Richard Price, John Philip Long
Short Sports Stories - Football -
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(Price&Long May 21, 2014)
"Don was up early the next morning. He was too excited to sleep for long. He ran to the field where the match would soon be played. Don imagined crowds of people arriving and standing around the pitch. In his mind he could hear them cheering as he ran with the ball towards the goal. Where would the television cameras be? Would they have one high up to cover the whole field? And another for a close-up, as he scored?"
Don's holiday in France is rather dull until he comes across others of his own age who enjoy playing football as much as he does. Things start to improve one afternoon as he kicks a ball around in a French neighbour's garden. During the following days, Don meets youngsters from Holland and Germany and other parts of the world - summer visitors like himself on holiday in France. Before a week is over, Don manages to arrange a match for all his new friends, a proper match with team colours, and older relatives as spectators, and a television crew filming the game for the early evening news.
This is also a story about hopes and disappointments. Don begins to notice the ups and downs of other people's lives, as well as his own, and to understand how to deal with others and to learn from them. He discovers too that the most unlikely people can make a valuable contribution when they become members of a team.
Don's holiday in France is rather dull until he comes across others of his own age who enjoy playing football as much as he does. Things start to improve one afternoon as he kicks a ball around in a French neighbour's garden. During the following days, Don meets youngsters from Holland and Germany and other parts of the world - summer visitors like himself on holiday in France. Before a week is over, Don manages to arrange a match for all his new friends, a proper match with team colours, and older relatives as spectators, and a television crew filming the game for the early evening news.
This is also a story about hopes and disappointments. Don begins to notice the ups and downs of other people's lives, as well as his own, and to understand how to deal with others and to learn from them. He discovers too that the most unlikely people can make a valuable contribution when they become members of a team.
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