REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, By: Asma Nadia
REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, A student from Indonesia who is studying at Leicester planning to go home and want to take a souvenir from the city. Leicester City jersey was then chosen as memorializing.
When choosing a shirt, the seller ask if he want to add labels to the Premier League at the jersey. The university student rejected it, firstly because of the price tag is not cheap, second, and this is the most important reason, this club is under threat of relegation. That is mean Premier League label can be together with Leicester jersey if the club nicknamed The Foxes is relegated.
The above description is an overview of Leicester last year. In April 2015, Leicester still in bottom of the Premier League and in danger of relegation.
However, after a successful through from relegation last season, Leicester City’s story this season like a fairy tale that is happening in the real world.
The club, which last year had to be at the bottom now can beat the big clubs who has double wealth, and success as the champion. Leicester became the first low cost club, in the modern era of the English Premier League since 1992, can reach number one position.
Values of Leicester squad today less than 10% of the City squad that has fourth position. Leicester player's salary is only quarter of the salary the players of City. Riyad Mahrez, Leicester player was selected as the best player of the Premier League, beating Mezut Oezil commercially valuable 100 fold higher.
Previously, the Algerian footballer was rejected in various football academies, France and Scotland because of his body frail and unable to compete. Jamie Vardy, Leicester's top scorer, only played in the amateur teams and worked part-time as a labor technician beside of playing football.
With minimal facilities, the club success to make history. Being a first time champion in the highest caste, Leicester need to compete for 48 seasons. The waiting period is the longest history of British club. Media write Leicester "From the losers group become a hero."
For many people, Leicester victory not just makes history, but also a source of inspiration.
Striker of Sunderland Jermain Defoe reveals, "The story (Leicester) was outstanding. But you think, if they can do it why can not we?" Defoe said to the British media.
Arsenal’s manager Arsene Wenger welcome the magic of this season, "Of course this is good for English football, this is good for everyone in football around the world to see the teams that do not have a big budget, but they can compete."
What happens to Leicester once again proves that each one of us, God gave the ability to realize the magic. Looking at the blue sky and crowded in the Kinari Bazaar in India, my heart filled with gratitude.
There are crowded in front of my eyes, of what they refer to as food street to gold street. Markets that have been established since long time ago and become a shopping destination for everyone even the kingdom at that time.
Yes, the Muslim kings in Delhi visiting the old market Kinari usually after worshipping at the Badshahi Mosque located at the end Chandiny chowk, the busiest in Delhi.
More than thirty years ago when I still a kid, travel abroad for me is just like a dream that requires a lot of miracles to make it real.
Given our lives living on the edge of the railroad tracks and was minimal. My favorite time was visiting relatives house that have large refrigerators where framed magnets of various countries in the refrigerator's door.
As a teenager, I believe dreams can be achieved by studying hard.
Alhamdulillah, since in elementary, junior high to high school I was always be on top one. But once again to travel on the Allah's earth is impossible.
Because of the various diseases that afflicted me, I was forced to quit college and fail to graduate.
But in my little heart, I want to believe in Allah SWT to make everyone with the potential to create a 'surprise', respectively. With writing, the skills that initially I felt no talent in that field, has become the way of Allah who flew me to 60 countries and 316 cities in the world. To become a hijab traveler.
Apparently it does not need to create a ‘sim salabim’ or a miracle, because each of our lives have been given the ability to realize the wonders of small to large.
Nowadays, we see so many incredible things -almost impossible- scattered around, and often unnoticed even we often ignore that.
In the past, the Iraqi national team, when in a state of war and internal commotion, could be the champion of Asia. Or Singapore, a small and poor country since its establishment, but became one of the richest and most advanced countries in the world. Indonesian nation could also be a nation in the world with all the potentials.
And also every human, all are given the ability, commonly hidden and waiting to be found to realize their dreams. The question is, do we want to be part of so many hard workers who beat impossibility. Or just stunned and just be a witness for surprises and miracle series created by life fighters.
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