Modern+Shakespeare+Retelling+RGJ

Hamlet the Soccer Player

It was a very gloomy day as dark grey clouds covered the sky.You could almost feel it in the atmosphere as if something bad were about to happen. As my team departed from the hotel to the team bus I started to think about the death of my father. I said to myself what kind of cruel human being would do such a thing to an innocent loving man. My father has done nothing but dedicate his life to coaching the USA soccer team.

I could no longer focus on the game because I was in such deep thought about my fathers death. I stood up and went to the bathroom which was located at the back of the bus. As I was in the bathroom I started to feel tension in the air and it was then that my father appeared to me as a ghost. He said that he had come to me with a message. He told me the actual story of what had happened to him. Claudius is the murderer of my father! I supposed he killed my father because he was jealous of his wealth and privelage to coach one of the best soccer teams who could go on to win the World Cup. At the moment I could not believe his own brother had killed him. My father told me to do one thing and one thing only and that was to kill Claudius.

I have been freaking out this whole bus ride trying to decide whether or not to get revenge. Even if I do decide to kill him I have no idea how to. I'm back in my seat now as the bus driver announces that we willl arrive at the stadium in 15 minutes. I have been trying my hardest to focus on the game which will be taking place in a few hours. I finally managed to get my mind set on the game against Brazil. After a two hour drive from our hotel we finally arrive to the stadium. As I am getting changed into my uniform I start to get sweaty as many people are depending on me to win this game since at this moment I'm ranked number one soccer player in the world.

We ran out on the field and stood in a straight line beside Brazil to sing the national anthem of the United states and of the opposing team Brazil. We are all standing in our positions now as the reffaree blows the whistle and the game begins. We are ten minutes into the soccer game as I get a break away and I am now running down the field with the ball already past all the defenders giving me an easy chance to score a goal. As I approach the goal to shoot the ball the goalie which is Laertes comes charging at me slides gets the ball and his cleats jabbed into my leg. I get up from the fall and I notice green stains on my sock which I thought was from his cleat scraping against me so i did not worry. I started to worry when my leg started to cramp up and then my other leg and thats when I noticed that Laertes had poisoned me. It was an immediate reaction for me to automatically charge at Laertes tackle him and take his same cleat and hit him in the chest so he now would be poisoned as well. I had just figured out that Claudius had given me a cheap shot by commanding Laertes to cleat me with cleats that had poisonous tips. So I ran over to to claudius and I smashed the poisonous cleat on his face multiple times until he went unconsious. I started to feel light headed.

That was the last thought Hamlet had before collapsing to his death in the middle of the soccer field. Soon after Laertes dropped to his death. FInally the last to die was Claudius. This huge trajedy all happened because of the one criminal act Claudius did because of jealousy.