Cole Campbell ya zo Elversberg a matsayin dan wasan da aka biya mafi yawan kuɗi a tarihin kulob din, yana ɗauke da nauyin shekaru biyu masu wahala a Borussia Dortmund da Hoffenheim. Yanzu yana da shekaru 20, ɗan wasan da aka haifa a Texas yana amfani da kowane minti da kyau — a mafi babbar mataki da ya taɓa gani.

Bayyanarsa ta farko a Bundesliga, wacce aka jinkirta ta hanyar aro da bai yi amfani ba wanda ya bashi kawai mishan biyar na maye gurbi, ta ƙare da kwal a nasara 3-2 kan Bayer Leverkusen. Ya kuma fara wasa a nasara 4-3 a filin Borussia Monchengladbach, kuma tutar raga ta tashi ne kawai ya hana masa kwal ga Bayern Munich.

"Na je in yi biki sannan da na juya ban ga kowane abokin wasana ba, wanda ya ɓata mini rai," Campbell ya ce game da kwalna da aka soke kan Bayern Munich. "Yana da wata ji ta musamman ko da yake ba a kirga shi ba."

Kulob mai ban mamaki tare da tsarin wasa na jaruntaka

Elversberg — ƙaramin kulob na gari na Jamus wanda ya fara shiga babban gasar a karon farko — ya girgiza Bundesliga. A cikin wasanni huɗu kawai, ya riga ya doke Bayer Leverkusen da Borussia Monchengladbach, ya kuma damka Bayern Munich. Campbell yana tsakiyar duk wannan labari.

"Abin da ake sa ran mu ya kasance akasin abin da muka nuna," ya ce. "Muna kawai bayar da komai da muke da shi kuma muna ƙoƙarin buga mafi kyawun ƙwallon ƙafa da muke iya."

Ga Campbell, haka yana nufin buga wasa ba tare da tsoro ba — har ma da mafi kyawun ɗan wasan duniya. "Jaruntaka a gare ni a matsayin ɗan wasa na kai hari ita ce rashin tsoro na fuskantar gwagwarmaya ɗaya da ɗaya da ƙoƙarin wani abu maimakon tsoron bari saboda suna mai gasa."

Mahaifiyarsa, imaninsa, da asalinsa

Tarihin Campbell na musamman ne gaske. Mahaifiyarsa, Rakel Karvelsson, tsohon ɗan wasan kasa da kasa na Iceland ne wanda har yanzu tana ƙalubale shi a atisaye na taɓawa biyu. Ya shafe wani ɓangare na yarinta a Iceland kuma yana samun yanayin ƙaramin gari na Elversberg yana kama da abin da ya saba. Ya koyi Jamusanci kuma ya so schnitzel — da iyaka.

Duk da asalinsa na Iceland, Campbell ya zaɓi wakiltar Amurka — "wannan ya tabbata" — kuma aka yi masa lada da fafatawa ta farko a babbar ƙungiyar a nasara kan Canada wannan mako.

Sa'ad da aka kwatanta shi da Christian Pulisic, ya ba da amsa mai nauyi: "Kwatankwaci yana satar farin ciki. Wannan yana cikin Littafi Mai Tsarki." Imani sa na Kiristanci yana fitowa akai-akai a tattaunawarsa da 'yan jarida, kuma yana bayyane ya tsara yadda ya shawo kan shekaru biyu na ƙarancin lokacin wasa.

"Amincewa da shirin da Allah ya tanada maka wani abu ne da kana buƙatar yi kullum," ya bayyana. "Na yi imani cewa hakan ya ƙarfafa alaƙata da shi da ƙarfafa ƙwazonata na tunani. Na zama ɗan wasa mafi kyau."

Ya ƙi ganin lokacin Hoffenheim a matsayin lokaci da aka ɓata. "Tunanina a wancan lokaci ya kasance daban sosai da na yanzu. Abubuwan da na koya a cikin watanni 22 na ba zan koye su ba idan abubuwa sun faru daban."

Mataki mai kyau a kulob da ya dace

Tattaunawar da ya yi da shugabannin Elversberg da babban kocin Vincent Wagner sun shawo kansa cewa wannan shi ne canja wuri da aikinsa ke buƙata. Wagner ya riga ya inganta aikinsa na tsaro, kuma tarihin kulob — Nick Woltemade, Younes Ebnoutalib, da Fisnik Asllani duk sun ci gaba ta Elversberg — ya ba shi kwarin gwiwa.

"Ina buƙatar mintoci a filin don aikin na da buga babbar rawa fiye da abin da na yi a Dortmund," ya ce. "Wannan mataki a aikin na shi ne daidai. Kuma ina farin ciki da zuwan nan."

Lakabi na siye mafi tsada yana kawo matsin lamba, amma Campbell ya jaddada cewa ma'aunin da yake sanya wa kansa ya wuce duk wani adadin kudi. Burinksa yanzu a bayyane yake: ya zama mafi kyawun sigar kansa, ya kuma yi amfani da wannan dandalin don nuna abin da yake gaskatawa — a filin da kuma wajenshi.