Chapter 83

I was sitting down on the branch, hoping I was going to be substituted in the match. The match was in its seventy minutes already, and none of the teams had scored. The opposition had taken over possession and most of the statistics, which gave them better chances of netting a goal before the end of the match.

The coach was trying all he could do to make his team take charge of the game. He had made a lot of substitutions in the match. There was only one left to be used. I kept wondering if he was going to use the last one to substitute me in the match.

There was only ten minutes left for the game to be decided. If neither team doesn’t score there would be an extra time, but if a team is able to net a goal, there isn’t going to be an extra time anymore.

The fans didn’t stop encouraging the players same as the cheerleaders, but while the opposition kept having chances to score one after the other, it was either blocked by a player, caught by the goal keeper, or off target.

The coach walked back to the branch, "Adam, get ready to enter the match," he said to me and walked back to the touch line.

Immediately after I heard this, I became happy, as if I had been waiting for him to tell me that. I got up to go and warm up before I got substituted into the match. The ball was out of play shortly after.

I had to stop warming up, I rushed to take off my track suit jacket, I walked to the touchline, standing beside the linemen who were going to get me into the game.

Beside me, on my right hand side, was the coach. He was telling me something before Michael would get to the touch line. When he was done, he stepped a little bit backwards.

Finally, Michael got to the touch line. I ran into the pitch after we had exchanged a short greeting. It was already five minutes left before the additional time would be added.

I was brought in to play into the match to play as a right winger in the forward. The game was finally back into play, which was our throwing. He threw the ball to one of our player who was free.

The player controlled the ball nicely, then took it on the run, finding his way through the players that came after him to collect the ball from him. He gave the ball to another player who was close by. when he noticed he had too many players on him, which could make him lose the ball to the opponent.

The player who had the ball gave a through pass, the ball was passed to Josh, and Josh gave a nice pass to me without holding the ball for long, I controlled the ball nicely and started carrying the ball heading to their goal post. I ran into a defender. I had no choice but to dribble him, I gave him a nutmeg.