Greatest Of All Legends

***8th January 2022***

**Shalom City Hotel, Garoua, Cameroon**

*5:54pm*

The Nigerian team had already made the trip to Cameroon where the CAF competition was being held the previous and had begun onsite training today.

After a day of training, the players were free to rest for the rest of the day.

Some chose to have a quick dinner and go to sleep, some headed out to explore the city a little.

Jason, Iwobi, Aina, Chukwueze, Iheanacho and Awoniyi were just having dinner at one of the restaurants at the hotel after having been a bit distracted talking for a while.

Now they had moved their conversation to the restaurant where they were having their dinner concurrently.

"Wetin you dey video sef?" Iheanacho asked Iwobi who had had his phone out quite a few times during the day, even during the training session.

"The brother dey do blog. Ummuna content creator," Chukwueze said and they were all burst into laughter.

As they laughed, the door of the restaurant was pushed open by a doorman and a girl walked in.

All the eyes that fell on her stayed locked on as she walked by and it wasn’t without reason.

With a headful of thick braids tied up in a bun above her head and a slightly made up face that couldn’t hide its enamel chocolate color, she instantly garnered attention.

Most importantly, she was thiccc.

Jason was a bit more focused on his food and only glanced up when he noticed the sudden silence at the table, catching sight of the girl.

But like they say, comparison is the thief of joy.

For Jason who had met women like Adele, Temz, and many others, not to mention the women he had had trysts with in his previous reality, the woman who had just walked in was not that impressive.

Rolling his eyes at the others, Jason waited till she was out of earshot before saying,

"You guys can stop gaping now."

The others turned and glancing at each other with a smirk full of conversation, they nodded at each other with dirty smiles.

"Guy, that girl badddd," Chukwueze was the first to break the silence.

"I’m telling you bro. Ahn ahn, see yansh," Taiwo Awoniyi said, glancing again at the girl as she walked towards a table.

"You will not put that one in your blog. Instead it’s rap that doesn’t have rhyme you will be doing up and down," Chukwueze said to Iwobi and everyone burst out laughing.

"This place may not be too boring after all," Aina nodded to himself, approving what he was looking at.

"You like woman too much," Chukwueze slapped the back of his head.

"Wait wait wait, there’s five of us and only one girl. You guys should go find yours, this one’s mine," Chukwueze immediately called dibs.

"Four of you actually, I don’t want none of that," Jason quickly extricated himself from the lot’s plans.

"Why will you want? When it’s Temz you’ve been bending over, why will you want this one. Or you think we don’t know your doings?" Chukwueze retorted, giving Jason a bombastic side eye.

Jason almost choked on the orange juice he was drinking.

"*Cough* *Cough* We’re just friends bruh," Jason managed to reply, but none of the others at the table was intent on believing him in the slightest.

"Yes yes, friends. Friends with big big benefits," Awoniyi said, making a circular gesture with his hands, his voice not short of sarcasm either.

"She’s literally someone I just talk with," Jason tried to explain but Iwobi countered before he could even finish.

"And Adele is just someone you work with, eh?"

"Gbam!" Iheanacho put his hands up as if to say, "all that needs to be said have been said".

"Bro be doing that pillow talk while hitting it from the back," Aina added causing the guys who had been holding back their laughter to burst.

Even Jason gave up and laughed, wondering how he ended up with this unhinged group of people.

As they laughed, the door of the restaurant opened again and four other women walked in, each with differing charm, but just as beautiful as the one who walked in earlier.

Surprisingly, they walked to her table and sat, conversing and relating like close friends, making it clear that they were a friend group of their own.

"I guess the number matches now, innit?" Jason smiled, happy they were enough girls to occupy these guys so they could get off his case.

"Since you’re retired and have achievements that are enough to be undisputed, you’re the manager, show us the way forward sir," Chukwueze turned to Jason, letting him know he was mistaken.

They were not getting off his case anytime soon.

"And please remember that we don’t have your... Skillset," Aina added, gesturing to his face while the others nodded.

’Ah whatever,’ Jason thought, giving up.

"So what we’re playing here is the 1-2-1-1 formation," Jason immediately got in character.

"Aleix, you’re my striker, you’re going to be leading the attack. Walk up to them girls and drop a few lines,"

"Ola, you’ll be right behind him playing the role of second striker, you’re his wingman. The goal is to invite the whole group over to come eat with you guys," Jason added, turning to Ola Aina.

"After they come over," Jason continued but was interrupted by Iwobi.

"What if they don’t agree to come over, what then?" Aleix asked.

"I’m right here man, just show them our table and they’ll come over," Jason scoffed and went right back to explaining, ignoring the looks the other were giving him after hearing his reply.

"Like I was saying, when the girls come over, this is where you play your part Sam," Jason turned to Chukwueze.

"You have to control the game. Make jokes, do what you can do keep the conversation flowing, just do you. And as the middle men, your job is to join him in controlling the game," He added, turning to the final two.

"After that, you pick your targets, make your moves and well, it’s your show,"

"Are we clear?" Jason asked the guys.

"Omo, see tactics masterclass,"

"The guy too good,"

"With all these tactics, you want to tell me you aren’t tapping Temz? Even God won’t believe you,"

"You go explain tire," the guys laughed among themselves.

"Get to work and leave my own matters alone, abeg," Jason rolled his eyes at them and went back to his food.

Without saying, with Jason’s tactics and their status as young handsome and fit men, it wasn’t too difficult to get the girls to join them at their table.

The light in the girls eyes were especially bright as they looked at Jason, especially since he looked familiar, but Jason soon left the table and let the others have their fun.