The laid-back Queenslander has been dealing with a degree of culture shock after opting to build a career in Europe’s football heartland with Turbine Potsdam“Vorne,Vorne, Vorne, or ” growls Turbine Potsdam coach Bernd Schröder through fractured English at Australian midfielder Elise Kellond-Knight. “KK,Deutschland is vorne, Australia is hinten.” “Play forward, and not backwards” is the intent of Schröder’s slightly sarcastic urgings,and it has become a familiar refrain heard by the unusual Australian arrival at the top Frauen Bundesliga club, based on the outskirts of Berlin. Kellond-Knight’s natural inclination is that ball-possession should be prized above all else, and which is at odds with the contemporary German method,where the mindset is to press forward with pace and power at every opportunity.
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Source: theguardian.com