Chapter 27: Soccer Match

As soon as I turned around, I noticed it was my ex-girlfriend Akua, and she was holding hands with a guy I didn't recognize, I assumed it was her new boyfriend. She was surprised to see me on my feet walking about, she quickly came and introduced her boyfriend."Hi Eazy, how are you? I hope everything is going well for you this is my boyfriend Kofi he is a soccer player in his final year of college and will be playing on the international level very soon after college.I shook his hand and introduced myself, "Hi, my name is Eazy, and I'm Aqua's ex-boyfriend. There isn't a single sport that I can't play, and I'm probably even better than you in soccer and many other things." This caused Kofi to frown, and he tried to squeeze my hand, but in turn, I squeezed him back, causing him to scream like a little girl.Akua got scared and told me to relax, I let him go, and I told her to fuck off. Kofi got mad that I was treating her like that and was about to fight me, but she held him back and told him that she deserved it, which calmed him down. He gave her a confused look but didn't ask her anything. He then asked me if I was playing in the upcoming match, which i said yes, and I told him that he should play for the adult team that way he gets to play against me, and we'll see who's the better soccer player.He quickly agreed and said that he was going to show me how real men play soccer; I nodded and said: "well, I hope you do that because this basketball player is about to crush you today in your sport." Akua just drove us away and told Kofi everything that she knew about me and about how I was the star player of the basketball team in my school, but I had suffered from an injury that looked like I wasn't going to ever recover from. She didn't know that I had made a comeback for my injury because she had moved from my neighborhood after what had happened.She took a glance back at me and had little regret about what she had done in the past. The soccer game was finally about to get started, the youths against the adults. The captain of the youth team tried to make me a defender, but I told him that I'm a better attacker he almost fought with me, but the others quickly told him that they should just let me do it for a few minutes just to see how I would play.He didn't want me even to play at all because he knew I was a basketball player and wasn't sure that I'd be able to play as good as in soccer, but I reassured him since I'll be scoring most of the goals in this game and told him that I got a lot of money on this which I did.I started going around taking bets from everybody. They knew that Kofi Akua's boyfriend was going to be playing for the adults, so they automatically started thinking that they were going to win and that he was a college student that was on his way to becoming an international star player, so they bet all their money on him because of this I knew if I win my payout will be close to at least $5,000 and with the number of bets that I was taken that's how much confidence they had in this guy.I made sure I set up a middleman to collect all the money first before this had started. I had Rasta bring some cash to match all the money that I would lose, so it made it look more official. Rasta shook his head at this because he knew that I was hustling them, and he signed in his head.The game finally started where Kofi received the ball and brought it down, as soon as he brought it down he crossed everybody up and scored the first goal because our goalie sucked. Everybody got excited because they were going to receive some free money, thinking that I've already lost, but I smiled and thought this is just the beginning.The captain of my team looked at me strangely, and I nodded at him. I received the ball and brought it down, and Kofi tried to tackle the ball from me, but I used a time freeze to get right by him, shocking everybody because I had made him fall flat on his face. He got so mad and tried to chase me down, but I was long gone and had reached the goalie.The goalie of their team was the pastor of the church who tried to dive for the ball, but I just quickly kicked it over him, and the ball bounced up and slowly into the goal, giving us the first point. Everybody had a glum face on thinking if they had made a mistake in betting against me, I just shrugged, and the game went on by the time the first quarter was over the score was 10 to 11 we had 11, and they had 10.Our goalie sucked, so they had the opportunity to keep scoring, which I didn't mind because I could easily play defense when I needed it, and I planned on doing that on the final minutes. I wanted to keep their hopes up; everybody was surprised by this outcome and surprised that I could even play soccer on this kind of level. They thought I was just a basketball player, but to their surprise, I was also good at soccer.With little to 20 seconds left to the end of the game and the ball in Kofi's hand, the game continued. Kofi was out of bounds, and he passed the ball to his teammate, and as soon as he passed, he asked for it right back and got the ball and started dribbling down the field like a madman.Kofi was desperate to win the game, by all means, he even started hurting the other players, but foul balls were not called by ref's because they were Kofi's friends. They also bet against the youths, just when Kofi was about to score. I appeared out of nowhere and blocked the shot, which pissed him off and started calling interference.I looked at the ref thinking was he about to call that, but the ref was also looking at his buddy confused and quickly told him that call was not part of that sport, which caused the whole crowd to laugh. Kofi was embarrassed but continued to play hard, trying to steal the ball from me. I just took the ball down, and when I got to the midfield, I used all my strength to kick it as soon as the seconds were almost down to zero.The ball made an arcing turn and hit the ground spinning, and just as the goalie was about to dive for it, the ball spun right under the goalie passing him into the goal, but unfortunately, the goal didn't count because time had run out. It wasn't like basketball where as long as the shot was in the air and out of the player's hands, the score still counted as they made it.In soccer, once the timer was done, the game ended no matter what. The youth had won the game 11-10, half the crowd was gloomy because they just lost their money, and the other half was cheering for me. Rasta went to collect the money from the middle man. Kofi was on the ground crying, Akua seemed like she wasn't surprised by the outcome but still felt pretty bad for her boyfriend because he lost to her ex. I still went up to Kofi and tried to shake his hands and say good game. Still, Kofi just slapped away his good jesters and told him just to leave him alone because he was one of the people that had a bet, and when he had a bet, he bet it all on himself. Still, he emptied his account, thinking that this was going to be a good opportunity to make money, so now he was not only broke but also couldn't beat a basketball player at his on the sport.This outcome became a nightmare to him for many years; I did not know that I had to change the future of a future soccer star. Akua went to greet Rasta and Opal, but they just turned the other way once they saw her, and she immediately got a clue that she was not needed around them, so she left and went to get Kofi off the field.Kofi was still crying and didn't want to get up even after Akua had come to get him. He then told her that he had lost everything, all his money. Akua shocked by this and asked him why would he bet on such a game, and he then explained that she was the one who told him that he was injured and was just a basketball player, so he thought that he had a 100% chance to win so now he thinks that Akua and Eazy had scammed him.She quickly tries to tell him, no, but he told her to stay away from him and to lose his number, which meant that he broke up with her. Akua was shocked. This had happened after meeting Eazy for the first time in years and started to cry. I just walked up to her and said, "karma is a bitch what goes around will come around," and just left after saying those words.Everybody was cheering that was on the youth team, and I had even given them some of the money because I know I couldn't have done this without the team. After the game, they had more events like a game called ludo, which was like a board game that they used one dice to play. We all went home after and when I got home I called Sandra and told her about the exciting day that I went through and about how I met my ex-girlfriend and his new boyfriend, who lost all his money to me that day. Sandra laughed and said I was too mean, but I didn't really care at this point and just shrugged it off.I went to do some homework but took a break off the workouts that night and afterward went downstairs to just chill with the family as we watched a movie. The next day we went to church, and everybody couldn't stop talking about what had happened yesterday at the events. They talked about how the youth had never won a match against the adults, and even for the first time in history, they finally beat them and by one goal even after having a superstar soccer player on the team.