We've all been there: go home, meet up with friends, grab a ball and have a bit of a kick-about. Even the pros do it. And it is a kick-about with some friends, one of the more commonplace past-times you will find, that put Irving Garcia on an uncommon journey to the US Beach Soccer Team.
"One of my best friends, he plays for the [Beach] National Team as well. He's from Arizona. Every time I visit my friends ,we go to the beach and play soccer," Garcia says from the US Beach Team's camp at the 2017 CONCACAF Beach Soccer Championship in the Bahamas.