INEXPLICABLE

Posted on April 23, 2008 by camigarnier.
Categories: My Point of View.

Soccer, I love it… those four words describe it. But it seems as if my passion can’t be explained in words, and if I even tried to, if you don’t feel it, you wouldn’t know what I’m talking about. I realized my passion can’t be explained through David Beckham, Lionel Messi… Don’t get me wrong they’re great players… but that doesn’t really explain my feeling towards soccer. You might be thinking, so GREAT you like Lionel Messi and David Beckham… good for you. And that is my point, why would you care about those guys when you’ve heard about them a million times. Wouldn’t you prefer to read about somebody you’ve never heard from before feels about this sport? But I realized that there are millions of subject about soccer I could write about, but none of them connect to me or my feeling towards soccer. I could write about more soccer players, cleats, a team… Writing about soccer players would be very boring because they are very popular you hear about them all the time. Writing about a team I would probably not enjoy doing. Anyways if you’re a fan of that team, you would know everything about them already. About cleats, honestly I couldn’t care less. I’m the type of person who does not care about what cleats a person is using. As long as you’re comfortable in them, and are able to play, I just don’t care about cleats. Think about it, it doesn’t matter if you have new, very modern cleats or old, priceless cleats, when you’re in the game, the cleats don’t play, it’s you. Your movements are products of the signals your brain sends into your feet, not a product of cleats. There are just so much things I could write about, but I just don’t feel like it, because it’s not communicating the feeling I want to pass on to you. I think it was a mistake to choose only one subject to write about…lovefut.jpg

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2006-Switzerland

Posted on April 15, 2008 by camigarnier.
Categories: My Point of View.

I really do love soccer. But I guess some people just don’t understand this… I’m young but I still face acts of sexism in this sport. Of course not huge ones, I’m not old enough for that to happen. But for example, in 2006 I went to a camp in Switzerland. I was in free time with some of my friends just sitting around campus. Of course my friends had similarities with me; and one of them was our passion for soccer (or at least they said so). So we decided to go to the soccer field to play a while. When we got there, some of the boys were playing; I didn’t see a problem, so I just kept walking toward the field. But the rest of my friends, I’m guessing because of their culture, stopped when they saw the boys. I just kept on walking, with them staying about three meters behind me. I asked a guy who was standing next to the byline, ready to come in, if we could play. I will never forget the way he looked at me. His face stared down at me as if he was trying to intimidate me, but at the same time he looked at me as if I knew what I was doing. I guess he was just in a state of shock. I was just confused at his reaction. The only thought that was passing through my head was, “Is that so unbelievable? A girl, ME, playing soccer?”. I actually found this kind of rude; deep inside my feelings were hurt. But my reactions to this, was anger. I just couldn’t believe his reaction. But then I realized I was used to a different culture, so I just tried talking through to him, but I soon realized, this, was impossible. He stared at me with that look and said “WHAT?!”. So I repeated to him, “May I play?” He made that look again; it was really getting on my nerves. The guy chuckled, “I’m sorry, girls don’t play soccer”. When he said this, my anger turned into rage. HOW COULD HE HAVE SAID THAT TO ME!? So I just answered, “Excuse me, but YES they do”. He laughed again. I could feel the blood flowing into my head, making my face red, with anger. “I play soccer,” I said trying to emphasize that by slightly raising my voice. He just responded, “Girls DON’T play soccer,” I noticed his empathizing in the word don’t. And I just said, “In Costa Rica, they do!” By this moment, an Italian friend of mine had overheard the discussion between the English guy and me. I had played soccer with the Italian guy before, and without a comment, or discussion. My friend yelled at the guy standing by the byline, “Hey let her play. She can play with me. She’s good”. When he said that, my anger was completely gone. As I went in to play, I could see as my friends were staring at me from outside the field, amazed at what I had done. I really didn’t care what anybody thought anymore. I really appreciated what my friend had done there with me. So I started playing. At first, nobody passed it to me, well just like two of the guys in my team, both Italian. Then I started making some good passes, so more people started passing it to me. I now noticed, that the guy who was by the byline, was coming in to play, finally. He was put into the other team. This time, rage came back to me, but I decided to take it on the game. I was running with the ball at my feet, I looked up to see who I could pass it to. But as I raised my head, I saw him, the byline guy. He was coming towards me to take the ball. But as he was coming, I noticed that his legs were slightly apart. So I passed the ball between his legs. As soon as the ball passed, I heard the boys bothering him. And this actually made me happy; after all HE was the one who didn’t want me to play. I could also hear my friends cheering from outside the field. I then passed the ball, and the game went on. Later in the game, the ball was passed to me, and I ran towards the goal and shot. I scored! Everybody cheered. Everybody except of course the byline guy. I looked at him, and waited for him to make eye contact with him, and directing him a look as if saying, “You see?.. Girls do play soccer.”(NO OFFENSE MEANT TO ANY ENGLISH)fut-mujeres.jpg

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Soccer Positions

Posted on April 10, 2008 by camigarnier.
Categories: About.

     For soccer, you need eleven players, which each have a certain position. One is the goalie, and the other ten, are outfield players (defensive, midfield, attacking). GOALKEEPER: The name says it, keeps the goal. Its job is to defend his team’s goal. They’re the only player that can grab the ball with their hands, but just in a certain area that is marked with lines, penalty area.DEFENDERS:  They play behind the midfielders, but in front of the goalkeeper. They help the goal keeper by trying to keep the ball from reaching the goalkeeper’s area.     -centre-backs: job is to stop attacking players (from opposite team) from entering team’s penalty area.     -sweeper/libero: sweeps the ball if opposite player get through the defense line     -full-back: one on each side of defensive line. Their job is to prevent opposite players cross into the penalty area to shoot. They also make passes down the sides for the forward positions.     -wingback: concentrate more to support strikers than defenseMIDFIELDERS: between strikers and defense     -centre midfielder: link the defense and attack. They must also defend when other team has the ball.     -defensive midfielder: stands in a central position.  Stops opposite team’s players from passing and makes passes to other midfielders or attackers.     -attacking midfielder: they are playmakers. Their job is to make great passes for strikers to score. They have to be able to read the defense to make these plays.     -wide midfielder: positioned to the left or right in the midfielders line. They help the back. They have to go back and forth to help attackers too. Usually they’re very good dribblers because they have to carry the ball throughout the byline avoiding opposite players who are trying to take the ball away.STRIKERS:  basic job is to score goals and to set plays for other players to score.     -centre forward: main job is to score goals     -striker: don’t have a lot of defensive responsibilities. Usually stay near goal to score.     -deep-lying forward: usually fill space between opposite forwards and midfielders. They’re like a second striker.posiciones-fut.png

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Messi

Posted on April 3, 2008 by camigarnier.
Categories: Players.

Lionel Messi was born on June 24, 1987 in Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina. In this moment , he plays with Futbol Club Barcelona in Spain, and also for the National Argentine soccer team (senior). But now, I’m going to tell you how his whole soccer career started. Lionel Messi was five years old when he started playing at a club called Grandoli, in which his father was the coach. At eight, he went to Newell’s Old Boys (youth soccer club). He was later identified with a Growth Hormone Deficiency at eleven years of age. River Plate wished to play with him, but they didn’t have enough money to pay for Messi’s treatment(₤500). On the other hand, FC Barcelona could pay for it, so they made a deal with him. Messi was sent to Spain with his family, so he could play there with FC Barcelona’s youth teams. He played there for a while. Then, he became the youngest player that scored a goal for Barcelona (at seventeen), but the record was broken by Bojan Krkić (Spanish player, also in FC Barcelona) in September 2007. In 2005, in the Under-20 World Cup, Messi won the prize of best player of the tournament. Argentina also won that tournament with Lionel Messi. (some goals by Messi)(goal by Messi, takes 5 players, including goalie)

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What is freedom of speech?

Posted on by camigarnier.
Categories: My Point of View.

Freedom of speech is basically the right to say what you want to say whenever you want. This also includes the right to express your opinion or thoughts through speech, writing, or graphics (i.e. symbols, drawings). For example you have the right to speak up to defend yourself anytime. This right is not granted in every country. But basically you can say whatever you want whenever you want.Even though, this doesn’t mean you should. You should be careful with what you say, consider other people’s feelings and emotions. Sometimes you say things with out thinking them thoroughly. This is a privilege so don’t abuse it. You have to understand the difference between the things that stay in your mind (insults, and other insulting comments), and things you can say (defend yourself, nice comments).You should not only be careful with what you say to people, but also with what you write. For example the internet. Whatever you write in the internet, will be there for a while. Also, you have to consider that anyone who has access to the internet, can see it. Anything you write can be attacked by anyone. So, my point is that anything you write, say, draw, has to be thought thoroughly before written, said, or drawn. But you can say ANYTHING you want, just be careful with what you say, also in the way you say it. Sometimes you mean to say something, but because you say it without thinking, it comes out in another way and is misunderstood. This can cause conflict with you and other people, so just be careful with abusing this right.free_speech_1.jpg

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