"Babe?" I yell from the bathroom.

"Yes?" Tobin says when she comes into the bathroom.

"Can you help me?" I ask and hold out my tie and necklace.

Tobin playfully rolls her eyes and puts my necklace with her initials around my neck then she grabs my tie and puts it around my neck and starts tying the tie.

"You'd think by now you'd know how to tie these things."

"Maybe I just like you doing it." I say with a cheeky smile as Tobin finishes tying my tie.

"Then I'll keep doing it." Tobin says then she pecks my lips. "I love you."

"I love you too." I say with a smile.

"I should probably get ready shouldn't I?" Tobin questions.

"If you wanna make the start of the game I would."

"Bye." Tobin says and pecks my lips.

Tobin and I leave the bathroom then I go and sit in my twin's locker.

A couple minutes later Kelley sits down on my lap so I run my fingers through her hair for a minute then I put my twin's hair into her pony tail. I then rest my head on my twins back as she paints my nail.

"Alright I'm done." Kelley says so I hug my twin.

"Love you Kelloggs."

"Love you Strides." I say then Kelley gets off my lap.

I get out of my twin's locker then look over the line up one last time.

Once I've checked over the line up I stand in front of the team.

"Nice suit Astrid." Christen says.

"Thanks." I say with a smile. I say with a smile then I get into my last minute team talk. "...do you're last minute things then everyone get to where you need to be."

The team nod and everyone starts doing what they need to do to get ready

"Astrid." I hear my wife say then she waves me over so I walk over to her.

"Yes?" I question.

"Can you keep this safe?" Tobin says and hands me her wedding ring.

"Of course Boo Bear." I say.

I unclasp my gold T necklace then I slide Tobin's wedding ring onto the chain before I clasp it back and put it around my neck.

"There we go." I say and smile at my wife. "Nice and safe."

"Thanks." Tobin says.

"Of course." I say then hug my wife.

After our hug Tobin finishes up with her pre match stuff while I stand around with the coach's and we talk amongst ourselves. A few minutes later everyone is ready so the coaching staff along with the sub head to the bench while the starters line up into the tunnel. Thirty seconds later the starters for both sides come onto the pitch then we stand for the anthems.

When the anthems ends I shake hands with Phil Neville then I return to my team and we do the last minute huddle. After the huddle everyone heads to their positions either on the field or on the bench then a few seconds later Christen kicks off the game.

The first 20 or so minutes are very entertaining, but nothing comes of any chances.

In the 22nd minute Sofia intercepts the ball then she plays a ball up field to Moe. Moe is covered by one of the English women so she dummies the ball and it goest through both of their legs then the Georgian spins the English woman and runs on to the ball. Moe then sprints down the sideline closest to me with the ball with Nobbs is closing in on her.

"Wolf wolf wolf." I say as Moe sprints by me.

Moe picks her head up and see's Mal making a run so she plays a through ball into the forward's path. Mal runs onto the ball and runs towards goal, but Leah Williamson forces her wide. Mal does a few skill moves and drops Williamson then she crosses the ball into the box. Moe, who kept on running, jumps in front of Bright and heads the ball past the English keeper making the score 1-0.

"Bout time." I mumble as I return to the bench.

The girls on the field hug Moe then they return to our side of the field and England restarts the game.

Right before halftime Sam steals the ball from Ellen White then she boots it up field toward Christen. Christen being Christen turns on the jets and out runs everyone to the ball then she sprints towards goal. My brunette best friend then side foots the ball around the English Keeper giving us a 2-0 lead going into halftime.

"Well that came out of nowhere." Ali says as the ref blows her whistle for halftime.

The coaches and I head into the locker room and I use the bathroom, wash my hands, grab a Powerade, then wait for the team to enter the locker room. Once everyone is in the locker room I talk about what I liked and didn't like from the team in the first half then I make some adjustments on the tactical side of things.

"...Overall a very solid first half so good job on that. I'm not taking anybody off just yet so do whatever you need to do then lets got kill this game off."

The team nods so I finish off my Powerade then head out with everybody for the second half.

England restart the half so I relax in my seat for the first twenty or so minutes of the game since nothing happens.

In the 66th minute Sofia plays a weak pass back to Aubrey. Parris sees the pass is weak so she chases down the ball. Bledsoe comes off her line and makes like she's going to kick the ball upfield which causes Parris to jump in the air to block it. Aubrey then fakes the forward out and ball rolls her then passes to Staab.

"OH SHIT." I hear Ash yell as she, Jane, Alyssa, and I all get off the bench and celebrate Aubrey faking out someone.

"YEAH AUBREY." I yell then I hear a whistle blow so I look towards the whistle and see Mal down holding her leg.

As the AT's run onto the field I head over to Ali since she has the ear piece in.

"They're saying she has a full leg cramp." Ali relays. "And she needs to come out."

"Alright." I say then I look down at the subs warming up. "CRYSTAL."

Crystal looks at me and I wave her over so she comes jogging towards me.

"Yes coach?" Crystal questions.

"You're going in upfront for Mal." I say as someone hands Crystal her jersey so she puts it on.

"Alright." Crystal says then we walk over to the fourth official.

"You go to the left and tell Tobin to move to the right."

"Got it." Crystal says then she jogs on the field as Mal walks off.

When Mal gets to me I wrap an arm around her then help her to the bench.

"You alright Mal Pal?" I ask.

"Stupid cramps." Mal says as Lindsey approaches us.

"At least it's just a cramp." I say then Lindsey takes Mal and leads her to where the trainers tell her to go.

I head back to the bench and sit there for the rest of the game, only moving when I sub in Ashley Hatch and Vanessa DiBernardo for Christen and Sam, respectively.

After the game ends, with us winning 2-0, I walk over and shake the Phil Neville's hand along with the rest of the English coaching staff then I head on field and shake the refs hands. Once that's done I walk around the field and talk to my players.

"Great job you too." I say and hug Sofia and Kristie.

"Thanks coach." The two Dash players say.

"KRISTIE." Sam shouts then she jumps on her older sister.

"Wow." Sofia says and the two of us laugh.

"We'll talk more later." I say then I continue talking to my players.

I talk to everyone on the team and purposefully leave my favorite player for last.

"Hey Boo Bear." I say and hug my wife.

"Hi baby." Tobin says and smiles into my neck.

"Oh." I say and unclasp my necklace then I grab Tobin's ring. "Here ya go."

"Thanks." Tobin says and put the wedding ring back on her left hand. "So how'd you like managing the national team."

"I think I'm gonna like being the manager."