nationals in boston

Last week I traveled to Boston, Massachusetts for the National championship for club soccer. We flew up there two days before our first of four games. Our flight was at eight in the morning so we could be ready for practice at three. As soon as we flew into Boston we had an hour drive to our hotel. When we got to our hotel that had known we were coming for at least a month now, our rooms were still not ready. So, we put all of our stuff in a parents room and we all went out to eat before we came back to get ready for practice. After practice, our rooms were finally ready and we all checked in before we went out for dinner, which most of the week happened to take place at the Longhorn right down the street.

The second day we did not do too much besides eat and have practice again to get ready for our first game against some Georgia team the next day. Also, we had to be in bed early anyway since our game was at 9:30.

Day 3: we wake up around 7:30am to take showers and get our stuff ready before we go down to eat breakfast in the hotel. We finish up around 8 to head to the fields for our game. During the game we end up getting a red card in the second half due to a stupid ref like usual, so we played a man down for the rest of the game. No goals were scored and it ended in a tie causing us to have to win the next game.

Day 4: One of the worst days since we had to be up about the same time as the sun because our game was at 7:30 in the morning! We were playing some team from Indiana. Were down 1-0 due to an early first half goal. After fighting back, we got a penalty kick in the 91st minute to tie the game and then we end up scoring again two minutes later to win the game and put us tied for first place.

Day 5: since we won the day before we could go through to the National final with a win or a tie. Although we would like the win, we were satisfied with the tie after being down once again to a goal early in the second half off bad defense. Late into the second half we go again and get another penalty kick to tie the game at 1-1 and off to the National Final.

Day 6: Is an off day to rest before the final. This day consisted of nothing more than eating and Xbox really. However, our younger Under-15 team was also in the final and there’s was on this day. So since we were off we all decided to go to the game, but not without stopping at the dollar store and Dick’s to get some noise makers and air horns. With our support they won the game 2-0. After the game and dinner it was off to bed for the big game the next day.

Day 7: The best day of them all. We ended up playing the same Georgia team that we played in our first game and tied 0-0 with. However, today was a new day. We did not play too good the first time against them so we were ready to change that this time. After 2 goals late in each half we won the game 2-0 and were crowned National Champions for the 3rd time in our teams 4 years together. Then it was back home to Baltimore and time to celebrate!