Trials 1

"Sorry for not uploading any chapters for days now. I was in an little accident and was admitted to the hospital. But I'm fine now"

Third Person POV

Few minutes to 9:00 am.

Coach Johan looked at his watch before signaling for the teams to take their positions. All the players on the pitch, plus Alex, were waiting for his whistle to kick-off the game. It was the moment of truth that would define their football career. Everyone was tense.

Coach Johan had chosen the Green team to kick off the game. Stephen Orm and Ben Tamarapreye were already standing in the center circle next to the ball.

Most of the clubs scouts had already begun abandoning their seats in the stands. They had started moving closer to the touchline to get a better view of the proceedings.

Coach Johan looked at his watch again before looking towards Referee on the sideline. The latter nodded.

*FWEEEEEEE!*

Kick-off!

Steven passed the ball to Ben and rushed forward into the other half without looking back.

"Ben, pass here," Paul called out to Ben after seeing him looking around for a teammate to pass the ball. He was unmarked and ready to receive the ball. The latter quickly passed it to him and Paul received the ball and passed back to the defensive midfielder Warren who quickly passed towards Alex in the left-wing.

That was when, Maarten van Berger the right-winger of the team in red bibs, came sliding in with a tackle. But Alex was prepared for him, he quickly dug the ball up and went past Maarten and instantly hammered it to Paul in the midfield.

Paul beautifully controlled the ball and skipped past Laurato who was already tightly marking him.

He looked up and kicked the ball high, sending a long pass towards the swift Ben Tamarapreye who was rushing towards the box in the red team half.

The boys on red did not even react as Ben received the ball just outside the 18-yard-box. Only Miché Mikael stood between him and the goalkeeper.

Without looking up, he drilled a powerful shot towards the bottom left corner, forcing Samson Harit to pull off a brilliant save. The green team had a corner.

The red team was already under pressure in the first minute.

Alex was just calm and went to stand on tge edge of the box waiting for any ball that would come his way.

Paul Jose quickly went to take the corner, the boys in the box were struggling to get off their markers. Paul took the corner but it was headed by Albrecht Klaus.

The ball didn't have any force so it cane to right where Alex was standing. Alex smiled in his mind and used his right foot to whip the ball from where it came from.

WHOOSH

The ball went passed everyone, even the goalkeeper just stood there and looked at it as the ball took it's place in the back of the net.

FWEEEE

Red Team - 1

Green Team - nil