When I was young, I was dreaming to play football. I imagined that I was a striker and scored a lot of goals. When I went to school, I was playing with my classmates. We could play it until evening. I asked my PE teacher whether there was a football team in Bishkek. He said no. At that moment I realized that I would never play football seriously. My dream would never come true... But I was mistaken...
             One day I had a quarrel with my mother, and after that I decided to go for a walk. I didn't want to stay at home. Near our house there is a canal. It was my favourite place when I was a child. I went there. And when I came there, I didn't believe my eyes. There was a pitch and girls were playing football there! My dream was only 15 minutes from me!!! I noticed that time was about 3p.m. and I decided to return there the next day and ask their coach to take me to their team.
             All that day I was so excited; I knew that my dream was going to come true: I would play football! I didn't tell anyone about this football team. I wanted to come back the next day home and say: "Mum, I was playing football!"
             The next day I came to the pitch. There was a training session again. I found the coach, it was a woman, and asked her if I could start to play football with this team. She smiled and answered she would be very glad if I started training with them. Her name was Gulbara Osmonovna and the team name was "Azalia". There were two teams: the senior team and the junior team. Almost all girls from the junior team had started training only two days before.
             Later I knew that this team was from Kant. And they had begun training here only one month before. "Azalia" was the only team in Kyrgyzstan, so it was considered also as the National Team of Kyrgyzstan.
             In our junior team there were ten players. The first training session was very good for me. I played better than other girls. I think it was so because I had much more motivations than they. My ...