{"id":30832,"date":"2024-08-06T12:22:58","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T03:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/icc\/?p=30832"},"modified":"2024-09-03T10:58:23","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T01:58:23","slug":"icc-soccer-report-2407","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/icc\/news-en\/2024\/08\/06\/30832\/","title":{"rendered":"Making connections and rediscovering hobbies ICC Soccer Club Participant Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6 style=\"text-align: right;\">\u3000\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Ale<br \/>\nSchool of Creative Science and Engineering<\/h6>\n<div id=\"attachment_30841\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-30841\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/icc\/assets\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"213\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo by author)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been an international student at Waseda since September of 2020 but hadn\u2019t attended any ICC events until very recently.<\/p>\n<p>Originally from Italy and raised in France, I grew up playing a lot of football as it\u2019s the most common sport in both countries. However, after moving to Japan, I found it challenging to find places to play casually or enough people to play with, so I gradually stopped playing. Thankfully, a friend convinced me to attend this ICC event, and I&#8217;m happy they did as it was a lot of fun, and I met many great people.<\/p>\n<p>The event was exceptionally well organized, with a surprising number of attendees. The staff&#8217;s dedication to ensuring everyone had a fantastic time was really appreciated. One of the highlights for me was meeting other Italian and French attendees, which made me happy since I rarely get to use my native languages in Japan. There aren\u2019t many native Italian and French speakers around, so it nice to speak in my mother tongues for a change.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, the experience was great, and I\u2019m eager to participate in more ICC events in the future. This first experience has shown me the value of engaging with the community here, and I look forward to making more connections and rediscovering past hobbies like football through such events.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_30893\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-30893\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/icc\/assets\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2407-soccer-IMG_6009-610x355.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/icc\/assets\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2407-soccer-IMG_6009-610x355.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/icc\/assets\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2407-soccer-IMG_6009-940x547.jpg 940w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/icc\/assets\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2407-soccer-IMG_6009-768x447.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/icc\/assets\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2407-soccer-IMG_6009-1536x894.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/icc\/assets\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2407-soccer-IMG_6009-2048x1192.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">ICC photo<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u3000\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Ale School of Creative Science and Engineering I&#8217;ve been an international student at Waseda sinc [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":29987,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,97],"tags":[116,94,71],"class_list":["post-30832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","category-other-en","tag-event-report-en","tag-general-en","tag-sports-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/icc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/icc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/icc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/icc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/icc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30832"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/icc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30895,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/icc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30832\/revisions\/30895"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/icc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/icc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/icc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/icc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}