My favorite place was the soccer field back home in Nigeria. It was where I felt at my happiest because of the ability I had back then playing soccer and being around my friends while we all played soccer, being competitive and also loving the fast game of football like we call it out there. The atmosphere was always at its best when it rained because we could get wet as kids and still play the sport we loved so much. The amount of goal I scored always mattered to me because I wanted to be the best player among my friends. I remembered we had to play an inter-school match with a different school and they were beating us 3-0 and it was a match we had to win for bragging right to prove that our school was the best in the district. I feel the anger of being laughed on by the students from the other school. So I took the game so seriously and played one of the best games of my life till date scoring four goals in the space of 15mins to win the match and two minutes towards the end of the game I got snubbed off and I got a standing ovation from the whole school and till this day i remember how I felt, what the field looked like, how it smelt like and the emotions that I went through that whole game.
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