Waiting Game

I've been to a couple training sessions with the PDL team in Fredericksburg so far. It's okay, nothing special. I have to say, its surprising how laid back it is. For a team not doing so hot (I think they're 2-3-3 through 8 games so far), they're training sessions are pretty...normal. It seems like at this point int he season, something needs to happen for them to make a move and it was the same the last session I was at as it was the first session I was at. They've had a few games in between and not done too hot in those. It's a little frustrating to say the least.

On the foreign front, its just the waiting game now. Hopefully I'll get an email, call, letter back from someone. I've sent my resumé to teams in England, Scotland, Switzerland, and Malta. Probably 20 in total, half in England. I haven't heard anything yet, but most of these teams don't accept trial resumés via email, so I've had to physically mail it to them, which I'm sure takes a while. I might search out some more teams that take them by email, but I think I'm done with the mailing game. By now, by the time it would get to some of the clubs it would be way too late, as their preseasons will be starting in a few weeks. 

Finally some training

I got back from the XC trip about a week ago, For anyone interested, I went southeast from WW through Oregon and the souther part of Idaho into Utah down to Salt Lake. From there I started going almost straight west, through the souther part of Wyoming and across the Nebraska. In eastern Nebraska I went southeast to Kansas City and from there continues west through St. Louis, Louisville and West Virginia into Virginia and home to Charlottesville. Since then I've been sending my resumé out to a bunch of League 2 and Conference level teams, 8 in total so far. They only take trial enquiries through snail mail, which is annoying, but it is what it is. Tonight I'm finally starting training with the Fredericksburg PDL team. Richmond has stopped answering emails, obviously because they don't want some random keeper coming to their training sessions. I understand but still, come on, be a man and say it to me. Don't just stop answering the emails. Fredericksburg only practices 2 times a week, so hopefully I'll be able to find something else as well. Their coach said they have a bunch of UVa players, so maybe I'll talk to them about being in goal during their off season workouts, depending on what their keeper situation is over the summer. I've noticed that a lot of teams in England have their preseason schedules up. They generally are starting games in mid-July, so hopefully I'll get some replies and be able to get over there by early July. That would be ideal, but honestly I'm not so sure on the odds for that happening.