Soccer Week-Day 1

There is a soccer freak that we are related to who lives in a small town in Texas. Obviously, living in Texas, she doesn't get to see much or hear about professional soccer in Brasil. I promised her that I would do a soccer week just for her.

If you enjoy soccer you might enjoy some of the stuff we share this week. If you hate soccer, you probably won't want to come back to this blog for the next few days. It's okay, we aren't offended.

On the first two days of soccer week we will share some pictures and videos of two of the best soccer players in our city. Later we will share about the best soccer team in the world.

First up is a future college and/or pro star. He currently plays for the São Jose futebol clube.

Okay, it's Garrett and here are some photos of his most recent championship that was played on Kids Day.

They got to play at São Jose's professional stadium. As you can see the place was packed.

Seriously the side we were on was more than half full of parents, etc.

Typical pre-game photo. Can you find Garrett?

Then it was game time.

Garrett started and played every game at atacante.

Here was his best chance at a goal.

He was stinking mad that he missed.

In the semi-final game they won 2-1 with the winning goal coming on the awesome assist of your brother. Here's what that goal looked like.

Past the zagueiro.....

Past the goleiro.....

 Perfect pass to the atacante for the goal.

They played great. They made it to the championship game and got beat 1-0.

He, of course, was discouraged that they didn't win and he thought he didn't play well. He did play good in every game despite fighting through cramps. He even got treated by the preparador fisico who told him to try to burp or, uh, to burp out the other end to make his cramps go away.

During the championship game I took Giovanni for a walk at an empty part of the stadium. I told your mom to take some good pictures of Garrett.

Here are the only two that she took:

Notice anything funny?

They aren't Garrett at all. At least the two she took were of the same kid.

Thought you might enjoy that.

(from Benay.....Hey!! In my defense, you know my eyes are horrible and the sun was really bright AND this guy had the same hair as Garrett and the same socks pushed down.  The only difference was the yellow shoes....and that it wasn't Garrett.  Oh, well.....)