Soccer

 

Soccer

By:Johan

The time on the cafeteria digital clock was 12:09. 5...4...3...2...1. It”s 12:10. Signs that said ‘GO QUIETLY’ were raised up by a couple of  I.A.s from Mr.Hunter’s class, Mr.Woodfield’s class and Mr.Scott's class. Those classes left. When it was our class’s turn we quickly cleaned up the table and sat down.  I was in a rush to finish my meal. We quickly walked out of the cafeteria through the hallways to get to recess. We take one way and the Grade 3s take another way. When I was walking out of the cafeteria, I saw Rohan. I decided to catch up with him, and I did.

I asked him, “What are you going to play at recess because I don’t have anything to do or play?”
He answered, “Soccer, do you want to play?”
I replied, “...Yes”
“Come with me.” said Rohan  
I thought in my mind when we exited the cafeteria... “Should I play something else? Won’t the soccer ball hit my face? What if I get tackled? It’s ok, I’ll just stay away from the soccer ball. I should be...defender.”

We rushed to the soccer field. There are 2 fields. One small one and a big one and they are connected. We played on the small one. It was 12 vs 12 game. There was some tackles, but nobody got badly injured. It was the middle of recess and the soccer game. So far my team was winning 2-0.Ryan was our goalie, Rohan and I were defenders. We three liked to talk together because there were not many people in our side of the field and whenever the ball come our way the mid-fielders kicked it the other way.

Ryan had trouble kicking or throwing the ball most of the time but he managed to stop a lot of ball from going into his teams goal. Once he couldn’t kick the ball because he was surrounded by people from the other team so he ran through Rohan and another guy. Rohan fell on his behind. Ryan dropped the ball and kicked it really hard so that the ball went flying through the air like a jet plane. It went so far that it almost scored a goal.

I asked him, “Why did you bashed through Rohan?”
“Because if I tackle...wait the ball is coming,” he replied.
“What should I do? MOVE ASIDE?”  I thought.
Ryan quickly caught the ball with his hands and quickly threw it before anybody could surround him. I leaned against the goal post.
“Why did you bash Rohan...” I asked him
“Because if I tackle then I can get in trouble. But if I, GOAL!!! 3-0... bash into someone it causes less trouble.” Ryan told me
We had 10 minutes left before recess ends. There were a couple of tackles and out balls. Most of the time when there is an out ball (a ball that goes out of the field) mid-fields come and tackle it out of the field!!! Around 3 minutes before the I.As blew the whistle my team scored a goal. 4-0.

Suddenly an I.A blew the whistle. We all left the soccer field. “Hhhhh, if only  we had a longer recess.” We went to the classroom sweaty. It was time for math... “What should we do next recess?”