1.
„Aaahhh, damm!“ Marc was angry. The pitch was wet, so that the ball was hard to get. But anyway, a goalkeeper doesn’t like it, if he has one hand on the ball but the ball is coming into the net. But he can’t think about that for longer, the match will be continued in the next seconds. The forward of the other team celebrated the goal for a short time with his teammates, but now the referee is showing into the middle of the pitch again.Marc clapped his hands together. “Come on, we still have more than 60 minutes!”, he shouted.
Yes, never give up, that was one strange of the FC Leinfelden. The team was known that they could shoot in the last minute the important goal. Nico came to him. “Sorry, it was my mistake”, he said. “No, it was just bad luck, that’s all”, Marc answered.
It was a hard match. Both teams, the FC Leinfelden and the TuS Degerloch did a great job. After the goal, Degerloch tried to make the next goal and Leinfelden tried to make the 1:1. A nice passing about Seven stations made the 1:1 one minute before the halftime. At least, both teams had a good defense and it ended with 1:1. Also Marc was more happy than before, in the second halftime he cleared two very dangerous situations. He went to the other goalkeeper, shaked his hand, congratulated the guy who made the first goal and went into the dressing room without talking to anyone else. In the dressing room he put his dress out – the gloves and his yellow jersy with the blue number one more carefully than his shoes, socks and his schorts. Than he took out his shower gel and his deodorant and went into the showers Yes, everyone is talking in the first minutess after the match and in the first minutes in the locker room. That he can be mostly alone while taking a shower was one reason that he didn’t talk much after a match – the other reason was that he comes down after a shower, the aggressive feeling, which many football players are getting while a match is going out of him while he is standing under the water. After five mins under the water, he took his towel, dried hisself and took his boxer shorts on again. Just two more persons came into the shower while he was taking his shower but the dressing room was now very noisy. He went into his place in the corner – next to his best friend Alex on one side, and to Toni, the Italian midfielder. “Nice match people” he said to the two.
“Yes,but we didn’t win.”, Toni answerd.
“Yes, but Degerloch is one of our biggest rivals in the league.”, Marc explained.
“That’s true man.”, Toni said and took some water out of his bottle.
“Marc, what are you doing on Wednessday evening?”, Alex asked him.
“Depends on…"
“We wanna watch the Champions-League match, in the soma.”
“Sounds nice, who is coming?”
“Luca, Sascha, Nico, Ron and me. Toni, what about you?”
“Of course.”, said Toni.
“Ok, I will come too.”, said Marc.
“Ok, at 8:30 pm.”
“I’ll be there."
Marc was drinking a lot of Powerrade before he left. He took his bag and went to his father who waited at the tribunes. His parents are watching each match. Of course, nearly all parents are watching the matches of their children.
“Nice match, Marc.” His Father said.
“Yes, well done.” His mother agrreed.
“Well, it was one of the better matches, but these Adidas-Balls are so bad if the pitch is wet.” Marc said.
“Is there such a difference between the balls?”, his mother asked.
“Yes, there is.”
But don’t worry Marc, everyone said that you are as good as usual.” His father said.
2.
While the drive to home, allthough the match was just a walk of thee minutes his father took the car, Marc thought. He was now 15 years old and since three monthes he went to a business school to become a better graduation. But what would be after that less than two years? Then he would make an appranticeship. The time with a job will become very hard. If he would work for eight to nine hours per day, he wouldn’t have so much time for training anymore. But that is all in the future. Now he is the capitain of the U-16 team of the FC Leinfelden. The team is respected by all other teams who are in the same league. And he is respected for his g-o-a-l-k-ee-p-ing (keine Ahnung warum es anders Zensiert wird) by everyone and in the team respected as a good capitain who is looking that everyone is fine, and that noone is breaking the rules. One rule of that is for example, that noone is allowed to somke. Of the sponsor of the team, a bank where Nico’s dad was in a very high position, was paying him for each match he is playing in 30€ plus 15 for each won match. He got the same like all other players and he earned also some money with babysitting all two weeks.