R.Betis (Spain): Euro-Soccer Dry-Ct.

A diorama about Euro-club soccer mixed with James Bond intrigue and colored by agent-retirement/romance for a fable about dream-catching!

A soccer-politics yarn featuring a symbolic anticipated Real Betis game (Copa del Rey), inspired by Hotshot. Enjoy, 

DISCLAIMER: I've no formal ties to the club-soccer (Spain) team mentioned in this fictional work and cast this simply as an artistic rendering of European atmospheric sports/soccer drywalls. 

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Seville (Spain) is a terrific tourist-spot in colorful Europe, and it's where the famous Real Betis Spanish soccer-club team hopes to excel this year, repeating a Copa del Rey soccer-title this year when it challenges rival Valencia (Spain) for the title on April 23.

Real Betis has boasted great players in its nice club-soccer history, including Denilson (Brazil) and Oliveira (Brazil), and this year's squad will 'proudly' showcase its awesome green-and-white stripe color uniforms when it challenges rival Valencia (Spain) in the Copa del Rey final game on April, 23 (in this year of the Qatar World Cup!).

Amlan Satan ('Storm-Shadow') is an Interpol-relations office(s) blood-diamond operative who's tracked the ruthless gem-piracy baron Ion to Seville (Spain) when the baron will attend the Betis-Valencia game and showcase his Sierra Leone 'blood-diamonds' to investors in the executive fan-spectators box and unwitting 'buyers' who're unaware of his ties to the underworld. Storm-Shadow (Amlan Satan) will attend the executive fan-box festivities (as a costumed 'thespian-artist') during the Betis-Valencia game to swap Ion's gems with toys for a media stunt, while serving as an assistant offensive coordinator for Real Betis, making him something of a James Bond of blood-diamond news/lore.

STORM-SHADOW: I'll have an artist-entourage fan-groupie 'team' at the Betis-Valencia game in prep for the thespian-heist.

Fortunately, this is not the first time Real Betis ('Betis') has reached the Copa del Rey final, and its 2005 triumph over Osasuna reminded fans why this offbeat/colorful Spanish club-team has reached the 'pretty heights' of modern broadcast-era world/club-soccer dreams.

STORM-SHADOW: Betis' nice history buffers/cushions for fanbase sanity will give me 'leg-room' to avert offices destruction!

Yeah, no one wants corporate/media deformity or distraction during the executive fan-box blood-diamond swap mission for Interpol-relations during the Betis-Valencia game in Spain, and so, Real Betis' 'cushy' leg-room for history of soccer-audience securities will create the right space(s) for Storm-Shadow to 'sneak-in' the blood-diamond subtle swap-stunt folklore which shouldn't distract journalism tides reporting simply on what Betis has offered fans craving for sane/peaceful world-club sportsmanship the required buffer-room for this sideshow of James Bond diamond-piracy ominousness.

During the executive fan-box festivities inside the Copa del Rey stadium game between Betis-Valencia, Storm-Shadow (Amlan Satan) entertains the guests, including Ion, with juggling and water-gun theatrics in his costume and then shows-off his toy gems, which draws out the executive crowd to motivate Ion to bring out his safe-stored 'blood-diamonds' for public display in front of the thespian-artist ('Storm-Shadow'), and during this display, this European James Bond manages to swiftly swap the blood-diamonds with the toy gems in his theater-prop bag in his pocket while distracting the executive audience with a twirling dance-routine symbolizing aristocratic sports-fanfare detention inside the fan-box (during the Betis-Valencia Halftime show festivities on the field!).

After halftime, Storm-Shadow (Amlan Satan) sneaks back into the coaching-area of the Betis-Valencia Rey championship-game on the field and re-integrates himself un-costumed as the assistant offensive-coordinator of the Real club-soccer team and advises the head-coach/manager to devise a nifty/handy 4-4-2 give-and-go frontline offense-striker charge involving diagonal lob-and-thru passes designed to distract/disorient the defense in the 2nd half, and the plan works, and Betis defeats Valencia in the Copa del Rey final-game 4-3, and Storm-Shadow returns home (DC) as a 'temp coach' with suddenly divine Betis-club laurel-mementos!

STORM-SHADOW: I'm in the States for an alma-mater (Dartmouth-Ivy) title-game for 'normal' college soccer glories.

At the Dartmouth-Ivy alumni-gathering game, Satan meets an old friend from college, Ezzy, an Algerian-American who's now a political linguistics theory professor in New England and whispers to her, "What if I told you I left Ivy sanity for more 'James Bond' like work in Europe and seek some peaceful retirement-plan with a beautiful intelligent woman in the States?" Ezzy turns to Satan (Amlan!) and replies, "You think I'm a magazine-photo angel you saw in a photo representing Western traffic diaries, eh?" Amlan hoped Ezzy was simply being distant.

STORM-SHADOW: I think retiring from all this blood-diamond masquerade/infiltration work will cast a 'light' on my face!

Amlan/Ezzy married and he bought their newborn son (Damian) a nifty tabletop-soccer game and bought company/corporate shares of the old team which brought him 'James Bond' fortune(s) in his past-life, Real Betis. When his son Damian grew into boyhood and became a fan of soccer media and Betis-fanfare, Amlan told him, "Games/sports are superior to political machinations, my dear good boy!"

EZZY: I think that Betis game you coached as a 'temp' was your finest memory of sanity, darling.

AMLAN: I agree; Betis deserved that Rey title-win over rival Valencia; I'll remember it as the 'kickoff' to my retirement.

EZZY: Never underestimate the 'pure context' of work-history decency, right?
AMLAN: I'll remember how soccer brought you to my life-road and back into your soul!

EZZY: Geez, maybe I should become as big a fan of Real Betis as Damian.

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"Money is everything" (Ecclesiastes)