With the 19th round of the Bundesliga at the end of the Bundesliga, Sunset's excitement can't stop the holidays from coming, and the seven-week winter break in Germany has arrived.

This made Sunset a little angry, and finally managed to survive until the transfer window was about to open, and a winter break dragged it out until February, even if she had known about the schedule for a long time, she was a little depressed.

Freiburg's teammates should go home or travel to various destinations. Not only the team, but also the residents and students of Freiburg, even the town is deserted in an instant, making Sunset's loneliness even more obvious.

This situation made the training much less effective, and Sunset began to toss and turn over whether to return to China or not, and was absent-minded.

Zhen Xuexi's phone call made Sunset overjoyed, and she immediately called to book a plane ticket, and rushed to Dubai with a few clothes and equipment.

Because the Jiangong team finished third in the 15-year Chinese Super League and qualified for the AFC Champions League play-offs in 16, the first game will be played on February 2, 16, and the opponent will be one of the teams from Indonesia and Singapore. On February 9, they will also face one of the teams from Australia, Japan and South Korea in order to enter the AFC Champions League, so the Jiangong team started training early, still in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Hearing Arshavin talk about Sunset's distress, Zhen Xuexi called and asked Sunset if she would like to go to Dubai to train with Jiangong, and Sunset naturally agreed and rushed over as soon as possible.

From the cold of Freiburg to the warmth of Dubai, surrounded by familiar teammates, Sunset's mood suddenly relaxed.

The coach and teammates were also very happy to see Sunset, and even Zhen Xuexi, who has always been more serious, also beat Sunset's chest and became stronger after the test.

In addition to caring about his experience in Freiburg, the coach and teammates are more concerned about whether he has gained and improved, which is the simplest thing, and the most direct to see on the training ground.

In order to prepare for the AFC Champions League, the team not only did not habitually sell the main force, but also introduced McGovern, a former foreign aid from Quancheng Taishan. Tymoshchuk also helped persuade Viktor Kovalenko, who had performed well at the World Youth Championships in '15, to join. The 96-year-old star is said to be strong, but he and a couple of foreign players won't be in the squad until after Christmas.

What made Sunset happiest was that U16 teammates Gu Shuo and Wang Yifan also appeared in the training team. Perhaps it was Sunset's performance that impressed the club, and actually supported Zhen Xuexi to go further on the road of youth, using two 17-year-old players in a row.

Facing a group of old teammates, Sunset played very easily, but it was not relaxed, and fellow countryman Yang Kuo had enough of suffering. Sunset's movements at high speed are more reasonable and smooth than when he was on the team, and Yang Kuo himself is already gritting his teeth if he can keep up with his speed, coupled with the constant line changes and sudden stops and turns, he has little to do except hug and pull.

In addition, Sunset played more flexibly, not giving defenders a chance to close and foul at all, and coupled with a kick, the teammates found Sunset more difficult to defend than before.

Sunset changed lines again in advance to bypass Yang Kuo, but Yang Kuo couldn't help but make a goalkeeper leap sideways, knocking Sunset to the ground, and slapping Sunset on the head with a smile:

"You've got a lot of skills, huh? You have the ability to walk the German players, what are you angry with when you catch my brother..."

After laughing, he said a little formally:

"It's been up in the past two months, and the gap between foreign countries is so big?..."

This is a question that many of the players are obviously interested in, and even the coaches do not interfere, waiting for Sunset's answer.

Sunset thought about it and said:

"How to say that, the main thing is application. Freiburg has a fast pace and pays attention to the use of technical movements at high speeds, which is different from our usual slow motion, and it feels easier to kick after getting used to it. ”

Gu Shuo was accustomed to being a question baby in front of Sunset, and immediately asked the question that many people wanted to ask:

"The pace of our Huachao is not slow, and many foreign aides still say that we are fast-paced."

I didn't need to pay any attention to the wording of my old friend Sunset, and I opened my mouth to answer:

"Our speed is local fast, and even kicking that is considered fast. People's speed is the overall speed, the connection is right, the reasonable speed, can it be the same? When I was getting up, I stopped the ball and delayed for a second and a half, and the opponent rushed up and lost the opportunity, so it was not the same thing at all. ”

Sunset used to be a player with tight connections and smooth movements, and even he said that it was not easy to play fast.

Zhen Xuexi saw that the team members were thinking about the realm of what Sunset said, so he mentioned:

"Why don't we try it too? Anyway, now that we have time, let's see if we can get up all as a whole and find the feeling of the Bundesliga?"

The proposal was unanimously supported by the players, who spent the next few days experimenting with the overall tempo.

But it turned out that it couldn't be done, not only could not pass and receive the ball, but also couldn't keep up with the physical fitness, almost the overall high-speed running could not be maintained for 15 minutes, and it would be disjointed because the physical fitness of some players could not keep up.

After the return of foreign aid, Tymoshchuk found a solution to this situation.

Tymoshchuk chose to retire after Kovalenko joined the team, but also accepted the invitation of the club and Zhen Xuexi to become an assistant coach, and continued his football career in another way.

He proposed that if he couldn't maintain the whole game, he would maintain the overall high tempo of the whole court for a certain period of time. Then Zhen Xuexi extended the local high-tempo and rhythmic conversion schemes, and these schemes were tested and strengthened throughout the training period.

Sunset was also able to break free from Freiburg's constant tension, maintaining her training and relaxing.

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By the time Freiburg gathered for winter training in the small Turkish town of Belek on January 10, Sunset's physical condition surprised both the team doctor and the coach.

"It's not like a player who has just come out of vacation, it's more like a player from a season, full of energy."

Andreas Auster, the team doctor, examines Sunset's body and tells Assistant Coach Wosler in surprise.

The well-prepared afterglow took the lead in winter training, and performed much better against the defenders who were generally not in shape, and it was also a little more eye-catching than rivals Grifo and others.

On 15/01/16, after a few days of training, Freiburg made an appointment for a warm-up match in Hoffenheim, which was also training in Belek.

The team that Sunset almost joined was not in good shape, with only 2 wins, 8 draws, 9 losses and 14 losses in the first half of the season, and the head coach and the club owner were full of contradictions, and there were constant turmoil.

But at Hoffenheim, Sunset also knows someone in the form of their 28-year-old reserve coach Julian Nagelsmann.

The young coach had a few serious conversations with Sunset in order to persuade him to join Shangdu, and he was very close to many aspects of his knowledge of football.

However, when they met again, their circumstances and status were very different.