By Theron Hopkins
Over the process a unmarried soccer season, writer Theron Hopkins travels from summer season perform to a row of nation championships, culminating within the Texas 5A kingdom identify online game in San Antonio's Alamodome. at the approach, he discovers an international wreathed with Friday evening lighting that provides a fabulous spectacle of desire and drama in such far-flung locales as Hillsborough, North Carolina, Valentine, Nebraska, and Sutter, California. He additionally reveals that the blinding halogen glare is simply a part—and perhaps now not even the simplest part—of what makes highschool soccer so impossible to resist and so very important to the folk who watch it, trainer it, and play it.
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And then, in a move that contradicts everything you have ever heard about football and everything you’ve ever heard about how to treat football players, Coach calls the team together to say, “We’re cutting it short this morning. No special teams and no conditioning. Everyone’s tired. ” And then Coach does the same thing at the afternoon practice, saying, “Thank you for your effort today. This first day in pads is always tough. You boys get home and rest your legs. We gotta pick up the intensity tomorrow.
Dowell and Johnston are at the training room ice machine, filling up the water coolers and packing the ice chest with ice and towels. Dowell not only coaches the offensive and defensive lines—“The Fat Boys”—but is also the school’s varsity basketball coach, and he’s experiencing some guilt and worry about the kid who plans to lay out of football in hopes of an improved basketball season. “The other guys give me a hard time about it,” he says, “and they’re just kidding me around. But still, you feel bad.
Or Friday, which is the first day in full pads and the first day of full contact. As the team trudges out to the field for the early morning practice, Dowell predicts that the anticipation of contact will far exceed the reality. “They’re tired, their pads don’t fit right, they’re not used to them, and they’re not used to hittin’. And my problem is, I’m excited, too. ” Coach tries to get things started on a positive note by saying, “It’s hot everywhere in Texas, boys. ” But Dowell’s forecast holds true.