I'M Footballer
Chptr 1h.

2016,

In the city of Porto, in a mini-court owned by the Boavista club.

A 16-year-old boy was drenched in sweat in the sun.

The sweat produced by the 16-year-old is the result of his hard work today. He is training hard to nurture the abilities he has and improve them to a higher level.

It was seen that the 16-year-old had finished kicking his last ball, but the young man did not immediately pick up the ball again, and remained standing still in place.

"I've got a contract from the club with a duration of 1 year, and now the remaining duration of the contract is half a year left."

"Over these 6 months, I've only been able to play for 3 times."

His name was Sean Achraf Januzaj. He is a young man from Indonesia who aspires to be a professional soccer player.

To realize his ambition, the 16-year-old Indonesian youth asked permission from his parents to send him to Europe.

For the young man who was only 15 at the time, both of Sean's parents turned him down because it was impossible to stay away from parental supervision.

Sean, who has big ambitions and dreams, starts crying because his parents can't help him to realize his dreams.

Seeing his crying son, the parents finally let him go, but they also escorted him by staying there for 1 year.

With that agreement, the three went to Portugal, due to Sean's request to attend football school in Portugal.

Initially, Sean wanted to choose to attend Sporting Lisbon academy in order to be like his idol, Cristiano Ronaldo.

But because of his poor quality, Sean was eventually rejected.

After the rejection, the three of them looked for the academy of football academy in Portugal.

Sean is accepted into the Boavista Academy. During 1 year at Boavista, Sean also developed well until he got a contract from Boavista but will still play for Boavista U 19, because Sean is 16 years old.

With the acceptance of the contract, both Sean's parents also returned to Indonesia. Both of Sean's parents returned to Indonesia first because according to their promise, not because Sean was an adult too but they left work and also Sean's sister who was 9 years old at that time.

Sean's younger sister did not attend school, so her parents left her at Sean's grandmother's house.

"I had to train harder so as not to disappoint my family."

"I should also immediately get a prime spot on the team."

A few weeks earlier, Sean had received a letter from the club, telling him only that if Sean could not give a good performance and still could not play at the U 19 club, Sean will not accept a new contract from the club.

With that too, Sean added a portion of his training every day, but before the letter also Sean had trained more than others.

Because of the letter, Sean also increased the portion of his training so that the increase was also more.

Sean again picked up the ball that had been lodged in the goal, "Now the dribble again."

Sean has a fast speed and a small body so when running it feels light, but if carrying the ball or dribble the ball, Sean's speed will be slightly reduced and not as fast as when running without the ball.

With that also the reason Sean trained his dribble, during the addition of this portion of the exercise, Sean also felt the increase.

He feels that when he dribbles the ball quickly, the ball seems to stick with his feet and finally can dribble quickly, but still not as fast as running speed without the ball.

The exercise Sean did to do dribble is to run without the ball with a tight, then try to carry the ball but the speed he did like jogging.

It was a trick that Sean did, the trick that Sean did was to feel how the ball was when attached to his feet.

This is also a trick to get used to making the ball not far from the foot.

Sean kept repeating that during his training portion, but as time went on Sean started to pick up his pace bit by bit and finally achieved results now, where the ball dribble speed is fast but still not as fast as running without the ball.

The tricks Sean did yield maximum results for him now.

Because the sun had peaked in the middle, Sean also cleared the ball that was still scattered on the field.

Tidying up quickly, Sean went into labor and will return to his dorm.

On the way home, Sean still has sweat that still appears on his forehead, not because of the heat alone but because the exercise he does is very draining stamina.

Arriving at the apartment, Sean immediately drank water a few glasses. Take off his clothes and put them in a pile of clothes that have not been washed.

"The laundry is plenty too." Complain Sean. When there were his parents, Sean was still washed for his clothes but now he must be independent.

Sean's dormitory is a dormitory of young players, usually per dorm room will be filled 3 - 4 people, but because the players already have friends, Sean so live alone.

In the Boavista U 19 team there are 21 players, and the remaining 1 is Sean who is still alone.

After resting for a few minutes, Sean washed his clothes because they had piled up so much.

Sean is actually a person who likes to be clean and neat, but he forgot about it because at the end of this he was exhausted due to the increasing portion of the exercise he did.

In order not to disappoint the family and not to fail in his own life choices, Sean had to do all this, train hard and add to his training portion.

"for 3 days there is a match, will I enter the team or not?" Sean asked himself.

Sean who has played 3 games for 6 months has a strong desire to be on the list, but after playing for 3 times, Sean has never again entered the team list.

The list of teams usually only contains 18 players, so 3 other players will not be included in the list, but the most often not included in the list is Sean.

"I want my hard work seen and paid off. So I hope I'm on the big team list." Sean encouraged himself not to be too burdened.

Although if later not elected again, Sean is accustomed and mentally trained so will not be too disappointed.