The schedule of the clinic was every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Every Monday we had physical training, which meant we did more activities that would build our stamina and our bodies for a game. During Wednesdays and Fridays we practiced our passing, shooting, and teamwork.
On the first few days of the clinic I was constantly out of breath and my arms and legs would hurt after the session, but after a while my stamina increased and my arms and legs got used to the training.
After the first week of training our team had a tournament,called the Kaya Cup, meaning we'd be playing a series of games (around four), and if we had the most wins or if we had a lot of goals we would advance to the semi finals, and after that the finals, where you might win the trophy or get a medal. But since our team had only three days to play with each other we didn't have good teamwork, resulting in lots of bad passes and bad communication. In that tournament we had three draws and one loss so we weren't able to go to the next round. 
Several weeks after that we had another tournament, but this time our team had better passing and better teamwork. During elimination round we had two draws and two wins, therefore we got to go to the semi finals. In that game we drew against the opposing team, since this was the semi finals we had to do a penalty shootout, which is one player vs the goalkeeper. I volunteered to be one of the three players who'll shoot against the opposing goalkeeper. My shot went in and so did the shot of my teammate, so the over all score of the penalty shootout was 2-0 in our favor, which meant we moved on to the final round. Sad to say we lost against our opponent in the final round, but anyway we got a silver medal (the first medal I ever received).
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