Match Begins II
After leaving the stadium, the adrenaline surge disappeared his knees almost buckled and his thighs burning, he felt like an over used car engine. He walked down to the park then hired a bike back to his motel. After a cold long bath, Vincent exited the shower and immediately dozed off on his bed with only towel wrapped around his waist.
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NEXT DAY
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After arriving at the stadium, we waited for minutes before the coaches and scouts started arriving.
{The scouts seem to have increased in number} He thought.
"Good morning everyone ,"Coach John greeted.
"Good morning Coach," the players responded in chorus.
"The match will begin shortly" he announced.
Coach John .
Just then he saw a system notification.
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[New mission generated ]
"Task: Win your two matches.
Reward: 1 roulette spin with 500AP.
This caused brought a smile to my nervous face as I remembered the system.
"You will be split in three groups from A to C and the match will last for sixty minutes with no substitutions with each team playing against the other two teams once." He announced.
The excitement was in the air, as everyone was nervous at the same time. This was the only major lifeline for their career as young aspiring footballer.
Coach Emeka came out then began calling everyone's name and allocating to their various group, which had his colleague's acting as temporary coaches.
Vincent was in group B, he walked to his team and a few rival faces like the no.5 overall ( Paul Amadi) and no.6 (Akin Lawrence ), then Vincent checked the lineups.
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"Group B (4-3-3A)
Gk: Ariyo Isaac
CB: Joshua Chibuzor
CB: Sada Nifemi
RB: David Hyacinth
LB: Adedeji Daniel
CM: Paul Amadi
LM: Sunday Philip
RM: Oboro Francis
LW: Akin Lawrence
RW: Madu Romano Vincent
CF: Ayomide Damian
After collecting their blue bibs, they positioned themselves on the pitch following the formation, as the needed to follow the instructions given by the coach while waiting for the whistle.
The referee for the match quickly came to the pitch, whistling for the start of the match and the striker from team A standing over the ball, quickly passed to their CF ( no.1 overall Victor Evans ).
Team A were using a 3-4-3 formation, their CF passed the ball swiftly to their CM (no. 4 overall ), they were passing the ball superbly well as they have 4 best overalls in the trials top ten .
By 10 mins into the game, team B's defence had gotten sloppy and team A's CM tried to dribble past Paul but was like a leach stuck to him and draining him, he started looking for passing options, once Paul saw the look on his face he reached in, with a smirk on his face he nutmegged him, quickly creating space for a chip pass to their CF who quickly trapped the ball and began charging at the post with the ball at his feet.
Two CB's stood between him and the goalie, using a quick body feint, he rushed past him drilled a powerful shot towards the top right corner, which the goal keeper could hardly react to flying into the net.
The score was 1: 0 at 15 mins.
Vincent looked dejected, the more they score the harder it is for them to win the match.
He saw some scouts looking at Victor, jotting down something while nodding their heads, Vincent teammates had their shoulders slumped and face down casted.
Team B kicked off, Damian passing the ball to Paul who passed back to the CB's when team A forwards quickly charged at him, the defenders where passing quite well Nifemi passed the ball to Paul who did a quick step over, then played a through pass to Vincent in the right wing.
Without delay danced with the ball at his feet then did a quick one - two with Philip slicing through the right wing and down the right edge of the box using a left body feint, he moved right creating space faking a cross into the paint causing the LB of team A to rush towards with a tackle. Without looking he did a quick cutback and the defender slid past him, at this point most of the scouts were surprised.