Monday May 7th

Last night I went to see FC Kopenhagen play against Odense Boldklub at Parken Stadium. Parken Stadium is known as Denmark's national stadium, where all of the international games are played. FC Kopenhagen, who is considered a top european team, has been a Danish powerhouse since its creation in 1992. That being said, FCK didn't play very well and found themselves losing with 10 minutes left. Soon before time was up though, FCK earned a penalty kick that they converted. This led to a very exciting last few minutes but the game ended up in a 1-1 tie. Along with a good game, the atmosphere around and in the stadium was awesome, there wasn't a huge crowd (14,000) but the stadium was loud and hearing the die-hard fans was pretty cool. Today I started off with a 30-minute jog before biking to training. Training was a bit different today, as Jens (the head coach) wasn't there. This meant that Thomas (the assistant coach) ran practice. Although different, the practice today included a lot of playing 5v5. During the games we would play in 3-minute increments and in between the games we would have to do a core exercise.  The training was hard, but it paid off at the end that my team won, as the losing team had to do extra fitness, which didn't look fun at all.