Manhattan International HS Girls Soccer Team.

Our high school, like any other, has a girl's soccer team. Players are from MIHS and Talent Unlimited High School. The girls from our school who joined the team are: Diako Fatoumata (Ivory Coast), Motta Dandara (Brazil), Stawowy Magdalena (Poland), Szulinska Dorota (Poland), Talla Fatou (Senegal), Toure Oumu (Mali), Wann Hadiatou (Guinia). Out team is in group A. Our opponents are schools like: Stuyvesant, Fiorello H. Laguardia, Lab, Museum, United, and Bard High School. Our coach is named Carlo Tramontozzi (from Italy). From my observations I can conclude that soccer is a very dangerous sport. Every move is permitted as long as the referee doesn't see it. One of our players had a little accident. It was caused by a girl from the opposite team but we will never find out if it was by accident or to purpose. Our opponents don't play fair with us so sometimes we do the same thing. A little push or hit by the elbow toward the opponent is okay. We have one player who does this job very wellJ. In our team the girls who mostly score are Dandara Motta and Oumu Toure. However everyone has their own place on the field. During the practice we make fun of each other and the way we play, but on the field we are very tough. Sometimes during the game we forget that it's not a practice and it makes our opponent confused which is very funny. Like every team, we have some bad moments. For example, lately one of our good players had a fight with the coach. It seemed like there would be a lot of blood but luckily everyone stayed in one piece. Our ideas as players sometimes don't match with what Mr.T tells us. That's why we sometimes have fights, but at least someone is brave enough to speak up. Honestly sometimes Mr.T drives us crazy and we just want to take off our shirts and leave in the middle of the game. It actually almost happened once, but the reason was one girl's boyfriend. Next time we have to kick out any guy from our school who comes to cheer us on. It's very hard to concentrate when there are handsome boys around usJ. Every game we try our best mostly because we have a prize for every win; pizza. When Mr.T is happy we kind of use him to buy us something to eat. Anyway we like our coach no matter how tough and demanding is he and we feel respect to him. He jokes and plays with us but only when we try our best. A schedule of the games iis put on the home webpage of our school (click sports on the left side of the page).
Magda