soccer

i speak english, it's my mother tongue, but when it comes to watching soccer - i think spanish. i went to a soccer game almost every sunday for 15 months. i was the waterboy (?) for the team, my name was on the roster, the only other person allowed on the field besides the players. depending on the distance we had to travel to go to a game we could be gone 10 hours. the boys never brought food with them and most of them never had money to buy food. a lot of boys never went to games because they didn't have the money to pay for the ride in the truck. i brought water, cups, cookies, candies, gum. i guess you could say i was the team mom. i loved every minute of it and really miss it, the games for sure but especially the players.

so of course when costa rica plays germany july 9th in the opening game of the world cup i'll be wearing my team jersey and cheering them on.