Its surprising to us all, how so many “hopefuls” just fade away. You know the type. The high school star or maybe even a city league star. Everyone thought that he should go pro but, he doesn’t. These types are all around and many of them are considered the good players that every rec, city, or amateur team has. Maybe these guys that I am talking about even made it to college and shined there. Who knows?
Many of my topics consist of getting to college and then the next level or simply getting to the pro level. I was driving someplace and thought about something. Does a soccer player’s ultimate happiness rest in pro leagues?
I once knew this really good goalkeeper. He won 2 collegiate national championships in Canada. You would have thought that he would be playing or would have played with maybe the CSL(Canadian Soccer League), one of the USL teams up there, or something. Not a chance. He was the head GK coach for an academy that I went to. “My World Cup is every pick-up game, scrimmage, adult league game, sunday league game, or just whenever I’m in goal or on the pitch.”
People need to stop thinking about being the professionals and start thinking about playing. If I could something 24/7, that something would be playing soccer. No doubt about it. However, I wouldn’t want my love of soccer to be blackened by dreams of making money, playing for fame, and living some kind of a crazy life. Players today need to realize that their “World Cup” is now, not tomorrow.
