If there is ever a sport where endurance and stamina play a vital role in winning and losing, it’s soccer. Becky Bonner, the third-year San Benito High girls soccer coach, makes sure her players will be in tip-top shape before they play their season-opener at Scotts Valley on Dec. 1.
Anissa Stanton is the rarest of talents, a starting goalkeeper for a ranked junior college soccer team one moment and a student physical trainer the next.
Every four years the entire planet goes bananas about soccer. Except the United States, of course. Because while the entire planet is obsessed with football, we are not. Well, not the soccer kind of football at least.
Playing at the same time but separated by 74 miles, the San Benito High boys and girls’ soccer teams suffered the same fate on Wednesday night, losing their opening-round Central Coast Section Division I playoff matches in heartbreaking fashion.