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In the familiar air of Adowa Accra’s elite training facility, the beautiful African sun was setting on another Beautiful day in Ghana.
Garcia can be seen practising his favourite drill with Flowers. One of the coaches lays off the ball outside the area for him to run onto and shoot first time. We see the ball fire into the top bins time and again, occasionally Flowers makes an acrobatic save, making Garcia redouble his efforts on the next cannoned shot.
Purves and Youz are doing a lap of one of the pitches as a warm down; the diligent grounds team setting up the sprinklers and watering the pitches that have amazingly kept most of their green lustre in the heat.
Ofusu and N’Kufo are gossiping in their way back to the changing rooms, telling of which scouts have spoken to them and what team they’ll end up on.
Chavez and Mullet Man are already getting out of their training attire and getting dressed at their lockers. Chavez talking animatedly on his phone, on a video call to family back home, while Mullet Man checks and preens his Samson-like barnet in a mirror. His frame gigantic against the inlaid wooden cabinet that his kit is kept in.
Kasak is sitting separately to the others, checking the contents of his locker, as if for almost the last time.
2 small trophies with “Player of the Match” are tucked at the back of his locker, behind deodorant and toothpaste. A shirt of Joe Mormor’s that he’d swapped at the end of the game, much to annoyance of the kit man - Academy teams didn’t have new kits every game.
There was one more game left for this team, and although they’d fought hard throughout the season, the result was markedly everyday.
Adowa Accra, regardless of any of the results on the finals matchday, would be finishing fourth. No higher, no lower.
Despite heroics at different stages and different ends of the pitch, the season had been… average.
Of course while still a competition the academy is merely a shop window for the SSL to pick and choose its stars of tomorrow, but Kasak has felt every win and loss personally, as if every goal scored took him closer to greatness, every missed opportunity closer to obscurity.
This happy group had one last ride before the draft, surely to never compete as a complete unit ever again.
Kasak wrote a list of his teammates on a scrap of paper and placed it with his humble trophies:
It reads
Adowa Accra season 25 Academy team:
Albert Flowers @srsteve
Roberto Chavez @macham24
Ewan Purves @Ewan1245
Che Youz @Youz
Eden Garcia @RawRime
Mullet Man @Ogreishh
Nick Kasak @nckkss
Emmanuel Ofusu @Emmanuel Blackman
Blaise N'Kufo @McTruffles
What's Next?
Garcia can be seen practising his favourite drill with Flowers. One of the coaches lays off the ball outside the area for him to run onto and shoot first time. We see the ball fire into the top bins time and again, occasionally Flowers makes an acrobatic save, making Garcia redouble his efforts on the next cannoned shot.
Purves and Youz are doing a lap of one of the pitches as a warm down; the diligent grounds team setting up the sprinklers and watering the pitches that have amazingly kept most of their green lustre in the heat.
Ofusu and N’Kufo are gossiping in their way back to the changing rooms, telling of which scouts have spoken to them and what team they’ll end up on.
Chavez and Mullet Man are already getting out of their training attire and getting dressed at their lockers. Chavez talking animatedly on his phone, on a video call to family back home, while Mullet Man checks and preens his Samson-like barnet in a mirror. His frame gigantic against the inlaid wooden cabinet that his kit is kept in.
Kasak is sitting separately to the others, checking the contents of his locker, as if for almost the last time.
2 small trophies with “Player of the Match” are tucked at the back of his locker, behind deodorant and toothpaste. A shirt of Joe Mormor’s that he’d swapped at the end of the game, much to annoyance of the kit man - Academy teams didn’t have new kits every game.
There was one more game left for this team, and although they’d fought hard throughout the season, the result was markedly everyday.
Adowa Accra, regardless of any of the results on the finals matchday, would be finishing fourth. No higher, no lower.
Despite heroics at different stages and different ends of the pitch, the season had been… average.
Of course while still a competition the academy is merely a shop window for the SSL to pick and choose its stars of tomorrow, but Kasak has felt every win and loss personally, as if every goal scored took him closer to greatness, every missed opportunity closer to obscurity.
This happy group had one last ride before the draft, surely to never compete as a complete unit ever again.
Kasak wrote a list of his teammates on a scrap of paper and placed it with his humble trophies:
It reads
Adowa Accra season 25 Academy team:
Albert Flowers @srsteve
Roberto Chavez @macham24
Ewan Purves @Ewan1245
Che Youz @Youz
Eden Garcia @RawRime
Mullet Man @Ogreishh
Nick Kasak @nckkss
Emmanuel Ofusu @Emmanuel Blackman
Blaise N'Kufo @McTruffles
What's Next?
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