The year 2008 is a special one in my football life. That one year quietly, but unmistakably, pushed me toward the “next version” of myself. The questions that had started to sprout in 2007 — “Who am I?” “Where do I want to go?” — began to show faint traces of answers in 2008. University, club, and one more stage — the national team. While swaying between these three environments, I kept searching for my own “axis.” I didn’t know what was right, and I didn’t have anything firm