From: hooshyar@scrp.Stanford.EDU (Hooshyar)
Subject: Gol koocheek (Part 3 of 4)
Organization: Stanford Cardiac Rehab Program
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 17:00:55 GMT

                           Behind Amjadieh                   (Part 3 of 4)
                           ===============

By now everybody knew who Mr. tabrizi was.  The football game had become
a big problem for us; we had to find a way to resume our games.  It diddn't
take long until one day a player came to school with a smiling face and
electrifying eyes.  He told us that he had fount a quiet street suitable 
for football.  It was one block from school and right behind Amjadieh
Stadium.  In fact the street was adjacent the football field number 2 in
Amjadieh.

We promptly inspected the street at lunch time, and it looked like the
description our player had given.  The street was wide, although it 
suffered from a downhill toward south.  The slope was not much to affect
the game.  The street asphalt surface, on the other hand, was much softer
and newer than the coarse surface at the school yard.

There was only one problem.  There existed a relatively deep cement
brook at the sidewalk.  If the ball fell into the brook we had to stop
the game.  For this reason we decided to call the brook out of field.
Fortunately it looked that the brook would not collect any water in
it.  It was merely constructed to collect water due to spring showers.

At the sidewalk there were few residential houses that looked vacant
during lunch since we couldn't see any cars parked there.  At the
other side of the street we faced the wonderful tall wall of the
Stadium with its red bricks which would keep the ball from falling
over into the Stadium platforms that were built for the crowd.

We also had to come up with a way to designate the goal posts since
there were no basketball poles any more.  That was easy.  We would put
couple of bricks on top of each other.  In fact this was a better field
than that of the school because we could now play with big goals, and  
because of the width of the street more players could play at a given game.
Every thing was ready.  We just needed to pick up a time.

We reached the conclusion that early mornings were not advisable.  The
neighbors were sleep at that time and they would definitely complain.
Best time was lunch time from from 12 to 1, and in the afternoons after
school was over.

After few weeks we adapted so comfortably to the new field that if
somebody asked us to play in the awkward square shape of the school
yard, we would take it as an insult.  Everyday at noon and in the 
afternoon we would play football behind Amjadieh.  The games had taken
another dimension since those early morning days at the beginning of the
school year, and they were extended to a well-established football league
where every class was represented with a team.  In some cases such as
my ninth grade class, there were even more than one team per class
since our class had so many skilled footbal players.  New teams wouuld
form as days passed on.  It was evolution at work!

The most exciting days were those afternoons when our teachers wouldn't 
show up and we would be released earlier.  This meant three hours of non-
stop football.  Recently playing for rewards and trophies had in fact 
generated a stimulating motive to play more.  The name 'behind Amjadieh'
was mentioned everywhere, and it was spread out like a commodity name 
throughout the school.  We were totally unaware of the fact that one of
these days it would also reach our very beloved superintendent Mr.
Tabrizi.

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                 ********  TO BE CONTINUED  ********

Next episode:  Another dream is shattered by Mr. Tabrizi.  He really 
tries to make us look miserable.

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