[Football] Crown of Thorns

Dortmund still have two games to play before Christmas, the winter break of the Bundesliga.

One is the game against Freiburg that will be played in the evening, and the other game is the 1/8 final of the German Cup three days later.

Taking the club bus on the highway, they arrived at their today's destination, Freiburg, in one and a half hours.

This city located in the Bryce Heights between the Upper Rhine and the Black Forest in southwestern Germany has a population of only about 20 so far. Because of the abundant sunshine, the temperature is much warmer than other cities in Germany in winter.

"Hey, what's with that sign?"

Looking out the window inside the bus, Gama saw a strange no-passing sign.

Gama was unable to participate in the away game against Freiburg last season due to injury, so he has not been here, and he is really curious about it.

Captain Kyle, who was sitting next to him, glanced his head, "Oh, that means that mobile vehicles are prohibited from entering here."

Jia Ma was stunned and looked back at the shadow that disappeared behind the car in a blink of an eye, "What do you mean by prohibiting mobile vehicles from entering?"

"Well, it probably refers to foreign vehicles!"

Kyle shrugged, "Freiburg is a well-known environmental protection city in Germany. The main focus here is solar energy technology, and the people of Freiburg take environmental protection as their own responsibility to use and develop solar energy, so vehicles with polluting exhaust emissions are prohibited from entering here. The city, as far as I remember, seems to have stopped polluting vehicles from entering since the 70s."

"What an exaggeration!"

Jia Ma opened his eyes wide in surprise, lying on the window and looked out again and again. He was surprised to find that not only were there few people and vehicles in this city, but there were also few advertisements that can be seen in cities, especially The commercial billboards with trees on the side of the street are almost invisible...

"Because large commercial billboards are not allowed to be placed on the street here."

Hearing Gama's muttering, Kyle explained to him again.

"Then what does the economy here depend on?"

Gama was really curious.

He didn't pay much attention to the development of cities in Germany before. After all, he was just a player, and these had nothing to do with him.

But seeing this quiet and beautiful city, he really surprised him. Football is a promising career that needs popularity and economic development. The population here is so small and there is no economically prosperous market. Only Bundesliga clubs.

Hearing Gama's question, these 'uneducated' players were dumbfounded, which made the coaching staff members sitting in front couldn't help laughing.

Buvac said to Klopp next to him, "This kid thinks a lot."

Klopp nodded, "Xiko doesn't always feel like a child from a low-level family. His way of thinking and thinking is somewhat..." He stopped here and shook his head slightly.

"You guys are really boring."

Gama curled his lips when he didn't get an answer.

Xuebage Xiaoce felt unwell last night and had to take a truce today, so he didn't come with the team, or else he could teach Jiama well?

This idea is believed to be in the hearts of many Dortmund players at this time.

Hearing that Gama provoked the hatred of the whole team, the helpless captain Kyle took out a notebook from the information placed in front of the bus and stuffed it into Gama.

"You can learn by yourself."

It turned out that this was an introduction to the city of Freiburg, and I don’t know who was so far-sighted to release this stuff—Kyle decided to thank the club staff if he had the opportunity.

Glancing at Captain Kyle resentfully, Gama opened the brochure of Freiburg City and read it.

After just a few glances, Jia Ma turned his head and saw the conspicuous and domineering (local tyrant) spire outside the car.

"Wow, so rich~~"

The golden tower light is particularly conspicuous in the sun, it really dazzled my eyes!

Gama commented quite poetically.

"Hehe~"

Captain Kyle, who no longer wants to talk to him, replied like this.

Then Hullmes, who was sitting behind them, stretched out his hand and slapped Gama on the head, "Shut up."

"Hey, you guys have no sense of humor."

Jia Ma, who was raided by Hulmes, turned his head and looked at him sadly—that guy Sven is still injured, and his complaining partner is not here, how lonely he will be today!

Weidenfeller laughed, "Shall I introduce you?"

As if he didn't realize that Weidenfeller was mocking him at all, Gamar nodded repeatedly, "Okay, okay!"

"...You are really welcome."

"Why are you being polite to me, Uncle Roman!"

Gama pouted.

"I also want to say that you shut up," Weidenfeller was speechless.

"Hehe~"

Gama grinned.

There was laughter in the car. Weidenfeller stretched out his long arm from across the aisle and snatched the booklet from Gama. After flipping through two pages, You Qi stumbled and began to read like a poem, " Freiburg Cathedral is a must-see for tourists who come here. The architectural style of this cathedral is a balance of Romanesque and Gothic. It was built in 1354 and lasted more than 150 years until 1513. All completed. The whole tower is 116 meters high and you can climb up to the top of the tower along the steps. Looking down from the top of the tower, the city streets and the golden spire of the Gothic business house built in the 16th century are particularly eye-catching. Inside the church There are also many precious works of art, such as altar carvings, paintings, etc., which are of great ornamental value..."

"Okay, okay, stop reading!"

The unbearable Kyle interrupted Weidenfeller's recitation.

"Not nice?"

Weidenfeller blinked.

Jia Ma rubbed his ears, "It sounds so good, it almost makes us intoxicated."

"In the language of the Internet, your recitation, Roman, can make a woman pregnant."

Barrios, who was sitting next to Weidenfeller, said this faintly.

Now everyone in the car laughed.

Weidenfeller snorted and threw the booklet back to Gama, "Here we are."

Sure enough, a few seconds later, the car stopped in front of a building, and their destination had arrived.

SC Freiburg Football Club (SC Freiburg) was founded in 1904, and their home stadium is Baden Nova Stadium, which can accommodate 25000 people.

“Pretty good stadium!”

"Well, this stadium was built in 1953. During the World Cup in Germany in 06, the Dutch national team rented this stadium as their training base."

Kyle patted Gama on the shoulder.

Looking up at the old stadium, Jia Ma suddenly thought of Leizi's hometown a long time ago, where there was a gymnasium that was said to be built by the former Soviet Union... Later, that gymnasium was used by various people for many years. It is impossible for people to exercise in such a trade fair or something...

"The build quality of the Germans is pretty good."

Gama sighed.

"Isn't this normal!"

Kyle, who found Gama strange, said.

"Ha ha……"

The emotional Gama can only express the complicated feelings in his heart in this way.

Hummels, who was silent but actually very coquettish (Gama language), stood beside Gama, "Actually, the Freiburg club is not famous for this, but for their coach."

"What?"

Seeing his serious look, Jia Ma was a little curious.

At this time, many Germans standing around him began to snicker, but Hummels still had a serious face, "The head coach of this team, Volker Finke, is the first coach in the history of German professional football. The longest manager of a team, he has coached Freiburg since 1991."

"Wow, isn't that just like Mr. Guy Lu!"

Anyway, he still knows who the coach with the longest coaching time in Europe is. After counting his fingers, Gama said with a look of surprise.

Hehehe~~ Germans are laughing, they are laughing~~

Feeling something was wrong, Jia Ma turned around, "What are you laughing at?"

"No, we didn't laugh."

All the Germans shook their heads violently.

Jia Ma, who thought that the heads of these sullen Germans might be broken, frowned, "I don't know why."

Then, when the pre-match press conference was called by coach Klopp to attend together, they met the home team coach in the passageway before entering the press room, and after Klopp greeted each other with the familiar "Long time no see" , Gama greeted each other very politely.

"Hi Mr. Fink!"

He saw the face of the coach on the opposite side darken.

Klopp, who was beside Gama, was also stunned. He turned to Gama in doubt, "Xiko, why do you call Mr. Sorge that way?"

"Uh???"

Gama's eyes widened, "But Mattes and the others said that the Freiburg coach's surname is Funk..."

Speaking of which, Gama also knew what was wrong. Before the game, he had heard the coach explain Freiburg's tactics. Now that he thought about it, he didn't seem to have heard the name of the opposing coach's name, Fink. The German pronunciation should be ... Sorge?

Finally knowing who made the bad move, Klopp rubbed his forehead, these bad boys are playing tricks together to bully Xiko and don't understand the situation in the Bundesliga!

In the end, on this occasion, Klopp could only suppress his desire to deal with these bad boys, and explained to Gama, "Mr. Funk is the former coach of the Freiburg team. He resigned in May 2007. , and now the coach of the team is Mr. Sorge."

Fortunately, coach Sorge on the opposite side also found that Gama, a well-known Portuguese player in the Bundesliga, was probably being tricked by his teammates. He shook his head amusedly and reached out his hand actively.

"Hello, I'm Sorge, the head coach of the Freiburg team." Gama, who was flushed with embarrassment, quickly reached out his hand, "I'm sorry, I'm Gama, hello!"

Seeing Jia Ma's blushing face, the two veterans admired the young man's blushing face, looked at each other and then laughed.

Gama: ...Bastards, let's wait and see when we get back!

Hulmes: I didn't expect Xiko to be so easy to deceive! ! !

Everyone: What a surprise!

Klopp: These bastards! ! !

Sorge: How can I say this? ? ?