We Are Friends First, And Soccer Players Second

As I am sitting in my room surrounded by my roommates with the bass beating from DBlack's crazy DJing skills, and I start thinking about what makes Messiah soccer so different. Like any team in the country we have superstars, so that can't be it. Like any team in D3 we work hard, so that can't be it. So there has to be something that is totally different, something that has been placed in our hearts from our first day on campus.

Then it came to me as I look up and I'm surrounded by my teammates, we are friends first and soccer players second. Like lets be honest what other soccer program has every single player rooming with either a manager or another player. Or would other program have its players telling their girlfriends "We have team activities, so I cant hang out tonight," even though we were just hanging in an apartment watching incoming freshman running around lost in the hurricane because they lost their peer group leader, I don't think so.

Messiah is something special, its a place where we as a team can grow because individual we have invested in our "friends" lives, living up to the verse Proverb 27:17, "As iron sharpens iron, as one man sharpens another."

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