Heiner 'Antonio' Salguero - Man V Fat Soccer in the USA

yeah and um yeah so tell me a bit more about the league then so how many teams do you have how many players what's it

we are now at six um and we switched facilities because we kind of outgrew our time um so when i got when i first uh arrived at into manby fat tampa There were three teams, but it was small, you know, short-sided teams.

So I think a total was maybe 16 of us, 16 to 18.

And then just about two seasons afterwards, we went to four full teams of nine players, up to 12 sometimes, you know, because there would be people that would be in sync from week to week.

And we did that for a good few months.

And now we're at an indoor facility and we have six full teams of nine players.

So the consistency and growth has been pretty solid and consistently up ticking upwards.

So yeah, the great thing is that Mike, our director, you know, he has everybody involved with retention.

is really hot you know the guys really want to stay we have i think maybe like eight original members that signed up are still there you know they work through the little you know nicks and nacks of injuries but they are consistently there every week so i think when new guys sign up and they see oh this guy's been here since the very very beginning yeah it's an awesome awesome

yeah

vision for them to like you know

oh absolutely and i think What I find, especially in my league, is you've got some real slim players, and people will turn up for the first time and go, well, what is he doing here? He doesn't need to lose weight.

He's been here six years.

He's lost the weight.

This is him now keeping his weight off.

Right, right, exactly.

Yeah, and we have a player, Jason King, who at the award show, he was nominated for one of the biggest losers in the U.S., And, oh yeah, he looks a completely different person.

Moves differently, his confidence is so much higher.

And we just ordered new uniforms and he's like, oh, I think I might need like a large or a medium.

And I was like, sir, I can't have anybody on this team that's not above an XL.

We were just joking.

But yeah, that's how far it goes.

He went from like a two, three XL to now a large.

yeah it's fantastic yeah right

yeah that was me I was 2XL and I'm now a large I mean I went shopping with my girlfriend yesterday and was actually tried on a medium on a jacket and I'm like wow, this is a bit different.