Well just as of my last post everyday my parents, and I have been receiving calls from a lot of professional soccer people who are intrested in talking to me, and intrested in what I'm going to do with my life. So right now I'm feeling pretty happy, and of course blessed as none of this is possible without my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!! He's so great to me it blows my mind, so happy with the way my soccer career is starting out, I would tell you guys everything that is happening, but I'm not allowed to really speak at this time with my relations, but I am receiving my first professional contract today, so we'll see how it goes.
Now I was a bit hurt so I sat out the whole week. But yesterday I decided to go to a local soccer park where there always playing (KSP) and felt good playing, until this morning when I woke up and my right knee was hurting like a biatchhhhhhhhh! But I iced it all day throughtout school, and now feel about 75-85%. We do have a game this weekend against scrubby Clearwater but I don't know if Calix is gonna make me go out to play in it....
Uhmmm on a bad note, my girlfriend and I of about a year and 7 months broke up it sucks a lotttttttttt, but what can you do...Not really much I can do at this point in time, but I can't be distracted as right now I'm looking forward on all the positives things in my life, she just chose not to be a part of it, and it's understandable I love her and wish her the best, I just hope she finds someone good for her. As for me, and my dating I'm just gonna have a good time and surround myself around happy people who are positive and fun! Holla at me ;) jokinggggg. Well the meeting is in about 20 minutes so I gotta wrap this up.
Edit: My ex girlfriend and I are still doing wonderful as best friends were just not going out because of personal issues which I won't tell you about lol but were good just wanted to edit that to make sure people don't think oh we hate eachother now.
Oh btw month of April poker wise -$292.00 =/
S/O to Jona Andrade who is gonna graduate, and Phil for finishing his first year at UF, anddd check my boy out Raffele Centofanti tonight at 10pm on GOL TV he's the right back for U17 of Venezuela
As always take care anddddddddd
God Bless :)
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Monday, April 27, 2009
Recap of my Weekend in NC
So the NC trip began friday along with my weekend but I'd like to say my weekend started Thursday as it was "national take your child to work day" obvvv everyone doesn't go and heads to the beach! Anyways Thursday comes along and I wake up to my beautiful girls voice saying "Babe get up! Were going to the beach let's go!" Lol sooo we get ready and head out and spend a beautiful day on the beach just her and I enjoying it, and having a splendid time...We return back home where I choose to sleep and she heads to her last day of night school, and call it a day.
Then Friday comes and on our way to school we decide, hey I'm leaving for the weekend let's spend the day together as if we didn't the day before lol soooooo we skip school and spend another awesome day relaxing at the beach, straight chillingggggggggggg....after that we went walking around South Beach (sooooo expensive) my girlfriend can't help but stumble into her favorite sotre on earth Steve Madden, haha so we head in there and I pretty much force her to try on some shoes she loved, and as much as she felt guilty for me buying them I did, and happy she was :)....after we head home and hang out till she takes me to the airport and from there I head out to NC and arrive quite late, but fine I guess....
Saturday wake up, prayer, shower, my usual routine, then we leave extra early as the game was an hour and a half away!! Ugh hate long van drives crammed with people lol, so we finally get to the field and damnnnnnnnnn sick ass stadium we played in, wow! The game is against a fairly mehh opponent their eaily accesible, but we didn't perform to our best in the first half, and the score at the half was 1-1 with a goal from Shane. Second half we came out dominating and just left the team with no room to play and sufforcated them, we went on to score two more goals and a 3-1 victory. With the added goals coming from Barralaga, and Steven Seballos.
Sunday we play the real tough game against CASL Chelsea with a grosssssssssssssssss record of 18-2-1 and only 4 GA all year!! Wow! Well they start off with the first goal in the match and dominating the game, though they were on rest, as for us we had just played a game the day before and were missing starters, and bench players...Anyways second half comes and I'm pretty injured as being hit in the last game and then someone rekicking me (lol dont think thats a word but w.e) in my injury spot and hurting me I was forced to play though as there was no sub for my position.....We end up dominating the end game somehow, and scoring a goal to tie, and missing several oppertunities for the win....but all good a tie works I guess.....Fly back home later that day and spend some good quality time with my girlfriend then coming back home to just knock out....
Now it's Monday and thankfully my head coach Calix has given me the whole week off unless i feel better to heal from my injury, which is very much needed....I also met with (remains nameless) to talk about another offer to take me Pro to Brazil and I must say the offer is just as if not more intriuging then the one of which Tigres is offering, the Brazil offer will come in on Thursday as we meet again here in my home. Hopefully good things to come, time will tell. All in all, I'm thankful for every offer I get as I just know God is putting everything in position for me to suceed and in return give him all the glory...God I love God :) haha....well time to wrap this up I'm going to shower pray play some poker and sleeeeeeeeeeeep :)
God Bless
Then Friday comes and on our way to school we decide, hey I'm leaving for the weekend let's spend the day together as if we didn't the day before lol soooooo we skip school and spend another awesome day relaxing at the beach, straight chillingggggggggggg....after that we went walking around South Beach (sooooo expensive) my girlfriend can't help but stumble into her favorite sotre on earth Steve Madden, haha so we head in there and I pretty much force her to try on some shoes she loved, and as much as she felt guilty for me buying them I did, and happy she was :)....after we head home and hang out till she takes me to the airport and from there I head out to NC and arrive quite late, but fine I guess....
Saturday wake up, prayer, shower, my usual routine, then we leave extra early as the game was an hour and a half away!! Ugh hate long van drives crammed with people lol, so we finally get to the field and damnnnnnnnnn sick ass stadium we played in, wow! The game is against a fairly mehh opponent their eaily accesible, but we didn't perform to our best in the first half, and the score at the half was 1-1 with a goal from Shane. Second half we came out dominating and just left the team with no room to play and sufforcated them, we went on to score two more goals and a 3-1 victory. With the added goals coming from Barralaga, and Steven Seballos.
Sunday we play the real tough game against CASL Chelsea with a grosssssssssssssssss record of 18-2-1 and only 4 GA all year!! Wow! Well they start off with the first goal in the match and dominating the game, though they were on rest, as for us we had just played a game the day before and were missing starters, and bench players...Anyways second half comes and I'm pretty injured as being hit in the last game and then someone rekicking me (lol dont think thats a word but w.e) in my injury spot and hurting me I was forced to play though as there was no sub for my position.....We end up dominating the end game somehow, and scoring a goal to tie, and missing several oppertunities for the win....but all good a tie works I guess.....Fly back home later that day and spend some good quality time with my girlfriend then coming back home to just knock out....
Now it's Monday and thankfully my head coach Calix has given me the whole week off unless i feel better to heal from my injury, which is very much needed....I also met with (remains nameless) to talk about another offer to take me Pro to Brazil and I must say the offer is just as if not more intriuging then the one of which Tigres is offering, the Brazil offer will come in on Thursday as we meet again here in my home. Hopefully good things to come, time will tell. All in all, I'm thankful for every offer I get as I just know God is putting everything in position for me to suceed and in return give him all the glory...God I love God :) haha....well time to wrap this up I'm going to shower pray play some poker and sleeeeeeeeeeeep :)
God Bless
Sunday, April 19, 2009
Game against Schultz Academy, and poker?!
Yesterday we had a game against Schultz Academy our hometown rivals, it was a pretty far to drive to around Lauderhill..Anyways our younger academy the U17s were playing before us and had a nice dominating 3-1 victory... So then it was our turn to play and our opponent would be without their star player Hasani Sinclair as he was attending a US national team camp thankfully for us. The game had a fast pace and hihg intensity but they could never really keep up with us we touched moved and dominated the game then former Schultz player Steven Seballos scored a nice left foot strike from out 22yds out to put us ahead 1-0. Next goal came from Alvaro Bastidas aka Junior as he set up a cross but the opposing player headed BUT the wrong way and it was an own goal! Shortly after we had a free kick and Junior put in a beatuiful ball, which I put a head on and scored! Glory to the Lord obvvvv :)...So 3-0 at the half. The second half our bench came in Schultz got a goal but nothing more a fairly easy win for us.
So back to training on Tuesday as we prepare to head out to North Carolina for two really big games against great teams, lots of scouts supposedly are going to be there. Anyways after the game we headed to Lockhart Stadium as it was mandatory us be there, to support Miami Fc the actual USL team. I stayed to the first half and to my surprise the game was packedddd a nice filled section and it was an entertaining game with Miami Fc being up 2-1 at the half, and former Miami Fusion MLS star Serna (Colombian) had a great goal to give Miami Fc the lead 2-1. His celebration topped it all off as he got the ball outta the net and punted it out of the stadium hahahaha, that was awesome to watch.
Now poker uhm...well i had been downswinging lately down about $150 of deposits on tilt. Then last night I deposited $150 and currently am at $400 so im up and doing decent, I slept over my girls house last night and grinded till late, I'll probably grind today some more, well that's pretty much whats happening as of late.
Oh my boy Raffele Centofanti debuted in his first start with the U17 Venezuela National team yesterday against Argentina he played pretty good, defending well, and jsut an overall good game. But the ref made an absurddddddddddd decision when at the same time he whisled the ball to stop Raffele attempted to clear the ball out and hit a player, the ref then gave him a red card with 25 minutes left in the second half...it was such a bad call, hopefully he gets minimum suspension is back and playing again soon, the game ended in a 2-0 loss but hopefully Raffele wasn't look upon badly by scouts.
Well that's all for now take care and
God Bless
So back to training on Tuesday as we prepare to head out to North Carolina for two really big games against great teams, lots of scouts supposedly are going to be there. Anyways after the game we headed to Lockhart Stadium as it was mandatory us be there, to support Miami Fc the actual USL team. I stayed to the first half and to my surprise the game was packedddd a nice filled section and it was an entertaining game with Miami Fc being up 2-1 at the half, and former Miami Fusion MLS star Serna (Colombian) had a great goal to give Miami Fc the lead 2-1. His celebration topped it all off as he got the ball outta the net and punted it out of the stadium hahahaha, that was awesome to watch.
Now poker uhm...well i had been downswinging lately down about $150 of deposits on tilt. Then last night I deposited $150 and currently am at $400 so im up and doing decent, I slept over my girls house last night and grinded till late, I'll probably grind today some more, well that's pretty much whats happening as of late.
Oh my boy Raffele Centofanti debuted in his first start with the U17 Venezuela National team yesterday against Argentina he played pretty good, defending well, and jsut an overall good game. But the ref made an absurddddddddddd decision when at the same time he whisled the ball to stop Raffele attempted to clear the ball out and hit a player, the ref then gave him a red card with 25 minutes left in the second half...it was such a bad call, hopefully he gets minimum suspension is back and playing again soon, the game ended in a 2-0 loss but hopefully Raffele wasn't look upon badly by scouts.
Well that's all for now take care and
God Bless
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Decision Pro or College??
Well to start out I'm at home right now I've now missed today, and yesterday's school day, for no reason just plain laziness, well actually I've been truly exhuasted I mean Dallas was tiring enough, but since returning home I've haven't been getting nearly enough sleep, and been playing a lot of basketball during the day then going straight to practice, it's just plain exhausting.
Anyways I've fixed my bank account as it had some fraud on it, and now I have it back. With it back I deposit $200 on tilt so far and have lost, either to two outers, or to just cooler like trips HU to better trips but that's poker. The gay part is I haven't been playing any Multi Table Tournaments (MTT) with that money, and that's where I'm usually stronger. So gay but whatever, my next deposit I will so all good.
Ok so now, I've talked with my mentor, my parents, brother family, girlfriend, everyone lol. And everyone has asked me what I wanna do will be fine, and they'll support it...................and well after much though, I've chosen to go pro and give it a shot with Tigres from Mexico. After I graduate high school, the first week of summer, I'm going to Mexico, and see where I would live, train, and of course see the contract and how well it pays. So hopefully if it's Gods will, it will be the right contract and I can sign it become pro as a U20 for a year, then after that hopefully become pro in the Mexican league for my whole family to watch back at home. Oh how great and wonderful that would be but time will decide that for me. So yep! IM GOING PRO :) Thankin God everyday for the oppertunity.
This weekend we play Shultz Academy from Boca a really talented team and our rival, so hopefully we win, as right now were in 3rd, but only the top three make it to the regional tournament, so hopefully we can come out victorious. Well that wraps up this blog, one request on my part please pray for me, to not make it but just be succesfull and be able to Glorify Gods name with the soccer talent that I was blessed with...Takes like 30 seconds to say right? Thanks guys & gals. Have a blessed day.
God Bless
Anyways I've fixed my bank account as it had some fraud on it, and now I have it back. With it back I deposit $200 on tilt so far and have lost, either to two outers, or to just cooler like trips HU to better trips but that's poker. The gay part is I haven't been playing any Multi Table Tournaments (MTT) with that money, and that's where I'm usually stronger. So gay but whatever, my next deposit I will so all good.
Ok so now, I've talked with my mentor, my parents, brother family, girlfriend, everyone lol. And everyone has asked me what I wanna do will be fine, and they'll support it...................and well after much though, I've chosen to go pro and give it a shot with Tigres from Mexico. After I graduate high school, the first week of summer, I'm going to Mexico, and see where I would live, train, and of course see the contract and how well it pays. So hopefully if it's Gods will, it will be the right contract and I can sign it become pro as a U20 for a year, then after that hopefully become pro in the Mexican league for my whole family to watch back at home. Oh how great and wonderful that would be but time will decide that for me. So yep! IM GOING PRO :) Thankin God everyday for the oppertunity.
This weekend we play Shultz Academy from Boca a really talented team and our rival, so hopefully we win, as right now were in 3rd, but only the top three make it to the regional tournament, so hopefully we can come out victorious. Well that wraps up this blog, one request on my part please pray for me, to not make it but just be succesfull and be able to Glorify Gods name with the soccer talent that I was blessed with...Takes like 30 seconds to say right? Thanks guys & gals. Have a blessed day.
God Bless
Saturday, April 11, 2009
Dallas Cup Semi Final Update
Well today's game was rather early for whatever reason, anyways I woke up at 6:40 to pray, shower get into my game mode as always, everything went well. From there we headed out to breakfast at Mcds again, I repeated the same breakfast with my cinnamelt, along side an OJ. We arrived at the field rather early for players to get taped, and other treatment for other injuries. Once again I went to the trainer and ended up patching up my two red cherries on each side of my leg, from there progressed on to the field for a warm up and the beggining of the game, believe it or not we met up with no other than.......Solar!
So the game began pretty intensely as we had a new line up in as players legs were giving out after 4 games in 5 days and this being our 5th in 6 days. This tournament is really hard on yuor body physically. Anyways we were able to hold off Solar till I think maybe the 18-22nd minute where there star forward #22 a great player received the ball in open space on a bad cover up from our left back who was suppose to sweep off, and he was left one on one with the keeper and scored....we were down 1-0 early on. No pronblem though with about 8 minutes left in the first half a rebounded cross fell to the feet of Waldy Jimenez and he struck it to the back of the net, and we quickly regained our composure! The half ended 1-1.
The second half we had I think a bit more oppertunites then the other team but players just failed to support a man on a cross or be there to finish, Solar had there fair share of chances but weren't able to put any of them away. We headed into extra time 1-1, where the rules are two halves of 10 minutes must be played out no matter the score. At this point in the game both teams were physically drained. I couldn't no more but coach refused to take me out.
In extra time what was expected was neither team would have the legs to put in a goal, unless a clear mistake from the defense, and well it happened. Unfortunately to us. The ball was hit down the line and I opened up to receive a pass from Andrew Quintana he gave the pass inside though as the pressure he had covered the pass to me, so receiving the ball was Christian Ramos he got it saw me open, but I guess he figured the player would cut off the passing lane in time, and the foward kicked out his posession right on the tip of the 18 yard box, he then gave it inside to #22 who had his second goal in the match and the dagger to us. As we jsut weren't gonna be able to score... We were unsucessful on the chances given, and the game ended 2-1 Solar beating us out.
I must say it truly was a really exciting tournament and it looked to be ours but in big games like this yuo can't afford to make the mistakes that we did. Proudly though we were the only team from outside of Texas to make into the semi final, that was an accomplishment, and I know a few players have got some offers waiting for them after this tournament to go to some nice universitites, I wish you all the best of luck in your futures, as for me I'm very leaning towards heading pro with the Mexican U20s club Tigres. We'll see though what God has in store for me, and if this is my next big step in life, time will tell that most definitly. For now I just ask God to keep helping me day in and day out in my everyday decision making, and just hopefully I can glorify His name as much as possible through soccer. I'm truly exhausted I can barely walk. Cause when your playing 80-90 minutes at high level of soccer and you play 5 games in 6 days it's just completely draining, not to add the injuries I've sustained and played through, but oh well it's expected.
Now I'm going to go have lunch shower pray a bit and probably relax and sleep or something, then tomorrow I think around 6ish is my flight so I'll probably be arriving home at 10ish or so then off too school FML? Indeeeeeeeeeeed. Kidding I have nothing to complain about God has blessed my life in so many ways it's ridiculous, but hey I'm thankful and am jsut awaiting for the next shower of blessings to rain on me. My family is going home today there actually at the airport right now, hopefully they have a safe flight home, and will be there to pick me up tomorrow form the airport. Well I'll keep updating as my life changes thank you for reading take care amnd alwaysssss
God Bless
P.S. There must be a million errors in here I'm sorry I sometimes proofread, but im jsut drained. Enjoy!!
So the game began pretty intensely as we had a new line up in as players legs were giving out after 4 games in 5 days and this being our 5th in 6 days. This tournament is really hard on yuor body physically. Anyways we were able to hold off Solar till I think maybe the 18-22nd minute where there star forward #22 a great player received the ball in open space on a bad cover up from our left back who was suppose to sweep off, and he was left one on one with the keeper and scored....we were down 1-0 early on. No pronblem though with about 8 minutes left in the first half a rebounded cross fell to the feet of Waldy Jimenez and he struck it to the back of the net, and we quickly regained our composure! The half ended 1-1.
The second half we had I think a bit more oppertunites then the other team but players just failed to support a man on a cross or be there to finish, Solar had there fair share of chances but weren't able to put any of them away. We headed into extra time 1-1, where the rules are two halves of 10 minutes must be played out no matter the score. At this point in the game both teams were physically drained. I couldn't no more but coach refused to take me out.
In extra time what was expected was neither team would have the legs to put in a goal, unless a clear mistake from the defense, and well it happened. Unfortunately to us. The ball was hit down the line and I opened up to receive a pass from Andrew Quintana he gave the pass inside though as the pressure he had covered the pass to me, so receiving the ball was Christian Ramos he got it saw me open, but I guess he figured the player would cut off the passing lane in time, and the foward kicked out his posession right on the tip of the 18 yard box, he then gave it inside to #22 who had his second goal in the match and the dagger to us. As we jsut weren't gonna be able to score... We were unsucessful on the chances given, and the game ended 2-1 Solar beating us out.
I must say it truly was a really exciting tournament and it looked to be ours but in big games like this yuo can't afford to make the mistakes that we did. Proudly though we were the only team from outside of Texas to make into the semi final, that was an accomplishment, and I know a few players have got some offers waiting for them after this tournament to go to some nice universitites, I wish you all the best of luck in your futures, as for me I'm very leaning towards heading pro with the Mexican U20s club Tigres. We'll see though what God has in store for me, and if this is my next big step in life, time will tell that most definitly. For now I just ask God to keep helping me day in and day out in my everyday decision making, and just hopefully I can glorify His name as much as possible through soccer. I'm truly exhausted I can barely walk. Cause when your playing 80-90 minutes at high level of soccer and you play 5 games in 6 days it's just completely draining, not to add the injuries I've sustained and played through, but oh well it's expected.
Now I'm going to go have lunch shower pray a bit and probably relax and sleep or something, then tomorrow I think around 6ish is my flight so I'll probably be arriving home at 10ish or so then off too school FML? Indeeeeeeeeeeed. Kidding I have nothing to complain about God has blessed my life in so many ways it's ridiculous, but hey I'm thankful and am jsut awaiting for the next shower of blessings to rain on me. My family is going home today there actually at the airport right now, hopefully they have a safe flight home, and will be there to pick me up tomorrow form the airport. Well I'll keep updating as my life changes thank you for reading take care amnd alwaysssss
God Bless
P.S. There must be a million errors in here I'm sorry I sometimes proofread, but im jsut drained. Enjoy!!
Friday, April 10, 2009
Dallas Cup Quarterfinal Update
Well the day started with breakfast at 8:30am at mcds where I ate a cinnabon, with OJ. After the breakfast we had 30 minutes in the room to shower etc, followed by our team meeting. After the meeting we went on to the field as our game was at 11:00am. Well I've been playing with progressive injuries every game, but oh well I don't feel the pain as God plays through me therefore he relinquishes the pain away.
So then came kickoff, against North Texas Strikers. They were your typical American team strong, one fast black guy, and everyone tall
and solid. So we came out against the strong winds in the first half and played okay they never really had oppertunties neither did we just a lot of touching and physical play. Until with about 8 minutes left i read an attackers move took it away and ran with it on a counter attack, me and Nick combined 3 passes together until he laid it off to Osman who did it once again and scored! First half ended 1-0 in a nit tight game. Second half with the wind wasn't like all the other games in the tournament where we took over and dominated, it was actually exciting with both teams creating chances on net, but we held off and celebrated the victory with a few claps and hugs.
We went to the hotel rested showered ice bath etc and now were eating pasta and waiting for the result of the Solar and some team from Milwaukee quarter final as the winner plays us. Yep, we may play Solar again! Haha....well see what will happen either way God has my back along with the teams back and shall carry us to the championship, and I truly don't have any doubt in my mind that come Sunday well be holding the trophy proudly!!
I just wanna take the ending of this blog post to thank God for everything for it is
Him the reason that I'm playing so well and am receiving the offers that I am, I truly don't know yet what I'm going to end up doing but hey like all of you should leave your decisions in Gods hands, as His will, will not take you where Gods grace won't protect you. Amen? Take care everyone anddddddd.....
God Bless
So then came kickoff, against North Texas Strikers. They were your typical American team strong, one fast black guy, and everyone tall
and solid. So we came out against the strong winds in the first half and played okay they never really had oppertunties neither did we just a lot of touching and physical play. Until with about 8 minutes left i read an attackers move took it away and ran with it on a counter attack, me and Nick combined 3 passes together until he laid it off to Osman who did it once again and scored! First half ended 1-0 in a nit tight game. Second half with the wind wasn't like all the other games in the tournament where we took over and dominated, it was actually exciting with both teams creating chances on net, but we held off and celebrated the victory with a few claps and hugs.
We went to the hotel rested showered ice bath etc and now were eating pasta and waiting for the result of the Solar and some team from Milwaukee quarter final as the winner plays us. Yep, we may play Solar again! Haha....well see what will happen either way God has my back along with the teams back and shall carry us to the championship, and I truly don't have any doubt in my mind that come Sunday well be holding the trophy proudly!!
I just wanna take the ending of this blog post to thank God for everything for it is
Him the reason that I'm playing so well and am receiving the offers that I am, I truly don't know yet what I'm going to end up doing but hey like all of you should leave your decisions in Gods hands, as His will, will not take you where Gods grace won't protect you. Amen? Take care everyone anddddddd.....
God Bless
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Dallas Cup Group Stage Update
Well we've been in Dallas now since Saturday, relaxed ate crap had an overall good time, and the hotel were staying at is amazingggggg, like top of the line son. Whatever now to the point the group stage, we had our first game on Monday we played against a team from England, oh by the way the fields we play on are UNBELIVABLE like it's just insane the grass looks so fake it looks like turf. So anyway the games conditions were about 65degrees with a crazy 25 mph wind. The first half was pretty tough as the team touched and played really well, but we hung with them and missed some oppertunitys on net. First half 0-0. Second half was a different story as we completely dominated the game, and had the Englishmen running mad. The result....2-0 with a great goal from Osman, and Sanatmaria.
Ok just so you know after every game we did the same thing ate pasta, go to the hotel, ice bath, shower, rest, dinner, sleep.
Second match we play FC Barcelona from California no relation to the Barcelona of Europe, and their skills showed they had no relation to them haha....This game was at 0-0 at the end of the first half with no lie or exageration here we had missed about 7 open oppertunitys. Second half same story as the first game we picked it up and scored two goals by Nick U17 new kid, and Osman again, but along with those goals came another 7 or so missed oppertunitys again. Final score 2-0.
Last game a must win to advance or a tie, and then wait for the result of another game. We played a very tough and well known nationally ranked team Solar Fc from Texas. This team played really well, but they were playing for the tie obviously as that would get them into the quaterfinals....This game was truly more of a chess match and pick your spots. We couldn't really get anything going although we did maintain possesion we weren't able to come across a goal and the match ended 0-0... As of right now the result were waiting for is in our favor we need the game simply to not end in a tie and were in, with under 5 minutes left the game is 2-1 so right now it's in Gods hands. I'm actually awaiting the text from our team manager right now to see how the game ended. I'll post it at the end or whenever I get the news.
Anyways to some really extraordinary news i got today, God is truly blessing my life in so many ways. After the match i had the coach of Tigres the professional Mexican club come up to me and say, well actually ima cut it short cuz he talked alot lol. Ok he basically said listen, I saw you play the first two games of the group stage and told the director of Tigres to come watch you today, and he told me that he wants you on the team. He wants me to play on his U20 professional team right now, and play with them and live over there etc, he told me that they have two spots allowed for international players and he said i'm guaranteed a spot that I don't even need to tryout that all I need to is accept the offer, and he said that most likely with my talent after one year of playing in the U20s I can become a pro and jump up to the professional team that I'm sure by the flipping of the channels you've seen play on television. Now the dilemma here is if I accept this offer, I'm not allowed to play college soccer, as it's a rule that they have that if you've ever gotten paid to play soccer, you ineligible for college soccer, and in the U20s I'd be getting paid. So what if I accept and God forbid I get injured, we all know that there is no way in hell, I'm going to get a free tuition anywhere through my grades, my path to a free tuition is through soccer, and not being eligible to play no coach would want me. So i'm just going to finish up the tournament get back home talk it out with my parents, and make a decision, honestly right now I'm really thinking of accepting the offer, why? Well right now i can't get accepted anywhere in the country at division one soccer regardless of my talent because of my grades. So my non plan pro would be play at a junior college for a year, then transfer to one of the big schools that want me and play three years there graduate with my degree and hope I get drafted to the MLS. Or I can choose to go pro now, turn my back on school and try to make it in the Mexican league which pays better than the MLS by the way. So right now I have a lot of thinking to do and praying, and hopefully will be playing a quaterfinal on ......... WERE IN!!!! WOOHOOOO YES BABY GLORY BE TO GOD!!! WERE IN!!! Thank the Lord. End of post need to ice bath shower and prepare!!!! Thank you Lordddddddd!!
God Bless
Ok just so you know after every game we did the same thing ate pasta, go to the hotel, ice bath, shower, rest, dinner, sleep.
Second match we play FC Barcelona from California no relation to the Barcelona of Europe, and their skills showed they had no relation to them haha....This game was at 0-0 at the end of the first half with no lie or exageration here we had missed about 7 open oppertunitys. Second half same story as the first game we picked it up and scored two goals by Nick U17 new kid, and Osman again, but along with those goals came another 7 or so missed oppertunitys again. Final score 2-0.
Last game a must win to advance or a tie, and then wait for the result of another game. We played a very tough and well known nationally ranked team Solar Fc from Texas. This team played really well, but they were playing for the tie obviously as that would get them into the quaterfinals....This game was truly more of a chess match and pick your spots. We couldn't really get anything going although we did maintain possesion we weren't able to come across a goal and the match ended 0-0... As of right now the result were waiting for is in our favor we need the game simply to not end in a tie and were in, with under 5 minutes left the game is 2-1 so right now it's in Gods hands. I'm actually awaiting the text from our team manager right now to see how the game ended. I'll post it at the end or whenever I get the news.
Anyways to some really extraordinary news i got today, God is truly blessing my life in so many ways. After the match i had the coach of Tigres the professional Mexican club come up to me and say, well actually ima cut it short cuz he talked alot lol. Ok he basically said listen, I saw you play the first two games of the group stage and told the director of Tigres to come watch you today, and he told me that he wants you on the team. He wants me to play on his U20 professional team right now, and play with them and live over there etc, he told me that they have two spots allowed for international players and he said i'm guaranteed a spot that I don't even need to tryout that all I need to is accept the offer, and he said that most likely with my talent after one year of playing in the U20s I can become a pro and jump up to the professional team that I'm sure by the flipping of the channels you've seen play on television. Now the dilemma here is if I accept this offer, I'm not allowed to play college soccer, as it's a rule that they have that if you've ever gotten paid to play soccer, you ineligible for college soccer, and in the U20s I'd be getting paid. So what if I accept and God forbid I get injured, we all know that there is no way in hell, I'm going to get a free tuition anywhere through my grades, my path to a free tuition is through soccer, and not being eligible to play no coach would want me. So i'm just going to finish up the tournament get back home talk it out with my parents, and make a decision, honestly right now I'm really thinking of accepting the offer, why? Well right now i can't get accepted anywhere in the country at division one soccer regardless of my talent because of my grades. So my non plan pro would be play at a junior college for a year, then transfer to one of the big schools that want me and play three years there graduate with my degree and hope I get drafted to the MLS. Or I can choose to go pro now, turn my back on school and try to make it in the Mexican league which pays better than the MLS by the way. So right now I have a lot of thinking to do and praying, and hopefully will be playing a quaterfinal on ......... WERE IN!!!! WOOHOOOO YES BABY GLORY BE TO GOD!!! WERE IN!!! Thank the Lord. End of post need to ice bath shower and prepare!!!! Thank you Lordddddddd!!
God Bless
Sunday, April 5, 2009
In Dallas..
Well on Saturday morning I left from MIA International at 9:25am our flight was probably like 2 hours and 45 minutes.... the flight overall was annoying despite it being a short flight, we were in the last row next to annoying kids, and it had some turbulence early, which made me feel not so comfortable... to say the least.
Anyways when we finally arrived, we ate and headed to the registration for the tournament, this was suppose to be maybe half an hour tops, we ended up staying there for about an hour and a couple minutes due to one of our players not having all his information..whatever. From there we proceed to our hotel and of courseeeeeee the hotel computers all of the sudden go down, and we can't get our room keys. So we wait, I fall asleep for like an hour then wake up and finally head to the room. The hotel is very nice, and the room as well it just had a pretty awful smell of smoke, but oh well our terrible soccer smell should drench it out soon enough lol....
After chilling in the room for a bit, after that we headed to Wal-Mart bought our groceries for the week and then headed back to the room ate pizza wathed the final four and just ate crap the rest of the night...
Today since we don't play we woke up at our own time felt nice waking up at 11:30, having breakfast in bed, then watching Transformers too bad im in love with that movie haha can't wait for part 2 too come out! Anyways this trip up to now has been fun and it should continue to be, it feels nice to get away from home as much as i miss my girlfriend and family and being with friends, it feels good to get away from the sadness of Jose Gonzalez, but incase they have the funeral before I get back home my spirit will be there everyone.
So right now were in the room waiting for it to be 3pm central time. For we can head out too Pizza Hut Stadium, which is home for FC Dallas the MLS team. Were going to go watch River Plate U19 v Andromeda (US) ...... Then after that we'll be the opening ceremony introducing all the teams and welcoming them to the tournament, it truly is a one of kind expierence and im glad im able to be a part of it. After that were gonna watch another great match up in the U19 Supergroup between Manchester City v AC Milan, should be a hell of game as we see the next big stars of the world in soccer....
After that we should have dinner, come back to the room, and have a good nights rest. As tomorrow we play against a team straight from England should be a great game hopefully we can start it out with a win. Wish us luck!!
Oh btw my parents are in NYC lucky ass them enjoying it I've been there but my brothers never have i miss them hope their enjoying it and take pictures!! Love you ma, pa, mono, and diego. DISFRUTENNNNN! iighhh im out peaceeee.
God bless
Anyways when we finally arrived, we ate and headed to the registration for the tournament, this was suppose to be maybe half an hour tops, we ended up staying there for about an hour and a couple minutes due to one of our players not having all his information..whatever. From there we proceed to our hotel and of courseeeeeee the hotel computers all of the sudden go down, and we can't get our room keys. So we wait, I fall asleep for like an hour then wake up and finally head to the room. The hotel is very nice, and the room as well it just had a pretty awful smell of smoke, but oh well our terrible soccer smell should drench it out soon enough lol....
After chilling in the room for a bit, after that we headed to Wal-Mart bought our groceries for the week and then headed back to the room ate pizza wathed the final four and just ate crap the rest of the night...
Today since we don't play we woke up at our own time felt nice waking up at 11:30, having breakfast in bed, then watching Transformers too bad im in love with that movie haha can't wait for part 2 too come out! Anyways this trip up to now has been fun and it should continue to be, it feels nice to get away from home as much as i miss my girlfriend and family and being with friends, it feels good to get away from the sadness of Jose Gonzalez, but incase they have the funeral before I get back home my spirit will be there everyone.
So right now were in the room waiting for it to be 3pm central time. For we can head out too Pizza Hut Stadium, which is home for FC Dallas the MLS team. Were going to go watch River Plate U19 v Andromeda (US) ...... Then after that we'll be the opening ceremony introducing all the teams and welcoming them to the tournament, it truly is a one of kind expierence and im glad im able to be a part of it. After that were gonna watch another great match up in the U19 Supergroup between Manchester City v AC Milan, should be a hell of game as we see the next big stars of the world in soccer....
After that we should have dinner, come back to the room, and have a good nights rest. As tomorrow we play against a team straight from England should be a great game hopefully we can start it out with a win. Wish us luck!!
Oh btw my parents are in NYC lucky ass them enjoying it I've been there but my brothers never have i miss them hope their enjoying it and take pictures!! Love you ma, pa, mono, and diego. DISFRUTENNNNN! iighhh im out peaceeee.
God bless
Friday, April 3, 2009
He'll live on forever now...
In heaven at least, wow. This is hard to even speak, write do anything. But hey i feel i owe it to him. As of today Jose Gonzalez DID NOT die, he just relocated himself to Heaven and now is watching and LIVING over us forever....
Today at 8pm evreyone who even knew or heard of Jose Gonzalez was there too commemerate the great kid that he was. This is hard for all of us, for those of you reading I want you to know that I personally have prayed for you to have strength and be able to carry on, and pleaseeeee be careful over spring break, I don't ever want to do another prayer like i did today, along with steven (thank you) it's so hard to stand in front of a crowd to pray for a friend that we all lost. I also would like too take this time to apologize too all those people who im on "bad terms" with. let this show us that life is too short to fight life is too short to not give someone a smile for no reason life is just too short. So please like i wrote on my facebook, if anyone at all asks did jose gonzalez die? you tell them no he just moved to heaven to live over there as he thought it was more comfortable. hopefully this can reunite all of us and just take the time to value your life from now on. don't let someone else have to go through this again. im really at a lost for words and really just so many scrambled thoughts in my mind.....i mean i've dealt with death but not with a friend of such a young age, also i think we should all really get together and do something special for his bday which is i believe the 14th or 15th....jose we all cared for you, and we all hope that you watch over us now as each of our own guaradian angel, we will help out your family in anyway we can. and don't worry man i'll still here you jammin in 2nd period to that guitar bro.....
JOSE GONZALEZ IS ALIVE BABY GLORY TO THE LORD MAY HE WATCH OVER US NOW AND ENJOY THE REST OF HIS LIFE IN HEAVEN!!! I CALL DIBBS IF I GET THERE AT THE SAME TIME AS SOMEONE ELSE AS HE IS GONNA GIVE ME A TOUR OF HEAVEN FIRST!!!!
Today at 8pm evreyone who even knew or heard of Jose Gonzalez was there too commemerate the great kid that he was. This is hard for all of us, for those of you reading I want you to know that I personally have prayed for you to have strength and be able to carry on, and pleaseeeee be careful over spring break, I don't ever want to do another prayer like i did today, along with steven (thank you) it's so hard to stand in front of a crowd to pray for a friend that we all lost. I also would like too take this time to apologize too all those people who im on "bad terms" with. let this show us that life is too short to fight life is too short to not give someone a smile for no reason life is just too short. So please like i wrote on my facebook, if anyone at all asks did jose gonzalez die? you tell them no he just moved to heaven to live over there as he thought it was more comfortable. hopefully this can reunite all of us and just take the time to value your life from now on. don't let someone else have to go through this again. im really at a lost for words and really just so many scrambled thoughts in my mind.....i mean i've dealt with death but not with a friend of such a young age, also i think we should all really get together and do something special for his bday which is i believe the 14th or 15th....jose we all cared for you, and we all hope that you watch over us now as each of our own guaradian angel, we will help out your family in anyway we can. and don't worry man i'll still here you jammin in 2nd period to that guitar bro.....
JOSE GONZALEZ IS ALIVE BABY GLORY TO THE LORD MAY HE WATCH OVER US NOW AND ENJOY THE REST OF HIS LIFE IN HEAVEN!!! I CALL DIBBS IF I GET THERE AT THE SAME TIME AS SOMEONE ELSE AS HE IS GONNA GIVE ME A TOUR OF HEAVEN FIRST!!!!
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
:( !! And the weekend ahead.
:(((((((
Ughhh, today I passed by a very awful looking accident where the car was totaled and had ran into a tree. An hour or so later I found out that car that was totaled nearly took 3 of my friends lives, and the world is still trying to claim one of the kids lives, but I'm sure that God won't let them. So they got into an accident don't know how, but I'm guessing speeding and lost control who knows.....either way none of them had their seatbelts on, and the impact hit them all hard!
Stuey Monsoon was in the backseat and seems he only suffered maybe some cuts and bruises.
Alex Pacheco was on the passenger side and supposedly his head hit the windshield and he suffered cuts, and can't remember anything that happened.
And sadly Jose Gonzalez the driver, had head trauma and had head surgery, it said it went well, and he is now in critical condition and is in coma, along with having machines helping him breathe as it seems he can't on his own.
This is all very sad and I'm sure their families must be suffering so if your reading this take 5 minutes of your time to pray for them, to be okay to make it out alive, and be able to live the life they've always wanted.....I mean can you imagine your friend....just think of your friend, anyone...imagine one day you talk normally on the phone the next day he's mentally ill, and isn't capabale of a conversation imagine how their parents feel. Ugh, I guess i'm trying to make you readers realize that life is such a precious gift that we've all taken advantage of, and surely in one way or another tested it's limits. I mean take ULTRA this passed weekend, how many people risked dying by nearly overdosing and having seizures for 8 housr of fun, and "feeling amazing". Take a look at the big picture is 8 hours of your time and feeling nice worth not being able to act like you once did, not being able to walk. Every weekend most of us drink, and some of us drive is it all worth dying? Yeah we look at the numbers and figure "it won't be me" but look I'm positive I never thought 3 of my boys would be airlifted and one might die, never did that ever cross my mind. But it's reality stop trying to test life, and it's boundaries instead cherish what you have. Cherish your brother and sister and mom and dad, be happy you can run walk talk laugh party scream jump do anything and be anything you want. Don't do something that might risk that. It's just not worth it in the end....So once again please stop right now and say a prayer for them...
edit: 12 people died at ULTRA... RIP
Ugh don't even feel like talking about the weekend ahead but here's my shot at it.
Thursday: School, practice, home.
Friday: School, practice, fair, home.
Saturday: Flight to Dallas at 9am.
Yeah that's not detailed at all sorry after all the rambling didn't feel like writing. God bless and cherish your lives.
God bless
Ughhh, today I passed by a very awful looking accident where the car was totaled and had ran into a tree. An hour or so later I found out that car that was totaled nearly took 3 of my friends lives, and the world is still trying to claim one of the kids lives, but I'm sure that God won't let them. So they got into an accident don't know how, but I'm guessing speeding and lost control who knows.....either way none of them had their seatbelts on, and the impact hit them all hard!
Stuey Monsoon was in the backseat and seems he only suffered maybe some cuts and bruises.
Alex Pacheco was on the passenger side and supposedly his head hit the windshield and he suffered cuts, and can't remember anything that happened.
And sadly Jose Gonzalez the driver, had head trauma and had head surgery, it said it went well, and he is now in critical condition and is in coma, along with having machines helping him breathe as it seems he can't on his own.
This is all very sad and I'm sure their families must be suffering so if your reading this take 5 minutes of your time to pray for them, to be okay to make it out alive, and be able to live the life they've always wanted.....I mean can you imagine your friend....just think of your friend, anyone...imagine one day you talk normally on the phone the next day he's mentally ill, and isn't capabale of a conversation imagine how their parents feel. Ugh, I guess i'm trying to make you readers realize that life is such a precious gift that we've all taken advantage of, and surely in one way or another tested it's limits. I mean take ULTRA this passed weekend, how many people risked dying by nearly overdosing and having seizures for 8 housr of fun, and "feeling amazing". Take a look at the big picture is 8 hours of your time and feeling nice worth not being able to act like you once did, not being able to walk. Every weekend most of us drink, and some of us drive is it all worth dying? Yeah we look at the numbers and figure "it won't be me" but look I'm positive I never thought 3 of my boys would be airlifted and one might die, never did that ever cross my mind. But it's reality stop trying to test life, and it's boundaries instead cherish what you have. Cherish your brother and sister and mom and dad, be happy you can run walk talk laugh party scream jump do anything and be anything you want. Don't do something that might risk that. It's just not worth it in the end....So once again please stop right now and say a prayer for them...
edit: 12 people died at ULTRA... RIP
Ugh don't even feel like talking about the weekend ahead but here's my shot at it.
Thursday: School, practice, home.
Friday: School, practice, fair, home.
Saturday: Flight to Dallas at 9am.
Yeah that's not detailed at all sorry after all the rambling didn't feel like writing. God bless and cherish your lives.
God bless
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