Down to the final kick

Authors Avatar

Down to the final kick

The old wooden door of the changing room flung open. Silence, you could here the buzzing of a fly. All of us looked up and stood there was our manager Ace. Ace was a tall man his hair was brown but we always said that he was going grey and bald and he would laugh about it because he had an amazing sense of humour. In a loud and strong voice he said, “boys we have three tough matches left and we need to win them all. Today we have Silfiled”. “This will be a walkover,” said Adam. Adam was a strong player, he battled like a lion protecting its young he was also the captain of our mighty team. Our manager said to us “this is it I want you to go out there and show Silfiled why we are going to get promoted this season, suddenly a mighty roar came from the changing room.

The old rusty door swung open and we all ran out. The sound of the studs on the football boots hitting the concrete floor sounded like a dozen soldiers marching in formation. As we reached the football pitch the parents of my teammates started cheering. That’s when the nerves hit me a cold shivering sensation went down the back of my spine. I was so nervous because this was my first ever football match for this team. I didn’t know how I felt I just wanted to play a suitable game so I could make a good impression on my manager. During our warm up our manager came over to me and said “how u feeling before your first match Marty” I tried to put on a confident face and said “I think I handle this if I can just keep my nerve”.

The whistle blew and Alex Ingham passed the ball to Adam who then made a run, he was on his way he made it past 3 Silfiled players but then suddenly a defender came in and cleanly took the ball away and put it away for a throw in. Not much happened in the first half but 5 minutes from the end of the half I had the ball I looked for a free man I saw Alex with his hands up, I kicked the ball from my hands the ball went up in the air like a rocket, the ball came down  straight to Alex's head he brought the ball down and saw that Dunc had made a run, Alex then turned around and put a through ball down the middle of the pitch. The ball was collected by Dunc he only had the keeper to beat “smack” the ball went soaring through the air straight in to the back of the net. The crowd made a huge roar as the ball hit the net. I was very glad that we scored and it made me more confident about the match. The whistle blew for half time. I walked of the pitch taking my gloves off with a very big grin on my face.

Join now!

Our manager told us to sit down and listen while we drank our drink and he said “well battled boys you started off strong and stayed strong all the way through the match. Keep this up and score another goal to capture this match”. Our captain walked back on to the pitch and shouted come on Thorpe!!!!

 When we got into position the ref blew his whistle. Silfield took the centre but as soon as they kicked the ball Adam ran in, intercepted the ball looking for a man. A call came from the right wing Steve warnes was ...

This is a preview of the whole essay