The Day Football Saved the World!!!
By Remi Parle A
The Day Football Saved the World!!! by Remi Parle A
Read by Maggie Service from the 大象传媒 Radio Drama Company.
It was an average Monday night, my family and I were just sitting down for supper when the news came on TV declaring a state of emergency, that we had just one week left, before all the world's energy would run out forever... There was global anarchy! Imagine life without power to cook, lights to see, how would I charge my ipad?! And most importantly how are my dad and I going to watch Match of the day?! There must be a solution.
I had just one week to think harder than I have ever thought before. I could not give up hope, not now just as Liverpool were about to win the Premier league. How could the world produce enough power that does not damage our planet further? Hmmm, quite the conundrum. There must be something that every country has in common, which could unite everyone together. I remember reading about how football is a global sport and that over two hundred and fifty million people play football around the world. That's a lot of people! I've got it, maybe the solution has been in front of us all this time!
Before I do anything else, I need to test my theory. Not many people will take a 9 year old boy's idea seriously if I do not have evidence to back it up. I will test my idea during tomorrow's school football match. We have been doing a lot of science recently at school and we learned all about kinetic energy and how it is ECO friendly. Plus, since my parents bought a Fitbit for me for Christmas I have been very interested in how many steps I am doing each day. If I can combine both these two things together, maybe we can find the solution.
To test my idea I needed the assistance of my good friend Kobe, who just happens to be a computer wizkid. Everyone on my team wore their smartwatches ready for the match which were connected wirelessly to the school's power supply. My team worked harder than they have ever worked before. During the game something very strange happened. It seems that not only is football the best game in the world, but it also has super powers! Not only did my idea work, but our match managed to power all the schools in the whole of England. For every step we made it produced a million times worth of energy. I knew football was special but I had no idea how powerful it could be. This has to be the answer we have been looking for.
The word quickly spread about our success and all the football teams around the world joined in to see if it was true. In just one day of playing 'the beautiful game' the world's energy supply was saved forever!
From that day forward it was remembered as 'the day football saved the world'.
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