A BAD EXPERIENCE FROM MY PAST

Juan David Uñates Villegas

I was playing soccer all my childhood around my neighborhood´s streets with my neighbors. But only since I was 10 or 11 years old I started playing and training in a soccer school. Always my classmates and I were training two days in a week and we were playing on weekends and so was for many years and never I had an injury or other bad experience with this sport. But when I was 16 years old I had my first bad experience playing soccer.

On 2007 I was in the last year of my high school and it was the last week of August month and as every Saturday that weekend I had one game more early in a morning. But the day before three of my classmates of high school invited me for a hiking on mountains around my town that same Saturday. But I was great loving soccer and really I wanted play that game so I said them "sorry guys I liked the plan to hiking on mountains. But I have a game this Saturday so I can't sorry". In this moment I think that was a signal from God.

The day of the game I got up early for prepare the things for the game and arrive early to place of the game. When I arrived the field was awful because the last night it was raining, but that did not matter and the game began. After 30 minutes due to field was slippery and a play where I collision with an opponent, I fell and my shoulder crashed with the ground. When I tried get up I felt a great pain, immediately my coach checked me and he knew it was something serious so he take decision of take me to the hospital.

In the hospital I stayed for around three hours and a nurse put me an injection that was more painful than any injury and they took me an X-ray. After some time the doctor saw my X-ray and said me "Oh… sorry guy you broke your clavicle". My recovery was between two or three months, that was a bad time because I had to sleep sitting.

That is my anecdote and although that was something bad in my life, still I like play soccer with my friends.