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Diego's Game

Among all the soccer players around the planet, Diego A. Maradona was one of the best – a short-framed, awkward, short-hair man whose purpose in life was to score goals as if he had been playing soccer in his past life. While he is playing a game, it surprisingly seems as if he had played the game one day before, eluding easily and deliberately the opponent player through the green field, dragging his chubby body with the ball into the opposite goal side, and conducting the ball home.
Going to play a game in the middle of the field, he usually takes off his light and stretchy soccer accessories he will not use during the game. Then, he hands them to a water boy, and starts spreading some creams over his legs that give him a fresh smell like alcohol and herbs, finally warming up his body. At first, the uncontrolled crowd, who does not have any idea about who he is because of his small and complex physical appearance, starts discouraging, swearing, yelling, and throwing trash at him. ...

Posted by: Shelia Olander

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