Well this is my first blog. I mean it is a weird feeling to do this, but hey I guess it is more productive than Facebook so I guess I am moving on up in the rankings.
A week ago, my friend and I came to play soccer at the Pavilion. It was fun but we were the only ones there. After a couple hours, we started to see other young people there to play soccer. I thought, "Now we can play pick up soccer!" It turned out to be a bunch of white adults in a league in which we were kicked off the field. We decided to go to Pittman Park. After we got there, I asked a group who happened to be all white if my friend and I could play soccer with them. They said something like nah we already have teams and I was greatly surprised. This is pick up soccer people. My friend and I already got kicked off some other park and now we can't even join pick up soccer! I was pretty embarrassed of my own ethnicity.
So today I decided to go play some soccer because I really miss playing it. I drive to the Pittman Park again and all I see is Hispanics. I speak in my broken spanish, "¿Juego el fútbol, por favor?" The Hispanics accepted me and let me play. I was the only white guy there, but I didn't feel any barrier or resentment. Soccer, or as the rest of the world would say football or fútbol, unites people together. I had a lot of fun but came to a rude awakening that I was out of shape. As I was leaving there was a overweight White man across the parking lot at a different field yelling at these kids who were also all White about an American football drill. I felt like there was an invisible boundary that separated the Whites and the Hispanics and football from fútbol. It was sad but true.
P.S. Today the Gamecocks of South Carolina are the 2010 College World Series!!! Champions!!!
