Just recently girls at my school created and signed a petition to create a girls’ soccer team, and it was the first team of its kind in the entire school. I have already been doing goal keeping after school but that’s associated to the Sporting FC. There are 8 girls on the new team. We collected votes for the petition back in November and the new team just kicked last week. I’m looking forward to the rest of these season until the end of the school year. They are already planning to continue it next year. I’m also continuing with my goal keeping lessons and will play with that team too.

We went to a Sporting FC game recently and they ended up winning 5-1! They are currently ranked first. It was our first game seeing them. The stadium was easy to get to and we got seated early. The stands were fairly empty at first, but then just as the game was starting, everyone rushed in to take their seats. It started off with a couple songs where people, including us, were holding up their Sporting scarves. We really enjoyed the Sporting game, and couldn’t help but compare it to the Benfica game we saw a couple months ago. Overall, we liked Sporting a little bit more due to the location, uniforms, and action, etc, but it was certainly a bit calmer than the Benfica game. Benfica fans are much louder and rowdier, which makes for a fun and exciting game.