Soccer fever
Coming to America has been great except for one thing……I haven’t got to play soccer as much as I would’ve loved to. Out here in Salt lake city, the soccer scene ain’t that great….not saying that the quality of game isn’t that good…just that it’s treated like a seasonal game…it’s played in late spring and early fall….coz winter it’s too cold to play anything outdoors….and summer nobody plays soccer coz not too many students around.
That’s the only drawback about this University…there ain’t much soccer.
One of the many reasons that required me to change universities was soccer. University of Florida, where I plan to go this fall, has an awesome soccer scene. I’m sure my dad won’t be too flattered with my inspiration to change Universities….but it’s a fact.
Been fanatical about soccer ever since I joined a particular “big” school in Poona. Soccer was a religion at Loyola. The easiest way to be popular in school was to be on the soccer team. No two ways about it….if u were on the school’s soccer playing eleven, u were GOD.
Never made it to the team till I reached 11th grade….mostly coz I sucked big time and also due to the phenomenal amount of talent that the school had in reserve.
Ryan Giggs and David Beckham came much later…..my idols were the likes of Shishir Shroff and Amit Bojwani. To watch these guys play for the school used to be an enlivening experience.
This happened during my second year of engineering…my college, COEP was to play this other engineering college MIT. Now it just so happened that half of our team comprised of Loyolites….and MIT’s star fire power included Shishir Shroff and Amit Bhojwani. Our captain, who wasn’t a Loyolite, couldn’t figure what was going on. He just couldn’t comprehend why half of his team was watching MIT warm up as though MIT was some Manchester United. You have to realize that all of us having completed our schooling at Loyola have grown up watching these two guys play and have been in complete awe of them ever since. Needless to say we lost. But I guess that’s been the best game I’ve had till date.
Hopefully Florida will offer all the soccer action I aspire for. Can’t wait to get there…..soccer season starts this August….time to kick some dirt…and much more.
That’s the only drawback about this University…there ain’t much soccer.
One of the many reasons that required me to change universities was soccer. University of Florida, where I plan to go this fall, has an awesome soccer scene. I’m sure my dad won’t be too flattered with my inspiration to change Universities….but it’s a fact.
Been fanatical about soccer ever since I joined a particular “big” school in Poona. Soccer was a religion at Loyola. The easiest way to be popular in school was to be on the soccer team. No two ways about it….if u were on the school’s soccer playing eleven, u were GOD.
Never made it to the team till I reached 11th grade….mostly coz I sucked big time and also due to the phenomenal amount of talent that the school had in reserve.
Ryan Giggs and David Beckham came much later…..my idols were the likes of Shishir Shroff and Amit Bojwani. To watch these guys play for the school used to be an enlivening experience.
This happened during my second year of engineering…my college, COEP was to play this other engineering college MIT. Now it just so happened that half of our team comprised of Loyolites….and MIT’s star fire power included Shishir Shroff and Amit Bhojwani. Our captain, who wasn’t a Loyolite, couldn’t figure what was going on. He just couldn’t comprehend why half of his team was watching MIT warm up as though MIT was some Manchester United. You have to realize that all of us having completed our schooling at Loyola have grown up watching these two guys play and have been in complete awe of them ever since. Needless to say we lost. But I guess that’s been the best game I’ve had till date.
Hopefully Florida will offer all the soccer action I aspire for. Can’t wait to get there…..soccer season starts this August….time to kick some dirt…and much more.
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