Most of the people that really really know me, consider me lucky. They tell me daily that I need to play the lottery because this kind of luck does not usually happen to people.
I agree...the things that happen to me is uncommon. I just now am starting to digest the good fortunes that me and my family have been given. I do think that luck is all about Karma...if you give good vibes and do good things....good times will eventually come back to you in one way or another.
I had to head to Seattle to meet with a client and to help mentor a new colleague. I had a few things to do out there for work so my mind was not about what was happening in Seattle that week.
It just so happens that my favorite soccer team from Buenos Aires, Argentina, Boca Juniors were on a 3 legged US tour through the West coast. I was ecastcic knowing that they were going to be playing against the Seattle Sounders at Qwest Field on that Wednesday. I packed my jersey along with my business suit and I was off to Seattle for the week.
I had to make a change in Denver to split up the 7 hr journey and eventually landed in Seattle. As I walk off the plane I look to my left and I see a bunch of BOCA fans arriving for the match. At that point of time I knew that the next couple of days were going to be something special that I was not expecting.
I called my Dad immediately and asked him to research where the team was staying so I could possiblly meet the team and maybe even my idol, Juan Roman Riquelme. I got my rent a car and started to head to my hotel, downtown, the Westin Towers. As I was checking in at the front desk, I look to my right and some of the team members were standing there.
So it ends up that the team was staying at my hotel..
To make a long story short...I ended up making friends with a gentleman that is the player coordinator and handles all the logistics for the team. He was able to get my BOCA shirt signed by the enrtire team, gave me a team only issues BOCA polo shirt as well as Juan Roman Riquelme's official jersey that he was supposed to wear that night. This new friend of mine appreciated my loyatly to the club as well as our passion. He gave me two club level tickets to the game and invited me back to Buenos Aires, where he will show me the red carpet at the club. We are going next year. :)
As we were chatting in the lobby, I was showing him a picture of my office, where I have soccer jerseys hanging everywhere. He noticed an old school Boca jersey that my father bought for me back in the early eighties. He noticed the shirt and started to tell me that this is one of the only shirts that they do not have in the museum at La Bonbonera, in Buenos Aires. He asked me if I would donate the shirt to the museum and that he would contact the museum curator that evening.
The following morning I saw him in the lobby and he told me that he spoke to the curator and that he would put the shirt up in the museum and put my name under it as "Donated by Michael Bocwinski". How cool is that? In return, he is going to send me the full track suit that the team wears.
Hopefully the luck will continue as I wander off towards my next journey to the World Cup.
