User blog:Hiro Naruya/My Journal: Who I Am part 2

So here I was, a member of the Raimon Eleven. My excitement lasted all of 2 minutes into joining the club before reality set in (reality check!). First off was the entrance exam. I did just well enough to get by, so I was placed in the third team (Raimon had three teams back then. That tells you how - ahem - inadequate I was.). I didn't really find out just how bad I was at soccer I overheard the captain of the third team wondering just why I was accepted; it certainly wasn't because of my skill. That really woke me up. I'd always assumed that I was okay at soccer, not too good, but but not too bad, either. Well, if you were apparently the worst soccer player ever in the lowest ranking team, that meant that I was really terrible compared to the others. I later went to see Coach Kudou and asked why I was even allowed into the club; he said it was because of my enthusiasm and apparent love for soccer. He said that he could see potential in me and that he expected "great things to come, stemming from that love of soccer". I was greatly touched and encouraged by his words, and I promised to myself and Goenji-san - who was my idol - that night that I would not dissapoint Coach. I would keep getting better and stronger.