The Love Of Soccer

What The Hell Is Going On?!

Anna's POV

Just as Adam Liam and I were on our way out of this craziness, Zidane showed up.

"What the hell is going on?!" he yelled as he looked at Tristan and Tyler who were both slowly making their way to Zidane.

Adam spoke up quickly and explained our whole situation. I decided not to talk because what happened was really messed up and I'd rather never speak of it again.

Zidane simply looked at Tyler and Tristan and said "you boys know that I can easily get you arrested? Right? And I'm not sure you know who I am, but just know that I'm way worse than anyone you've ever dealt with".

He walked up and grabbed them both then was on his way. But he stopped and turned to me "can you come to practice today? End of the day?" he asked.

I nodded my head and smiled and with that, he left.

Adam and I walked back to class. We explained what happened to Dylan, Liam and Iman.

***

Days and days went by, every day practice and more practice. Finally, the day came. Today was the day before Real Madrid's game against FC Barcelona.

We all practiced the basics while waiting for Zidane, and when he finally came he went straight to business.

"okay I have our lineup set up. I will call whoever is in the lineup. If your name is called please see me" immediately i began sweating. Adam, who was right beside me, comforted me.

"they have to put you on, don't worry" he said.

"I know but I just want to be put on because he thinks I'm good. Not because he has to! Or else I'll probably only play one game" I said.

"well we'll have to wait and see"

As we were talking, Zidane was naming people. I heard him call Cristiano, James, Gareth and others.

"and finally, our goalkeeper, Anna"

Excitement rushed through me. I made my way to Zidane, as did Adam. He began explaining our lineup for tomorrow.

"You are all going to work together for the rest of practice so you can get to know how each of you play. Everyone else will be on the opposing team, we will scrimmage full field." He said, and with that, he called over the others and got everyone ready for a scrimmage.

Obviously I was in net. Adam stood by the net because he wasn't playing. For the first few minutes, the ball stayed in the other half. I got bored so I walked up. I wasn't able to see who, but someone tried clearing the ball up the field.

I was right at half, so I got the ball and began to run up. I didn't want to do anything crazy... yet, so I passes to Cris and backed up.

The ball kept bouncing around in the other half, finally it began coming to my half. I got to make a lot of saves, no one scored.

But there were many corners cleared by Cris. Everyone was in my box except for Iker who was goalie for the other team.

Zidane yelled, "Next goal wins!" And as he shouted that the corner was taken.

The corner kick was high and perfect for a header. So I ran up, caught it, and threw it in front of me and I began to run. I ran past Iker and made my way to the net.

With the goal I scored, we won and the scrimmage finished.

After the scrimmage finished, Zidane called everyone over. He told us to meet back here in an hour and then we would make our way to Barcelona for our game.

"ok everyone, hurry on home and then come back with whatever you need. We're leaving in an hour"