Raymundo Hernandez Junior/ Bellringer Post

“Spider”/RB UNITED

I miss my coach “Spider”, that man was like a father to me. He wasn’t only my coach, but also my motivation. He would give me the talk & made me focus on what i love to do the most & would make me work hard. He showed me love, lots of love, well not only me but the rest of the team as well, RB UNITED. I wish i could go back to those days where i played for not only RB but also for “Spider”. I really miss “Spider” & RB, that’s what you call a second family, that was was my real family. I would always be proud to wear the RB jersey & represent RB. I would sometimes hate going to practice, but at the end i was thankful & happy because “Spider” would work us out & all but all of that paid off on the field. I compare myself to those days when i was still in RB & “Spider” was still coach. I miss “Spider” calling me “baby” but he only did it to motivate the team, not a lot of people would understand me right now. Ever since “Spider” got kicked out of the team, or should i say fired, the team wasn’t the same anymore. To me “Spider” was the heart of the team, so when he got fired it’s like if the heart of the team left. I cried when he got fired because it was hard to see him leave the team, especially that i had & to this day i still do have love for “Spider”, also because he taught me so much about soccer. I remember the first day i joined RB, it was cold & we had practice. Since that day & on we had a coach one week & another coach the next week, until we found “Spider”. The first day we had practice with “Spider” it was easy, but as time went by practices got harder & harder by the day. I’m not going to lie i sucked when i joined RB, but thanks to “Spider” i learned something & it came in handy, thanks to “Spider” i became a better player, i loved those days. I would do anything & everything to go back with RB & have “Spider” as my coach once again. All those tournaments in Wisconsin, Rockford, Waukegan, Peoria, Colorado, and Detroit, those were the best of times. I really miss going to Schaumburg to play, especially because it was at night & i would play under the lights. Most people don’t understand the love & passion i have for soccer, especially thats i trained hard & kill myself in practice just so i can be ready for games. Soccer has brought tears into my eyes & soccer has brought happiness into me, especially with RB. I really hope that one day i get to wear an RB jersey & represent RB, to represent the colors blue & white, to be able to wear the number 99 on my back, to be able to sweat because of a team that has really got me to have love for them.