His coolness also surprises his teammates • His maturity is characterized by veteran actors • And in his spare time he likes to play the piano
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While players his age are busy with clubs, girls and computer games, Kai Haverz, who will be celebrating his 21st birthday in about three weeks, has cracked the system that allows him to concentrate on football.
When a star Berkeley comes home after training or playing, he clings to the piano, which helps him fill his time and clear his head. As a child, as he blossomed and grew on the lawn, he would use every visit to his grandmother to sit at the piano in her home and learn notes alone.
When his best friend, Julian Brandt of Dortmund, said he was playing guitar, Haverz decided to take the love of music a step further. "I have always loved special pieces, and when I wanted to specialize, it was not difficult for me to choose a particular instrument," he said.
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And just as he is creative on the keyboards, so is the ball. He has 40 goals and 30 cookbacks in 140 appearances across all frames, making him the youngest player to score 30 league goals in the German league, and the youngest to reach 100 appearances at the club.
"We have the best German player of the decade," stated Leverkusen's professional director, past player Rudy Feller in an interview with "Kicker," but Hubbert seems to say goodbye to the club and the crowd that loves him so much this summer.
Hubbert's numbers leave no doubt as to his ability, but that is not why he is of interest to the continent's giants. This is a different kind of boy, one with a head and a behavior that players who are much older can learn from it. Haverz started playing football at the age of 4, and by the time he was 10, he had been playing with his yearly figures for two years in Almania Aachen. Slavomir Czerniecki, a Leverkusen youth coach who discovered him a decade ago in a match against Almania, said: "I trained kids up to the age of 12, and Kai played with us when he was only 10. We won 3: 8, Kai scored all three goals for our duty and realized it was something unusual ".
Haberz occupies a match against Werder Berman this week // Photo: Gettyimages
"Vanity is not a desirable trait"
Last season, Haverz was the main player for Leverkusen with 17 league goals. This season he is in crisis, and up to the official winter deadlock only three times. His ability drew criticism, but the young midfielder was unmoved and very quickly proved from what a wink.
Since returning from the winter retardation, he has scored nine goals, including a duo in the Bundesliga return cycle this week, and when asked what he was through during the drought, said: "It was the first time in my career that I didn't just receive praise. Not all things written about me were positive, but things like that weren't "Stop me. These are times that shape you. As an actor and as a person, you learn a lot from these situations."
But since then, the accolades have not stopped coming. "I've never seen such a complete player at such an age," Captain LeBarcozen told Lars Bender, and brake Jonathan Tae added: "He never seems to go through 'I'm under pressure.' He always gives himself the time to make the right decision, and there's no He is sure to be a global star. "
Haverz hears all the noise around him, but tries not to dazzle. "I was taught to always stay with my feet on the ground," he explained. "I learned from my parents that vanity is not a desirable trait, so why as a footballer should I behave differently?"
Havertz is dawdling. What's the next destination? // Photo: Gettyimages
And what about the future? Quite a few German players who starred in the Bundesliga eventually found themselves in Bayern Munich. Staying in the comfort zone, the high chance of graduation, proximity to family and language illuminate the path to the local empire, but in this regard too, Hubbert thinks otherwise.
Indeed, the city where he grew up in northern Germany is a 10-minute drive from Belgium and a 15-minute drive from the Netherlands, and the proximity to other countries seems to have opened his appetite to experience other things. "Bayern are a great club, but I'm not sure I want to stay in Germany," he admitted, "Some people want to spend their whole lives here, but I'm not this guy. I'm open to more things."