At breakfast everyone had mixed emotions: happy, nervous, excited and worried we were going to step onto the field and play one of the best pro teams from Sweden. As the bus drove up to the complex, many of us tapped our shin guards, tied our boots and focused hard on their own responsibilities that they would execute during game time. This was an opportunity of a lifetime, playing in Italy against a pro Swedish club at a professional complex.
As we got to the locker room, the excitement hit many of us. We were ready to play. Tweet...the whistle blew and the game began. Wall pass, short-short long, from Ali to Dan, the ball finally landed at Eduardo's foot, who put it in the back of the net. As the first half came to a close, we were up by one, 1-0.
During the second half, we had most of the possession. In one of the possessions, Bay nut megged the Swedish left back and whipped in a cross which found it's way to Travis, who headed in another goal, 2-0 Region II. Teet, the final whistle blew. We had just beaten a Swedish pro team!
- Louis Bennett '95
Today, after we finished our game against the Swedish team, it was time to pack up once again and move to our third and final hotel of the trip. As we loaded up the bus and started to pull away from what felt like our home for so many days, the team and I were still energetic about our (2-0) win today. For the next three hours, we spent our time sleeping, playing ipods, watching movies and/or just messing with each other on the bus.
When we pulled into our new hotel, we quickly put our belongings in our rooms and headed out to the tournament ceremony. When we arrived to the plaza, there as at least 40 teams standing around; consisting of teams from Italy, Japan, Sweden, Switzerland, etc. We also saw the teams were were going to play tomorrow. After they called our team and we took our picture on stage, we started walking to dinner. We realized their was a volleyball tourney going on and we took a picture with the girls from America.
After dinner, we received shirts from the tournament and headed back to the hotel, which concluded our 7th day of our trip.
- Kyle Dal Santo '95
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