Football is inherently a competitive sport, and professional football is even more so.

Competition is always everywhere, with opponents, with teammates, with opposing players, with players in the same position... Countless waves of sand washing have long eliminated those who dare not dare to compete and are not good at competition. Sunset herself has been through the echelon selection of the Black Sea People Club, and competition is commonplace. When Griffo signals a competition for his position, Sunset's first instinct is to fight.

Vincenzo Griffo is strong, at least much better than Sunset right now.

The 22-year-old, who was born in Germany and has dual German and Italian citizenship, has represented Italy in the Under-20 tournament many times and was signed by Hoffenheim.

Despite his poor life at Hoffenheim and a number of loan loans, he was successful at Eintracht Frankfurt in the 14/15 season, scoring seven goals and providing 10 assists in 31 appearances throughout the season.

In the 15-16 season, Freiburg spent 1 million euros to bring in Griffo from Hoffenheim in order to make up for the departure of a large number of main players after relegation.

Grifo performed well in the warm-up game after his arrival, quickly occupying the core position of the midfield, starting in the first 9 rounds of the Bundesliga, scoring 4 goals and assisting 5 goals.

If it weren't for Grifo's injury in the 10th round, Freiburg would not have been able to bring in Sunset, who was in the same position as Grifo, no matter what Sven recommended.

Sunset and his friends have never set the goal of replacing Griffo in their plans. Instead, they want to learn from players in a similar position and style, spend one to a year and a half developing into a regular substitute for Grifo, and then take his place when Grifo leaves Freiburg, or look for opportunities in other teams.

But now, Griffo has returned early, and has sent a direct signal of competition, and Sunset will not and does not want to back down.

With a clear competition opponent, the bright performances of the two on the training ground began to flash, one after another. Of course, Sunset's flash is only a small flame, and Griffo's brilliance is more like a large torch.

But the little flame is always trying to shine in every way possible.

Coaches and teammates are seeing all of this and are helping to do it, intentionally or unintentionally. Competition is the only way to grow and compete in football, and assistant coach Wessler knows it, and Streich knows it.

The young and frail Sunset dared to respond to the challenge and persevered, which in their opinion was the right way to deal with it, and did not see it as an unstable factor in the team like Coach Hua Guo. Far from interfering, Streich condones this near-open competition.

On 20 December, the last match before Christmas and the winter break, Freiburg hosts Munich 1860.

Sunset has become an acceptable part of the West Stand, showing up on time for several consecutive home games, making the show much less skeptical. On top of that, Sunset's performance in open training has been getting brighter, showing that the biggest reason is that she can stand in Freiburg.

But the ridicule of the bearded Franz can never be missing.

"Ha, it's great that Grifo is back today, right, Huaguo boy..."

After several open training sessions, Sunset's abilities were publicly recognized by the fans, and his position and rivalry were clearly revealed. Sunset needs to compete with Griffo for the job, and the bearded Franz is the happiest one. The bearded Franz is the most conflicted about Sunset's up-and-coming appearance, thinking that the team is good and worrying that Sunset will perform well and slap himself in the face, and when it becomes clear that Sunset and the team's top Griffo are in the same position, the bearded Franz is completely relieved, and the ridicule is back on his lips.

For the bearded Frantz, Sunset has long since lost her fear and disgust.

The bearded Franz seems to be fierce, but he can be a big boy with a short personality. During Sunset's morning jog two mornings before, Sunset viciously warned Sunset that there was a refugee camp next to the fox trail where Sunset used to run, and that it was not safe.

"It's safer for a skinny kid like you to run the Swabian Trail..."

His tone was always vicious, but what he said about Sunset on his way to work didn't sound like that, Sunset had heard that he was a solar fitter, and that the company was not at all on the west side of the city and Castle Hill, so he had obviously come to warn him.

So Sunset's impression of the bearded Franz has changed dramatically, at least not worrying about the scandal of fans beating up players.

"If you return, you will return, I am not a coward who wants Freiburg to be weak and easy for him to play. Also, the day before yesterday I forgot to thank you for the reminder, thank you. ”

This thank you made the bearded Franz blush, muttering:

"I'm not reminding you... I'm just for the team... No, I'm just going to laugh at you for not knowing Freiburg, yes, you don't know Freiburg at all..."

Amid the incoherent speech of the bearded Franz, Sunset happily watches the last Freiburg game without him.

In the final game before Christmas, Freiburg, who had been spurred on by the recent intense training matches, put in an excellent performance, although it was only 34 minutes before Maximilian Philippe scored the first goal, but they were already in full control of the situation. On 44 minutes, left wing-back Forlenbach added another goal.

At half-time, Freiburg brought on two players who had returned from injury, left wing-back Günther and left midfielder Grifo, which caused thunderous applause and cheers on the pitch.

Griffo, in particular, was shocked by the thousands of people shouting his name in unison.

After the roar, the bearded Franz did not forget to take advantage of the free time before the tee off to sprinkle another handful of salt on Sunset's injured goal:

"You've never enjoyed this before, have you? I bet you'll always enjoy it... At least at the Black Forest Stadium, with Grifo, don't you think..."

The promotion of competition is equally effective in Grifo, and it is even more obvious because of the large base of people, who are not chic on the court.

In the 65th minute, Grifo broke through Munich 1860 defender Lacazette with the ball in the middle, decisively kicked up outside the penalty area, and scored a beautiful long-range shot to break through the opponent's goal.

All this happened right in front of the West Stand, and the cheers reached a straight peak, with many fans rushing to the fence in excitement and shouting Griffo's name.

Grifo, on the other hand, dodged his teammates who had run over to celebrate, sprinted nimbly under the fence, and glanced at the West Stand before turning around, pointing his name and number 32 behind him with both hands outstretched. Then he stretched out his hands and did a flying run on the pitch in the Black Forest to celebrate...

Sunset knows who it's for, and the team knows he likes to watch games from the West Stand. The message is also very clear ...

"Your territory? Then give it a try..."