Francisco

First of all, I would like to thank the Jackson and Cameron Foundation for their support. My name is Francisco; I am 17 years old now and a Senior in High School. When I was 8 years old, my father lost his battle with lymphoma. Lymphoma is a kind of cancer that attacks the white blood cells in your body which makes it hard to recover from simple sicknesses like the flu for example. Around the time I lost my dad I started to play soccer, and I would say it helped me a lot with my grief. As a kid and even up till now I have never really liked to talk about my feelings, and you could say soccer was my therapy. Even now, I don’t know how to explain it. When I am on the field it feels like anything bothering me in life just disappears and as I started to grow, I started to get more competitive and started playing club soccer, but as I kept growing older, soccer started to get more expensive.