Monday, July 18, 2005

The high ball landed a few feet in front of Anant and the defender. A few quick steps, Anant reached the ball first. There was no time to control the ball, a small jump, Anant headed it towards the center. The ball bounced high, another defender made his way towards it. I jumped up and tapped it with my head, downwards, towards Anant, who was now some distance away from the guy marking him. A perfect trap with the right foot, control the ball to keep it with himself and pass along the ground with his right foot, Anant knew where I would be, and I was there. But there was another guy in front of me, I tried to go forward but didn't get enough free space. Sapto had come up from behind, I could see him to my left from the corner of my eye, but the defender had also seen him, and was between the two of us. I pulled the ball backwards between my legs, turned back, took a couple of steps and tapped hard with my left foot towards the right, of course Sapto was there in the clear for the pass. Sapto took the ball with his right foot, shuffled it a couple of times between right and left, pirouetted through 360 degress, with the ball glued to his left foot, to leave the hapless defender behind, rushed past the other guy, and there he was with only the goal-keeper in front. The rest was, of course, simple, the same routine, the goal-keeper coming forward to cut the angle, Sapto making as if to shoot straight, but passing cross-wise instead along the ground, no one marking me, a tap with the side of my right foot, the goal-keeper, still with Sapto, watching as the ball rolled smoothly between the two make-shift posts six feet apart....goooooaaalll!

8 comments:

sanguine said...

go , som go !!
:D

Prerona said...

som ... cool!

Anonymous said...

Hey.. Thats some nice writing mate. First time here :)

Somshubhra said...

s, :)!

ri, :)!!

rajesh, welcome! and thanks!! keep coming back!

Ashish said...

so you finally scored a goal!! :-)

Somshubhra said...

shhh, ashish....
this is a public forum....

Souradeep Gupta (King) said...

Hey still playing in the same place ? Cool eh ...

Somshubhra said...

yup, the same place. waiting for u to come back and join us again!