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Marcus Atkinson is a Soccer Star (NOT!). But his Dad is convinced that Marcus has magic in his feet. Read the hilarious diary of a reluctant soccer star and how Marcus scores a goal in a way no one has seen before!

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Publié par	Penguin Books Ltd
Date de parution	29 août 2011
Nombre de lectures	1
EAN13	9788184754940
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	5 Mo

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SHAMINI FLINT
Diary of a Soccer Star
PUFFIN BOOKS
Contents
About the Author
Dedication
My Soccer Diary
Copyright Page
PUFFIN BOOKS
DIARY OF A SOCCER STAR
Shamini Flint lives in Singapore with her husband and two children. She is an ex-lawyer, ex-lecturer, stay-at-home mum and writer. She loves soccer!
Shamini has written numerous children s picture books including Jungle Blues , Turtle Takes a Trip and A T-Rex Ate my Homework . She is also the author of the highly-acclaimed Sasha series of children s travel books.
Shamini s first three crime novels, Inspector Singh Investigates-A Most Peculiar Malaysian Murder , Inspector Singh Investigates-A Bali Conspiracy Most Foul and Inspector Singh Investigates-The Singapore School of Villainy are published by Little, Brown.
Shamini s website is www.shaminiflint.com .
Read other books in Puffin by Shamini Flint
Diary of a Cricket God
For the kids who play soccer with me: Sasha Flint, Spencer Flint, Timothy Richards, Matthew Richards, Ben Richards, Anneka Alok-Mathur, Nicolas Petersik, Martha Veness, Isabella Ingham, Claire Johnston Hume, Rachel Dickson, Matthew Dickson, Rhiannon Durant, Aidan Durant, Roman Misner and Avery Misner.
My Soccer Diary
I scored a goal today.
Unfortunately, it was an own goal.
It wasn t my fault.
Really, it wasn t!
Jack Talk to the Feet Gordon hit the ball back to the keeper. (I ve just found out this is called a back pass.)

The goalkeeper went for one of those long kicks why couldn t he just pick the ball up, the clod?

(I ve just discovered that the goalie is not allowed to pick the ball up from a back pass - stupid rule!)
You see, the coach had told me to play in defence

So what actually happened was that the ball hit me on the back.

Well, to be honest, the ball hit my bottom

I scored an own goal.
I scored an own goal with my BOTTOM!
I SCORED AN OWN GOAL WITH MY BOTTOM!!!
Does life get any worse than that?
YES - if some smart alec with his dad s iPhone took a photo at exactly that moment and sent it to the school newspaper.

Time to spend an awful lot of time in my room with a paper bag over my head.

My name is Marcus (no, you may not call me Mark) Atkinson and I am nine years old.
There are two things I need to be absolutely clear about:
I don t want to play soccer.

I don t want to keep a diary.

In fact, you could say that I don t want to KEEP A DIARY ABOUT PLAYING SOCCER!!!

But Dad says that WRITING DOWN MY GOALS will help me achieve them.

Yeah right!
Actually, I did try Dad s stupid plan.
I didn t want to miss out if there was something in this writing it down will make it happen stuff.
I wrote down:
I would like to win $1,000,000 in the lottery.

I would like JT (the school bully) to leave me alone.

I would like Dad to give up trying to make me play soccer.

Well, that DIDN T work.
So now I just write down whatever I feel like about Dad and JT and everyone else who s on my case -
and I keep the diary

in a box
in a bag
under my bed
behind a box of old toys
because if anyone finds it I m DEAD MEAT.

My Dad is always trying to persuade people that they can
work harder
run faster
climb higher
You get the picture.

He s even written a book called Pull yourself up by your own BOOT STRAPS!