This is also a blog born of passion. I've been playing recreational soccer for nearly 5 years now. True, I came to it late and almost on a lark. Yet it has taken ahold of me like no other sport I've played. I now play year-round, indoors and out for teams both good and bad. Come between me and my soccer game and there will be hell to pay.
I read somewhere that when you plug into soccer, you plug into the world. As someone who saw every game held in Ottawa during the recent FIFA U-20 tournament and marveled at the passion of the cosmopolitan crowd that turned out, as someone who travelled to Montreal to watch our men's national team lose its World Cup qualifier to Honduras, and as someone who spends many hours dreaming up his next trip, I truly believe that.
With this blog, I hope to reveal the vibrant, growing and dynamic soccer community in Ottawa. I'm not in this for the money. I'm not in it for the fame. I'm in it for the passion.
After all, this is why we all play the game.
