same 5,000 meters consumes much more physical energy than on the course.

And it's not just running, Isaac who spent half a month with Dr. Richsmann from Harvard learns a lot of weird and interesting training tricks that he uses on the Freiburg team in turn.

Sunset thinks that he has a foundation for special training, and he should be the easiest one, and he has thought a lot about teasing his teammates, but the truth is not as good as he thought.

Isak's fitness plan is very targeted, with the amount of exercise varying depending on the individual situation of the players, and the well-prepared afterglow also needs to hit his fitness limits, and then lie down as tired as his teammates.

Sunset's advantage is that she is a little more accustomed to eating lackluster nutrients than her teammates.

"God, how did you do that?... I thought you were the least accustomed to eating food..."

Watching the usual afterglow swallow spoonful after spoonful of toothpaste-like nutrients, Frombach was dumbfounded, and most of his plate remained untouched.

Sunset said calmly:

"It's nothing, you'll get used to it after eating it for half a month, although it doesn't taste, but it doesn't smell weird, right?...?"

Follenbach decided to ignore the freak who could swallow everything for football, and went to Sternzel, Kempf, and Hubler to talk to him about something, so as to distract himself and coax him to swallow two mouthfuls of nutrients.

"Who has heard of that stinky fart? It looks like it's unstoppable..."

Stenzel also took the opportunity to prepare a spoonful of nutrients, and said first:

"Last season in Darmstadt, I heard that a lot of goals were scored, so it's better to ask Petersen, they all spent time at Bayern and then went to a lot of teams..."

After saying that, he quickly stuffed the nutrient into his mouth and swallowed it hard.

They are talking about Sandro Wagner, a centre-forward that the club has just spent €2.8 million on from Darmstadt to join the team in Belek. I don't know much about the strength or anything, but the arrogance is coming, and when we meet, I say that I have brought more goals to Freiburg. It makes young players like Forlenbach and Stenzel somewhat unpleasant.

Kempf as a central defender has done some research:

"A strong centre-forward with a strong body, who scored 14 goals in Darmstadt last season and had a good header. If it weren't for his bad character, we wouldn't have gotten him, I think he's a guy who can score goals... I wondered, what does the coach want to achieve in the new season? He hasn't mentioned it this year..."

The remark immediately drew attention away from the disliked Wagner, who may not have spent as much as the big clubs spend on a player, but compared to previous years, fans have been a little surprised and worried about the club's financial health.

Streich actually spoke candidly with Sunset about this, saying that he was aiming for European competition rather than relegation, and that the club agreed to invest in Seyunju, Wagner, and Schweinsteiger on the condition that if the first half of the season didn't work well, the club would sell Sunset immediately to balance the finances.

Sunset hesitated for a long time to agree to take on the challenge with Streich, which would not have been a challenge for him if he didn't like Freiburg so much, and would have been playing at a different club.

This also means that Streich no longer sees Sunset as a mercenary, but as Freiburg's own player, as a partner in the same boat.

It may seem like Sunset has a lot of extra pressure and responsibility, but again, the resources of the club and the coach are tilting towards him, and if you are not sure that he is someone who can trust each other, no one will fool and give it unilaterally.

Schweinsteiger and Wagner's approach revolved around Sunset, one to strengthen the defense behind him and let him go offensively, and the other to convert Sunset's passes into goals.

On this basis, the coach pursues competitive results. The club is looking for him to be packaged as a valuable player. Sunset wants to show her own value. The goals are different but the paths are the same, forming a consensus and synergy.

However, Sunset can't reveal these things until the coach announces them, so she only participates in them when her friends mention something interesting, and then calmly engages in training and waits for her own challenge.

As a result, the big challenge belonging to the Bundesliga did not come, but the small challenge within the team came first.

It was an afternoon training session, and to Bellek's first practice with the ball, Sunset picked up a pass from Abrahi and slotted sideways between the two centre-backs. Wagner, who served as the center forward, didn't expect Sunset to stop the ball and not pass anyone, so he directly picked it into the empty crotch, and was not prepared enough to keep up in time, and forcibly started to shoot the ball with Kempf's outstretched foot, after all, it was too reluctant, and it was completely empty.

This was supposed to be a mistake that wasn't tacit enough, and considering it was the first time that Sunset didn't care, she turned and walked back to prepare for the goal kick.

Nazhi Wagner may have felt embarrassed in front of his new teammates, so he jumped up and shouted:

"Shit passes, you should pass some back, kid..."

The training ground on the coast was very quiet, and the sound immediately spread throughout the stadium, and the players were stunned to see the new signings actually find the trouble of the club and the coach's baby, and then some people were annoyed and some were secretly waiting for the development of the situation.

The mentality of shirking responsibility Yu Hui understands, but as a new recruit, he finds himself to dump the pot but can't get used to it, and sneered:

"Well, next time I'll pass a ball that a snail can catch, big man."

The coach on the sidelines quickly intervened in the verbal confrontation and did not let the situation develop further, and both men were kicked off the training ground to calm down.

Sunset knew that she would end up in this fate, but it was impossible not to respond to the provocation, and it was not appropriate for her to be angry and calm, so she didn't take it to heart after saying a word of salute, and calmly walked off the court and sat on the bench.