The game no one should have missed: Orange v Colours 9-8

In England it is rude to be late to an appointment or event while in Italy is kind of cool. Today at 9.54am there were only three players on the pitch and all Italian: Giancarlo, Alessandro, Andrea M. Such was the feverish anticipation to the game which in fact went beyond the wildest expectations.
Hannes arrived soon after but, being his punctual German, that was par for the course. Everything was in place for a game not to be missed, regardless if you were a player, fan, squirrel or else.
Everyone on the pitch sensed the occasion ready to act on the extra adrenaline charge: spirits were flaring high, even more so among team mates ready to scream to each other to provoke a more aggressive stance to any member of the opposition. Tough love as they call it.
Fans were filling every alley and were kept busy returning the balls shot by Al, on an accomplished mission today to score from everywhere with the ducks on red alert.
No one could have asked for more from this game: after more than 90’ within touching distance both teams could not avoid the match going to the wire with only the golden goal finally sealing the contest consigning the winners to the pinnacle of football history.
And all wrapped up with beautiful goals to the point that after each of them scores of supporters went on the phone urging their friends and relatives to come to the show in the certainty that what they had seen was just an aperitif. To be fair entertainment was not the purpose: rather just the by-product of a bunch of gifted players equipped with all what is required of top footballers.
It took a clever move by the Laskar family to open the score as Arman assisted his father, confirmed in his striker role as Hannes replaced him in goal , who coolly converted. Tony L played the whole game in front of goal, in that reminiscent of the other fox in the both Tony S. It’s all in the name. But at one point Tony L true nature emerged when a shot from a teammate aimed at hitting the Orange goal was chested down by Tony playing for the Colours: once a goalkeeper, forever a goalkeeper.
On the opposite front Giancarlo missed a sitter but soon redeemed himself: on a low ball in the box he first sent Diego to the pub and then placed the ball just under the bar. Only for Diego to exact revenge few minutes later: first he shaved the bar from a long distance shot with his ominous Maradonian Puma shoes (see pic) and then he went on to score putting again Colours in front.
By the way worth mentioning that there were other memorabilia at play today: Joshua was sporting an iconic original Barcelona shirt as seen in pic.
Colours seemed to have a bit of an edge with Al on a firing spree scoring no less than four goals but invariably they were levelled up by the Orange who showed a more diversified striking squad with Federico scoring a hat trick with Johannes, often initiating and finalising, and Jonathan a brace each.
At one point Andrea M, a constant thorn on the left Orange side, scored a beauty sending a missile-ball across the Orange box to terminate its run in the opposite low left corner.
Andrea was given today two goals despite scoring only one and that is for three reason: this goal is so good that deserve double. Andrea was not allocated one goal last game and so we credit one back. Lastly the commentator could not square the Colours goal today and this settles the matter.
Federico netted a copy cat goal from last week: on a long pinpointed ball by Giancarlo he headed the ball and himself into the net. Some of the fans rushed to the FDs app ordering a similar goal for next weekend as well. Add ons revenues are a critical source of our future capital expenditure and players spend the best part of their week to rehearse their best goals and skills to then execute fans’ requests.
The two teams could have kept playing for days without a clear winner emerging. It was then again the clock dictating the rule: at 11.45 it had to be golden goal time.
Jonathan more advanced position on the pitch had already pay a dividend for the Colours during the game and it was cherry on the cake with the golden goal cooly converted within the box.
Amazingly, fans refused to discriminate between winners and losers giving the players a collective standing ovation as everyone contributed to a rare show.
Park wardens were busy preventing fans from chiselling in the tree ‘I was here on 1/3/2025’ to remind everyone of their luck in attending such a memorable match.
The Man of the Match had three rightful claimants: no one could keep the count of the incredible saves made by Alessandro.
Yet goalkeeper is a cruel role: you concede a cheap one, which only happened once today, and that’s the one people will remember costing the award.
Al was back after his Premier League appearances and it showed. It could have been more than four goals had he not found Hannes on his way and adjusted his aim which terrorised fans all around. Perhaps ending up in the non-winning side costed him the accolade.
It was then Federico to grab the trophy both for his constant support in midfield and his sustained prolific spell, both quantity and quality, in front of goal with another hat trick today
Finally a thought: as we have cash in the bank and increasingly the commentators’ memory is tested every week, should we consider to buy a drone to film our matches so comments and data can be more accurate post viewing while we build files for future generations so that that, few decades down the line, there won’t be any doubt as to which football team best graced the beautiful game?
ORANGE-COLOURS 9-8
GOALS
ORANGE: Federico (3), Jonathan (2), Johannes (2), Giancarlo
COLOURS: Al (4), Tony L, Diego F, Andrea M (2)
TEAMS
ORANGE: Hannes, Federico T, Ivory, Joshua, Johannes, Jonathan, Giancarlo
COLOURS: Alessandro, Bijan, Andrea M, Diego F, Tony L, Arman