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They run side by side.
A ball, with which they mostly train, cannot be seen.
But they don't need that either at this moment.
Because they talk to each other, exchange ideas.
It is only a short video snippet that shows how Matheus Cunha is looking for a conversation with Sami Khedira, the 2014 world champion, who came to Hertha BSC at the beginning of the week and who should help with his experience, the Berliners who were on Receive FC Bayern on Friday evening (8 p.m. / DAZN) to get back on the road to success
"An absolute professional, a leader"
Now, a little conversation between two players is no guarantee of a trend reversal, by no means.
But what the individually well-manned Hertha recently revealed is that they need support - and Khedira, who speaks four languages, can ensure that in the currently so fragile-looking team, which is peppered with players from 15 nationalities.
And he has been doing it, so you can hear, with a lot of dedication since he first trained with the team on Tuesday.
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He acts verbally, but he is also fully involved in sports.
Even if his last appearance was in June 2020, it can be assumed that Hertha's coach Pal Dardai will rely on Khedira from the start in the game against Munich.
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The 33-year-old lacks match practice, but he is fit and has what it takes to act as a connecting element on the pitch, as a leader and thinker - as a leader that Hertha urgently needs.
After traveling to Berlin for the first medical check-ups on Sunday, after an MRI and the signature of the contract, he flew back to Turin in a Learjet on Monday, where he had played for Juventus since 2015.
He packed two suitcases, said goodbye to his fellow players, canceled the contract and flew back to Berlin on Monday.
He is currently staying in a hotel, but is looking for an apartment, although it is not clear whether he will stay beyond the end of the season.
In training, Hertha trainer Dardai, who followed the dismissed Bruno Labbadia before the 3-1 win last weekend in Frankfurt, confirmed that Khedira had worked well.
With regard to the lack of match practice, however, Dardai warned against too high expectations.
Dardai also warned about using access, because "before we score an own goal, he gets muscular problems from overload because he has to go from zero to 100, we have to think about it."
By the way, Dardai was there on the day when Khedira made his Bundesliga debut in the VfB Stuttgart jersey.
Dardai, then a defensive midfielder, made a guest appearance with Hertha BSC at VfB on October 1, 2006, when Khedira came on shortly before the end.
The game ended 2-2.
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Almost 15 years later, Dardai, 44, is the coach of the eleven years younger Khedira.
In the 2006/07 season Sami Khedira made his debut in the Bundesliga.
At the end of the season he won the championship title with VfB Stuttgart
Source: pa / Pressefoto UL / Pressefoto ULMER / Bjoern Hake
With their opponents, Munich Bayern, who are on their way to Qatar for the Club World Cup on Friday immediately after the final whistle, which is why the kick-off was brought forward by half an hour, they were impressed by the commitment from Khedira.
Hansi Flick, for example, the coach with whom Khedira won the World Cup title in Brazil in 2014 - Flick was assistant to national coach Joachim Löw at the time - praised him in the highest tones.
“Sami is an absolute professional, a leader type who can lead a team.
He will support Hertha, ”said Flick, who also pointed out before seeing that Khedira had played little recently.
His personal contact with the former Stuttgart resident was "always very good".
In the past few years, people have often exchanged views and met.
"He has had a sensational career," said Flick.
It was nice, he added, that Khedira was back in the Bundesliga after ten years.
In 2014 Sami Khedira (l.) And Thomas Müller (r.) Won the world title
Source: pa / Eibner-Presse / Eibner-Pressefoto
Incidentally, Thomas Müller thinks that too.
"I'm excited to see how things will go for him after his return, but of course I hope that things don't end so well for him on Friday evening," said Müller.
He had a smile on his face.
They would like to have that again at Hertha after a game.
Maybe Sami Khedira will help with that.
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