Sunday, December 1, 2019

Keep it, Ronaldo!

After a beautiful game of football, I sat down on the sidelines to remove my studs. The cold dusk breeze was making the sweat fast disappear. Out of nowhere came this little boy and took away my football. Kicking the ball towards the goal he announced to his friends,”Let’s play, I have got a football”. They all ran towards him.

It was a joy looking at them playing and screaming. As I got up to leave the field, a little girl, perhaps his sister, dragged him to me and asked him to return the football. “Keep it, Ronaldo!”, I told him. I didn’t know his name, but surely he had that Ronaldo-like desire. His smile made my day.