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2024-10-29 19:42:56"I stand to announce today that George Wenton has been stripped of this team's captaincy due on the grounds of inconsistency in quality performances. We would now have Logan Michael as the new captain of the Sporting Stars Academy FC." The cheers and claps from the crowd of colleagues and spectators makes Wenton want to drop to the floor. He has sacrificed his best to the club for many years now just for him to be thrown out like this and it didn't only end there, it had to be a public ceremony, that's the main part he can't really endure.
He had started his budding football career as an Academy player, after some years of training, he graduated and became one of the star players of the pioneer youth club of the Academy who featured in youth's football games in England. He was made the captain and he did quite well, always scoring goals and showcasing his talent to the world with the hope that one day he would be noticed by a big-time club. He also hoped to remain as the captain of the team till he is done with his final exams which will be a football test match where foreign scouts from Europe would come to pick those that performed well in the match, one of those countries that will be represented by the scouts is Spain, the country he dreams to play at for his career as an international footballer.
As this stripping comes his way, he just loses hope of everything, it's just like he had lost everything because he might not even be allowed to feature in the match, he has gotten a bad reputation now. Only players with a good reputation would be recommended by the coach to feature in the match.
Everything seems to be lost at this moment. Players like him who end up getting bad reputations because of one issue or the other only get to graduate from the Academy and left to fight their way through life, a good percent always fail to achieve the goals they planned out for their lives while the rest always win by chance. Those who perform well and have the backup of the coach and other members of the club always soar high. Recommendation is everything, added to the physical performance of a player.
Even before the ceremony ends, he leaves the stadium with five of his teammates who are close friends of his and hate to see him humiliated, they believe he doesn't deserve what just happened. They leave their local stadium with him, get into his car which was a birthday gift from his dad at the age of seventeen and leave. He has no place to go in his mind, but as long as he is out of the stadium, he would be well. That's what he promises himself, he can't cope with the humiliation that is going on there. He had barely driven when an idea came to mind, he should visit his girlfriend, that's the only asset he has now, everything has been taken away from him and he doesn't think that depression would go away quickly.
"I'll go to my girlfriend and tell her what has happened, I hope she is going to console me and give me some comfort. That's the only thing I need right now, I want someone to tell me that everything will be alright, my family don't really support me in this, they aren't really the football loving family. I'll go to her. " He says to himself.
He gathers speed and drives on, then he diverts into the lane that leads to Brienne’s house. Since she just completed her high school at Preston High School, she had left home and decided to rent an apartment where she lives and goes off for her job everyday. Her house is not so far away from his, just some meters away, three roads to reach it. Unlike her, he lives with family.
He arrives and it's that time of the day she is at home. He stops the car right in front of her apartment and gets off. He knocks at the door and Brienne readily opens. Seeing that it's him, she jumps and hangs on his neck, so delighted to see him visit. Each time he came, Brienne has always done this, she feels so happy around him and has really encouraged him, hoping to see him become a star player one day, all these made him believe that she really loves him and would make a good partner.
"So how are you doing, are you just back from training?" She knows well that Saturdays is their main training day, she looks and sees five of his teammates whom he always love to come visiting with after training from where he would then progress to drop them one after the other in their respective houses.
Upon hearing this, Wenton's countenance changes. He didn't really want to put this expression up but he can't cheat nature, a frown lights up on his face, he releases his girlfriend, trails his fingers through his hair in frustration.
"What's wrong?" Brienne asks, the smile on her face quickly disappears into a worried look, she places her hand over his shoulders from the stairs she is standing with tender concern reflected in her eyes, from the way she is looking at him. Tears start to stream from his eyes, he takes his hand, wipes them off, sniffs and then looks up to her.
"I didn't mean to bring you any bad news but I've just been stripped of my captaincy, I don't hope to play in the final matches where the scouts are coming to select players again. I don't know what to do, I think I've just lost everything I've worked so hard for, left with only you to console me. " Before he even finished, Brienne had started withdrawing her hand from him and stepping back, with a wide gasp on her face, hate in her eyes.
He didn't notice this, but his friends first did. Although they were shocked, they couldn't say anything. Wenton opens his eyes from the tears he had been shedding to see that his girlfriend had created a space between them. He wants to ask why she did this, but she didn't even let him open his mouth to say a word.
"Go away, you loser. What do you expect me to do with you now, what would I gain from you." Like a spell broke, his mind opens to the deep secret that has been hidden from him for years.
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He asks Imikah to talk more about what he just said, to make it clearer to him because it seems like a joke to him. "I haven't heard you talk more specifically about the English Champions before, how did you just promise me this?" Imikah smiles at this. "I do not talk about the National Team doesn't means I don't have someone there, it's just because I never dreamt of playing for them after passing out from here for the meantime, I always wanted to play for a club and besides I'm not from England totally, I was just born and raised up here. ""You are a citizen," Wenton interrupts. "Yes, I know but I would love to play for my blood country, England, my parents are both from there, so we can meet and play against each other one day." He chuckles."Ooh!" "So it goes that way, it's hard for you to talk about something that you aren't interested in. By the way, my uncle is a chief administrative officer there. He can help you with the necessary procedures if you don't mind." Wenton ga
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"This might just be a challenge I don't have to succumb to, what will I tell Imikah? He would surely laugh at me, I promised that I will make Brienne return to me and now I'm going away like that? No, I wouldn't!" He resolves to go back to her and tell her courageously what he came to say. Walking back to the entrance door, he wants to step inside, by now both Brienne and Iniesta have already dressed up. She wouldn't let him, she rushes to the entrance pushing him off, he staggers. Then Iniesta walks forward as if he wants to beat him up but Brienne blocks him. Don't worry, I'll deal with him myself. He is too weak and foolish for you to fight. I can handle him. "What are you saying?" Wenton gets pissed, his eyes turn red with anger. Never had he been abused this way by anyone before. He walks forward to challenge her for such an insult she has given to him. "If you come a step closer to me, I'll give you a terrible slap." She shakes her head furiously at him and surely she means
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Few days after meeting with Imikah's uncle, he is at home watching the TV alone, his family has gone out on a trip to which he refused to go with them. The only person with him is his eighteen year old sister, Mia, who had decided to stay back to rest. She doesn't like going out much. She is quite different from him, he loves going out to interesting places, it forms part of the knowledge he has but presently, he has something more important to focus on than mere pleasure. After the meeting with Garett Beckham, he has been eager to know what the result would be. He had asked him to return home and wait for the result of the interview. Beckham saw the visit and discussion he had with him as an interview because he got to learn so many things about him and his style of playing which he doesn't even know. Wenton isn't aware of this but he is glad that he tried his best. A football documentary was going on, talking about the signings of the big clubs in Europe, England first then other
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During the period Wenton joined the English Champions, the Senior National Team, the European Champions League was going on and England stood at the bottom of the table, the real reason why he was brought in, is to help England defeat other European countries that would be paired with them. It's a League for all European countries. The first day of his match with his new team approached, the day he has been waiting and wishing for. Today is the first day he is going to appear with the other selected players of the National Team to play against Germany. Germany are already second on the table and they are a very strong defensive team. Most of the fans, even some of the English, speculate that they are going to win the match which will determine the failure of the English team but Wenton believes he can turn the tide to their favor. Before the match, the coach, Anderson Peters gathers them for a final moment instruction on how they should play the ball so they wouldn't be defeated, if
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Ben pressures the two players left behind after the three fell to the ground confessing what happened, at least he needs to hear from both of them before he moves on to confirm from the CCTV. After this, the next person he directs his question to is Wenton but winks at him with a gaze at his wrist on which he wears his invisible system watch. Don't in any way talk about your system! He understands this quickly and nods his head slightly to avoid suspicions from his teammates who are watching both of them with the two assistant coaches. He doesn't want them to know that he and Ben are secretly communicating. "I was training privately, after some minutes into my training, I felt a thick little ball like a stone hit me and it sank right into my head and skull. I know you might not believe it but I'll call on you to check the CCTV after this to confirm. It was unbelievable when I felt the stone going up, and right out of my head. When I lifted my head to check if I had blood or a gap
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The announcement of Wenton as the captain in the forthcoming match between the humans and the aliens came as a surprise to many, they thought a captain would be the eldest or one of the oldest in the team so as to command respect. It was thought that Wenton would make the Vice-captain but as it stands, Ben has already declared that he has no need for a vice-captain making all the glory go to Wenton. A good number are happy that they have a talented player to help them, nothing like age matters to them so far as he knows what he is doing and they plan to cooperate with him for success. After the meeting, while others return to the garden to spend some fun time together, some go back to the hostel to rest ahead of their training session in the evening. Wenton didn't want anything like rest, especially for the time being. He might schedule a two-hour sleep for himself before the time of the training and would have a longer sleep at night. For now, he had to get personally prepared. His
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"I've finally gotten over Maria to face my career, you said that I wasn't gonna be able to. Ta-dah…." He makes a sarcastic sound to show that what Imikah said hasn't come true. Only God knows how excited he is right now, he has been free from the shackles of love which seems to have held him bound without mercy. "I'm glad you have because it's not easy, I can tell you from experience. It hurts so much to love someone but you miss the person before you get to speak to her and tell her what you want. There was a time I kind of was burdened with guilt, it took two years for me to finally let go. I don't know how I did it but I did it.""Ahhhh! So you thought mine was going to be worse like your own?" Wenton places so much emphasis in saying, he can't believe that his best friend passed through this without him knowing. "You're such a strong guy!" "Don't laugh at me please," Imikah chuckles. "How am I strong when I can't let go of a girl I loved and lost before I could get to speak to h
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"Well, she has been transferred to another football base, which I wouldn't tell you about." "Why?" His jaw drops in shock, he doesn't find a reason Celine should be trying to sever their budding feelings to die each other. Ben who is his coach has reasons as he wants him to concentrate but she doesn't have. To her side, Celine believes that Maria would never concentrate and might lose interest in her job with time if she continues with seeing Wenton. She can't let this happen, she has seen it from afar. Maria is one of the best chefs the team and football world has, it would be a great loss to let her go, not like she is being held captive but she loves her job and she is paid handsomely. All these explanations she made in her mind before saying it out to the hearing of Wenton. He stands there dumbfounded, not knowing what to say, if he had known where she was, he would have gone there that same day, particularly as he is now aware that she loves him too. It would have been a little
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Ben takes him into the underground tunnel which is where the office of the officials of the team are located, even the computer room that would be sending information to them through their digital watches. Wenton then realizes that the digital watch that would be given him would make it the second he is using. He already had the first and was receiving information from it! "What will I do in this case?" He asks the coach who gives him a grin. "You have nothing to worry about. You are still going to get the result at the end of the day. This shouldn't disturb you Wenton, you are a light shining alone already at the horizon. For the digital watch that would be given, wear it on your wrist along with the old one. Yeah, you would get information from both of them," Ben says in a carefree style. Wenton trusts Ben enough to tell him I have a system of support as a footballer, though it's not illegal, it would make the world think that all these skills and talents are being portrayed by
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A warning had already been issued, so it's left for them to abide by this to have a safe and memorable adventure for good. Wenton is resolved to keep all the rules he had learnt about this place because he wouldn't want to be a victim. His friends walk into the alien territory with him, holding their phones and taking pictures of what the place is like, what they would show at their respective homes when they arrive. Wenton had his mom and sister specially asking for the pictures and even the videos, so he doesn't have an excuse for not bringing home what he was asked to. "Why is it that this place looks so unique and mysterious?" Mike who had followed them here asks. They sat at the platform on the floor to debate on the topic Mike had just brought, coupled with the fact that they had brought a lot of stuff to enjoy the picnic with. "This is a dangerous topic!" Wenton says with a sigh, though young in age, he forms to be someone advanced in age. He doesn't necessarily mean this but