Free Blog

This weekend was a weekend full of soccer. We had a tournament in Rock Hill, SC. The tournament was at Manchester Meadows, a new turf complex that they built up there. The fields are perfect, I mean come on they're artificial, but they had a different bounce compared to a good ole grass field. We played to games on Saturday, one against UNC-Greensboro and one against Old Dominion. The first game against UNCG was a good one. We possed the ball really well and had great combination play throughout the field. We didn't force balls forward, if nothing was on, we simply held the ball up, went back, and started all over again. Nathan came through big time with two goals. We ended up winning the game 2-0, so he was the goal scoring hero. Keegan also had a very good showing, he managed to pull the sikest nutmeg I've seen to date in a live college game! The second game against Old Dominion didn't go as well as the UNCG game just because of the scoreline. We lost 2-0, but we outplayed them like crazy! We dominated the for 65 min of the game. It wasn't until the last 5 min that they got their 2 goals and beat us. Not trying to shift blame or anything, but if any loss can be blamed at a ref, this was one of them! The first goal they scored was off a freekick that resulted from a ficticious hand ball. The second goal came after one of Old Dominions forwards fouled McKenzie, our right back, and left him on the ground. One of the Old Dominion players then proceeded to take the space that was left where McKenzie fell and played the forward whom scored on a breakaway. It was sad that we lost but we played some of the best soccer I've ever seen us play, and that includes the season that we went to the Final Four!

Mock Interview

My mock interview went well if I do say so myself. I interviewed for the job of team manager for Real Madrid. For those of you who don't know, team manager for pro teams really means the head coach. When it gets to that level, you don't really coach the players that much anymore, they already have all the skills, they just need someone to manage the formation and where each player plays and other things of the sort. Like I said, the interview went well, I thought I spoke with confidence and answered the questions well. I could have prepared a little better for some of the questions. The questions were pretty standard questions that are asked in many interviews but they had a slight soccer twist to them. I think Angie had some questions that Mark had sent her but unfortunately she couldn't get to them because she couldn't get online. Overall, it was a good time!