American Football in Action and Travel Reading

 

Tuesday-Wednesday, September 29-30, 2020

At the end of my last post, I mentioned that I still wanted to coach American football.

In some capacity, somehow, somewhere . . . 

I think American football

is lots of fun!

I really need to get a copy of this poster.

Thus motivated, on Tuesday evening I joined an American football Zoom clinic sponsored by some college coaching friends in Mexico.

Brian Q. Guzman

Tec Toluca Borregos

Offensive Coordinator

Brian's topic was

"Running Game Out of the Spread"

I first met Brian after our first Europe Warriors game in Mexico City back in 2017 when he was coaching the Aztecas of the powerhouse Universidad de las Americas in Puebla (UDLAP) about two hours outside of Mexico's capital city.

After our game, the Warriors coaching staff had been invited to visit with the Aztecas coaching staff and observe their practices for a few days.

The entire UDLAP experience was extremely impressive.

Brian quickly stood out as a bright, young coach who was on top of his chosen profession.

Nothing since then has change my mind, especially after hearing Brian speak on a couple of other Zoom clinics this year.

Brian took on a new job as the O.C. of the Tec Toluca Borregos just in time for the 2020 pandemic halting season.

Still, he works at his profession.

"Culture Beats Strategy"

AMEN to that!

The blue field at "La Congeladora"

Tec Toluca's home stadium

Brian coached over 60 of us up for nearly two hours. GREAT TALK!

Brian's talk whetted my appetite for American football, but I needed more.

Well, I do have a long distance American football coaching job . . .

Time to break down some video for

Barcelona's Pioners L'Hospitalet!

The Pioners' U18 team had a camp

over the weekend so I had a lot

of video to analyze!

Nerdy computer work with American football is time consuming fun for me!

Reading Is FUNdamental!

Interesting read if you want to visit

Italy but are tired of the sights in

Rome, Florence, Naples, Venice and Milan

Frances Mayes is famous for her book and movie Under the Tuscan Sun. 

This book is more of a travel guide than literary tome as she visits many of Italy's less traveled cities.

Her travels tell of amazing meals, wines, hotels and, of course, piazzas in the regions of Piemonte, Trentino-Alto Adige, Veneto, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Emilia-Romagna, Liguria, Toscana, Umbria, Le Marche, Lazio, Puglia, Sardegna and beautiful Sicilia.

This would be a perfect book for Mike and Susan D'Antuono before their next visit to sometimes offbeat but always interesting Italy.

I loved the author's last thoughts in the book . . .

"The greatest gift of travel: the steep learning curve.

Second best: how your vision refreshes and you see with infant eyes.

Third: memory. How the places seen will layer into life as time moves on."

I could not agree more.