Re: Were you always a defender?

Description: Chicks dig the goal scorers, but Conrad is the one who stops them.

Transcript:

Yeah, when I got to the higher competitions when you got to a certain age you should have to kind of decide, what position you wanted to be and so I started playing D in college and just try to be the best I could at it and when I was younger, I used to play like in the mid field I pulled the strings and do that good stuff and I would score goals, but in a now scoring goals is quite it doesn’t happen very often, so when I do scores, it’s pretty exciting.

 I am coming from a obviously chicks dig the goal scores, that was disappointed we moved in the back, but there is some thing that excites me about the game, I think every body has their own thing about why they play or what they do, doesn’t have to be soccer or what excites me about the game is frustrating other people. I have find again great enjoyment from that and the best position for me to and make that happen is the defense and so once I tapped in to that enjoyment, I really did enjoy, frustrating the other teams best players and I still find the enjoyment in that. Yeah, well being the guy that kind of orchestrates have the offence works. I think in mid field you get the touch the ball more, you have more of an impact on the game going both ways. I like to move in the mid field some times, much of this agreed in to my coach and probably fellow team mates but, some times if this space is available I will take it and pretty much to live my dream of being a mid fielder that I always wanted to be and but also I was just having the opportunity to kind of change the game in one play. I think the mid field you can do that, in defense that the interesting thing about defense is, you can be great for 89 minutes of a 90 minute game, in that one minute, you not on top of it and they score and you are the goat of the game. Whereas it’s the opposite for forwards. You can be crappy for 89 minutes and be amazing for one minute, score the game one and you are the hero. So I don’t always know why I chose defense, but I guess there is some thing about that level of pressure and expectation that I enjoy as well.

It definitely gets me down. It some times I feel like there is a lot of weight on my shoulders to make the right decision every time, my coaches probably would want me to think in those terms, that is always make or break in that regard, but I don’t know. I feel like I have handled the pressure and expectation, quite well, I have achieved the lot more than I have really set out to do and but as I said, I think I get a sense of enjoyment from proving people wrong in some regard and also making sure that the best players have their worst day like possibly have.

Recorded On: 3/24/08