BBWT- that stands for "Babies Born With Talent". Down the street from us there are about 20 boys who have put together a soccer team. We saw them playing one day on the street and jumped into their game, passing the ball with them. We noticed how flat their ball was, so we asked them to walk the last few paces with us to our apartment where we had a few really nice 'street soccer balls'. We donated one to their team and before you knew it they asked us to sponsor them! Oh boy, what did we get ourselves into. They said they needed jersey's, shoes, socks, and shin guards. We said that we couldn't make any promises but would see what we could do for them. I quickly e-mailed my friend Cheryl in the states and put in a request for some soccer jersey's.
The boys have been asking us to come watch them play. One day they came by our apartment and escorted us to one of their games against another neighborhood team. The field is a sand lot with high walls, some of which have barbed wire on top of them (and yes, they have already come to us once to get their ball repaired!). At one point in the game the ball got kicked over the wall into a residential yard. The man wouldn't give the boys their ball back. The boys and their coach pleaded with the man but to no avail. Finally, John climbed the wall and spoke to the man, who was old and crotchety, telling him that the ball was ours and that we gave it to the boys as a gift. The man finally relented, but for a fee. We had to pay him to get the ball back! I guess this has happened before, but instead of getting the ball back, the man just popped it. Our team won! They really are very good. Afterwards we surprised them by treating them to cookies.
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