Transcript · Spanish → English
Youth Soccer Tryout Experience
They said, "Stand there, at the end,"
and the kids started going in to try out,
and he was last, and they weren't calling him.
I was holding onto the wire fence and telling him,
"Tell him to see if they'll put you in,
the tryout is going to end."
And nothing, and nothing,
until the one who was running these tryouts
turned around like this, looked at him, and said,
"What position do you play?"
And he said, "No, attacking midfielder, playmaker."
"Okay," he said, "go in, play instead,"
but just like that, without giving it much importance.
Two, three minutes passed until he received the ball.
When he received the ball, he did two or three things
that were normal for us since he always did them.
And the one who was running the session
looked at him like this and said, "Who's his father?"
So I turned around and told him,
"I am, and we want him to."
In that way, it helped me a lot,
because of how he was,
because he was always messing with me,
what I told you before would happen.
I'd play a great game and "you still let one in,"
you know.
He'd always tease me about that, and I wanted,
it did me good at that time,
it made me want to improve.
For someone else, maybe that crushes them, and it's not good.
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Original transcript (Spanish)
Dijeron, ponte ahí, último, y empezaron a entrar los chicos a probarse y el último y no lo llamaban. Yo traía el tejido del alambrado y le decía, decíle a ver si te ponen que
se va a terminar la prueba. Y nada, y nada, hasta que el que estaba manejando este tipo de pruebas se dio vuelta así, lo miró, le dice, ¿de qué jugás?
Y él le dijo, no, es media punta, enganche. Bueno, dice, entra, dice, jugá en lugar, pero así, de esta manera, sin darle demasiada importancia. Pasaron dos minutos, tres, hasta que recibió la pelota. Cuando recibió la pelota hizo dos, tres cosas
que para nosotros era normal ya que lo hacía. Y el que lo estaba manejando esta situación lo miró así y dijo, ¿quién es el padre? Entonces le dio vuelta y le dijo, soy yo, y se lo queremos.
En esa manera para mí me ayudó muchísimo por cómo era él, porque siempre por ahí me jodía, salía lo que te decía antes. Jugaba un partidazo y siempre te comiste una,
viste. Siempre me jugaba con eso y yo quería, a mí me hacía bien en ese momento, me hacía querer superarme. A otro capaz que eso lo mata y no está bueno.
