Westside of London
England, United Kingdom
31 May 2017

A dumpster is seen in an alleyway, it has a small glimpse of light being shinned on it by a lamp post. The dumpster had some graffiti on it as it was stationed infront of a brick wall. "Hey! Alex wait up!" a voice is heard as then a soccer ball is seen jumping over the wall and landing on the dumpster as the laws of gravity had it fall onto the ground, following it was Alex who jumped over the wall, landing on the dumpster making a big crash noise as he landed on the ground. "Keep up!" he called out as then another figure is seen jumping over the wall. Danny thought when Alex said he wanted to play some street football that they would be playing at some park. But then they had to be jumping over walls and stuff so Danny had to question where exactly were they going.

Alex lifting the ball of the ground with his right foot and hoisting it up the air he caught it with ease. "Come on Danny." he called out to his new friend as they reached at the end of the alley-way.

Danny who was looking red as a tomato and huffing very slightly he crouched down to catch his breath. "Just where are we going...man?" Danny asked as Alex pointed in a direction which Danny looked at. He was pointing at a staircase that had a lamp shining on it. "What?...we going in the warehouse?" Alex nodded as he walked towards the door. "Just what is in here?" Alex smirked as he held the door handle.

"This is where street football is played at it's best." he replied as he opened the door.

Warehouse- J10 Tryout

Danny and Alex heard shouting as they walked into the building, it was deserted and instead of being some working warehouse. It was inhabited by street footballers, the place had two floors the ground floor and upper floor that had a few people hanging off the railings watching the match that was happening, currently. The entire building had some very good graffiti that deserved Alex and Danny applause.

Their attention was then grabbed by the current match especially Danny who was feeling some butterflies in his stomach when he saw the female player with blond short hair, purple track pants, black and white shirt and white Nike Vapourmax. Passing to the African British man who was wearing an olive green shirt and black baggy pants, he ran for a few steps as he crossed back to the blond who hit a clinical volley that embedded itself into the bottom right corner of the net as the camera fell. Danny only had one thought as she passed him "I think I'm in love." he said as this caught Alex's attention. "Wow that was fast? You gonna go talk to her or your gonna have your gonna stand here like a stalker all day." Danny just ignored Alex as he admired the blond.

Returning to the match the ball was given to the guy with the blue shirt who tried to nutmeg the African British but he failed dearly as he was pushed back the moment the ball went through the man's legs. "Man! What about the ball?"

"Called defending, mate. You do it in actual football." the British man known as Big-T replied. "Maybe you are just mad because I panna'd you? Again!" the panna guy was Peter but he calls himself Peter Panna probably a knock off from Peter Pan

"Dude, you talk about a panna like it's a goal." the Asian girl known as Syd was playing as goalkeeper said as she approached the two men. "Seriously everytime." Danny's new crush her name was Bobbi said as she got in the middle of the two. "Every time this one fronts." Big-T tried to get into Peter's face but was pulled back by the blond. "Same team! We're here to play so let's play!" she shouted out as then the leader of the team spoke up.

"Alright. Okay." the leader of the team Jayzinho said catching the four's attention as then the Big-T noticed Alex and Danny. "Alright newbies. You get lost?" he said as then the Asian girl who noticed Danny went wide -eyed. "No...way you're Danny Williams. You play for Aston Villa!" she shouted out as Danny just smirked it was pretty nice to get recognized. "Danny Who?" Peter said as Danny just huffed so what one guy didn't know him that didn't mean- "He plays at Villa Park? How come I never heard of him." Jayzinho added as this just put salt onto the wound. Only one person knew him out of the whole team.

"Welcome to J10!" the Asian girl said trying to lighten Danny mood. "Alex. You and your friend are late." the leader said as he signaled for the court. "Get on." Alex and Danny walked onto the court taking the place of two randoms. "Time to show you all how the William Footy does business." he said as he got a pat on the back from Jayzinho.

Alex played Striker as Danny decided to play CAM. They had Peter on their team and Syd as the goalkeeper. Kicking the ball off the center spot to Danny, the man went in for the kill literally driving for the goal as he was met by Big-T who he used a 360 to get past by. The moment he saw Alex opened he passed to the Hunter who trapped and put his laces onto the ball only to have it saved by the goalkeeper. "Oh! Unlucky, mate." Danny told Alex who went to pick up the ball and put it on the corner spot. Danny who was in heading range hit his forehead as a signal to Alex, nodding he took a few steps back as he put his hand in the air as the signal. Running up and crossing the ball in, Danny had to fight with Big-T for the ball but his training or should we say humiliation with his older brother Terry had prepared him for these situations plus Terry was a better areal defender than Big-T by a mile, he played for Juventus for godsake.

Anyway he put his forehead to the ball but it went over the goal. "Damn." he cursed as he returned back down the court to their side. Alex who was returning to the other side saw the goalkeeper try to pass to a random player so catching this he intercepted the ball as he ran for the goal, the goalkeeper went into a keeping stance but Alex's shot was too much as it crashed into the top right corner. "That's right!" Alex celebrated as he got a dab from all his teammates.

The score was now 2-1 as Danny and Alex had came into a game that was already in progress. Any way a few possesions changes ended up with Danny receiving a through pass from Alex using the counter attack Danny faked the goalkeeper to diving as he tapped the ball in. "Too easy." Danny told Alex as he chuckled. "Looks like your enjoying yourself."

Danny shrugged as on the inside he was pretty happy he met Alex, he could feel he was getting a workout and getting better. So yeah this was why better than spending the off season playing video games. In the end the match ended 3-1. As the team played two more games were Alex and Danny performed at a very nice pace.

Alex's Stats After Three Games

Goals: 5
Assists: 2

Danny's Stats After Three Games

Goals: 7
Assists: 1

"Good session everyone. But still a lot of work to be done. Six months. That's all we got to prove we deserve a spot in the World Championships." Jay said as Big-T scoffed "Come on, Jay, who's better than us?"

"PSG?" Syd said as everyone on the team had a chuckle. "Man, you all sound like every street team I've ever played with. You need to earn a rep in this game. You all talk big, but we are still waiting on that invite to Buenos Aires."

"Pff. It's in the post, mate." Big-T replied getting a nod from Bobbi. "That' right, boe!" she said getting a smile from T. "Okay." Jay began to walk through the group. "Where you going?" Syd asked as Jay turned around. "Oh uh. I was just gonna show the new kids, but I think you should all see this...Right now!" the entire team followed Jay to the upper floor as they entered the team's small clubhouse.

The tape they saw was incredible. "Okay. They are pretty good." Syd said "Yeah. Now that is the level we need to be at." Jay added "I could run rings around any of those old timers." Peter said as Danny laughed. "In those mate. That isn't happening." Danny said looking at Peter's shoes which were dirty, as his right toe was sticking out and the rubber was gone. "Yeah, retro is cool, but you're gonna get hurt wearing those." T added as everyone in the group laughed at Peter's shoes.

"These are perfectly moulded to my feet." Peter tried to reason "Dude. Those are perfectly broke." Syd said as everyone wooed as Peter got up the couch filled with embarrassment and anger. "Most of you think more about style over function. I can panna any of you in these." Peter said as he walked to the door. "Look, Peter-" Jay tried to reason with the man but he was cut off. "It's Pete." he interjected as he walked out.

"You got mad skill and that's why you're here. But this ain't one-on-one!" he shouted as Pete walked down the stairs. Jay changed his attention to Danny "You know these legends they've been proving they're the best for years because they play as a team. Out there, tricks and skills don't mean nothing if you can't use them to win a game. You want to build a rep in this game, you've got to win. It's that simple, now there's a local tourney we got coming up is the perfect place to start. It's tomorrow so do a couple drills and I'll tell y'all who's on the squad." Jay said as the meeting was adjourned.

Drills Complete

Dribbling Practise- Performance: Stellar (A Grade)
Passing Practise- Performance: Excellent (A Grade)
Shooting Practise- Performance: Good Job (B Grade)

"All right, listen up." Jay got everyone's attention. "The squad for the tourney Is...Bobbi, Big T..."

"Of course." Big T replied as chuckles were heard on the team. "Danny." the Williams Footy just nodded in appreciation. "Syd, between the sticks and we got one last spot. All right this was a tough choice, okay? But the final member for the tourney is..." there was silence for a while as Jay spoke in the end "Alex. You made it. Congratulations." Alex nodded as Danny laughed. "That's my mate right there give me some you." Alex and Danny dabbed. And yes Danny took Peter's spot since between Danny and Peter I would chose Danny all the way.

"Now the rest of you-Keep working hard. You will get your chances. Cool?" Nobody said anything as the meeting was adjourned as everyone returned back to their homes. Dropping Alex off at his house Danny returned to the hotel he was checked into.