Football Lord - Chapter 20

Wednesday training was also like the other days, the players did some exercises, stretches and performed the drills for the first hour.

After which the names for those partaking in the training match was announced. Tony was also going to be playing in the match.

Rose used her scanner to check the skills available that he could copy during the match. They decided on copying a skill of Football Techniques B+, he was to perform 3 successful crosses in the opponents 18 yard box.

The teams were shared and given different vests to wear as they started the match.

The match was evenly balanced as both teams struggled for possession. Tony had already performed about 3 crosses into the box, but only one met his player who could not stir the ball into the net as the opposition defenders cleared the rest.

The game stretched on and ended 0:0 in the first half. After some minutes to catch there breadth, the second half of the match began.

The game had a steady pace, as both teams had chances. Tony who was roaming in the midfield, shifted his position a little to the right as he continued to throw more crosses into the box.

Around the 70th minute, the other team finally scored as they created a wonderful chance for the other team striker.

Tony who had now finally completed his three crosses for the match, continued to look for chances for his teammates and himself.

He created a wonderful one on one chance for one of his teammates horribly missed it as it didn’t end in the net.

Close to the 90th minute his whole team where in the opposition half trying to score a goal, while the other teams players all defended.

Tony who finally had some space to shoot from outside the, took a shot but the ball went outside the post.

Before the coach who was acting as the referee finally blew the final whistle to end the last training match.

After the match, Tony was a little sad about losing the match, but he used the fact that he had achieved the condition for the Football Technique B+.

They went for the match analysis after the game where the coaches analysed the good’s and bad’s of the match.

After which the players where then released for the day. Tony and John went home as usual in Tony’s car.

Tony got home and played games with his junior brother for some hours before he went to sleep for the day.

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The next day which was a Thursday, When Tony and John came to training. Tony rushed too start practicing some actions like shooting, passing and dribbling with the ball.

Tony felt that there was a sense of finesse that had been added to his actions with the ball.

He felt he was more graceful with the ball and that his actions were not as forced and aggressive as before.

He could now easily conceal some of his actions and even perform unexpected actions.

He now performed hard tasks and made them look easy. Messi was a type of player that always made football look incredibly simple and unforced.

Tony was very happy with the changes he saw.

Training was done for about two hours, as there was no more training matches, they later went to the seminar room after the break.

In the seminar room the coaches discussed with the players about what to expect from the match against Wolves and how to respond before they were then released for the day.

“On the matter of the team selections, we would be announcing squad that we would be taking to Wolves. That’s all for the today, see you tomorrow.” Coach Taylor said as he dismissed the team.

Tony and John both drove around a little around after training, before he dropped John off and then went home.

Tony went home greeted his mom and then sat in the sitting room. He thought of going to play some games with his brother.

” Hey Mom, what of George, is he in?”

“He is with some of his friends, I think they are playing a video game of sorts.”

“Okay Mom!”

Tony could only cancel that plan as he used his phone to surf the net to while away the time.

After a while he got home, before him and Rose then decided on the skill of Speed C+ that he had copied from training.

Before he then slept for the night.