A magical sporting moment - Laia F.

I lay awake. I had been preparing for the next day for a long time and now I couldn’t sleep. My team was playing the local champions at water polo in the final and I was the captain. I was feeling the pressure.
I turned over and remembered how I had learned to swim. My father had taught me. We would go to the local pool every day after school and my father used to show me what to do. I hadn’t liked the water first, but I soon got used to it. I learned quickly and joined the water polo team. I was their youngest member!
I quickly got used to scoring goals and being under pressure, but the next day was different. It was the biggest match of my life. I closed my eyes again and tried to get to sleep. “I never used to have problems sleeping”, I thought to myself. “But then again, I didn’t use to be the captain of the team”. I watched the clock change slowly and knew that it was going to be a long night.
The day arrived, and luckily all my nerves disappeared. I knew I could play a good match with all my team, but we had to take intelligent strategies. The match was really hard, but we finally won the competition! I knew we could do it, I was sure after all. Afterwards, we went to celebrate it to a restaurant and I could just say: “Thank you, dad!”