"Are you guys going to watch the match between Stuttgart and Sturm Graz?" Paul Otterson asked, looking curiously at his flatmates.
"Of course," Zachary, Kendrick, and Kasongo replied more or less in unison. They were in the dressing room changing out of their match attire into dark blue tracksuits, having just completed their quarter-final face-off against Zenit.
"Then we'd better hurry," Paul said as he slipped his feet out of his boots. "The match will start at exactly 5:00 PM."
Kendrick sighed audibly. "I would have liked to head back to the hotel first and clean up."
"That's a bad idea," Kasongo chipped in. "There won't be any bus returning to the hotel any time soon. The coaches will also stay to watch the match. I'm sure they are expecting us to do the same and delay our return to the hotel. That's why they got us snacks right after the match." He said, pointing to the covered silver plates placed on a table in the dressing room.
Paul smiled, changing the topic of conversation. "We'll be facing one of the teams from the morning quarter-final matches. Have any of you seen their results?"
"Not yet," Zachary replied while unfastening the laces of his boots. "Coach Johansen prohibited us from looking at the other team's results before playing our match. But, I intend to go to the noticeboard and check them out before watching the Stuttgart match." He packed his jersey and walked out of the dressing room, followed by his friends.
They trudged along, carrying platefuls of snacks through the brightly lit corridors, all the way to the noticeboard area, close to the gate of the stadium.
When they arrived, Zachary started going through the freshly pinned posters on the large noticeboard. On the board's top right corner, he found the group results of the tournament.
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Group A
- (1) Genoa FC Youth (Italy) 7 Pts
- (2) NF International (Norway) 6 Pts
- (3) JFC Riga (Latvia) 4 Pts
- (4) BK Frem (Denmark) 0 Pts
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Group B
- (1) Zenit сшор (Russia) 9 Pts
- (2)Tottenham (England) 6 Pts
- (3) Atalanta (Italy) 1 Pts
- (4) AIK Stockholm (Sweden) 1 Pts
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Group C
- (1) VfB Stuttgart (Germany) 9 Pts
- (2) Skonto Academy (Latvia) 4 Pts
- (3) Viimsi MRJK (Estonia) 4 Pts
- (4) FC Olimpiki Tbilisi (Georgia) 0 Pts
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Group D
- (1) ADO Den Haag (Netherlands) 7 Pts
- (2) SK Sturm Graz (Austria) 6 Pts
- (3) HJK Helsinki (Finland) 4 Pts
- (4) Jagiellonia (Poland) 0 Pts
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Zachary let his gaze roam to the sheet pinned right below the results of the group stages. The tournament's organizers had already updated it with quarter-final results of that day.
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The Greatest of All Time
Science FictionDive into a novel about the rise of a legendary sportsman. Follow Zachary Bemba on his journey to become the G.O.A.T (Greatest Of All Time) in the soccer world. He travels back to a time in his past where opportunity abounds. Access to a system capa...
