Sueño MLS finalists try to remain calm
"I'm keeping calm," said Iñiguez. "I don't want to get too excited until the final day."
Iñiguez is the only member of the Final Five who will train with the Chivas USA 28-man roster for the next two weeks, and while he is trying to remain calm throughout the course of these last trials, he continues to work hard.
"I'm practicing and I'm trying to stay focused," said Iñiguez.
For this talented player, training with the Chivas USA 28-man roster may prove to be slightly more difficult due to his role as a goalkeeper.
"I think that being a 'keeper is harder," said Iñiguez. "With the other positions, you have 10 guys but as a 'keeper there is only one."
After playing 4v1 scrimmages Friday evening at the Bell Gardens Sports Center with the Chivas USA U-19 team, Iñiguez admits to feeling more at home in his new environment.
"After the last two weeks, you get to know the guys a little better and you feel a more comfortable playing," he said.
With the mindset of being a goalkeeper (only one), Iñiguez carries himself not only as a person determined to make his dreams a reality but also as a person who is thankful.
"I'm grateful to have had this opportunity," said Iñiguez. "(Chivas USA) treated all of us great and they've been well organized. ... I am truly grateful for all of this."
In the coming days, Iñiguez will try and remain calm with the support of his family in San Fernando and his wife and baby in Mexico.
"We're all waiting for the last day, the day of the announcement," said Iñiguez. "I call my wife after every practice to tell her what has been going on in the day to day and she's very happy for me."
Regardless of what happens in the last two weeks of this month-long quest, Iñiguez will come out both happy and proud to have gotten to this point.
"Either way, it's not over, soccer will go on," he said. "It will never die."
