Author Information
Debut
Carlos de Mucha/ Alfonso Riddle
Debut in first division
Marco Fernandez since the age of 8 has dedicated 100 percent to train soccer; he lived in the city of Monterrey. He always believed that he could be a professional soccer player, but his father frustrate his big dreams, telling him that it was impossible for him to be a professional since they were poor. He insisted that he should help him with the work instead of loosing time with soccer. But not even the father’s frustration could beat Marco. He played with his friends all days, and they always everybody told him that he was very good. One day when he was at a local tournament, a viewer from the Monterrey professional team came close to him and invited him to play for Monterrey. From this Tuesday night all the dedication started to look as a good decision. At the age of 16 he started playing for “Rayados” the Monterrey team but until that time he didn’t play any official game. He just was playing for fun, since he wasn’t getting paid. One day he got upset and decided to quit and help his father in the little workshop he has, he worked there for 6 months and then he realized that he was loosing a one in a life time opportunity, so decided to try again in the “Monterrey”, then when he was 19 after 1 year, of hard training he was finally called for an official game. When the day came Marco was nervous and exited at the same time but his father didn’t supported him. The stadium was full and a lot of fans where yelling his name, by the end of the first half he didn’t play, “Rayados” was loosing 2-1 and Marco was upset because he couldn’t do anything. The referee called the half time. Then, in the looker room and the coach got mad and was yelling at the players. In the second half one of the players that where playing got injured, the coach call Marco to go inside the field, Marco started playing really bad because he was nervous, and the other players didn’t give him the ball. But then, Marco saw his father in the middle of all the fans, he realized that if his father was supporting him was because he was good, this gave him confidence, got exited and he knew that all the effort he had made in his life was worth it, “Rayados” scored a goal, and the game was almost finish. When Marco was with the ball a player of the other team hit him and the referee called a free kick. This was the last play of the game, Marco ask to take the free kick and the others players let him. Then the referee whistle Marco kicked the ball it hit the defense and went in! It was a GOAL! Marco started to cry and the entire crowd was singing his name.
