Trial in India - chapter three -

 

 

 Hi, hows it going guys!!

 

 I finally reached at Goaafter facing heaps of troubles on the way.  And I was suppose to catch up the manager of the team to be picked up to where I was suppose to stay during the trial, but I met full of runners who was trying to drag customers into their taxis. As a matter of course, I was about to be pulled into one of their cars, but I just pretended not to hear their noises. haha 

  After that, I was waiting for the manager about an hour by airport, and I could drive out of there. First of all, he took me to the old apartment where I'm going to stay and I met three players who has already been living there. To be honest, I didn't predict that I'd have indian house-mates immediately.

  As for inside the house, I actually had to live at an unacceptably low standard that is a prevalent level there.　I would never say the rooms were nice and tidy that was actually far far far away from that words!!　There were clouds of ants throughout the kitchen, no toilet paper in the toilet that means they use the left hand to wipe it out instead of it and no hot shower all day. The worst problem for me was on the bed where I was sleeping every night because there seemed to be many ticks on it. Actually I didn't feel them in the first ouple nights since I was so tired due to the tight flight schedule, but maybe on the third day since I started living there, I felt them gradually with ticks and mosquitoes bite everywhere on my body.

 Honestly, I couldn't focus on the trial in the next few days ince I couldn't sleep well every night due to them. As for the team, most of players and coaches were very familiar and friendly with me, but I think I wasn't good enough in every training. I must've scored more and taken more communication with other oversea players to make it. I would never say excuses on this, but I was tested as a striker this time that have to look for scoring goals greedily. However, exactly speaking, I was lack of that cuz I had been a midfielder since had this challenge, so it was a bit hard to shift my mind into it.

 then about two weeks without any good news flew by, and I got a call from my agent. And he said 'the other team is looking for a striker who is from asian country.'

 To be continued...

 

 

 

  ゴアに着陸！！

　そして出迎えてくれたのはチーム関係者。ではなく、タクシーの客引きの人たち。彼らのエネルギーは本当にすごい！！空港を出てすぐに何人かのタクシードライバーに囲まれ、「おれのに乗れ」、「どこまでいくんだ？？」など質問攻め。振り払おうとしても付いてくる。チーム関係者が迎えにきてくれたのは着いてから１時間ほど経ってからで、それまでに何回も同じ人に「乗らないのか？」と聞かれた。笑

　そして彼らと出会い、まずトライアル中に住む家に連れて行かれた。そこはなんとも表現できないアパートで、２LDKくらいのとこに俺を含めて４人で暮らすことに。もちろんほかはインド人。初めてインドにきていきなりインド人との生活が始まるとは。。。。。

　家はお世辞にもきれいというには程遠く、キッチンには蟻の大群が、トイレには紙がないし、シャワーはお湯がでない・・・。一番きつかったのは夜寝るときに蚊が大量に発生すること。蚊取り線香を焚くんやけど、それでも刺される。しかもそれだけならまだしも、与えられた布団にダニがかなりいたのは痛すぎた。初日は疲れすぎてきづかなかったけど、２，３日経つと体中が蚊やダニの餌食になっていました。練習は毎日あって毎回がアピールの場やのに、肝心の睡眠が取れなくて本当にきつい日々だった。

　チームの方は、みな気軽に接してくれたし、特にやりにくさも感じてはいなかったかな。ただ始めてのインドサッカーでFWとして来たので点をもっと決めないといけなかった。小学校以来のFWってことで、今までのプレーが抜けずになかなかゴールに対して貪欲になれない、なぜかパスを意識してしまったり。ここは外国人が試合を左右するリーグやから、まだまだアピール不足だったのが本音。

　生活の方も、なかなか慣れず、びっくりしたのはシェアメイトと鶏肉を買いにいったとき、たくさんの金網の中に１羽ずつ鶏が収監されている。それをどれか客は選んで、何グラム欲しいかをオーダーする。すると店の人がその鶏を奥へと持っていき、その場で生きた鶏が「ガン！！」という包丁の一振りとともに泣き止み、数分後オーダーしたものやってくる。。。

 

　いやぁ、すごいよね。ここでの生活はほんまにびっくりすることだらけでしたわ。笑　そんなこんなで２週間が過ぎ、なかなか契約がまとまらないまま、代理人から電話が。。。「他のチームがアジア人を探している」と。

 

　続く。