Monday, July 24, was breezy and sunny. The Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info located in the small village of Hoffenheim in Sinsheim, where the training base of Hoffenheim 1899 welcomed a newcomer.

"Hey, Haas, look, our boss has brought a new person here!" Trom nudged Haas, the team's freshly promoted youngster from the academy, and shouted with a grin.

The first-team players who were being led by the assistant coach to train looked up one after another, and they saw that, against the light, a tall figure followed their head coach Rangnick, towards the training ground.

Stephen Haas, a young player with pimples on his face, suddenly drooped, and an inexplicable sense of crisis emerged in his heart: there is a newcomer again, he has just been promoted from the youth team by Rangnick, but he is not willing to play a game, so he is driven back to the youth team.

Rannick's side is none other than the newcomer Beta!

In the end, Beta decided to come to Hoffenheim and give it a try. For this reason, he even made an excuse to cancel the friendly match between the Chinese student team and the team of the Technical University of Munich this afternoon - I really hope that without Beta, the teammates can give a little more effort and not lose too badly.

For the sake of dreaming, sometimes Beta had to be selfish.

It's just that when I came to Huo Village in Rangnick's car, I saw the city getting farther and farther away on the road, and the buildings on the side of the road became more and more desolate, if I hadn't confirmed Rangnick's identity on the Internet, Beta would have thought that he had been trafficked!

Thankfully, he ended up in Hoffenheim.

Hoffenheim is a small village with a population of just over 35,000 people, and of course, the size of the house looks like a small township, and the modern equipment and roads and houses are not much different from a small urban community.

"It's a quiet, beautiful little village!" Beta was in a good mood.

Rangnick waved his hand and called the assistant coach over: "Salinger, you give this kid a simple physical test, and a basic tryout!" ”

Salinger is also middle-aged, but he looks a little younger than Rangnick, and he has a rather distinctive circle beard. Salinger nodded, and without further ado, he took Beta, who was already mentally prepared on the way, with him.

Rangnick stood on the sidelines in place of the assistant coach, his hands on his hips, watching the players on the field train.

With less than two weeks to go until the start of the league season, Rangnick called the first team back to training early in order to challenge the Bundesliga. And Rangnick has also put a lot of pressure on them, because until now, he has not decided on the main lineup for the new season!

Haas was a little absent-minded, he looked up, looked at the manager, and then at the direction the newcomer had left, and accidentally missed the pass that his teammate had given him.

"Hey, Haas, you need to concentrate! The boss is watching! Trom shouted. Marcel Trom is a veteran of the team, having moved at the turn of the century and has been with the team for almost six years.

Because Haas was produced by the Hoffenheim academy, Trom is quite familiar with him, so he specially reminded him.

"I'm sorry, Trom." Haas bowed his head and nodded in shame.

……

There are not many trial projects, and Beta, who has experienced more than a dozen trials, feels that this time is the easiest, and he is also familiar with completing the trial projects one by one. Soon, the report was brought to Rangnick by Salinger, and Beta stood aside with some trepidation, waiting for Rangnick's trial.

Rangnick flipped through the report, and the expression on his face didn't change much. In fact, many of the above evaluations, he already had a number in his heart, such as Beta's ball control, dribbling and other technical problems, Rangnick has long been aware of it.

What he mainly wants to see is some of Beta's hard powers that are more intuitive with data analysis, such as speed, physical strength, and strength!

The first two are passable, enough in the third division, but in terms of strength, Rangnick is really surprised!

"This bench press score is amazing, isn't it?" If it weren't for the fact that Sallinger had been with him for a few years, Rangnick would have had some hard time believing that this was the real data. Fortunately, though, he is more calm and rational than coaches like Kurtz.

Strength is a plus, but it's not a necessary condition!

So, it's a mule or a horse, and you have to pull it out for a walk!

"Salinger, you find him a jersey to change into, and then put on the red vest, we're going to have an intra-team training game." Rangnick explained simply.

Fortunately, although Beta is 1.9 meters tall, there are no other big men in the team, and the team's backup goalkeeper Torsten Kirschbaum is 1.94 meters tall. So, it won't be difficult to find a suitable shirt for him.

By the time Beta came out in a Hoffenheim blue striped shirt and a red vest, Rangnick had gathered all the players in the first team.

'We're going to play a training game, according to the normal 45 minutes for a half. The one I called by name put on the red vest of the substitute and was included in the substitute team, and the rest was included in the main team. Kischbaum, Zepek......" Rangnick was halfway through the reading, pointed to the teenager Haas, and smiled, "Haas, what are you frustrating?" ”

"Sir, sir......" Haas was born in 1988 and is now only 17 years old, a year older than Beta, but he seems to have a lot of mood swings, and his eyes immediately turned red.

Rangnick frowned slightly, he still slowed down his tone, and said: "The arrangement of the intra-team game does not represent your position in the future game, even if you are now included in the main team, if the training performance is not good, there is still no way to start in the league!" ”

"In a while, Sullinger will command the main team for me, I will command the substitute team, if you want to start, please try to show the effect of your training, I hope that during this time, you are not lazy!" Rangnick ignored Haas after saying that, and he turned to continue arranging the staffing of the two teams.

Of course, Rangnick did not forget about Beta, who stood aside!

'This is Beta, he's going to be on the bench and playing at centre-back!' Rangnick's introduction was simple, he pushed Beta over as he spoke, "Haas, you're going to partner with Beta, show me the mid lane!" ”

Haas's mouth opened wide in surprise, then nodded reluctantly.

"Sure enough, they are in the same position as me!" There was a storm in his heart, and the same position meant that they belonged to a competitive relationship, and Haas's panicked emotions were written on his face, "Rangnick, this is for me to partner with him, and then whoever behaves well, will let him go?" ”

Although Haas is from the midfield, there are two newcomers who transferred from this summer in this position, who are nearly ten years older than him, and the back needs experienced veterans to guard, so Rangnick can only push to the back line for the purpose of training.

"Hi Haas, hello! My name is Beta! Alpha, beta of beta, hehe! Beta's enthusiasm seemed to have met with a cold spot, and although Haas accepted his friendly handshake, it was clearly reluctant to shake his hand.

With Beta's IQ, it was naturally not difficult to guess the reason, he didn't care too much, but walked over and continued to greet other teammates: "Hey, Kirschbaum, I didn't expect anyone to be taller than me, of course, growing taller in the goalkeeper position is indeed an advantage!" ”

Kirschbaum didn't expect Beta to be able to pronounce his name, he was also a young man, born in 1987, and now he is only 18 years old, he was embarrassed to reply with Beta's enthusiasm, and he smiled and got to know each other.

"So you're Chinese? Oh my God, you speak German so fluently! A veteran next to him walked over, he shook his head with emotion, and said with a smile.

"Loew, hello!" Beta smiled and continued to pronounce the other party's name, "I actually came to Germany and often talked to others before I practiced my spoken English, and when I first came to Germany, I was nervous about speaking German......

As he spoke, he vividly performed a dialogue when he first came to Germany, when he encountered a less familiar vocabulary, which immediately amused his teammates.

In comparison, Haas, who was standing outside the crowd, looked a little out of place, and he was even closer to the main team's area, maybe he wanted to join the main team more?

"Hey, Haas, you've got a match!" Trom leaned over and smiled. He is the team's main left-back himself, and Loew, who was chatting with Beta just now, also plays at left-back, Loew has just moved from Hansa Rostock, but still does not threaten the status of Trom as a veteran of the team.

"Trom, what do you think I should do?" Haas asked in a low voice.

"You've got to behave better than him!" Trom patted Haas on the shoulder and taught, "As long as you perform better in the training matches, the boss will definitely not give up on you!" ”

"Oh yes, I forgot to tell you!" Before leaving, Trom smiled mysteriously and said, "I inquired with Salinger just now, this beta has just come over for a trial, and our boss hasn't decided to sign him yet!" ”

"I still have a chance!" Hearing the last sentence, Haas's eyes suddenly lit up, and he clenched his fists excitedly.

……

"Okay, come here, I'll talk about the next training match, the tactics of our substitute team!" Rangnick interrupted Beta's chat with his teammates with a small board, and summoned all the substitutes in red vests.

"We're going to play the 4231 formation, which will be one of the main formations we will use in the new season......

Rangnick is talking, but he's also watching the players.

Of course, the main attention is still Beta, the kid who has just come over to play a game is listening intently to what he has to say. Rangnick is very happy with this, in his opinion, talent is secondary, talent is only the speed of a player's progress, but the attitude is absolutely the height of what it can achieve in the future!

In addition to his attitude, he was also surprised that Beta was able to integrate quickly into the team!

At first, Rangnick was a little worried that his teammates would squeeze out Beta, but now it seems that Beta has a very good mouth, and in just a few minutes, he chatted with his teammates.

Looking at the arm of the 1.8-meter-8 Loew on the shoulder of the 1.9-meter-wide and bent over Beta, Rangnick had some illusions that Beta was the veteran player in this team!

However, after all, the lip service is still on the surface, and whether it can really be trusted and recognized by teammates depends on the performance on the field!

(The names here are not made up by Xiao Han, they are all Hoffenheim's players this season.) There is no such detailed data on the domestic website, and some of the information of Hoffenheim's regional league that year was checked by Xiaohan on foreign websites! These English, I can see that the little cold head is big. For the sake of Xiaohan's hard work and dedication, you can vote for it, (づ ̄3 ̄)づ)