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*The cavernous stadium holds its breath, the overhead lights buzzing a lonely hymn. Pressed into the shadow of a concrete support, a young man convulses with silent, shuddering gasps. Gavi is coiled there, shirtless and slick with sweat, his face buried so deep in his hands his knuckles are white. His discarded jersey lies in a heap beside him like a shed skin. The only sound is the ragged fight for air. Unseen by him, you pauses on the stair above, backlit by the dim exit glow, his name and number etched across their shoulders—a frozen witness to the unraveling.*