Kick Off|Book 1

Chapter 11

I woke up the next morning by my new soccer alarm clock, today was my last match until I come back from Australia. This was going to be a good match, the team and boss met up in the locker room, we were going to play in our home grounds today.

The whistle blew for the start of the match and I and Wayne started off at the kick off, he passed to me and I ran and skilled the defenders, I was in the box, I passed the ball to Schweinsteiger who passed back to me, it was one on one with me and the goalie, I did a rainbow flick, it went over the goalies head, I just passed the ball in, it hit the back of the net. I had scored in just 2 minutes of the match. I could see boss, he was very happy, the crowd cheered me on and I spotted mum and Joel cheering my name. I was so happy. My team mates came and hugged me.

Newcastle had the next kick off and I have to say there passing was terrible, for about 40 minutes the ball was not going into any of the goals.

The whistle blew for half time and boss game up to me and gave me a pat on the back. He said your a one in a lifetime player, I'm glad I didn't sell you.

The whistle blew for the next half

No one scored in this half, we had half possession each, and the ball didn't reach the goals. It was the end of the match, the whistle blew. We had won, now we are first on the ladder with 13 points with Chelsea second who have 12 points and Liverpool in third with 10 points.

After the match we all got sent home except for me, the boss told me to come to his office, he told me that he was going to put me on the pitch the whole time. I was so happy, he told me your not a left winger sub, you are now declared by me a left winger full time. I was so happy, I quickly told my mum and she was the happiest woman, she asked if I wanted to stay here and not go for the wedding.

I said no way, I ain't missing my brothers wedding. She laughed.

I drove home and packed for tomorrow's flight which was at 5am. Wayne was going to drop me to the airport tomorrow.

I woke up tomorrow at 2am and Wayne was already in the car, I got my luggage and went into the car, the trip to the airport was half an hour, Wayne dropped me off at the airport and said bye.

I checked in and went to the lounge, I slept for one hour and then got into the plane. My mum and Joel were already in Australia, I would meet them there in Perth. The flight to Perth felt like 1 hour, since I slept the whole way. I arrived in Perth to find Joel and this girl, must be his girlfriend I thought, standing and waiting for me to come out. It was Joel introduced me to her, her name was Isabella. Lots of people were wearing my shirt with Rodri and the number 3 on the back, I was happy that I made my country proud and that was the Aussies.

We got home and I met her mum, her dad and her grandparents. I introduced myself to them. I then met my mum, my grandparents and my uncle and Aunty. We lived on a farm in the country side. We had some tea and then I went to see my horse who was a boy named, Ronaldo, I named him after my favourite soccer player. He took me for a ride around our farm, it was nice being back home, but I also missed playing soccer. I went to my friends house, Jak, on Ronaldo. He was surprised to see me. He rode his horse with me and he came to play soccer with me, when I still lived in Australia we built a goal out of sticks and it was still there, Jak was a great goalie so I practiced shooting and he saved most of my hard shots. We had lots of fun, he had the invite for the wedding, it was in 1 week from now and we were going to do it at the backyard of the farm.

I told Jaks family to come and have dinner with us, they didn't have any plans so they joined us, we had roast lamb and wedges.

I went to bed with my brother in our room, which was a tiny room with a bunk bed, he used to sleep at the top and I used sleep at the bottom. We made great memories in this room and I'll never forget them, me an him played with our gameboy that we shared, we played tetras, that was the only game we had.

We then went to bed ready for tomorrow, Joel is a motocross expert, he had stunt practice tomorrow. I can ride the motorbike, but I'm not really good at it. It was my dads motorbike, it had number 3 on the side of the bike, Joel changed it for me since I have number 3 on my shirt. I thought that was really sweet of him.