BAA tour of Cornella 2012

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Check out some of the pictures during my visit to Barcelona

Good Memories . .

One of my good memories is playing with Cornella B team (infantile) in a tournament last Saturday because it was a great experience and also because we won. Both our games went to penalty shoot-outs where I was asked to take one in each game. The first one I took and scored sent us to the next round. The second game I was able to score again. In the finals, I played my best football. I set up the 1st goal, scored the 2nd goal, and set up the last goal. Cornella won the match 3 nil and my teammates and I were very excited. They were singing and dancing all the way to the changing rooms. I scored 3 goals in the tournament and 6 goals in all. I also got to train with the top team in my age group the Cornella A team. I’ve met new friends and saw some old friends that I hope to see real soon!
I had a really good time on this tour and many memories!!

In Barcelona . . .

The day usually started at 8:30am where we had training at the Cornella training ground with Coach Enllaki who trained us really hard. Lunch was next at our favorite spot, Subway. We went there every day and after eating we went back to the hotel to rest before playing the evening matches. The days were long and by the time we arrived back at the hotel it was always late into the night. Overall we won 1 match, lost 2, but it was an improvement from our last trip in October.

We also went to a Champions league game with 94,000 fans screaming and chanting Barcelona, Barcelona!! The match was Barcelona against AC Milan and Barcelona won 3-1, so Barcelona will now play Chelsea and whoever wins goes to Munich for the finals.

Leaving for Barcelona

I was very excited to be leaving Bermuda for Barcelona, Spain. I arrived at the airport to meet up with my teammates who were just as excited as me. Our first stop was to London, England. This flight took 6 hours. The landing was a bit bumpy but we landed safely. Then we had to transfer on a bus to Heathrow airport. When we got there we checked in and the workers took our bags to board the plane.

When we boarded the plane we sat in our seats and then took off for Barcelona. This flight took us 2 hours. Once we got in we caught a bus to our hotel called Campanile Hotel . I had to room with my Dad. After we put our bags in our rooms, we went to straight to a football match between Barcelona and Athletico Bilbao. The score was 2-0 to Barcelona. The most exciting thing that happened during the game was that my two favorite players scored both goals and they were Iniesta and Messi. Messi scored a penalty and Iniesta scored a well placed goal.