#1Keeper
20 Jul 2006, 02:23 AM
Well, I didn't see a thread for this game so I thought I should start one and I also wanted to share my experience with you americanistas.
Club America plays against San Luis at Invesco Field at Mile High in Denver, Colorado on July 20. They had a training session today so I went with my dad to go watch America practice. We got there late and we only catched the last 20 minutes of their practice but it was still pretty cool to watch. Anyways, the first person that I see is Lapuente sitting on a hill behind one of the goals. MY dad and I walked by Lapuente because we got to the field through the back way and not from where anyone else came from so the security gaurds from America didn't think that we were there to watch America train. My dad talked a little bit with Lapuente before the security gaurd told us not to bother Manolo.
So the players finished their training and most of them went straight to their bus and only a few players stayed to sign autographs. I went to America's training session straight from where I work so I didn't have anything that they could sign but my dad still took a picture of me with Memo Ochoa on his camera phone. An America fan there thought that my dad was Luis Fernando Tena and asked for his autograph which I thought was hilarious.
As I'm going home my dad calls one of his friends and we find out at what hotel America is staying at. But before I go to the hotel I go to get my old keeper gloves so that Ochoa can sign them. We arrive at the hotel where America is staying and we try to keep a low profile by going through one the side doors and not looking too obvious because security were a$$ho!es. My dad and I look around the hotel to see where the players are at and we spot Lapuente going up to his room. We walk past the bar and spot some of America's staff (people who help the team probably towel boys and such) sitting at a table in the restaurant inside of the hotel. In one of the back rooms of the restaurant is where the players where dining. SO my dad and I ask for a table and they give us a table in a corner which had a great view to the room where the players where eating. We eat our diner.
After we are finished eating, we see that America's staff gets up and leaves. With no waiters or waitresses around and with the saff and helpers gone there is nothing to keep me from getting to where the America players are at. I get my old gloves and my sharpie out and walk right into the room where the players are sitting. I walk into the room, all the talking stops, everyone looks at me like WTF is this kid doing here? and I look to my left and I see the coaching staff. Then I look to my right and I see the second table which seats such players as El gringo Castro and Memo Ochoa. I stopped for about a second then went to over and asked Ochoa to sign my gloves. As he is doing that Gringo Castro starts cracking up and so do all the other players because of the look on my face. I was just shocked to see all the coaches there and players like Vuoso, El Piojo, Villa, El Gringo, Ochoa, and Cabanas. I may not be an Americanista but I still have a lot of respect for those players and I admire them a lot. So I wish them all luck for tomorrow's game and for the upcoming season ans I leave the room and go back to the table where my dad was sitting.
I will post tomorrow after the game with the result and I will also try to post up pics of the gloves the Ochoa signed.
One last thing, sorry for my post being so long and for sounding like a 13 year old girl who just found Justin Timberlake's already-been-chewed gum but I have never really had a chance to see such great football players in person so I was really excited and Memo Ochoa is one of my favorite players and I really look up to him as a keeper.
Club America plays against San Luis at Invesco Field at Mile High in Denver, Colorado on July 20. They had a training session today so I went with my dad to go watch America practice. We got there late and we only catched the last 20 minutes of their practice but it was still pretty cool to watch. Anyways, the first person that I see is Lapuente sitting on a hill behind one of the goals. MY dad and I walked by Lapuente because we got to the field through the back way and not from where anyone else came from so the security gaurds from America didn't think that we were there to watch America train. My dad talked a little bit with Lapuente before the security gaurd told us not to bother Manolo.
So the players finished their training and most of them went straight to their bus and only a few players stayed to sign autographs. I went to America's training session straight from where I work so I didn't have anything that they could sign but my dad still took a picture of me with Memo Ochoa on his camera phone. An America fan there thought that my dad was Luis Fernando Tena and asked for his autograph which I thought was hilarious.
As I'm going home my dad calls one of his friends and we find out at what hotel America is staying at. But before I go to the hotel I go to get my old keeper gloves so that Ochoa can sign them. We arrive at the hotel where America is staying and we try to keep a low profile by going through one the side doors and not looking too obvious because security were a$$ho!es. My dad and I look around the hotel to see where the players are at and we spot Lapuente going up to his room. We walk past the bar and spot some of America's staff (people who help the team probably towel boys and such) sitting at a table in the restaurant inside of the hotel. In one of the back rooms of the restaurant is where the players where dining. SO my dad and I ask for a table and they give us a table in a corner which had a great view to the room where the players where eating. We eat our diner.
After we are finished eating, we see that America's staff gets up and leaves. With no waiters or waitresses around and with the saff and helpers gone there is nothing to keep me from getting to where the America players are at. I get my old gloves and my sharpie out and walk right into the room where the players are sitting. I walk into the room, all the talking stops, everyone looks at me like WTF is this kid doing here? and I look to my left and I see the coaching staff. Then I look to my right and I see the second table which seats such players as El gringo Castro and Memo Ochoa. I stopped for about a second then went to over and asked Ochoa to sign my gloves. As he is doing that Gringo Castro starts cracking up and so do all the other players because of the look on my face. I was just shocked to see all the coaches there and players like Vuoso, El Piojo, Villa, El Gringo, Ochoa, and Cabanas. I may not be an Americanista but I still have a lot of respect for those players and I admire them a lot. So I wish them all luck for tomorrow's game and for the upcoming season ans I leave the room and go back to the table where my dad was sitting.
I will post tomorrow after the game with the result and I will also try to post up pics of the gloves the Ochoa signed.
One last thing, sorry for my post being so long and for sounding like a 13 year old girl who just found Justin Timberlake's already-been-chewed gum but I have never really had a chance to see such great football players in person so I was really excited and Memo Ochoa is one of my favorite players and I really look up to him as a keeper.