November 10, 2008
All Soccer, All Weekend
A Seiritsu student carries some of the team's gear to the game.
Hi everyone its Ryosuke again. Today is our first day back to school since our three day weekend. Even though school was off, we had soccer games on two of the three days we had off.
This weekend's schedule was quite hard because we played some of the best teams in Japan. Our first game was against Ryukei Kashiwa which is last year's National High School Champion. This is the team that won the Inter-High tournament.
The next day was training and we had to make sure that we were in good condition for our next and more important game, which was against the youth team Omiya Artija. Against this team we were supposed to be playing the B-team, but because we had won our last two games against them, they decided to bring in half of their A-team.
These guys were huge and basically adults. Not one player in our team was that big and there were about five or six of them bigger than all of us. After the exhausting ninety minute game, we lost and it was time to face the wrath of the coaches... or so I thought. But our coach was in a good mood and in the end, all was well.
Hopefully we win our next game so that we don’t even have to worry about the coaches mood.
Ryousuke Yano