my soccer team...

As I mentioned before, I got a chance to do some coaching here in Spain. If you know me well enough, you know how important coaching or the game of soccer is to me. So I got a little job being a coach for the local soccer club, Athleticia Esportiva Tossa (A.E. Tossa). Tossa, again, is a pretty small town. So there is only one club here. A club is a name describing one group of people, presided over by a president, coaching staff, and several level of teams and age groups, varying on the size of the club. Also, to support the club, you can pay to be a member or associate. Being an associate, you are able to enjoy some perks the club has to offer. Membership has privileges.



I am a member of my favorite soccer club, Futbol Club Barcelona. I am also a member of A.E Tossa. I paid almost 200€ to be a member of FCB...I paid 80€ to be a member of Tossa. I get to buy tickets before they go on sale for home homes...Tossa I get in for free. I get 5% off merchandise at the Team stores, 10% off with online orders...Tossa gives me stuff for free. I drive an hour or so to Barcelona, take 30 minutes to find parking and walk 2 miles to sit in the cold to enjoy a live game at Camp Nou (stadium of Barcelona). I can walk 10 minutes to the home field of Tossa. So far I feel like I wasted 200€.



Since Tossa is a small town, therefore a small club but still we have more than enough to support having several teams. The age level range from Alex´s age group (Pre Benjamin), to Bejamin I and II, to Cadet to Juvenil to the professional teams (which is more like AAA or AA baseball team levels rather than the major leagues). I coach the Juvenil which is composed ofr 16-18 year old players. Many of the kids have already finished high school and will be playing professionally next year and getting paid for it.

My job is to physically prepare the team and care for their health. If they get hurt in a game, I tend to them up until we take them to the hospital if needed. Thankfully we have not gotten to that point but the season is still young. We have played 2 official games for the league and our record is 1-1-0 (wins-loss-ties). Wednesday night we had a friendly game against neighboring Blanes and killed them 6-3. The first half we allowed 4 cadets to plays up with us, but in the second half we put in our starters and they went to work. My goal with the team is to take either the whole team or the senior players to America to tryout for colleges and such. Who knows what will happen.