The pitch is where my soul became pitch perfect, where the notes others found discordant became a kickin' beat.
Football was the way my entire self sang - a kind of music played in a way only the players and fans could hear. It was as if it was our opera, a tale of emotions told in struggle for the chance of earned glory.
Football was the life-support system for my soul, my coach was another parent. It mattered that much. Still does.
Football, or soccer to the Americans (bless 'em, they'll figure it out one day), was the way I breathed when I was a kid. We all need to find a way that our entire self breathes and not only the lungs. It was all of me out there on the pitch, feeling that I was part of something, a community, that together we were more than we would otherwise ever be.
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