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Hands play important role in deaf soccer competition - Pulse
Arts freshman Andria Cantu, 19, and MacArthur High School student Marcela Baca, 15, walked toward the soccer field in Olmos Basin.
They pulled out red, white and blue ribbons. Red and blue are to differentiate the teams, and the two white ones are for the referees.
Cantu and Baca aligned the eager soccer players and gave last-minute instructions and the rules - all without making a sound.
Cantu addressed the players in American Sign Language.
Cantu and Baca are the founders of the Deaf Soccer Company, a group composed of four deaf students from this college and other deaf students from area high schools who play soccer every Saturday.
The group started playing in September.
Cantu said through interpreter Molly Potter that even though a shortage of players at this college means it does not have a soccer team, she still wanted to play.
She decided to post fliers around the bulletin boards on this campus and gave Baca fliers to hand out to friends at MacArthur.
About 23 people responded. "We love playing soccer," Cantu said in an interview Nov. 7 through an interpreter. "It's lots of fun for us to stay together."
Although they play for the love of the game, the referees sometimes are the center of complaints, but that is no problem for these players. Cantu explained that while the game is on, they have two referees, one on each sideline. Whenever a player commits a foul, the referees discuss the situation and then decide if the foul is valid or not.
"It's really competitive," Cantu said.
Cantu perceives the Deaf Soccer Company as an opportunity for deaf people to exercise and a way to communicate with one another.
After the soccer game is over, the teams sometimes go eat out at a restaurant.
Cantu said going out to eat is an opportunity to meet new people and possibly new players.
Arts freshman Andria Cantu, 19, and MacArthur High School student Marcela Baca, 15, walked toward the soccer field in Olmos Basin.
They pulled out red, white and blue ribbons. Red and blue are to differentiate the teams, and the two white ones are for the referees.
Cantu and Baca aligned the eager soccer players and gave last-minute instructions and the rules - all without making a sound.
Cantu addressed the players in American Sign Language.
Cantu and Baca are the founders of the Deaf Soccer Company, a group composed of four deaf students from this college and other deaf students from area high schools who play soccer every Saturday.
The group started playing in September.
Cantu said through interpreter Molly Potter that even though a shortage of players at this college means it does not have a soccer team, she still wanted to play.
She decided to post fliers around the bulletin boards on this campus and gave Baca fliers to hand out to friends at MacArthur.
About 23 people responded. "We love playing soccer," Cantu said in an interview Nov. 7 through an interpreter. "It's lots of fun for us to stay together."
Although they play for the love of the game, the referees sometimes are the center of complaints, but that is no problem for these players. Cantu explained that while the game is on, they have two referees, one on each sideline. Whenever a player commits a foul, the referees discuss the situation and then decide if the foul is valid or not.
"It's really competitive," Cantu said.
Cantu perceives the Deaf Soccer Company as an opportunity for deaf people to exercise and a way to communicate with one another.
After the soccer game is over, the teams sometimes go eat out at a restaurant.
Cantu said going out to eat is an opportunity to meet new people and possibly new players.