Another week in the journey of an aspiring pro. The biggest thing that happened this week is that I got my American scholarship/trial assessment video done, even though it's not my best stuff, I had to get it done quickly. My best friend in Australia saw it, (who also wants to be a pro) said it was good and was impressed on how much I had improved and that I've become an inspiration to him

Now for some more interesting news. After Thursday's training, I was talking to my coach Moses (the dude who will help sending out the video to contacts in America) about my scholarship video in the changing rooms, what he thought and stuff like that. Mo then talked about a contact in Florida and that he might be able to talk to him about me. When I was about to leave the building, Janos the head coach wanted to talk to me one on one. He said he overheard the conversation with me and Moses were having and straightforward put it to me something like "if u have any interest, contact whatever, I should know about it and it should go through me because you are apart of this club." I told Moses about the incident after and he said that, Janos is probably interested in me too, but I should be open to anything that can help me succeed, but if I have an agent or manager that wants to talk to me, don't let him talk to Janos!  Janos said he wants to take me to a few European countries to maybe tryout, but as good of a coach he is, sometimes what he says doesn't really work out the way it's suppose to. I don't know if he looks out for me in my best interest, or that he is jealous. Moses thinks his jealous. Moses could get credit for the work that Janos has done on me and maybe I'm worth something and Janos wants the money.. I dont know what to trust. I remember a year or two ago, Janos was pissed off about a player from another club who got sold to a place not in the best interests of the player, because the coach would somehow get money for it. I guess it's something that will sort itself out in the next few months.

What else..? Oh! I'm on a one week break now, so on Monday I am getting my final email list of coaches to email finalized. My "sales letter pitch" done. Then by Tuesday, I "should" have a recommendation letter ready from Janos. Then with all these weapons combined along with my video, I'll send the emails and I'm hoping I'll get some positive responses back. The last six months of very hard work will pay off. Fingers crossed.

Next Week's training

25/25 hours of training completed this week. I think roughly 20% of that was game analysis. I began doing some training in the mornings and after school on the pitches at school. With a bag of balls, I think my quality of training is definently better, I practiced at least 150 left foot shots in an hour with a dozen or so balls. I calculated I fire around twice as many shots, when compared to if I just had one ball with me. I can feel the difference already. If I keep this left foot shooting routine up for a month, there would definently be a massive improvement. Unfortunately I'll have to wait untill the week after next to do this left foot routine again since I don't have school.

Schedule for next week, 20 hours.

It was a mixed week. Good and bad. I once again slightly injured a muscle under my left butt cheek and it's kept me out a few days this week. It's an annoying thing that comes back sometimes. I'm gonna tape it up and put some cream on it and hopefully it won't bother me for next week. I notice the quality of my training is better when I take two days off and come back into it. The skill that you develp really shows when your energy is full and you really want to play some football. But I can't lower the number of times I train otherwise I will fall behind, if you've heard of the 10,000 hour rule, that explains why I really don't want to fall behind. I will write about it sometime.

So anyway, an update on my future. I was getting some scholarship video footage taken with one of my coaches, an Irish dude named John. I've talked about him before. He mentioned to me about playing for a Finnish club that is about to get promoted to the Premier League of Finland. He was saying that his friend is the coach? or something like that and that he is always looking for players, so I could possibly go there I guess. He also said I should definently get some scholarship offers from the U.S. The final scholarship video should be done by next week and I'm pretty happy about it so far so I can't wait to show it to everyone, especially my friends back in Australia to see my improvement, who I have to say been pretty skeptical about this whole me wanting to be a football thing.

Next Week

Completed roughly 12 out of the 25 that I was suppose to complete. But injury, even for a day or two screws up the whole plan. So if this injury doesn't choose to bug me then I will use the same schedule I had from last week. At my school there are three top quality football pitches. I'm going to start going in the mornings and training at school, because it will give me more free time in the evenings. So I guess I'll have to start waking up at 6 – 6:30, getting to school at around 7:15 and training for an hour before class starts at 8:30. Oh, and the school have a few bags full worth of balls which I'm gonna try get permission to use, and I think having a dozen or so balls is more effective than just having one and going around having to fetch it.