Fox in the Penalty Area

1st Ball Award

The wife turned over on the bed, then stretched out her hand to where her husband was next to her, but found nothing.

She woke up immediately and opened her eyes to see that the place next to her was empty.

Just then, she heard movement from the door.

So she turned over and looked back, and saw her husband, fully dressed, standing at the door. Seeing her turn back, she was quite surprised: "Why are you awake?"

The wife was also surprised: "Where are you going?"

Mark Becker spread his hands: "Go to training."

The wife frowned: "If I remember correctly, yesterday you came back and said that Hantcek gave you three days off?"

After yesterday's match against Union Berlin Gössen, Blue and White Munich won the Bundesliga title four rounds ahead of schedule.

In the locker room after the game, head coach Bjorn Hantcek announced that the first team would be given a three-day holiday.

In these three days, everyone can rest and relax as much as possible to relieve the fatigue after playing here for a season. Then go back to the training ground and start again.

Blue and White Munich have the conditions to do this, because they won the championship in advance, and the next four league rounds directly became warm-up matches.

There are still nine days until the Champions League semi-finals. Even if we take three days off, there are still six days left. Regrouping and training will not affect the team's preparation arrangements at all.

Becker nodded: "Of course, three days off, that's right."

"Then why do you still need to train?" The wife simply sat up.

"The head coach just gave us a day off, but he didn't prohibit us from training."

"Shouldn't you take a good rest during your break? You said this."

"It should be like this normally, but not now. If I take a good rest now, I might lose." Becker said seriously.

My wife’s previous sleepiness has receded: “Lost to Hu?”

Becker nodded.

"You are two goals ahead of him..."

Becker was amused by his wife's words: "What's two goals? It's not safe to lead by three goals. In short, you go to sleep, I'll go to training, and I'll be back for lunch at noon."

After saying that, he walked up to his wife and gave her a kiss, then turned and left.

It wasn't until she heard her husband's footsteps disappearing in the corridor that the wife sighed softly and shook her head.

My husband hasn't been acting like usual lately.

But she knew why.

As a wife, she could not help much in football. She could only pray to God, praying that her husband would be favored by the Lord, defeat Hulay, and win the Champions League championship he dreamed of.

With this honor, he won the European Ballon d'Or and World Footballer of the Year.

She knew that this was her husband's long-cherished wish.

This season he won the Silver Ball Award and second place in the World Footballer, and is within easy reach of the highest honor.

If he finally wins the Bundesliga title and the Champions League this season, then without the World Cup and European Cup, such honors will be enough for him to reach the pinnacle of his professional career.

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When Becker's car slowly drove into the gate of the blue-and-white Munich training base, the guard was a little confused.

He turned to himself and said, "That was Mark who was sitting in the car just now, right?"

"Of course, who else but him?"

"But doesn't he know that the first team has a day off today?"

"Hey, just because the first team is on holiday doesn't mean they're not allowed to come to training. Didn't we see Sauron just now?"

"I'm not surprised at all when the captain comes, because that's the kind of person he is. But Becker... he's not the kind of person who often gives himself extra training..."

As the doorman said, Mark Becker is not the poster child for hard training.

After he completes the team's training tasks every day, he will not stay specifically to train himself.

So when talking about hard-working players, everyone will never think of Mark Becker.

The reason why he was able to score so many goals and break the Bundesliga single-season scoring record last season is inseparable from his talent.

Instead of relying on "diligence can make up for weakness".

It was precisely because he knew Becker well that when captain Soren Gribusch saw Mark Becker pushing in the door in the locker room, his eyes widened.

"What's that expression on your face, Sauron?" Becker asked.

Gribusch also realized that his expression just now was too exaggerated, so he smiled and said: "You're just kidding, you shouldn't be here, Mark."

"Why shouldn't I come?"

"The team is on vacation. And you have never come to practice during the team's vacation before. Are you injured and are you here for a massage?"

Mark Becker was speechless. Why were everyone so surprised when he came to train?

When he drove to the training base just now, although he didn't stop the car to chat with the guard, he caught a glimpse of the guard's ghostly expression out of the corner of his eye.

"Even if I seldom practice extra training on myself before, you don't have to think that the sun has come out from the west, right?"

"We?" Gribusch keenly captured the key words, "It seems that besides me, you have met other people?"

"The security guards at the gate, they were also surprised."

Although Mark Becker was chatting with the captain, it didn't delay him at all from walking to his locker to change clothes.

Seeing that he really wanted to train like this, Gribusch frowned: "What do you think, Mark?"

"I just want to win a Ballon d'Or." Becker finally confided in his captain in the locker room alone.

Hearing this reason, Soren Gribsch suddenly realized.

This season is indeed a good opportunity for Becker.

But if you want to win the Ballon d'Or, you have to win the Champions League.

If you want to win the Champions League, you must first eliminate Madrid Pirates.

If he can eliminate the Madrid Pirates, he will be equivalent to defeating his direct competitor Hulay in the Champions League scorer list.

If he can defeat Hulay, then there will be one less contender for the Ballon d'Or. Even if Hulay scores 60 goals in the league this season, it is impossible to compare with Mark Becker who won the Champions League championship and the Champions League Golden Boot.

So everything will end in two semi-finals.

If the Blue and White Munich can eliminate the Madrid Pirates, then Becker will have the opportunity to face off with Melli. As long as he can win the championship, he can also defeat Melli in the competition for the European Ballon d'Or.

But if the Blue and White Munich can't even pass the level of the Madrid Pirates, naturally everything will be over. What is the dream of the Ballon d'Or?

"Okay. Let's train together. Don't worry, Mark, the whole team will do their best to support you in the game." Gribusch said.

Becker nodded gratefully: "Thank you, Sauron. I will also try my best."

If someone else said this to him, he would just take it as ordinary encouragement and comfort. But when Soren Gribusch said this, he had no doubt that this was a commitment that represented the position of the entire team.

Not just because Soren Gribusch is the team's captain, but because he is a captain who keeps his word.

Gribusch patted him on the shoulder: "This is not only for you, but also for the club. You are our top scorer, helping you score and helping the team win. The individual and the whole are inseparable."

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Head coach Bjorn Hantcek was in the office with his coaches planning for the next training session when the door was pushed open by second team coach Niko Turpitz.

After pushing open, he looked surprised and shouted as he entered, "You will never guess who I met on the training ground today?"

"King" Grimand Aylmer, who became the team's assistant coach after retiring last season, looked back and saw Turpitz and curled his lips: "Who else could it be? Of course it's Becker."

"Ah? How did you know, Grimand?" Turpitz was surprised.

Hantcheck burst out laughing: "The entire training base knows! This is a big deal."

Turpitz was stunned for a moment, then nodded: "It is indeed a big deal. When did Becker in the past give himself more training... Let me tell you, when I saw him and Gribsch on the training ground, When I got up, I was really frightened. I thought something was wrong... I'm not surprised that Gribsch came, but what the hell is Becker? Shouldn't he be shopping with his wife at this time?"

When the first team announced a holiday, Hantcek did not prohibit the players from coming to the training base.

But if they want to train, they can only follow the second team or the youth team.

This is why Turpitz, the head coach of the second team, was able to meet Mark Becker during his team training.

"Actually, it's easy to guess, Nico. Although Mark currently ranks first in the Champions League scorer list, he is only two goals ahead of Hu. "

Turpitz suddenly realized: "He wants to compete for the Champions League Golden Boot."

"He also wants to break Caesar's record." Aylmer said.

Hantcheck curled his lips: "Actually, it's not impossible. It's only two goals away."

"I hope he can break Caesar's record. At that time, I will call Caesar specifically and ask him how he feels about being broken by a player from Blue and White Munich... Ha!" Greimand Aylmer touched His own bald head smiled.

Everyone else in the room was amused.

The "Four Kings" are an era in which they have been rivals for almost their entire careers.

It was still very satisfying for Aylmer to see his former enemy defeated.

Most importantly, this honor will go to the blue and white Munich.

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PS, two updates will be resumed today!

After all the previously written manuscripts have been used up, the current content is the rewritten part.