Amon of Juventus

[Abishai100]

Soccer has become a very popular world sport, but it continues to gain in national following in America, despite the outstanding successes of the US women's national team in the World Cup. Perhaps that's because there are few investments in the men's national team, even though soccer is considered a 'chic' sport in high-schools and colleges across America.

That's why I thought it would be intriguing to create a soccer horror/murder tale, to characterize our general social interest in balancing athletics with unusual folklore and to hopefully generate more interest in America for the offbeat 'magic' and charm of world soccer!

Why aren't there more appealing crime-stories based on sports? I myself am a fan of the film The Last Boy Scout and would love to see a Dean Koontz or horror-comics novel about soccer themed folklore.

Should we focus on inspiring sports-crime novels in the 21st Century? What do you think, folks?

This yarn was loosely-inspired by the modern film American Psycho.



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Amon graduated from Michigan State after immigrating from Germany. He got a scholarship for his soccer skills and helped the MSU Spartans reach the national semifinals in the grand NCAA tournament. Amon decided to accept a lucrative offer from the European/Italian popular club team Juventus after graduating. Amon moved to Italy with his girlfriend Clarice and bought a nice apartment in Florence. He became the Juventus starting striker for the 2020 season and wanted Clarice to attend all the games.

Amon became Juventus' top-scorer in 2020 and the top-scorer of the entire Italian Serie A league and helped his team top the table. Juventus even qualify for the awesome UEFA Champions League tournament. Clarice was so happy and proud of her shining-star soccer beau Amon, but she had no idea he was hiding a terrifying dark secret that season. You see, Amon was doubling as a masked serial-killer named the Panther, butchering households and stealing their jewelry. Amon killed mostly Italian aristocrats.

Amon was a true psychopath. He reasoned to himself that the European/Italian spotlight afforded to him by Serie A soccer gave him the unique opportunity to become a 'phantom of mystery' by donning the mantle of the macabre jewel-thief and serial-killer named the Panther. Amon wanted to simply translate his skill at standing out as a sports-world god into transforming himself into a proverbial 'Phantom of the Opera' (and no one would stop him!). Amon/Panther slaughtered over 20 households during his successful 2020 Juventus soccer season.

Amon was finally arrested in the following year while trying to rob and murder the household of a royal Italian family in Venice. He was wearing his characteristic psychotic mask and explained to the Italian police he was trying to steal the valuable jewelry from the royal family house vault so he could gift the booty to the poor people of Sicily! Amon was given the death penalty by the Italian courts and when they asked the eccentric Juventus soccer star why he renounced his shining career as a sports role model, he eerily stated, "The world needs to see why soccer is like a 'damnation' game!"

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[Abishai100]

This is a second chapter (about killer instincts), inspired by the film The Fan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fan_(1996_film)).




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A man named Ray read the stories about Amon of Juventus and decided he was really inspired spiritually. Ray was a real psycho. He worked at a law firm in Manhattan as a clerk and filing manager. He lived alone. Everyday, he came home from work and watched TV while eating his microwaved dinner, sometimes enjoying a small glass of red wine, which his doctor advised him to drink for general health and psychological calmness! Ray was also a big fan of horror films and soccer.

Ray collected horror-comics and Blu-ray discs of all kinds of horror films. He also liked collecting videos of World Cup soccer tournaments and games. He watched these entertainment media on weekends. It was during one of these viewing sessions that he noticed a newspaper story of Amon of Juventus and began tracking his life and activities and criminal deeds! He noted what Amon said before he was executed, regarding social views on the peculiarity of the team-oriented competitive game of soccer.

Ray decided he'd become a copycat killer, modeled after the unusual Amon of Juventus. He decided to make an Internet blog about athletes who turned to crime and focused his blog on the crimes of Amon of Juventus! He also decided to purchase a fancy ADT alarm-system for his Manhattan apartment, so he wouldn't get harassed by European soccer fans living in the New York area who'd perhaps read his blogs about Amon of Juventus. Ray then purchased a silencer-pistol.

In the span of just one year, the eccentric Ray (of Manhattan!) killed over 30 people in the New York area with his handy-dandy silencer-pistol. In this time, Ray also converted from Christianity (his faith since childhood) to Luciferianism (a branch of Satanism/Occultism). Ray used his silencer-pistol to shoot his victims square center in the forehead, claiming the executions were signs of a modern stigmata regarding Americans' general social neglect of soccer. After all, despite the production of incredible World Cup soccer superstars like Maradona (Argentina), Baggio (Italy), and Pele (Brazil), and the successes of the US women's national soccer team (winner of 4 World Cup titles!), soccer was not that popular in America.

Of course, Americans celebrated soccer at the junior and collegiate levels. In fact, Ray was a skilled soccer player in a youth-league in New Jersey when he was a boy. Soccer was popular in youth-leagues, various interstate 'traveling teams' and of course at the collegiate level. However, aside from the now well-invested US women's national soccer team, professional soccer teams in America and even the US men's national soccer team were simply not that popular among American sports fans and TV-viewers. Soccer remained a European, South American, and African sport.

Ray nevertheless wanted to model himself after the serial-killer Amon of Juventus, the European soccer player! Ray used his silencer-pistol to execute over 30 people in the New York area and left messages about why his victims deserved to die as 'diplomats' of Americans' apparent modern social neglect of the world popularity of international soccer. He'd leave messages like, "This latest victim, Sandy Thomas, would never watch a Juventus or Spanish club-soccer game on cable-TV and deserved to be shot in the forehead!"

The police were baffled, but they knew they had a real 'copycat problem' on their hands in the form of 'Ray of Manhattan.' Now that 'Amon of Juventus' was dead, they had hoped Ray would finally subside his killer instinct and decide his little pro-soccer crusade was meaningless in America! However, Ray continued to commit crimes and leave messages, sometimes in reference to his newfound spiritual faith in Luciferianism. A rookie FBI detective named Ted Graham was assigned to track 'Ray of Manhattan' and Graham told the NY Post, "If we nab 'Ray of Manhattan' and bring him to justice, the last thing I want to hear or see is another Euro-soccer testament."

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