Beautiful Awakening

Read Story: SEASON 1 EPISODE 26

THE ART OF FOOTBALL

Finally we started, I have to say the boys on jade’s team were really good, their passes were so cool and coordinated that I regretted being on David’s team, we were still unable to collect the ball for about 6 minutes into the game but fortunately then a guy named Nicholas from our team intercepted a pass from jade’s team. Our formation for the game was 4-2-2, I was the left midfielder, while Nicholas was the right midfielder, David was our main right winged striker while another boy named James was the supporting left winged striker to David, the remaining four people in our team were the defenders. So when Nicholas intercepted the pass he immediately passed the ball to me, from the starting of the game i was anxiously waiting for the to touch my ball but now that the ball was just rolling towards me I began to feel nervous. When the ball came to me I couldn’t trap it properly because of the distress in my mind, the ball bounced to our opponent the moment it came in contact with my leg. To say I was embarrassed was an understatement, the guys on my team started looking at me weirdly, someone even said David where did you bring this guy from? I couldn’t say anything. So I just bowed my head in shame, nevertheless we continued playing trying desperately to collect the ball from our opponents, when me and David came into close contact on the field, he said giggling, bro I thought you said you can play very well, I didn’t answer him but ran ahwad quickly to avoid him, I was still feeling embarrassed from the way I handled the ball, but he still rushed to meet me then said, don’t worry, just feel free and you will be okay after all its been long you played right? His words kind of comforted me as I nodded at him before trying to concentrate. 35 minutes into the game jade’s team had launched more attacks frequently more than our own team. However what I realized next was that jade suddenly exploded with force from the right side of our defense dribbling two defenders who had attempted to tackle him, the next thing I saw was him shooting the ball skillfully into the net. Goooal! Jade’s team member’s celebrated in joy due to their first goal, even the spectators who had come to watch us play were shouting as if they were watching a real match, some of them were also hailing jade by shouting his name. I couldn’t help but look at the rest of my team mates and feel responsible for the goal which was against us, I walked towards David then asked, is he this good? This is just the tip of the ice berg, like I said I have never seen any player like him but he has one problem David retorted, and what is the problem? I asked curiously. Jealously, if someone should start performing like him, he will get upset and start trying to compete with the person, I looked at jade from a distance and couldn’t help but chuckle, for someone like him to be jealous when meeting a rival it would be funny to watch his reaction.