“I’ll miss training on the grass with my teammates in the sun. Like, I think there are just these really beautiful moments you have as a team where, of course, winning is amazing, but it’s the little things I’m going to miss. A lot of my best friends are still playing, and I always say this—it’s so stupid—but me and Rose used to stay up late eating goldfish at camp. And I just feel like that’s something—it’s a friendship, it’s a stupid thing that I shared with somebody that is over now. And that’s been really hard for me to accept: friendships aren’t the same when they’re not your teammate, and you’re not on the road, and you’re not staying up late. It’s just a new life now, and so I’ll miss the soccer a lot—I love the game, and I always really have—but I miss being around my friends.” -Sam Mewis