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Jamie collected the ball and turned in the same movement. This was his first real chance to run with the ball and he wasn’t going to waste it.

He sprang forward as if it were the start of a hundred-metre sprint, keeping the ball nice and close as he surged across the turf. As the defender came to confront him, in the corner of his eye he spotted Major free slipping him the ball and racing to the other side of the defender.

Accelerating back on to Major’s return pass, Jamie unleashed an instant strike, which roared in from the millisecond it left Jamie’s boot. The ball exploded into the roof of the net with such ferocious venom that the goalkeeper made only the pretence of attempting to save it about a second after it had flashed past him.

 

Jamie wheeled away in delight. He knew what he’d done. He knew that this strike would be played on TVs in countries all over the world. Now people would know that he had truly arrived at Barcelona.

And at the same time, this was not Jamie’s goal alone. Immediately, he went to hug Major and Rodinaldo, and the three of them – arm in arm – then jogged joyously over to share the celebrations with Godal.

Jamie looked up at the travelling Barcelona fans – the new members of his family – and felt his heart heave with pride.

This truly was a beautiful game and it was exactly, unmistakably what he had been put on this earth to do.

And nothing could ever change that.

Or at least that was what he thought.

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Jamie Johnson scores a hat-trick on his debut for Barcelona

 

 

 

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