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A passion for football

By Mohamed Muhyadin Abdulkadir

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As a child I grew up playing football, and I've always had a passion for the game. I knew that I am not going to stop it at all. That is why i play sometimes when I am free with my friends. Even if I stop playing when I get older, I will never get tired watching football. I am still feeling my days with the sport are not over. Football is a sport that molds boys into men. As child, I loved soccer because it is a fun and exciting sport. Soccer is a great way to stay active and helps you to develop teamwork skills. If you want to be an international player then you need to have international recognized coach who can help you to be professional footballer. Unfortunately my coach was very good but didn't have any degree at that time. In our town, most of the children like playing football so we always invite each other as a district team. But before you reach that level, you need to make a lot of effort to be one of the top players of your district. Then the coach is going to select you if he sees you are suitable at that position to defendyour district as a good football player. I became junior player in my district Yaqshid because my coach selected me to be the right winger player, also a midfield player, and rarely, right center back defender. During the time of playing football I got alot of small injuries on my legs. I became inactive recently when I came to hungary because I don't have that many friends who can play football with me anytime.

 

Prematch

 

All teams say that they are the best and win the cup and some sweets what we call halwa (xalwa) but it is very difficult because the competition is not easy, many teams play very well. In reality, three teams were the best. my team was one of the three (Yaqshid). There are always arguments between the coaches saying my team is the best, etc. “If your team is better then my team I will pay this money,” and so on. It was so much fun. I remember the coaches laughing at each other when the team scored a goal.

 

Mostly coaches they say... I told you....you're like nothing (moos=banana) and so on. There were arguments not only between the coaches but also between the players. We are better than you etc. In short, we make fun of every little mistake committed by your opposing team.

 

In the Match

 

After the referee whistle, the game starts as usual with two teams in the field.   when one team scores a goal...we start having fun and running. Actually, at that time there was no VAR or camera or anything... only what the referee and the assistants see matters. The losing team checks the time to see if they can equalize or not ...they usually go to the box and throw themselves down to get the penalty. From here they start arguments with the judges and helpers, They say the winning team bought the  refere with money and lots of things....always the losing team is the main problem if they don't respect the decision of the referee and his helpers. In the last minutes of the game, the losing team gets angry and sometimes they start fighting, but this was very rare. Sometimes the losing team before the end of the game hide the ball and tell the referee that the winning team hid the ball to get more minutes, so why they are doing like that and so on...... The winning team is always so respectful and tries to cooperate nicely with the losing team. Usually the winning team didn't talk that much during the game although they make fun. But they always start commenting after the game or when they receive the trophy, and we usually congratulate each other.  We talk abpit who scored the best goal etc. The winning team are usually very respectful, even if they are mistreated, they don't care as long as they win.

 

Post match

 

Here also, the coaches make fun between themselves. They talk about abilis for their teams and how proud they are with the winner's team, The winning coach says he is the best coach. The other coach they are like, “you are nothing,” but still congratulate him and at the same time say to him “you are so lucky; if we didn’t make that mistake you wouldn’t have won, but next time we gone play again and I will show you how weak is your team(moos=banana).” The winning coach says “I told you before the game that we beat you” and so on. “Never try to play with me that kind of football tactic. “You know nothing from football” and so on. The fun is not only between the coaches but also among the players which is even funnier.

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