Football... The game that brings people from around the world together. It's about hopes, dreams and glory. It's a team game where players who are passionate play with their emotions from time to time and can taste love and hate in 90 minutes. It can take you to the top or leave you sitting on the bottom with an empty heart of frustration. When people think about the game, they think about the sold out crowd in the huge stadium; the players who walk out onto the field and instantly become a childhood hero for young children all over the world. It's all picture perfect and seems like these people live in a fantasy world. What they don't know about these players is what they did to get there. What they had to sacrifice in order to have one shot at the dream of a lifetime. In the beginning of my tale a ball brought smiles and joy. At the moment I'm finding the opposite, on and off the field. My team is a part time professional club in the lower divisions of Scottish football. I'm an average Joe by day, footballer by night, on Tuesday, Thursday and game day on Saturdays.
Today the reserve side matched up against East Fife's reserve side, where we ended up losing 3-2. I was disappointed in the result obviously because I'm not even a fan of letting in 1 goal, who can blame me I'm a keeper. I felt the frustrations off the field beat me up a little bit mentally, as I want to continue along this path to see where it takes me.If you have fear, you have to face it, find a way to defeat it. Tomorrow is another chase, with a different reason. It's something I have to do in order to give myself that chance to achieve something most people only get when they close their eyes at night. Who knew this story would truly be about getting so close to the end before it really started? Luck will change because I am a believer...plus it's only a finger tip away.
Cowdenbeath 2-3 East Fife (Reserve Match)
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