The Striker's Goal
Zile was a soccer genius. He coul do things with the ball man. Kick it like a dream deferred.Every time he put the ball between the goalkeeper's legs and into the net something magical bloomed. A new RDP here,a meal for the entire family there. The people of Kangala loved him.But their eyes got greedy.'' Dribble us a Micro Bus Zile! Score us a a real house not these crumbling asbestos RDPs'' they started saying. The boy's kind heart got heavy. He loved the diski, the game of millions. But was he a future national player or daga boy,was he a player or a builder? The sun was hot, the dust was thick, and every goal he scored felt less like joy and more like child labour and forced prison work. Zile just wanted to play soccar man. Just play the game of millions.
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