“I just feel like I’m not me,” one 16-year-old stuck indoors told BuzzFeed News.
The field in Clarkston, Georgia, where she used to play isn’t much. There are big patches of hard, dry dirt and thin, brown grass, a wooden picket fence with slats that have been knocked out by errant soccer balls., Miracle among them. For her and hundreds of other children who play in Clarkston, the field was a sanctuary, a place where everything else used to fall away.
For many young soccer players, the timing is likely to feel cruel, coming just before some of the year’s biggest, most important tournaments in club soccer, chances for players to be seen by the college coaches who swarm the showcases. Right now, though, the anxiety of questions about college sports is outweighed for many young people by a simpler, more visceral reality: losing the ability to do the thing they loved most.Gloria isn’t able to work her housekeeping job because of the outbreak, and her husband, Luis, isn’t working right now either. But losing soccer has broken her boys’ hearts.
Other young soccer players have backyards and fields, even private coaches, to help them stay in shape. The Chicas boys have neither. At first, after the shutdown, Axel used to take his ball with him in the mornings, go to the city-owned field by their house and try to play alone. Now those fields are shut down, too.
His girls had been preparing for a showcase in Las Vegas, one of their best chances for scholarships, with coaches lined up to come see their games. That was cancelled.
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