CONADEIP NATIONALS

Well, after a whole week of matches and more matches in Pachuca, we got the 4th place in national level football.

After reaching Pachuca on 18th March, we just arranged our things and took rest for our first match next day at 9:00 am in the ART (Alto Rendimiento Tuzo: it's the place where we had our matches, it's the concentration camp of Pachuca's team Tuzos).

We arrived the ART at 8:00 am. We met our "calentadoras" (these girls were the ones who made us do the warm up before the match) Marisela, Gloria, Fernanda and Scarlett. They are really nice people.

This match was against ITESM campus Estado de Mexico. It was played equally well by both sides. At the end, the score was 1-1, so we went to penalties in which we lost :(

The second match was against Prepa Tec. Actually, in this really tough match we lost 5-0. My consolation was that we played really well the 2nd half, in where they didn't put not even a goal.

A victory in the third match against Colegio Miraflores gave us the pass to semifinals. The 70 minutes were really full of emotion as just a goal was the difference between them and us, so we had to be constantly running and being really careful about not making any mistake. When the referee gave the final whistle, we were all so excited, for us actually it was really wow, just the fact of being between the 4 best teams in Mexico.

Now, our semifinal match was against Colegio Once de Mexico from Guadalajara, they had passed to semifinals as the toughest team in the league. Being honest, we were really nervous and it was clearly seen in the ground. We lost 8-0.

Now we had to recover confidence for our match for the third place against the CUM (Centro Universitario de Mexico). We lost 1-0, it was really sad as the goal came by one of our mistakes.

Well, we had finished our stay here in Pachuca. It was sad to be a step from having the third place and missing it, but even though a fourth place in the first time we go to nationals, it's really good.

Later that day, after eating lunch and so, we met the players of Pachuca's first team. I think they were really friendly :)

After this great experience, it was time to return home.

I liked Pachuca a lot. It's awesome! There's a place called Real del Monte; it's a mining little town in a hill. Another things that were really good there were the elotes (corn), they're totally not like the ones we prepare here but the taste really great. A typical food prepared there are the pastes, they're like puffs filled with different kind of things either sweet or sour.

Well, finally it was a beautiful experience! Apart from getting to know the city and making new friends, you see different ways of playing, and you get more confidence after playing against really strong teams. In fact, Esteban (our coach) told us that these experiences will help us grow and make us better each day.