Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
The win against Australia was the first time ever, and also they scored their first historic goal against Australia. However, it was costly for them as they suffered a down of their physical stamina.
No one saw it better than Ismail Matar, the team's veteran. To solve the problem, he suggested them to rest and stay out from any kind of political instruments, due to Qatar crisis and upcoming opponent.
However, even their perpetration was marred with politicization. Unlike the opponent, a Gulf rival, the Emirati squad was treated with full support of course. However, their Prince had sent an order: win or punishment. Ismail Matar didn't want to tell anyone that because this was the UAE Prince sending to him only.
Because of tensions with their semi-final rival Qatar, there had been a lot of political acts before the match. Matar, openly against such politicization, felt so helpless. On Ismail Matar's, he viewed Qataris as brothers and cousins, and he didn't care on the escalation of Qatar-UAE tensions.
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However, even when Matar wanted to go out, he also witnessed a lot of unwanted people standing to receive tickets. It was so surprising, of course.
UAE Prince had bought all tickets for the semi-finals and distributed to only Emiratis and pro-Emirati ones, barring neutral and Qataris from entering. Ismail Matar couldn't explain why, he just looked on the sky, with a lot of wary to say: "Oh my …"
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Then, when he attempted to enter a mosque, suddenly two weird guys showed up. A really weird guy and …
"Zoinks! Sorry!"
"Okay, no problem. I have no fight with you." Matar calmed: "What's your name?"
"Norville Rogers, zoinks! Just call me Shaggy. And my best companion Scooby-Doo!" The man wearing green clothes cheered.
And, Scooby? He is a dog, Great Dane! A real Danish dog, but smarter than any kind of dog ever mentioned. No one knew how Shaggy trained this dog, but he could manage some human words: "Creppy."
"What did you say?" Matar wondered: "This dog can talk?"
Well, Ismail Matar had not met Tom and Jerry or Oggy, lol.
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Zoinks! What a typical hilarious way Shaggy expressed to others. Shaggy, that American guy, showed two tickets for the upcoming encounter between the UAE and Qatar. Ismail Matar was stunned to see how could they buy it.
"Well, we bought because we needed tickets to watch. Don't know which unlucky guys missed it."
Shaggy talked hilariously when hugged Scooby, meaning something. Ismail asked: "How close you and your dog?"
"Very close!" Scooby described.
"Cool. Do you guys really want to distribute tickets to somebody?" Ismail Matar questioned, but seeing the way Scooby-Doo's behave, he believed Scooby was so different than other dogs.
"Zoinks!" Shaggy got a bit … shaggy: "No."
"Okay. So, what's next?"
"When will the match start?" Shaggy asked.
"A day later. Now excuse me, I need to go and pray for a while." Ismail Matar urged them to let him pass as they were likely to do so. Of course, Shaggy and Scooby-Doo were honest, though chain-smoker.
Anyway, Matar wondered how could Norville bring his dog successfully to there? Perhaps a private plane might be explainable.
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Then, after the pray, Matar left and he soon got something:
"HUH?"
Shaggy and Scooby were still there! And they were chatting something, a dog and a human. Moreover, Scooby sat like a human, and played some cool games with Shaggy. Zoinks!
Matar watched out, but Shaggy and Scooby-Doo didn't realize it even when Matar decided to go home. Of course, after watching it, Matar might have to go back home and started looking a bit.
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Damn … needed more times than that to say …
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