211 left its mark in Freiburg

On January 10, Sunset returned to Freiburg with a full battery charge.

"Hey, Yu, it's so nice to see you, how did you have a good vacation?"

Norman, a runner, fan and neighbor, is overjoyed to see Sunset and says hello loudly.

Unknowingly, the Chinese kid has become a dependence on Freiburg's fans and players, and the team is still a little flustered when they didn't see him when they gathered on January 3. Despite the official explanation, Sunset was allowed to return to the team later, and there was no rumor at all, but it was still reassuring to see Sunset return to Freiburg.

Sunset adjusts to the cold of Freiburg and responds to Norman:

"Nice, sun, sea, sand... Except for a little miss for Freiburg and the game, everything else can be said to be perfect. ”

Hearing this, he glanced at Sunset's figure again, Norman was completely relieved, and the two ran towards the mountain road while chatting.

Now Sunset keeps running on a fixed trail every day, and gradually fewer people call it the original name, Fox Trail or anything, but Yu Trail or Player Trail. Many runners also want to try the gap with the professional players, and will challenge Sunset's 7.62-kilometer running course, which used to be a remote trail for running foxes.

Norman runs with him for a while, telling Sunset that they're organizing a "Sunset Mountain Challenge" that Sunset has a lot of fun to listen to. Germans have a DNA to organize in their nature, they have a Castle Hill Runners Association, and this challenge sounds like a third, a half, and a full race, and there is a difference between the junior group, the youth group, and the senior group. Hearing this, Sunset asks if she needs to provide some sponsorship, and Norman, one of the organizers of the event, readily suggests that Sunset can provide some prizes, no prize money, and some valuable souvenirs, which Sunset agrees with.

In the afternoon, Sunset arrives at the training ground with her training gear and participates in her first training session in 17 years.

Sunset's arrival has a lot of cheer for the fans outside the training arena, as it's still the middle of the winter break, and there are many students among the fans who come to watch the training, and Sunset has to answer a variety of questions while dealing with their autographed group photos.

"Yu, it's great to see you, you won't transfer, right?"

A teenage boy wearing Sunset's No. 11 jersey asked nervously as he asked him to sign it on his chest.

Sunset smiled and took the pen and asked him for his name, saying:

"Of course not, I can't wait to play..."

Sunset doesn't respond endlessly, doesn't preach any loyalty to the club, but just treats every fan enthusiastically and attends training on time, which makes them trust and feel at ease.

When he arrived at the training ground, he was warmly welcomed by his teammates, and there were not many personnel transferred out of the team this winter break, only Babyface Deli was loaned to St. Pauli in the German Second Division, and the others did not change much.

After greeting each other, Szeesch began to unceremoniously reveal Sunset's old bottom:

"Come on, he's on vacation? Training and running in the morning, running and training in the afternoon, maybe for Yu, holding hands with Xia in the evening and taking a walk on the beach is considered a vacation, haha..."

Stenzel, who was vacationing in Puerto Rico in the Caribbean, once went to hang out with Sunset in between, and was quickly scared away by Sunset's vacation style, which would bring the whole thing to light.

For many German players, a vacation is a vacation, a place to relax and have fun, and after hearing that Sunset's vacation is like this, there is no secret dissatisfaction with his late return to the team.

Fassler led Halilovic into the locker room, only to save Sunset from being ridiculed and ridiculed by his friends, and after introducing Halilovic to the whole team, Fassler said to Sunset:

"Yu, Halilovich's adaptation task in Freiburg is handed over to you, no problem, right?"

Sunset is stunned by this arrangement, which is one of the captains' responsibilities to help the new players adapt to the team and the environment. However, he is still more than willing to help Halilovich:

"Coach, I'm worried that I won't be able to do well, but I'm willing to do my best as long as I need to."

Fassler nodded in satisfaction, handed Halilovich to Sunset and left.

Halilovich happily stretched out his hand and shook it, and said in English:

"Hello, Yu, I didn't expect us to be teammates, you played really well last season."

"It's okay, but we can do better if you come. Don't worry, Freiburg are good guys, we just want to do cool things in the second half of the season, and if you can help, people will fall in love with you right away. ”

Halilovic is a little nervous, and European players value their team identity more than their Oriental and especially Chinese players, which may be the reason why they can play good team football. Sunset paid attention to these things at the time when he was instructed by Thomas, but when you get acquainted with it, because of the different cultures, you may feel that you have tried your best to show that you want to fit in with the team, but in the eyes of others, you are not doing enough. When many student unions and some teams in the West accept new members, some of the requirements will make the Easterners think that they are almost insulting, but they will feel normal, or slightly excessive, and the Easterners are very unaccustomed to it. However, Sunset clumsily expressed his desire to fit in, and at the same time used his football to integrate into the team one step ahead, and the team captain at the time, Schuster, was a gentle person, and the atmosphere in Freiburg was also very mild, so Sunset was able to join the team smoothly.

Hearing that Wang had encountered this problem when he arrived at Fürth, his teammates asked him to jump into the pool at minus a few degrees Celsius to show his sincerity in wanting to join, but fortunately, Sunset had talked about it before, and although he didn't feel well, he did so. Afterwards, Wang Yifan said that his teammates were not bad, and most of them did the same thing when they joined the team, which can only be understood as cultural differences. However, if you are not mentally prepared, you may be treated as a bully and walk away or resist, even if you recognize the cultural differences afterwards, the two sides will not return to the original harmony, it is better to jump away, after all, the other party's intention is just a joke and not humiliation.

In Freiburg, though, Sunset plans to help Halilovich integrate in her own way, which is to throw a welcome party in the way that Chinese people like, rather than in a vulgar way of mischievousness.

If one wine party doesn't solve the problem, then another one.

As it turns out, Sunset enthusiastically agrees with this suggestion when she asks her teammates, and proposes that if a new person joins in the future, it can continue as a repertoire.