USA vs JAPAN (Finals)

USA played Japan in the finals on July 5th. USA had not won since 1999 and they had worked so hard to get to the finals, so this would be they're big day. I watched pregame coverage for 2 hours and the commentators all predicted that USA would win this big match. But they were saying that USA would have to keep possession and be aggressive.

In the 2nd minute, Morgan Brian earned the corner kick for USA and Megan Rapinoe (it was her 30th birthday) took the kick. Rapinoe placed the kick on the ground, and it just tipped a Japanese players foot, and Carli Lloyd  ran in, and with the out side of her foot, kicked the ball into the left corner. (First goal of the game 1-0 USA 3rd min.)

In the fourth min. Tobin Heath got taken down just out side the penalty box, and Lauren Holiday took the kick. (It was a tight space so I didn't think anything could happen like this) Holiday kicked it, Julie Johnston flicked it with her heel, and supposedly there was a hand ball by japan, but Carli Lloyd got the heel flick, and kicked it into the net and it went right through 2 Japanese players. (Second goal of the game 2-0 USA 4th min., also Carli Lloyd's 2nd goal) Commentators said Lloyd confirmed "I don't want to win a world cup so people stop talking about the '99 team, I want to win a world cup because i have dedicated my entire life to this, and my dream is to be a world champion".

 In the 13th minute, Ali Krieger sent it in for a cross to Alex Morgan, but it was headed down low by japan. But when the Japanese player headed it, it went way up in the air and Lauren Holiday ran up to it and shot it while it was in the air and the goalie's hands went up just after the ball had passed her head, and it was a GOAL by Holiday. The USA fans and players were so happy that they had scored 3 goals in the matter of 13 min. (Third goal of the game 3-0 USA 13th min.)

 Then in the 15th min. Lloyd got the ball at half field got passed a defender and noticed that Japan's goalkeeper Ayumi Kaihori had stepped up a little beyond the edge of the box, so Lloyd shot the ball from half field (50 yards from the box) and Kaihori was trying to run backwards to get the ball, and she was about to trip, although she tipped it and ball kissed the left post and went in. What an amazing goal by Carli Lloyd, and it was also her 3rd goal of the game so that means she got a hat trick!!!!! (4th goal of the game 4-0 USA 15th min.) Lloyd was also the Golden Ball winner of the Women's World Cup. NOT SURPRISED! Lloyd almost scored the 5th goal when Meghan Klingenberg crossed it, and Lloyd headed it just about a couple feet from the goal it missed.

 Japan scored a goal when Kawasumi passed a straight pass to Yuki Ogimi and Julie Johnston tried to slide and did, but Ogimi turned around shot, and Hope Solo tipped the ball, though it was to fast and it went right in. (First goal of the game for Japan 4-1 USA 26th min.)

 At halftime the score was 4-1. In the second half, 51st min., Japan had a free kick about 30 feet away from the half field line, and their best player took it, and Julie Johnston was trying to head it out, except Hope Solo wasn't expecting the ball to go just beyond the goal line and in. So sadly that was an own goal by Johnston which made it 4-2. (Second goal of the game for Japan 4-2 USA 51st min.)

 Then in the 53rd minute, we got a corner kick and Lauren Holiday took it. Holiday's ball in was a little past the right post, but Morgan Brian somehow kept it in and passed it to Tobin Heath who had nobody covering her,and she smashed it into the right corner. GOAL! (5th goal for USA 5-2USA 53rd min.)

I was very pleased with the way USA played and I was very happy for them. I hope to go and cheer on USA in the next FWWC (Fifa Women's World Cup) in France 2019.

Fifa Women's World Cup

I have been watching the Fifa women's world cup for the past month, and I've watched every game that USA has played, and today is the ultimate rematch: USA vs. JAPAN. These same 2 teams had met in the finals in 2011, and now 4 years later, they meet again. I watched the semifinal JAPAN vs ENGLAND and it was a devastating loss for England at the last stoppage minute. I was sure that it would go into penalty kicks, but right at the last moment Japan crossed it, the England defender was there and she was trying to kick the ball over the crossbar, it hit the crossbar and just went over the goal line. Not to mention, when the score was 1-1, those goals were both penalty kicks.  The score ended up being 2-1 Japan. I also watched the semifinal USA vs.GERMANY. and what a game that was. It was scoreless in the first half, and in the second have USA scored their 2 goals. I thought Germany was going to score when they got a penalty shot because Julie Johnston (on our team) pulled back somebody who was about to shoot. Unfortunately Johnston got yellow carded and I don't think she can play in the finals. When Germany's best player Sasic (sounded like sausage) when up to take the kick she shot the ball and it missed the net!! After the game, commentators were saying that Hope Solo (USA goalkeeper) was using a stalling technique when she was up against a PK. Germany was heartbroken, and USA was cheering very loud, and was clearly very happy. Next, Alex Morgan (USA) was running really fast with the ball, and she fell over someone and Morgan earned a penalty kick for our team! The Germany player got yellow carded also, and Carli Lloyd was going to take the kick. Lloyd looked at the ball the whole time, so the German goalkeeper wouldn't even get an idea of where she was going to shoot the ball.  The ref blew the whistle, and Carli Lloyd drained it into the back of the net. GOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The crowd went wild. It was 1-0 USA!!! Later in the game Carli Lloyd was in the box, did some great moves to beat the defenders and crossed it in the air to Kelley O'hara who tipped it in the net! GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!! 2-0 USA!!!!! That was Kelley's first goal of her career, and everybody knew that USA had won the game even though thee were 15 min. left. After the game I was so happy that USA was going onto the finals, and Germany was out. And Germany was favored to win the game, but NOPE USA had once again had a shutout.

I am so excited for the game tonight vs. JAPAN. I'll be watching full pregame coverage at 5pm and the game starts at 7pm. My family and I will be cheering very loud for USA tonight and I hope they win! GO USA!!!

Out of School, and Summer has Begun!!

A couple days ago it was my last day of school. All of the teachers told every kid what class they were going to be in. Every grade has to have three teachers at least, and since one of the third grade teachers was going to have a different job in the school they had to hire somebody to be one of the teachers. And one of the first grade teachers was going to be a fourth grade teacher too, and the one other teacher was going to stay in fourth grade. My teacher announced "TBD: Nuala Rodgers". TBD stood for TO BE DETERMINED, and that was the teacher that they were going to hire, so instead of meeting our new teacher, we talked to the teacher that was going to have a different job in the school. And she told us about 4th grade. The principal walked in, and she said that the school had hired someone, but she had to run it by the superintendent first. She said that once they had officially hired the teacher, we would come in and have a little "meet and greet" with her so we can see what she is like.  My new class only has 15 kids in it! Compared to other classes that's not much. It leaves you on a cliff hanger to not know who your teacher is, but I'm sure it will be someone good.


On Friday (first day of summer) I had my birthday party at an indoor trampoline park called Skyzone. It was SO much fun. We jumped for an hour, and then we ate pizza and a Reece's ice cream cake. We. jumped on the main court for a while, and then we jumped in the foam pit a couple times, and after for the rest of the time we played dodgeball on the dodgeball court. Unfortunately my party was split up when we played. After we jumped, we took a sip from the water fountain, and went in the birthday party room.  First we had DHOP (Dedham House Of Pizza). It was really good. second everybody sang Happy Birthday and I blew out the candle that was in the ice cream cake. I had 2 slices of the Reece's cake. Everybody enjoyed talking and eating at the table. Soon after, everybody left except for my 2 friends that I was bringing home. I got lots of presents and gift cards and cards I noticed once I got home and I was opening everything. This was the best party ever!

Just an Update For my Blog

I know I haven't been posting much. It's because I've been very busy with soccer, and honestly just life.



My third year school year has finally come to an end. I get out of school on June 25th. I'm glad its coming to an end because we've had to make up numeros snow days, and have gone over the date that was expected. But I'm also kind of sad, because I'm leaving my friends, but I'll probably see them over the summer. It's been a pretty good year. It was definitly a step up from 2nd grade. More reading and writing. I'm sure 4th grade will be a little harder too. It's been a long but good school year.

Most of my summer will be spent at camp. I have to go for 6 weeks, and let me tell you, camp ig tosn't my favorite thing. But I think the camp I'm going to will be one of the best camps i've been too. It has a pool and a waterpark, and bumper boats and tennis. And you don't have to bring a lunch! The facility buys the food from a sandwich place in Dedham Square. You can go rock climbing, drama, and other sports. The camp is called Dedham Health and Athletic Complex. It's also where my brother does tennis.


My club soccer season is over, but it was a good season and I was offered to play with the U10 team so I will play next year too. My club is called GPS Metro Boston, and I play on an all boys team. On my town soccer team, I only have one more game this Saturday in Milton. We have only lost 1 game in the whole season, and even if we lose to Milton we will get 1st place in the whole league because the team that we lost to, tied with one of the teams that hasn't won a single game this season. So we clinched 1st place! 
I am going to be posting more throughout the summer!!

Sleep Over With my Cousins

My cousins are here tonight to have a sleepover. Their names are Ruby and Maggie. We had a day full of shopping in Legacy Place and we went bowling at Ron's. We had a great time. It's nice to have cousins over when you don't get to seen them that much. We played this game called Apples to Apples. We were laughing SO HARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Well we have been laughing so hard all day. When we went to the stores in legacy place we got at least 1 thing per person, so in all we really went all out. We went to Ron's which is a bowling alley in Hyde Park, and they have ice cream there too. The firsts round of bowling Ruby won, and the second round I won. And both times Maggie came in second. Ruby and Maggie and I all said that ron's ice cream is mad good. And we played on our electronic devices some of the day.

Patriots Parade on Boylston St.

Last Wednesday

I went with my dad and my brother to the Patriots Parade in Boston. Boy, was it FREEZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You were frost-bound. It felt like a hundred below zero (in my perspective).

We took the train in and it was packed with pats fans. Only us 3 and 2 other people made it onto the train, the rest of the people who had been waiting on the platform were told to wait for the next train! The seats were filled and the aisles were filled.

When we were walking towards Boylston St., we got interviewed by NECN. The gentleman asked us 2 questions, and I thought we answered them well, but I guess they were looking for rowdy loud fans to be on tv once we had watched the video. Kind of disappointing, because I do want to be on tv.  It was 9:30 am by then, and surprisingly there were not much people standing behind the gates, so we found a really good spot.

My toes started numbing up and felling raw, so about an hour or 30 minutes later right as City Sports opened my dad ran to the store and got hand warmers and toe warmers so that we wouldn't feel like our feet or hands were about to freeze off. Dad was our savior when he did that, because  I bet I couldn't stay that long without something warming up my feet and toes. We had to wait like 2 hours maybe even 3 hours for the parade to "start" BUT, the patriots were 40 minutes late!!! So, we had to stay in the cold for 40 more minutes!!

Across the street in a building there was this flexibility room called "The Genius of Flexibility" and there was this guy stretching in the window and looking out the window, and the three of us just said and thought "I wish I was warm in that room getting smoothies and stretching and have a relaxed time, and my dad said "Next time we come here, we should book ourselves a spot at The Genius of Flexibility."

People kept screaming, and we thought the first duck boat would be coming by, but then it would always be a police car. Seriously people, c'mon, its a police car!

But finally, the first duck boat came with Tom Brady, but he was on the other side of the boat, so we saw Jimmy Garapolo. I'm only going to tell the major patriots.

We saw Julian Edelman he was very cool. He was on top of the duck boat sitting and he had two signs: one that had Richard Sherman about to cry at the end of the game when it got intercepted, and remember when they scored because Derell Revis couldn't get there on time, well Derell Revis is number 24, and the score was 24 for them he held up his fingers saying 2 4, so when he held up four, and we won our fourth super bowl, it was clever to make a sign like that.

OH YEAH, WE SAW GRONK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He had a bouquet of flowers, so, my theory was that someone gave him the bouquet. And, get this, he was tossing the flowers out to ladies. I love his kid like smile!

We also saw Malcolm Butler WHOOP WHOOP!!!!!!!!!!!! I didn't think it was him but then I was like oh its butler! #HERO. Then I started screaming a lot.

I also saw Robert Kraft and Bill Belichick, and I swear Bill Belichick looked me in the eye. I swear!

I also saw Stephen Gostkowski (our AMAZING kicker) who has kicked field goals our whole season, and who has not let their toe get numb during the cold.

Then, I saw these 3 guys, one was Lagereate Blount, and there was 2 other guys. on the music box, being patriots swag.

A lot of people were there and it was so pats nation WOO HOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!#patsarebeast

Super Bowl 49

So there was a very intense game last night. Lets call it "Super Bowl 49"
Yesterday I went to  my cousins house to watch the super bowl: Patriots vs. Seahawks. Now, this was a HUGE game. We almost made it 7-0 us, but Gronk couldn't catch the long throw into the endzone  that Brad had thrown. But after a few more first downs we were like 10 yards away from getting a touchdown, and Brady passed it to Brandon LaFell and we scored. So it made it 7-0 us.  Both teams scored more, and at halftime it was 14-14. The halftime show was good. I think Katy Perry is a good singer a did a phenomenal job at halftime. I really liked the song firework because she was standing on this shooting star thing that arose high up into the air, and then it lit up and was shooting sparks out the end of it. All of her performances that went with her songs were very creative. She did better than I thought. When they returned back to the football game, they kept fighting though Seattle scored another touchdown to make the score turn 24-14 Seahawks, and right then I got this feeling like "oh, this is going to be a long and hard game". But then Edelman faked out the defender the other way and almost got a touchdown, but Brady threw it too high. Remember brady, Edelman is 5-10. Next play though they hike it, fake run it, and Brady passes it right in the middle to Amendola for the TOUCHDOWN!!! YAY! That made the score 21-24 for the field goal was good. When the Seahawks had the ball after us, they didn't push hard enough to get a touchdown, so then it became our ball again. NOTE: I skipped some points. After some first downs, we were really close, and then Brady passed it to Edelman for the touchdown. It made the score 28-24 pats. When the Seahawks got the ball, Russel Wilson did a long long throw, and everybody thought that our guy blocked it, but it never touched the ground, and they recovered it. It was so nerve-racking to see that play. Next thing you know, they run the ball to Marshawn Lynch, and he was a half of a yard from the touchdown line. This was definitely the last play of the game, and my whole cousins house was groaning. OH NO! Next play Rusell Wilson passes the football to his teammate Lockette, and MALCOLM BUTLER INTERCEPTS THE BALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THE PATRIOTS WON SUPER BOWL 49!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THAT WAS THE PLAY THAT CHANGED EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Malcolm Butler was almost going to be let off the team because he wasn't showing that he was good, but he earned he spot back. and I think he is going to be a big help in the upcoming seasons.