Personal Statement
I am currently playing soccer for a local club team (U19) in Plettenberg, Germany, where I am studying under a US Congressional Scholarship program. I joined the club in September and have earned a starting position as the center back in a 4-4-3 line up. TuS Plettenberg plays in the youth Bezirksliga in Nordrhein-Westfalen, a State in western Germany. We are currently in 4th place out of 12 in the division and shut out the first place team (Avg. 4 gpg) just before Winter Break. My newest highlight video is from that game where I alternately marked the two leading scorers in the division. No goals have been scored while I was in the game, and our club is 5-0-1 in games which I played and 1-2-1 in games in which I did not play. The competition is fierce and I am enjoying every minute of it. All of these stats can be verified here with hyperlinks that provide game by game information, but it is in German:
http://ergebnisdienst.fussball.de/tabelle/bezirksliga-staffel-4/bezirk-westfalen/a-junioren-bezirksliga/a-junioren/spieljahr1314/westfalen/-/staffel/01H4H3ES0S000000VV0AG812VT97QK3U-G/mandant/21.