OFFSIDE - Outside Boundaries

New Market Ballads

One of the four coach seats is filled.

Ujang filled the goalkeeping coach seat at Harokah Football Club.

Must Ujang does not have a coaching license, but Fachri still chose him to be a goalkeeper coach because he has seen and proved his ability to stem the penalty.

🌞The next day...

Training especially for goalkeepers has been handled directly by Ujang.

When the break comes....

one of the students approached Ujang.

"Ujang Coach...."

"You ask Coach..."

"How do you become a coach like Coach Ujang?" ask Salim

"Guman one way..."

"The way is practice." replied Ujang.

"Training like in football school is enough coach? Salim asked again.

"Exercises don't have to be official like in school..."

"It can be done anywhere..."

"It can be at school.it can be at home.it can be when we gather with our friends..."

"That's no matter where we are, we can exercise." replied Ujang while taking a bottle of mineral drink.

🙏"I'd love to like coach Ujang..."

"Please help with her guidance..." Salim pleaded with Ujang to be taught the techniques of being a tough goalkeeper.

"You're sure" asked Ujang.

"Yakin coach" answered Salim so excited

"OK if you're sure..."

"Tomorrow I wait for you at the gate of Pasar Baru at two in the morning." Ujang ordered.

"Two coach hours?"

"In the New Market?" salim wondered.

The training that day is over...

All the students rushed out of the field...

But Salim came back to Ujang

"Until two in the morning at Pasar Baru coach.." exclaimed Salim to coach Ujang who was fixing the clothes into a bag.

🌌Morning of the day two hours less. Accompanied by the cold air. Salim kept his promise to meet Ujang coach in Pasar Baru.

"As informed yesterday by coach Ujang..."

"It looks like this is the place..."

"But where is coach Ujang...?"

"Kok she hasn't come yet...?" salim grumbled in his heart.

Shortly thereafter...

"Hi Salim." said Ujang who shouted from the truck.

"Hi coach... What else is on the truck...?" salim asked a bit confused to see the coach Ujang in the truck.

"yes, I was here." replied Ujang.

"What does goalkeeping training have to do with me having to go early in the morning into this new market?" tanya Salim.

"Okay we start training." exclaimed Ujang.

"Let's get in this truck immediately." Ujang.

😱"Hah..truk this coach?" ask Salim.

"Yes this truck..."

"Let's get on. Anya Mulu you're a cop..."

Ujang Ledek.

🤭

Salim rushed to get on the truck

"Goddle...."

"Many melons and watermelon nih." exclaimed Salim who was shocked, it turns out that in the truck there are piles of watermelon and melon.

"Loh... loh... loh.... where are we going...?"

"The truck is running...?" asked Salim who was so worried.

Salim panicked as the truck moved and made its way to the warehouse inside the market.

The truck stopped right next to the warehouse in a new market.

"Our job is to get these watermelons and melons down from the truck to the warehouse" Ujang ordered.

"I mean coach?" ask Salim who is confused.

"Let's see...."

"Not much to ask." said Ujang.

D in the truck there were two other people. They are hip porters. Their job is to drop watermelons and melons into the shed.

There are two people who play a role in the transfer of the fruit. The one above to pick up the fruit to throw down and the one under his duty to catch the fruit thrown earlier to be arranged into a warehouse near the truck.

"Hi Salim's..."

"Don't be dumb..."

"It's ready..."

"It's very heavy." lamented Salim.

"Be careful not to fall..."

"Later we can tekor.." said Ujang.

"It's catch again..."

"Now again.." shouted Ujang who threw watermelon with a faster frequency.

"Don't hurry coach..."

"Weight is.." lamented Salim who began to fall.

Apparently Coach Ujang trained Salim to become a goalkeeper by training to catch watermelon and melon.

More than three hundred melons and watermelons were captured by Salim that morning.

Salim broke three watermelons and one melon.

"This shattered melon and watermelon..."

"So soon you put it in plastic." Ujang ordered.

Then they went to someone sitting near the barn door to receive a wage.

Apparently Ujang has a habit of being a porters in Pasar Baru. And his ability to catch the ball because he is used to catching watermelon and melon every day.

Physically very tested even because it is done every day to become proficient in catching the ball.

"This is your ration of a hundred thousand..."

"For me a hundred and fifty thousand..."

"Why is it different. because you have broken three watermelons and one melon so you have to buy it.." explained Ujang to Salim who is still half conscious because it is like a dream.

After receiving their wages, they looked for a place to sit and talk.

"Where was the plastic...?" ask Ujang.

"This plastic...?" Salim asked back.

"we makamin was watermelon..."

"Some we take home.." take Ujang.

The morning training agenda was closed with a watermelon party. Very fresh fruit what else to eat after working hard.

There was the sound of the Adhan from the direction of the mosque near the new market.

"Alhamdulillah is at dawn...."

"We stopped by the mosque first." invite Ujang.

"Every coach." answered Salim.

Since then almost every morning Salim and Ujang to the market to become pelvic coolies, especially watermelon and melon.

Salim is getting better at catching the ball.

In fact, two days ago not a single watermelon and melon were destroyed. All were captured by Salim.

And one morning.

"The weather is no longer supportive" Ujang said

"Yes coach..."

"The rain will not subside..."

"How do you want to? ask Salim.

"Yes we still have to bring down the watermelon and the melon." said Ujang.

"OK Salim catch this.." yelled Ujang while throwing watermelon.

"Astaghfirullah.." Salim reflexes when the watermelon he wants to catch slips because of slippery rain.

The first catch missed and the watermelon was destroyed. Three throws of watermelon. Three times also Salim failed to catch the watermelon well.

"Hi Salim.. try to replace you above and me below.." Ujang ordered.

"Ready coach" Salim replied.

Salim rushed up to the truck in a wet shirt.

"You saw this Salim..."

"How to catch watermelon with wet conditions." said Ujang.

Salim throws the watermelon at coach Ujang. And many times the coach Ujang caught the watermelon and managed to be caught even though slippery

Salim noticed how coach Ujang caught the watermelon with a technique so that the slippery watermelon did not slip and miss.

Finally Salim already understood how to catch the slippery watermelon.

"OK..."

"May substitute Coach..."

"Try my replacement on the bottom again." pinta Salim.

The watermelon was thrown back by Ujang. But unfortunately the watermelon is still missing from Salim's catch

Six watermelons were destroyed that morning, but not half their work was done.

"Let's get Salim's spirit." shouted Ujang cheering Salim.

"We can lose later if a lot of watermelon is destroyed." added Ujang.

"Each coach.. I try again.." said Salim.

Eventually Salim managed to master the technique of catching the slippery watermelon. Their work was completed in conjunction with the cessation of rain that morning.

"We need to get home soon..."

"Because all of our clothes are wet." said Ujang.

"Thank you coach Ujang for his knowledge this morning." said Salim.

⁇ ️And they came home in the condition of clothes that were soaked.