football is passion, love is an emotion

Part 39

I wake up with my alarm ringing and it take me a moment to wake up fully and turn it off, I don't notice the room I am in and feel someone move next to me, I look and see Katie has her back turned to me and then I remember I am in Katie's room. I get out of the bed rushed " why are you rushing" Katie groans, her accent thicker then normal " I have half an hour to get to the hall" I say and she just chuckles " well, bye good luck" she says and rolls over again. I leave the room and jog to our bit of the hotel and I see Monserrat as I come out of the Irish section of the hotel   " fuck" I whisper " Issy, why ae you here" she asked looking me up and down, in my pj's bed hair and looking rough " I ermm.  I" I say trying to come up with an answer " just get dressed and be at the hall on time" she says " okay" I say and walk off to my room. 

I quickly get ready and the head for breakfast. I have breakfast and try to avoid Mapi's questioning stares as we get on the coach, I sit down next to a window and fell someone sit next to me, I look up and see Ona smiling at me " ey" she smiles " ey" I smile back " you alright" she asked " si" I tell her and she frowns a bit " Monserrat said she saw you sneaking around the hotel" she says " and she asked you to get the deeds?" I huff and roll my eyes " she just wanted to make sure you was okay" Ona says " I'm fine" I smile " so why was you sneaking out of the Irish side of the hotel" she asked "I went to see Katie" I tell her " you stayed at Katie's?" she says in shock " yup" I simply say getting kind of tired with the questioning " wait, you guys aren't, you know" she asked " what, no" I say angerly how can she think that " sorry, I was just asking, knowing Katie's rep" she defends herself. " I was struggling last night and I needed someone to talk to so I wen to Katie, I feel asleep that's it" I tell her " why didn't to talk to someone on the team" she asked " the team needed their sleep, they don't need me bothering them in the middle of the night" I tell her " if you need to talk I am here, no matter the time" she says " thanks" I smile. With that Ona changes the subject and we tell shitting puns to waste time and it did actually cheer me up and now I am match ready. 

We enter the stadium and go straight into the changing rooms, put our kits on and Monserrat tells up the starting line up. 

gk: C. Coll 

Rb: I. Ramos CB: Mapi CB: I. Paredes LB: O.Batlle  

CM: A. Bonmati CM: T. Abelleria CM: Jenni  

RW: A: Redondo ST: E: Gonzalez LW: S. Paralluelo.

Esther leads us out onto the pitch, we line up to do the national anthems and then get into position to start the game. 

The ref blows the whistle and we as always start of strong. We work it down the left and Salma crosses the ball, Esther gets her head to it but the keeper makes a brilliant save to keep it out, Aitana was the first to react and she gets the ball and cuts past the defender and smashes it home to make it 1-0 in the 5th minute. On the 11th minute we are playing well and we are passing the ball around, I pass it to Laia and she cuts back and passes it to Cata I don't know if the pass was over hit or Cata was out of position but the pass goes past her and into our net making it 1-1. Laia hangs her head, I ran up to her " ey, animate" ( hey, chin up) I tell her lifting her chin up, she smiles at me weakly and we position for kick off again. On the 17th minute we work it down the left again and Ona crosses it in the box, she aims for Aitana but the ball goes over her head and bounces but Alba was there to head it in for 2-1. on 36th minute Ona goes on one of her amazing runs and she finds Salma crosses it in looking for Esther, Esther heads it goalward but it deflects of a defender and it falls to Aitana, she cuts the ball back fooling everyone and taps the ball into an empty net to make it 3-1. On the stroke of half time we get a corner, I take the corner and the ball ping pongs for a moment but then Laia taps it in making it 4-1. The ref blows her whistle to indicate half time. 

We come back out and start the second half, Switzerland created a few chances, we made a few changes, Alexia, Eva and Irene. E came on. Switzerland try and play it from the back but I win it back and play Jeni through and Jeni slots it home to make it 5-1. I run up to Jenni and hug her and she cups my face and kisses my forehand. 5-1 is how the score stayed and the ref blows the whistle and we all celebrate going into the quarter-finals. We walk around the pitch celebrating with our fans. I run up to Alexia and jump on her, she catches me and then kisses the side of my head. We walk around for a but then I spot Mapi so I run and jump on her back, Mapi carries me around for a bit then we go into the changing rooms and the real celebrations begin. It's become a tradition that Jeni is the dj and me and Ona dance around the changing rooms. 

We finally get on the coach back to the hotel and the party continues on the bus as we drink and have a good time on the bus until we reach the hotel and that's where the party starts and we all drink and dance until the early hours of the morning.