The analytical focus in this article is on how social categories intersect in daily school life and how intersections intertwine with other empirically relevant categories such as normality, pupilness and (in)appropriatedness. The point of empirical departure is a daily ritual where teams for football are selected. The article opens up for a microanalysis of everyday practices at the margins and at the core of what this article terms "pupilness". The concept of intersectionality is suggested as a useful analytical tool to understand the multiple activities of pupils in everyday school life. The concept is applied to an analysis of the particular selection of teams and to practices of inclusion and exclusion. The understandings and practices within this ritualistic selection mingle with and lend meaning to wider relationships. When the school bell rings a group of pupils run off. Rapidly they move down the corridor, hit the stairs and rush into the schoolyard. They stop by the football ground. "Ground" is in fact an exaggeration. Two diminutive goals demarcate the ground from the rest of the schoolyard. For a non-skilled schoolyard participant it is difficult to detect that a football game is about to take place. The preliminary negotiations have, however, begun. Before the game begins the teams must be selected. The selection of teams takes place by the fence, where two selectors have the privilege of choosing the competing teams. This is an activity in which adults are rarely involved. At recess teachers are on playground duty and they rarely interfere in the interactions, unless the football game prevents others--usually younger children--from playing their games. (Contains 10 notes.)