It's the end of the season. We did well
this time. Our soccer team, Shadows first time in the league history won the
Eagles. They were the best last season and were unbeaten since last one hundred
matches. In the first leg match they had thrashed us with score of 6-0. It was
quite humiliating because the whole leg we played well and were in the second
position. But we did not lose hope, so the victory in the last match of the
league became ours.
Everyone was celebrating. The
Coach had thrown a party to celebrate the first victory over the Eagles. He was extremely happy because in his
fifteen years of career in the Shadows, the Eagles were defeated for the first
time. I, as the captain of the team was called to make a victory speech. I was
not prepared because the Coach had told that just at the beginning of the
party. I was not sure what to say but went on the dais and started giving the
speech which was as much as I remember like this:
"I'm pleased that we won the
Eagles. It was my dream since I joined this club as a professional. They were
the best but we were better than the best. I thank Mr. Coach for the guidance
and Matthew for his remarkable goal…"
I was lost in emotions during the
speech and I can't remember much of what I said but I did mention about
Ricardo, the Assistant Coach who had improved our techniques and made us
victorious in every match of second leg. After he came to the team, the league
started to become exciting. None of the matches was predictable. One way or the
other, the predictions came out to be wrong. The Eagles were expected to win
every match but they lost two and most of their matches in second leg were
drawn. In the end, our points leveled and then we got chance to beat them and
we did it.
Our Coach spent most of the time on talking
about Ricardo and praised him for the success he gave to the team. Actually,
Ricardo was not there in the party. I can't tell why but I think that he was
busy packing as he was leaving the city early morning. I had hoped to see him
in the party but he did not come. Our goalkeeper, Carlos told me that Ricardo
wouldn’t come to meet us again. I got stunned because the team had won because
of him and the hero of celebration was absent- actually he would not show his
face again. I was quite confused and could not understand the reason he had to
leave the Shadows that way.
The night of celebration was over. I woke
up in my home after a long sleep and hastily went in front of the TV. I wanted
to see the news on victory of our team. I saw that the news was on our team but
not the victory. I saw Ricardo being nagged. The crowd was going mad; people
were throwing bottles and cans over Ricardo. He looked sad and lost. I didn't
understand what to do. As I tried to ring my coach, I heard from news reader:
"The MOST WANTED match fixer; Ricardo
has been arrested for fixing matches for the Shadows. He, who had been searched
by the INTERPOL for five years, was arrested on the basis of suicide letter
written by Danny, the Eagles' captain. This can lead the Shadows to the
prohibition to play any match in any tournament for at least five years..."
I couldn't listen anything else. The
day before we were the greatest team and our players were better than the best
but today we had become the greatest losers of all times and the “hero of the
celebration” ended up our careers with a shame.
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