He has a tall stance. His face always looks excited. His short hair is fluffed up like a messed-up ice cream swirl. His voice is deep and calming like the flow of a river. His eyebrows are black and bushy and are always done. His ears stick out because he has no hair covering it.

Josue Fajardo, a sophomore, Guatemalan, was one of the two captains on Freshman A and is currently on JV1 for soccer. He started playing soccer at six but didn’t like it at first, but his love for the sport continued to grow when he grew older and he has made himself a prospect in leyden. 8% of people play college soccer. Josue Farajado wants to be one of them.

Josue talks about how he felt like giving up on soccer. He goes on to explain why: “I sprained my ankle. I was gone. I was out for a month, and then I came back, and my first game back, I sprained my other ankle, and then I was out for another month. Then I came back, and I played for two weeks, and then I sprained another ankle, so then I was out for like three months, and I was just reconsidering everything.”

Josue talks about his favorite player to play with, he says how Isaac is “super loud” when playing soccer, “because everybody plays in position, so it’s hard to prepare, but like, I had to pick one person probably be, probably Isaac, because, when he was my teammate, or, he still is my teammate, he’s always, supportive of everything, and he’s always super loud, and he’s technically good”

Josue is an only child but he sees his cousins as brothers he never had, he goes on to explain, “Just my mom, blood-wise. But the thing is, I have these two cousins that I see as my brothers. So that’d be something. I consider them my brothers, even though, genetically, or my cousins. And then I also live with my aunt and my uncle, who I also see as my second parents, in a way.”

Josue explains that when he has to do something that takes a lot of responsibility, he finds himself not happy. He goes on to state, “When I go out places, that’s when I think I’m happiest. I think I feel like when I have a lot of responsibilities and stuff and I’m busy with boring stuff. That’s not when I’m happy.”

After that, he goes on to explain what makes him the happiest,
“I’m relaxing or I’m going out with friends, like people I enjoy being with. That’s probably when I’m the happiest. And also soccer, because i get pretty happy when I play soccer.”

As the years go on, Josue, who’s parents originate from Guatemala, has a bright future when it comes to soccer.