Les Bleus*

[franceslievens]

The crowd cheers when the teams enter the field. This is the match they've all been waiting for: the grand finale between the tournament champion and a wild card, that has challenged them for the cup. The ref whistles and off they go. Les Bleus control the ball, but not for long. The challenging team, in multicoloured and non-matching outfits, gains field, attempts to score, but a great save from Les Bleus' keeper keeps the 0-0 firmly on the score-board.
90 minutes and some attempts at scoring, as well as some disallowed goals later (off-side), it's 1-1. Bleus and Multicoloureds are facing penalties. The crowd is cheering them on once more.
"Allez Les Bleus! Allez Les Bleus! Allez!"
But to no avail. Once champions of their world, they leave the battle field with hanging heads and tears in their eyes. Les Bleus, technically the better, are defeated by the other team, because they're bigger. The school champion must admit that even on the football field it's the teachers that rule.

*But in a tiny, primary school version.

Comments

[comava.livejournal.com]

I like this.

But... is it a theory on what will happen with Togo, or a recap with South Korea (I missed that match)?

[frances-lievens.livejournal.com]

The last line reads: The school champion must admit that even on the football field it's the teachers that rule.

It's a recap of what happened on Friday afternoon on the school-ground: a match between the fourth-graders (who'd won the school tournament) and a team of assorted teachers, led by the gym teacher. The pupils wore matching blue outfits and were prepared to smash the teachers (a team of which only half knew how to play football), but they lost, because teachers are almost double the size of primary school pupils.

(I guess it isn't that clear if you don't know all the details of my life...)

[sister-luck.livejournal.com]

I got that it was a school match, but failed to understand that the teachers played against the little 'uns.

[frances-lievens.livejournal.com]

Well, that was something I didn't make clear... You have to know certain things to understand it, I guess. Maybe I wrote it too quickly? Or I have the desease I accuse my pupils off: not saying everything and thinking the reader "gets it" with just one line.

[comava.livejournal.com]

D'oh, I completely missed that line. :-/ It seems like my World Cup addled mind has trouble focusing on anything non-World-Cuppy!

Our elementery school did the same thing, actually, at the end of a school year, except it was 9th grade boys against the best male teachers. It was quite fun.

[frances-lievens.livejournal.com]

P. missed it too, and only understood what I was talking about, because he knew we had had the match on Friday. I think it's funny you made the metaphor into literal text and the literal text into metaphor.

And I did want to give it a Worl-Cup-vibe.