What I been striving for..

As my blog went on and on I had thought what was the purpose of this. And well I always hoped to inform people I had lost touch with, but my main goal with this is to show people, show YOU, that anything is possible with God. Any dream, idea, hope, desire, that you have is possible regardless of the situation your in. Today I got the best email I seriously have ever gotten to this day. I can't remember an email lifting up my spirits as this one did. There are so many kids, people, who have this same dream I have, have this same goal I have. I'm just ONE of over 10 million or more kids around the world who have the dream of playing soccer professionally. Well today I receive a random email from a boy named Nick from Budapest (the power of the internet connecting people from all over the world). He tells me he came across my blog, and he's been blogging for about 21 months, with details about his daily trials in life, his training sessions, trials with teams, and how he has NOT found success yet. But this kid is so confident, so optimistic, so sure he's going to make it. He makes me remember when I was thinking like that. He's still in search of his first professional contract but his hard work ethic, and dreams have taken him a long way already. And he is on his way I promise you this kid will have a contract offer before the end of this year, and I will post a congratulatory blog to him. But anyway he thanks me for writing, and tells me to continue pressing on, to not give up, to fight for my dreams! Nick this part is for you, as you wrote that email, you likely thought nothing of it, but let me tell you, you have reminded me of what it is to want something bad again, what it takes, the hard work, and you have lifted my spirits! Thank you Nick.

Anyways ya might be wondering why my spirits are down...Well this email comes on the brink of bad news/good news, and a very poor mistake in my game today against first place team Central Florida Kraze. 11 days ago, I caught an injury on the top of my foot, appeared to be a foot sprain, I trained right through it and would ice it occasionally after some training sessions. From there two days ago, during the game at IMG, I was on the wrong end of a bad, and wreck less tackle. This led to me injuring my foot during the game and coming off in the 40th minute.

After getting treatment on it yesterday, the trainers revealed I was definitely hurt, and should not play todays game, and I could have a fractured foot. Good news though today the doctor took a look at me, and said you have a bad ankle sprain but I can't tell you if you shouldn't play or not, only you know the degree of pain you feel, and whether or not you should play on it. I've never been the one to sit out, and never will be, that's just me. So I told coach I wanted to play and start, he said he wouldn't start me but would bring me off the bench. I wasn't too happy about it, but I'm there to support my team and hope for a win. We score a goal about 25 minutes into the game and are up 1-0. With that we go into the half.

At the start of the second half I come in and am feeling pretty good, nothing really worth noting till about the 75th minute or so, when we get another goal and are ahead 2-0! Everything is looking great, then.......the 85th minute struck. We have a great attack that leads to what SHOULD HAVE been called a PK but instead play resumed they got on our side of the pitch and won a corner kick. From the corner they win a second header wide open and smash one home. 2-1. 87th minute I lose a ball after taking tooooooooooooo many touches on our half, they quickly attack get into the box, they're player CLEARLY dives, and they get the call for a penalty kick 2-2. Then we start to press into the attack, and we have a beautiful thru ball creating a 50/50 ball with our player and their goalkeeper. There keeper completely misses the ball destroys our player INSIDE the box, but the goalie only gets a yellow card, and we get rewarded not a PK, but a free kick. Off the free kick we hit the cross bar take a shot hit the post again! Continue pressing on get a corner kick, and we couldn't capitalize and that wrapped up the game. 2-2 final.

Needless to say I was feeling hurt again, and feeling even worse for being the cause of the build up for their second goal. But luckily I'm blessed with a great family, who has always been there for me when times are hard, and things don't look good and ya wanna quit. I'm also blessed with beautiful friendships like those who always are trying to help me, from words of encouragement to, helping me with the next step in my career. Those people know who they are, and I am TRULY thankful like you guys wouldn't believe for every text message, phone call, tweet, fb message etc etc. Anyways this post is just a thankful one, for those who keep me up when I'm down. For those of you who are down, listen even if your far away from the love of your family and friends, the love of God is always just a prayer away. He's waiting for you, in fact He's waiting for me right now, I need to get into prayer and worship my God who is so good to me! Thank you heavenly father, for blessing me with all the people you continue to put into my life, and for all the things and people I already have. I am truly thankful, because I do notice you as you work on my life. I love you my God. God is love.


God Bless!!