They've just made love

They’ve just made love. Their barely sweaty bodies are covered by the thin blanket of the hotel. They are leaned on their elbows and scribble on a piece of paper. They use a pen one at a time. He writes a name; she, another. When, all of a sudden, enlightened by a spark of brilliance he writes all together the first three letters of her name followed by the four last letters of his. Both are happy with: TATCHER. They think they have just found the perfect name to use for baptize their future child. They sealed this happy discovery with a prolonged kiss.

All of this has just passed through Quecher’s mind after scoring his fifth goal on the tournament and the second of the match between Minas and Piping. Since he stopped bringing his soul mate to every match, he has scored invariably in all the matches. When she was part of the public, he was just a mere ghost in the soccer field. The whole team of Minas asked him to stop bringing his lady to the soccer field. It seems that the request has proved to be right.

  

The first goal was scored by Manolitro after he received a ball split in the heart of the goalkeeper’s area.

The third goal was more the product of stubbornness and chance rather than of a planned idea. But it was decisive in the match and downgraded the moral of the members of Piping.

With this 3 – 0, Minas made it into “octavos de final”. There is still one match left to play but this next rival has an inferior place in the general positions. It will be no trouble at all for Minas.

After the match, the miners went to the corner tavern to celebrate victory with some beers. They just drank one 650 ml bottle because the clerk, an elderly lady, was not going to allow them to use her restaurant as any vulgar bar. Get out of here, bloody barflies, she had said. The miners went down to the Bohemia, a Colombian bar on the fourth of Arenales. They ordered two giraffes (long glass standing tubes of 3 liters capacity). Some miners went home after those giraffes but others continued to party in La Marina avenue famous brothels and ended up eating Chinese food at 3 am in the morning.