An African Soccer Story

By Evadeen Brickwood

Download this short story for free.Thulani grows up in a South African village and all he wants to do is play soccer. When a scout from the big city arrives, Thulani doesn't pay much attention to the visitor and is far more interested in a special girl at school.
If you liked Thulani's story, check out Evadeen Brickwood' youth fantasy books.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Evadeen Brickwood
• Release date: Sep 25, 2014
• ISBN: 9781311372710

Evadeen Brickwood

Evadeen Brickwood grew up with two sisters in Karlsruhe/Germany and studied cultural sciences and languages. As a young woman, she travelled extensively and many of her books are inspired by her experiences abroad. Feeling adventurous, the newly qualified translator moved to Africa in 1988 and worked for two years as a secretary and language teacher in Botswana. The author eventually settled in South Africa, where she got married and raised two daughters. In Johannesburg, Evadeen Brickwood studied computers and management of training and worked as a corporate software trainer, professional translator and lecturer at WITS University and owned a training company. In 2003, she began her writing career with youth novels in the ‘Remember the Future’ series, about adventures in prehistory and continued with adventure mysteries. After being conventionally published by 2 publishers in South Africa, the author began self-publishing her books with great success in 2013. There are 16 published novels - including German versions - and counting.Her debut novel 'Children of the Moon' was voted winning science fiction novel in 2017 by Book Talk Radio Club in England.The youth novels are featured on the website http://www.evadeen.wixsite.com/youngbooks.And the website that features the mystery-novels is: http://www.evadeen.wixsite.com/novels and the murder mysteries http://www.evadeen.wixsite.com/charlieproudfootThere are blogs on all websites. You can also watch short book trailers or listen to 20-minute readings there or on Youtube (just search Evadeen Brickwood).You can also visit the author's profiles on Facebook, Goodreads, Twitter, Instagram, Shepherd, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Google+ and link up with Evadeen Brickwood.

Book preview

An African Soccer Story

A short story about a young boy’s love for the Beautiful Game

by Evadeen Brickwood

One, two, three, four…

Thulani was counting the ceiling lights again. There were eighteen of them. He had counted them three times already, but he was nervous and needed to occupy his mind. Or he would start feeling homesick again.

Twelve, thirteen…

They were square and covered in a thick layer of dust, the lights. The third one and the seventh one from the right didn’t work at all. The second one on the left and the, wait…, the fifth one were filled with dead moths. The ceiling lights were like friends by now, his only friends in this deserted, rundown train station. The darkness outside gave way to grey dawn. In the city the train station would be new and gleaming with the lights hidden in the ceiling. Just like in the movies he had watched about big, glamorous cities. But Thulani didn’t really want the big, glamorous cities. He was only sixteen and until the scout had chosen him for the sports academy, he had been a regular village boy. Doing what village boys do. Kicking a soccer ball around the field and along the roads with the other boys had always been part of it. Now he would have to study how to do it properly, his father said.

Thulani loved soccer.