Still Kickin!!!!

Hey everyone!!!! Hope everyone out there is excited for summer to be upon us. Seems like the good weather is finally sticking around here in Germany. Spring and Summer is really quite beautiful here.

Anyway.....Shoot....I am sorry it has been so long since my last update....I am sure you are all just on the edge of your seat waiting to hear what is happening with me....haha. Well I am been through a lot of ups and downs over the past couple of months, it has been stressful and frustrating at times but am learning more and more about myself through these bumps in the road. But in all honesty life would be pretty boring if everything went as planned or expected and that has truly been the story of my life as of late.

The most significant and stressful event was about a month ago, I had to move out of my previous living situation, and only had a weekend to find something or I had to go home. I still do not know exactly what the reason was, it was very weird and completely out of nowhere. But God has a plan for everything and he showed that to me first hand. With the help of contacts through my team I found a room with a family who owns a Greek Restaurant. So I get a room food and a little bit of work, when I dont have training, about 80 euro a week, and I am not paying anything. So it is actually a better deal, and all in all far less stressful.

Well in terms of soccer last time you heard from me we were getting ready to start the second half of the season and that I was playing well in the friendly games leading up to that. Well I came off of the bench in the first official game, assist the goal that put us ahead 2-1 then 5 minutes later got a sent off for a late tackel....yeah a red card, I really had no malicious intentions but the ref saw it differently. So because of that I missed 3 games, which sucks cause there were only 12 games remaining, but on the switch side of things I did not have to stress about missing a couple games because I was invited on a trip to go to Belgium with a group of american players. So we spent a week and a half in Belgium and we play 3 1st division teams and a 3rd division team there. That was an awesome experience, and got some great exposure from that, and some awesome contact, and overall I had a blast!!!

Then it was back to Germany, I sat out the remainder of suspension, man anyone who has played soccer competitively can feel me on this when I say the time goes by sooo slow when you know you can play but you cant!!!! But I made it through. And have been playing well since. Often starting but when guys come down from the 1st team I am usually the first sub into the game. Till now I have played in 10 games and have 5 starts and 1 goal and 1 assist. Now I have been playing Outside Right Midfield which I do ok at but my postition is up front and it is there that I feel I am most effective. Now I do well and usually play up front in training but the coach does not sub either of our forwards out ever, they play 90 min every game. So that has been a bit frustrating, but you got to roll with it. And I love playing here and the atmousphere is unreal even at this level. But the season is coming to an end and I have to figure what I want to do with my life now.

There are some possibilities pending for tryouts this summer, through a few agents I have been in touch with the past few months, so I am waiting to hear if anything opens up through them. I could come back here, I have a pretty good living situation, and a possibility for a work visa and a job through the team if I want to stay, but at the same time, I am still not sure if I would be starting every game, which is important to me if I was to stay. Also at the same time, I have come to realize that it is a pretty long shot that I would ever make a real living playing soccer here. At 25 I am just a little to old and do not bring enough to the table, so there is a big part of me that in leaning toward heading back to school. So there is a lot of thing up in the air, but no matter what happens I do not and will not have any regrets, I truly gave it my all.

I will keep you all updated and let you know where things end up in the next couple of weeks.

Take care and God Bless.