I play for a semi professional

Football team based

In the south of the country

The name of my football team is

The Green Ones

Which roughly translated means

The Green Ones

Our annual team photograph

Is always taken before the season starts

It was later noted that I was chatting

To our new midfielder and not smiling

When asked why I considered chatting

Far more important than the team photograph

I said that the new midfielder was also a violinist

And that we were discussing at some length

How expensive some musical instruments

Had become since the end of the last war