The Trials and Tribulations of the Gava - 150 Words Story Challenge
The Trials and Tribulations of the Gava
It could've been so sweet. Former soccer star Vinnie Gavagan and his wife Valorie Smacksworth were the wet dream of the yellow press. Her, the international pop idol, best known as 'Sour Puss' of the 'East End Slags'. Him, 'the Gava', infamous for kung-fu kicking a fan once and telling the Duke of Cockermouth to 'shut up'.
Legend says Vinnie and Valorie met during a benefit for kids with multiple sclerosis, when the fearless Gava ran into Sour Puss after confusing bathrooms. Love at first sight, and so it went. Nine month later Valorie would give birth to her son: Johnny Vegas Gavagan, the first. More kids would follow.
Recently the Gava and Sour Puss went through an ugly, very public divorce and settled for splitting their combined net-worth of $120 million. Meanwhile Gavagan announced his plans for a comeback.
Godspeed, Gava!
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An enjoyable story,how romantic how they met and used thebsame bathroom. I love it and ignore the divorce and Gava's comeback. Comeback as...
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In my headcanon this is the middle or third part of a trilogy. You see, after his divorce the Gava went through an accelerated midlife crisis and started drinking a little more than usual. Degenerate parties, heads hanging over toilets, crashed sports cars, and so on. Like punching one or two paparazzi and going viral (not in a good way). That sort of thing.
Either way, after some shennanigans Gava's manager convinces him to meet with a few functionaries of the national team, basically getting the band back together. This comes with a catch though, because they don't actually want him to win, it's just politics (more or less implied). So after being somewhat hesitant at first he drives through his old neighborhood and sees a bunch of happy young boys playing soccer and rediscovers his own love for football. He calls up his manager and agrees.
Gava struggles. He barely manages to get in shape, maybe using unconventional methods, and somehow him and his team of misfits end up second place during the qualification round of the upcoming World Cup in Italy. Gava gets cocky again and decides he wants Sour Puss back. He falls into bad habits, like getting in fights with fans and has his lowest moment when a kid tells him he's ashamed of having worn Gava's Jersey. He realize him and Sour Puss aren't in love anymore and all she cares about is fame.
He apologizes to the public and him and the boys take the journey to Italy. They win the World Cup against Germany and Gava makes up with the fan he assaulted once. He retires and moves back to his old neighborhood coaching a youth football team...
Something like that. I guess this is pretty much just Major League but with soccer. He could fall in love with a more humble woman along the way. Someone he overlooked. Like a cute veterinarian who treated his dog. You get it.
Originally this was more like meant to be semi-ironic shitpost, but I'm enjoying this idea way more than I should. It's strange how this felt far easier than the 150 words. That stuff actually had me in the ropes for a while.
I agree with you. It's way harder to write a short story. It's a puzzle to make it flow and end somehow. Still, I like to give it a try, good for the brain and it makes me look at words in a different way. Not necessary to keep the storyline intact can be removed.
It's how editing works.
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And here is the rest of the story. 👍
The first part made me laugh, good to continue reading but if it comes to it what a life and kind of burden to realize you are no longer hot, it's hard to get in shape. But hey, they won and it reminds me of 'shut up' written by @ibesso.
Sport sounds like a mix of politics and addictive behaviour not very sportive.
I guess all left for him is to get a dog!
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