Alvaro Monzon

Alvaro Monzon is a still growing soccer player in Futeca Cayala, Guatemala. He has always played soccer since he was very little. His love for soccer was really big (and is still really big) but he was never in a soccer team until 2012 because of school. Then he joined Acton Academy Guatemala and had more time to play for a soccer team, so he joined Futeca. In Acton Academy Guatemala he has advanced more in his passion (soccer) and more in what he needs to do in order to get to where he wants to be when he grows up.

Now it’s time for you to know a bit more about Alvaro. As you already know, he really likes to play soccer. He goes to soccer training four days a week, an hour and a half each day. At Acton Academy Guatemala he also plays soccer in breaks and lunches. Something that you really don’t know about him and it’s weird for a soccer player to do it is to ride a dirt bike and practice motocross and enduro. He started liking motocross and enduro when he was about 11 years old. His dad was always telling him that it was really dangerous and since he plays soccer he could break some bone and maybe stop playing soccer. Finally when he was 14 his dad saw that enduro racing was not too dangerous, so he gave Alvaro a dirt bike. He is actually practicing in a motocross track because that helps him also to get better. He started practicing more and more every month and now he is also a still growing dirt bike rider. But he takes dirt bike racing more like a big hobby, not like soccer that is his true passion.

Alvaro as you already know loves playing soccer and dirt bike racing. But his whole life isn’t just about those two things. He also enjoys a lot to create things or just do and build things. Alvaro likes to build things and Acton does a business fair every year. In the business fair every student creates their own product and then they have to sell it. For the business fair Alvaro built a mini PVC soccer goal. That was his first business fair and it went really well for him because he managed to sell all of his product. He was always thinking that he was never going to be good to sell things or to build things but that day he realized that he could, and that he was not bad at doing it. He is into a project right now with his brother. His brother likes mountain biking a lot, Alvaro also likes mountain biking. They are building a ramp in their neighborhood’s forest. Since there are a lot of jumps there they also have a kind of trail there where they race. Dirt bike racing can also relate to mountain biking so that is why he also likes it. Sometimes when Alvaro is unable to go to the motocross track for his training he practices in his neighborhood’s forest. Something interesting in Alvaro’s life is that he has changed school two times, and that is something that kind of changed his life also. When he changed for the first time he got the opportunity to go in a exchange to Indiana. There he went to two soccer camps in two universities. One in Depauw University and one in Akron University. In Depauw University he got a mentor and the soccer coach from there told him that it would be a really good idea for him to play soccer there and that from there he could start getting better and start playing professional soccer. When he changed schools for the second and last time, he got to Acton. There he had more time to work more on soccer and everything else that he also likes. There were also some opportunities for him in enduro racing to compete but he didn’t got into the racing because he thought that he was not ready. He kept practicing so in 2015 he is thinking about getting into the national enduro competence because he thinks that he is going to be able to compete now. It has been 2 years since he got a dirt bike and until now he is going to compete. He waited until he was more than ready.