Day 6 Last training session, Beatles Museum and Liverpool city centre

Pictures: Albert Dock downtown Liverpool, the Cavern where the Beatles got their start, the tall ship, the Titanic model and our Greek BBQ

We were able to catch another hour of sleep this morning, thanks to Karl pushing back our final training session to 11am, which none of us complained about. Today was a much needed change of pace once the guys finished an intense training session in the indoor facility at the academy. We were able to enjoy the great food served to the Academy players and coaches again today for lunch. The chef cooks all the pregame meals for the First Team on match days as well, today we had a great spicy chicken, rice and melted cheese dish. No one had any idea what exactly it was, but we all loved it.

We then “coached” off to the “city centre” to visit the Beatles Museum and the Maritime Museum which had a fascinating display on the Titantic, including the model the engineers created to build the ship that proudly carried the name Liverpool on its stern. Our walking tour of the city centre was delayed because of a tall ship, captained by famous Liverpool soccer captain Jamie Redknapp, but we eventually all saw the old city that is celebrating its 800^th anniversary next month.

Tonight Mr. Svigos treated the team to a good old American-Greek BBQ out on our lawn in front of the dorm complete with plumb tomato and feta salad and more meat than 18 hungry teenage boys could eat! The guys are pretty exhausted, but you couldn’t tell with the 3v3 games and a fierce kickball rematch which fittingly ended in a draw. We’ll need that adrenaline to carry over to our long day tomorrow as we travel over to Manchester to finish up our shopping and tour Old Trafford- then return to Liverpool to take on “the toughest, both physically and technically” opponent of the week tomorrow night at 5pm.

I had some time to conduct some interviews and the guys reported having a great time… it’s going to be fun to get their perspectives for the video that will be hard to cut down to under 20 minutes (my personal goal for it).

Coach Douglass and Coach Parry- by the way, we’re taking turns writing sections and correcting the grammar of the other person’s entryJ.