Dimension: 3000 Fairy Tales
Author: Peter Matthew Check
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Date: 8 August, 2025
This is Ginger.👆
A little puppy who loves being in the world. Just like all of us. He has many adventures and today we will tell you about one of them.
One day he went to school, as usual, but he had no idea that a BIG SURPRISE would be waiting for him there.
The teacher announced to everyone that there would be a ⚽BIG INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL FOOTBALL TOURNAMENT🎓 and Ginger and his class were chosen to represent the whole school. IT WAS GREAT NEWS!👇
Ginger and his friends went to a school in Australia🇦🇺 called Pinewood Primary.🌲 And it was a great honor and a huge prestige to represent this school.
And that's why all the kids took it really seriously and everyone was looking forward to the tournament.
It was international and other schools from England🏴, Ireland🇮🇪 and Scotland🏴 also came. There was a lot of hype around it.
Ginger and his classmates, because they were playing on home soil, really, really wanted to win the whole tournament. It would mean a lot to everyone. They were all still young and this was a really big event in their lives.
And so the day of the first match came. The mood was good.👆 Everyone believed in themselves.
The tournament was played in a knockout format. If you lost - bad luck, you're out. However, if Ginger and his classmates win - they will go through the semi-finals and finally the GRAND FINAL! That was a challenge.
The tension before the first match was great, but there was a smile on their faces and everyone couldn't wait to kick the ball.
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And the moment came!
The match was tough and tiring. The opponent from the English school was really good, well trained, because, after all, they invented football in England. Ginger tried, his friends tried, but it turned out that effort alone is not enough.
Ginger soon started to run out of strength. After a while, he was just crawling around the field, gasping for breath, and falling until he scraped his knees and scraped all his elbows. 👇
And in the end he had to substitute, which made him very sad and he took it as his great shame. His opponents laughed at him, shouted at him, insulted him and poor Ginger had to drink the cup of bitterness to the bottom. It was a really hard time for him.
His friends consoled him, but Ginger's world was collapsing.
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He went home like a body without a soul and was beaten and very, very sad. 👆 He felt like he had let everyone down and most of all, he felt like he had let himself down. He couldn't even finish the match... He didn't help his friends and his team lost shamefully 5-0 and was eliminated from the international football tournament in the first round.
At home, he told his father everything.
He opened his puppy heart and honestly recounted how it all happened:👇
His dad listened carefully and immediately had a solution: "Ginger, crying won't fix anything. You're still young, but there's no need to cry! Wipe the tears from your eyes and listen carefully... We all learn from our own losses. There is no champion in the world who wins always and everything. Champions are born from losses. Keep that in mind. Your loss can be a step towards a great victory!"
Ginger listened carefully to his dad and his tearful eyes quickly dried up and slowly began to shine with a spark of hope that his father's words had sown in his heart.
"Just effort and enthusiasm are not enough," his father said soothingly: "You also have to train hard and sacrifice a lot for it. Then you will truly become a champion. It is not an easy path, but you will improve. It is worth going through. Shall we embark on it together?"
Ginger agreed enthusiastically!
He wanted to train, he wanted to succeed in a year and show everyone that he and his school are the best.
He wanted to subordinate everything to this dream.
And so his new journey began - the journey to pursue his football dream, to win the tournament and become his best player and scorer!
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Dad prepared everything carefully. He and Ginger drew up training plans, prepared training diaries and menus, because it's good to write everything down in notebooks, so that we can see how honestly we train, so that we can see our improvement, our progress.
There must be no empty, unfilled spaces in such a training diary. Because they mean that we messed up, that we didn't do something - AND THAT NEEDS TO BE CORRECTED IMMEDIATELY!
That's why the 💪TRAINING PLAN👆 is very IMPORTANT, which Ginger's dad knew well and they prepared everything nicely and clearly in advance.
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And then all you had to do was stick to the plan and REALLY FOLLOW IT.
It all started early in the morning. No sleeping in - the alarm clock was set to wake them up with the sunrise, because a true champion doesn't skimp and knows how to deny himself comfort and laziness.
Anyone who plays sports and exerts their body must also provide it with proper nutrition. It's like a rocket!🚀 If you put good fuel in it, it will fly fast and for a long time💥🚀, if you fill it with bad fuel - its engine will soon seize and it won't even reach the moon📉🌑.
Gingers's dad knew this well, so their entire training plan started with a healthy breakfast, which included milk🐄, preferably whey🥛, and oatmeal, eggs🥚, cornflakes🌽, healthy toast🍞, and lots of vegetables:🥗👇
Ginger took it really seriously. He cut down on sweets, candies, and chocolate, and ate salads and only healthy foods for snacks, dinner, and even lunch.
At first he was a little disgusted by them, but...👇
...HE FINALLY FOUND OUT HOW EXCELLENT AND GOOD THEY ARE AND HE EAT THEM WITH TASTE AND PLEASURE!!! 👇 🥕🥝🍓🍇🥦🥗👍
However, a healthy diet is one thing, but it cannot replace training, so Ginger, under the guidance of his dad, strengthened his muscles and trained really hard to have stamina and be a great football player with good fitness.👇
The next part of their training plan was, of course, playing with the ball + all the football skills.👇
It was indeed challenging, but Ginger faithfully stuck to the plan, replenished fluids, maintained a drinking regimen, and maintained a diet - everything he and his dad wrote down in their sports diary, in their TRAINING SCHEDULE📝:
He also did not underestimate the training of the mind, which we call mental training, and so he imagined and dreamed about winning! 🥇
Ginger improved with every training session, every day, and got closer to his dream - to be a truly valuable and great player in football! 👇
And so the puppy Ginger really trained honestly and very conscientiously for a whole year. Then, when he had learned everything and knew what to do, he no longer needed his father, and his father no longer helped him or measured the time or counted the exercises. Ginger could do it all by himself!
And so all that was left was his determination, his strong will and his desire to train hard enough to show himself in the best light at the tournament.⚽⭐
He sacrificed a lot, everything, for his dream of success, and so he couldn't wait to put on the "Pinewood Primary" jersey again and show the whole world what a good footballer he had become, thanks to hard training and diligence.
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The year flew by and it was tournament time.
Once again, schools came from England 🏴, Ireland 🇮🇪 and Scotland 🏴. The game was played with the same system as last year. First round, semi-finals and then... for the two most successful teams - the GRAND FINALE, for the Grand Cup of the International Football Tournament!
And the day of the match came!
Ginger left home full of determination and hope. He hoped and looked forward to showing everything he had trained for the whole long year:👇
There was a great atmosphere in the Pinewood school team.
"We can't end up like last year," the bunny, who played midfielder, was encouraging everyone because he was very agile.
"Don't worry, kids, we'll win!" Ginger was encouraging everyone. He was given a place in the attack because everyone saw how much he had improved in football, how good his condition was, and it was believed that he would capitalize on the work of the entire team, score a lot of goals, and push Pinewood school to the final!
"We'll win!" agreed Panda, who played in defense because he was strong and was also the team captain: "It can't be a shame like last year!"
"It won't be. We'll win!" also encouraged everyone by the kitten, who, because he was small but agile, played on the wing: "I'll pass to Ginger for all the goals!"
At that moment, Ginger remembered how the English laughed at him last year, but he didn't hold it against them.
He had a great motivation to show the English how much he had improved: "Yeah, we'll beat them all and the cup will stay at home - in Australia!🇦🇺 "
His friends and teammates solemnly and in unison shouted: "HIP, HIP, HURRAY... !!! " and then their big time has come!
It was a great honor and prestige, and real judges came as referees👇 with experience with whistled big football matches for adults!
The opponents were very good - especially Meadowhill school, from England 🏴.
The tournament started. And Ginger really showed everyone how well and hard he trained.
He pushed himself, gave it his all, and played really well! 👇
His dream came true. Together with his classmates, they won all the matches of the tournament and won, for the PINEWOOD school, the BIG CUP!
It was a really great joy and a GREAT GLORY!👇
Ginger, with five goals in three matches, became the tournament's top scorer and was also named its BEST PLAYER! 🏅👇
And when all the celebrations died down, he happily walked home to tell his parents the great news, because his BIG DREAM, for which he had worked so hard, had come true. A dream for which he had sacrificed so much. And now he could say, deservedly: "Yes, I did it! :)"
And of course, a BIG THANK YOU went to dad - and it was such a big thank you that the little dog couldn't even express it...
... and that's why he wrote it on card and, with the cup and a photo of him with his dad, he put it all up nicely in a place where everyone could see it clearly.
The thank you note was written from the heart and read as follows:
You made me believe I could.
I love you Papa
- Ginger
💖🏅⚽ And that's the happy end to our story ⚽🏅💖
