Hat Trick (2009)
“The next day at practice, he was cranky from lack of sleep. Seeing Lou made him even crankier. Usually, he and Lou joked around before practice began. Today, the two boys stood as far apart as they could.
Coach Bradley clapped his hands to gather the team together. “I’ve got a new offensive play to teach you today.” He asked Roy and Jerry—a substitute and a regular striker—to help demonstrate. “It’s a pretty simple move, really—as long as the two players involved are in good communication. It’s called a fake crossover. We’ll use it when we have a direct free kick near the opponent’s goal.”
He placed a soccer ball on the ground. “Both players line up as though they’re going to take the kick. One stands here,”—he pulled Jerry five feet to one side of the ball—“the other over here.”
He walked Roy farther away from the ball, on the opposite side from Jerry. The boys and the ball now formed a lopsided triangle, with the ball as the point nearest the goal.
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