"El juego de Sam!" The beautiful female reporter brandished an enchanting smile at Sam as soon as the interview started. "The Sam ga," she grinned. "That is what everyone is calling it!"
Sam smiled back at her. "Really? That's great".
For his first post-match interview in Spain, the officials had rcy on him, sending an English-speaking reporter to take charge of it.
"Sam, what a ga you played today!"
Sam only smiled, wiping away his sweat even as he breath heavily.
"Starting the ga as an attacking midfielder and ending it as a striker, how does it feel like? Was it preditated?"
Hearing that, Sam scratched the back of his head, his face an expression of confusion. "If I said I knew I would play as a striker today, then I would be Loki, the God of Mischief". He chuckled.
"Honestly, I never knew the coach would take such a drastic decision".
"I've never played as a striker in my whole life, none of my coaches have ever used as a false 9, and I've never even thought of it before today".
"What's most crazy is that the coach never told of it. When I heard his instructions, I had to double check to make sure that he didn't make a mistake".
"Wow!" The female reporter's eyes widened. "You an you didn't even know about it? And yet, despite being caught off-guard like us, in an unfamiliar position, you still did what you did today on the pitch?"
Her jaws dropped in shock; this was not acting; she was honestly flabbergasted. "You are a different specin man!" She laughed.
"Today really is El juego de Sam!"
After regaining her composure did she finally continue. "Sam, you were able to score a brace today after an incredible all-round performance, your first goals in Spain since completing the move from Fulham, what are your thoughts about it?"
Sam rubbed his chin, going over his words carefully before replying; he smiled. "I knew that part of the reason why the club bought was for my goals".
"I'm used to scoring goals and creating assists so I was not really panicked, I knew that eventually, the goals and assists would co".
"All I needed was to go through a little period of adaptation".
"I'm still finding my feet but yeah, I'm ready for the challenge".
"Talking of your adaptation, after the 2 goals today, you still feel that you're yet to find your feet? You're still adapting?"
Sam chuckled. "Scoring 2 goals does not an I've completed my adaptation; it was all in the mont. I don't know if you know but I'm more of a monts' player, I create my monts and try to steal the show with them".
"Today was a perfect example but no," he shook his head. "I feel that I still need a few gas to perfectly gel with the team".
"Besides, today, I created my monts from an unfamiliar position".
"First, I'll have to hear the thoughts of the coach from here on which position I'll be playing in. It'll help a lot in my adaptation".
"Does that an you're open to the idea of playing as a striker?"
"…"
Sam took his ti to answer this ti, he laughed. "I can't really tell yet, it's all still so muddled to ," but then he grinned. "Playing as a striker was closer to the goal though, which ant more explosiveness for ".
"I won't lie," he chuckled. "I kind of enjoyed it".
"That's what I'm saying!" The reporter laughed.
At that mont, she smiled again. "It's your first man of the match award in Spain Sam, I wish you many more in the colors of FC Barcelona".
"Thank you".
"And thank you too for having us…," The reporter was interrupted just as she was about to complete her sentence.
One of her assistants showed her an iPad.
Smiling apologetically at Sam, she looked at the iPad and what she saw made her face change imdiately.
Sam noticed that change, he also noticed that the eyes with which the others in this interview stand looked at him changed too.
'What happened?' He thought.
Slightly excited but showing caution, the female reporter looked at Sam again, asking. "Sam, an unrelated question, but did you once have a girlfriend in Nigeria before making the switch to Europe?"
"Huh?"
…
About a minute later when Sam walked back to his team's dressing room, he could not help but think back to the female reporter's question.
'What a weird question'.
'A girlfriend in Nigeria?' He scoffed. 'I was a miserable single mother*cker then, those materialistic money-driven ladies won't settle for !'
Thinking, he walked into the dressing room.
Sam could not help but notice…, the looks that his teammates gave to him was not what he expected after such a performance from him.
'Hmmm…, are we not supposed to be celebrating?'
…
(ESPN News:)
(El juego de Sam!)
(Sam steals the show in matchday 4 of the Spanish La Liga! In a ga when Barca needed their new talisman the most, the attacking midfielder showed up as a striker, saving Barca's blushes and rescuing them a point in the Reale Arena!)
(Click this link to watch highlights of Sam's performance=)
…
(Supersport News:)
(Samuel Moses is a striker!)
(2-2 as Samuel Moses runs riot in the final 10 minutes of the ga in Reale Arena, rescuing a point for FC Barcelona and ending the ga in a stalemate!)
(Click to watch the best monts of Sam's performance in the Reale :)
(Is Samuel Moses the rock upon which Barcelona must build their hopes for a Robert Lewandowski replacent? Can the young Nigerian midfielder transform into a lethal striker?)
…
(Barca Blaugranes:)
(A Sam masterpiece in Reale Arena!)
(A 2-goal man of the match display in Reale Arena! Watch the best monts of our new superstar=)
A lot of posts like this dominated social dia imdiately after the ga in Reale Arena in San Sebastian but amid the mountain of congratulatory news, a certain news was building montum, an extrely controversial one.
(BBC News:)
(Sam, the maverick footballer, or a notorious sexual assault?)
(Videos and images attached=)
A storm brewed online.
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