El Paso Patriots

For those of you who may not know, El Paso has a soccer team known as the El Paso Patriots. It is what's called a United Soccer League Premier Development Team which is considered to be the fourth tier of competition behind Major League Soccer, the USL First Division and the USL Second Division. There are 67 teams in four conferences, split into ten regional divisions. The Patriots play in the Mid-South Division of the Southern Conference, against teams from Austin, Baton Rouge, Dallas, New Orleans, Houston, Jackson, and Laredo.

On Friday we had the opportunity to attend a game against Laredo Heat. They are the current USL Premier Development League champions. It was a great game! I was very impressed and needless to say, the Patriots won! They played the same team on Saturday and won as well. So what does this mean? I'm not really sure. I've just recently become really interested in soccer and as soon as I find out, I'll let you guys know. In the meantime, however, here are some pictures we took while at the game.

This was Danny's first official soccer game. He actually loved it. We let him walk around before the game and as soon as the game started he stayed in our laps the whole time and watched the game. I was surprised. Whenever he'd get kind of fussy we'd just show him where the ball was on the field and he'd just watch intently. It was so cute!!!!

Enjoying a hot dog before the game.

"I'll just sit here on these bleachers that our my size ."

Danny on the steps.

Oscar being sexy.

Danny actually watching the soccer game!

Here he was actually following where the ball was. The ball got kicked in the air.