See You Tonight

Chapter 55: Practice Tanding

By half past four in the afternoon, Ahsan and Ruben finally appeared. They were seen running as they headed here, besides they were also seen wearing soccer shoes. Maybe they've been wearing them since Ruben's house.

"It's a good thing it's not too late" Ruben said with a truncated breath.

"It's your own fault for being too cool to watch the carnival" Ahsan said, blaming Ruben.

"Haaa? You also seemed to enjoy the carnival so much that you forgot the time" replied Ruben.

As they look about to start arguing, brother Jo blows the whistle sign training is about to begin. We also lined up according to our class. Because this is unofficial, so what comes today is not as much as during extracurricular activities, maybe only about half of them come today.

After we all got together, Brother Jo then explained the training menu on this day. It turns out that today the training menu is match practice between levels. Brother Jo then explained that each level will be faced with another level. The first was the 12th class against the 11th class. The second match saw the 12th class play against the 10th. And in the last match brought the 11th class against the 10th class.

Each match will be 20 minutes long. And every time the game is completed will be given time to rest for 15 minutes. The first match will be played at 15:45. So, each team is given about 10 minutes to manage the players who will compete.

After finishing explaining the training menu at this meeting, brother Jo then blew the whistle again sign to disperse and immediately prepare the team for the match later. After brother Jo blew the whistle, I immediately gathered with 10th grade friends to discuss who would play in the match later.

Of the 28 children enrolled in Soccer, only 13 went to practice today. Of course they are not wrong if they do not leave, because this is only self-training.

The thirteen children are Ahsan (back players), Ruben (keeper), Aji (forward players), me (centre players), Robi (centre players), Renaldi (back players), Kevin (back players), and more, Adit (middle player), Rizky (back player), Ari (forward player), Deni (middle player), Didit (front player), and most recently Rudolf (back player). Out of the thirteen names, five are from our class namely me, Aji, Ahsan, Ruben, and Renaldi.

After that, we met the other members first. We started talking about who would play. After a long discussion, we also agreed to decide to play with a 4-3-3 formation.4 selected defenders are Ahsan (10-7), Renaldi (10-7), Rudolf (10-4), and more, dan Rizky (10-9).

Then the ones chosen to play as midfielders or midfielders are Robi (10-9), Deni (10-9), and the last one is me (10-7). Furthermore, because today who departed in the position of forward players only three people, then the three players are automatically selected namely Aji (10-7), Didit (10-9), and Ari (10-1). While for the automatic goalkeeper position occupied by Ruben who is the only goalkeeper who departed.

Of the eleven players who will play, it can be seen that the most dominating classes are class 10-7 and class 10-9. Soon, the first match between the 11th and 12th classes will be held. Now players from both sides have been seen entering the field.

"Priitttttt." the whistle to the sign of the match had begun.

The ball starts from the 11th class who make passes. Now the 11th class looks to be playing the ball in midfield while waiting for the defensive gap from the 12th class open. But instead of the gap in the can, they instead lost the ball which was stolen by a midfielder from the 12th class.

This time the 11th class immediately made a long pass forward and headed to the 11th class field star, Kak Taufik. Brother Taufik was seen running after the long bait. He also managed to reach the bait earlier and immediately controlled it well.

After controlling it perfectly, Brother Taufik immediately looked for an empty friend. But unfortunately, when he made a pass to one of his friends, again the 12th class midfielder can cut the pass belonging to Taufik brother earlier.

Until the long whistle sounds the score still remains 0-0. With this result, the match between the 11th and 12th classes ended equally strong. After that, the 12th grade children were seen immediately resting and preparing to return to compete against the 10th grade.

Since this is our game as a team, we 10th graders feel quite nervous and insecure. We are just cheering each other on and trying to put in the best performance in a game that will be played in a few minutes.

Finally, the match will begin soon. We started to get on the football pitch to start getting ready.

Finally the whistle sign of the match began. The ball starts from the 12th grade which starts the pass. Class 10 players also began to press simple to the 12th class players who were in possession of the ball

The tempo of the match was heavily dominated by the 12th class. They seem to play the ball around. We were not without the effort to get the ball, but we were still very far behind in the 12th class.

As a result when the game entered the 8th minute, the 12th class managed to score a goal through a close-range kick from Ansel's foot. The score was temporarily changed to 1-0 for a class 12 lead.

A few minutes later, precisely in the 14th minute, the 12th class again managed to score. This time the goal was scored through a corner kick scheme. At the end of the game, the 12th class again managed to break into our goal. This time it was Jo's turn to score. Kak Jo scored a very beautiful goal that he scored through a kick from outside the penalty box. Until the whistle ended, the 3-0 score for the 12th class win was unchanged.

From the match just now it was very clear that the difference between us in the 10th class who had just joined the 12th class had almost three years of training together.

"Good game, tomorrow improve again" said brother Jo when greeting us one by one.

We then rested again before starting the match against the 11th grade. This time there may be a change of players because there are players who still feel tired after the game against the 12th class.

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