- [Narrator] Soccer is back in Oxford
and the 2017 Ole Miss Rebels are building
this year's foundation brick by brick.
New faces do not change expectations
and Ole Miss expects to play fast,
physical, and score goals,
lots of goals.
- [Announcer] And there's Kizer's.
Kizer scores.
Kizer's got the hat trick.
Here is another goal for the Rebels.
Kept alive in the box,
and there's a shot and a score!
Left footed shot and a score by Channing Foster.
- [Narrator] In only the third game of this young season,
number 23 Michigan will make the trip to Oxford.
The Rebels foundation will be tested.
Another brick to be laid in 2017.
(acoustic music)
- It's my first last day of fall semester classes.
I am very excited.
- Year two, I'm excited.
I guess like I can handle the schedule.
Like I'm not overwhelmed as I was last year.
- I like my classes.
A couple weird teachers, but that's okay.
Keeps them interesting.
- It was the first day of class my freshman year
and I thought I had class with Tara
and I went to the wrong class.
Like I sat there the entire time,
and then I was like, "Jason I went to class"
and he's like, "Yeah you went to the wrong class."
- I actually had to text Courtney this morning
and I said, "Where is Holeman?"
and she drew me a picture and sent me it
and was like, "Here's the library"
"Here's Connor. Here's Holeman."
with an arrow to it and I was like, "Oh, bless you."
- The eclipse is happening
and everyone's crazy about it.
- I think Michigan is going to be a more
challenging opponent than the one that we've had
in the previous weekend.
- It looks like a moon.
Looks like a crescent moon.
That's so weird.
- They kind of have redemption coming for them
because they won last year,
but not this year, no no no no.
- That's tight.
That's like one of those things where they're like,
"Don't look at the sun", but then you're like-
- Then you want to.
- Games are the best.
They're just, I don't know, you get that feeling
like on a Friday against a good team
there's just, there's nothing like it.
- How many fingers am I holding up?
- I can't see.
(laughs)
- Wait, that's so cool.
- Thank you Courtney Carol
for helping me get to class today.
- All right Rebel Nation, I'm off to class.
See you later this week.
(weights clanking)
(upbeat electronic music)
- Jump in that mini goal over there Manny.
Just jump in front of it.
So it's just two touch.
We'll start with Claire.
She's gonna play it in, yep, here we go.
Left footed touch. Play right back.
Slide over, ball's already on it's way from Cara.
Touch, play back, slide over again, okay?
So we'll go about eight to ten reps
and we'll switch it up.
Here you go, good.
Keep her inside the width of those cones.
Put the ball where you want it.
Left foot, good.
Get there. Last two, c'mon, last two.
Quick turn, quick turn.
Good hand, well done.
She's just mean right?
Puts it at the only place you can't get to.
Remember we talked about being patient, okay?
Be patient, let it drop a bit.
Now we can really go and be aggressive and attack it.
Okay, as opposed to coming here, now going back,
and we're catching it there.
Hey, hey, hey, be loud, but more composed
with your voice, okay?
Still a bit square too early, okay?
Open up just a little bit more,
then you attacking it on that angle, okay?
Good take though. Excellent, there ya go.
And I'm not talking about the handling,
I'm talking about the footwork.
Here we go, well done, c'mon.
Hey blue, listen up real quick.
The other key to this is once you've got it,
you've gotta keep it.
You must keep the ball
because if we start to press and they intercept it,
we're in big trouble, okay?
Yes Julie, go to goal, go to goal, go to goal.
Well that's the difference right there.
We complete that pass, we are through on goal.
All right, it's gotta be 100% pass completion rate.
Drop CeCe, drop CeCe, drop.
Squeeze it!
And again, and again, and again!
Hey, great decision to provide width, well done.
That's good.
You guys are gonna have to do that.
Guys, well done.
- All right, listen,
two things are gonna be hard typically, right?
And actually usually harder than this.
We gotta come a little better mentality next Tuesday.
We need to come a little better mentality tomorrow.
We will be ready for Friday.
That team is not anything different
than what we've seen a million times.
I talked with a coach today who played 'em.
He said they're not gonna do anything that surprises you.
What we showed you today is about as much as they can do
to be different than what we're used to, okay?
So we'll be ready, you guys will be mentally ready,
but we gotta put in the time now,
'cause not just for Friday,
or not just for Sunday,
but three Fridays from now and three Sundays from now.
Make sense? Everybody agree?
Good, let's go in here.
Team on three. One, two, three.
- [In Unison] Team.
- High fives.
- [In Unison] Good job, good job.
- [Narrator] Senior Bella Fiorenzo
has been putting the time in to prepare
for the rest of this season her whole life.
Her road to Oxford is filled with twists and tears
and almost never happened.
- I started playing through the YMCA,
so it was kind of the typical rec league.
I think I was about eight years old.
Probably something my parents just put me in
to just stay busy and see if I picked it up.
I think I was kind of the case where
you knew early on I was probably gonna be playing
for most of my life.
It came pretty easy to me.
I think I loved the competition
and I would run around with my red cheeks.
I was very competitive.
It became a passion and I did a few things here and there,
but soccer really took off
and that's what I stuck with moving forward.
I had an awesome freshman year with my high school team
and it was one of those years where
it's kind of that team that you remember,
like the chemistry we had and the friendships
and just the flow of the game
was so great and we were dominating teams.
So that went really well for me
and then that kind of led into my sophomore year.
- Coach Thompson and I saw her down at Disney.
We didn't know anything about her,
never seen her, any of that kind of stuff.
So we saw her down at Disney.
Disney has a big soccer showcase,
when she was sophomore and she was fantastic.
And someone right away we put on our list
and we reached out to her coach.
And Coach Thompson really started
a communication thread with her
as much as you can when they're sophomores and juniors.
And then she got injured.
- And I can remember it pretty vividly because
beginning of the game, not too far into it,
and I think I had just started making a run into space
and my teammate had played it over
the top and as I was approaching the ball
I probably kind of planted with my right leg
and then was basically sandwiched
by two girls on both sides.
And it was sort of that like immediate pain,
kind of screamed out loud a little bit
and just went down.
I had gone to the doctor.
They said it was a bone bruise,
which it probably was just from the impact.
Started off at a physical therapist
who was kind of thinking it was more of an MCL issue,
so not ACL related.
Was doing rehab for a couple weeks
and I would always go back and just the flexion
and extension wasn't getting better, you know.
It was like, they could force it in that session
but then I would come back and it would be swollen
and irritated.
And got an MRI and figured out
that I had torn my ACL.
Took like the typical six months recovery.
I was in okay spirits, I mean,
it happens with this sport a lot
and I think it wasn't out of the ordinary
and it was something that I felt like I could conquer
just based on you know, my play,
and the love that I had for the sport.
And I think maybe it was August or so,
I went to a practice and I kind of re-injured it
where I think it was some sort of 1V1 thing
and just stepped wrong, went down.
So we take another MRI and in his opinion,
it had been stretched, but wasn't grossly unstable
so it was one of those things where you can try to rehab it
and go back and play and see what happens.
I would rehab.
I would take two months or so
and then stuff started looking better physically.
I wasn't in as much pain.
This was about the start of junior year.
And I would go back and I think the first time
I was just playing at a club practice,
just turned and it would be like an instantaneous
give out and a little bit of pain
and then the final time was about February,
at a club practice, I was doing a suicide sprint,
or something like that
and it gave out again.
I can still remember the frustration,
just in tears like talking to my parents and being like,
"Something obviously isn't right."
"This should not be happening if my ACL is in tact"
"if everything's good."
So, I ended up getting a second opinion.
Took the very same MRI that I had done
six months previously to him
and his reading of it was that at that point
I had had a torn ACL.
So, obviously the frustrations kind of were pouring in
and saying I just wasted six months,
like I haven't been back on the field
since the middle of my sophomore year.
Got another MRI, ended up figuring out
that I had turn my lateral meniscus
and then also gotten cartilage damage
on my femur.
So with that, comes basically year-long recovery.
- But we stayed with her. We stayed with her.
We knew she was a good player
and she was coming back.
And Coach Thompson went to Michigan
and watched her play in a high school game
when she was just back and we said, okay,
we'd like her on our team.
We offered a very small scholarship
and see if it could happen.
- I think during all of it,
I still had a pretty good attitude.
I never viewed soccer as being something
that I was gonna let go just based on an injury.
To me, it wasn't necessarily a career ending injury.
It was harder than most people had to go through,
but I always viewed going and playing college soccer
as my end goal.
- [Narrator] That end goal would become a reality
for Fiorenzo through her hard work and attitude.
After a freshman campaign that mostly involved
getting her feet back underneath her,
Bella doubled down on her opportunity at Ole Miss
and began turning heads around Oxford.
- [Bella] The summer of my freshman year,
I think I just made a personal choice
to really just dedicate myself to the program
and to getting better and improving.
I went home that summer and worked a ton on my fitness.
It was just a lot of consistent effort.
Like, went out there daily.
- [Matt Mott] That summer, total transformation.
Comes back, just looks fantastic.
Again, you could tell, put in all this work by herself.
- I think it was one of those things
where I came into preseason that following year
and it was a little bit of a surprise to my coaches
and teammates because they didn't necessarily
see that coming, you know.
It was noticeable enough difference
where I had made those strides.
- [Narrator] Now in her senior year,
as the lone captain and linchpin of the Old Miss midfield,
not even head coach Matt Mott could have predicted
the strides Fiorenzo would make as a Rebel.
- I mean I wish I could say I did,
but I didn't.
I thought that you know, I'm glad she's here,
she's a great kid, great student,
works hard, all those things you want,
but to see her get to this level has been unbelievable.
Bella, the person, is as good as there is on a team.
- Bella is the sweetest and
loving and caring and compassionate person
that I've ever known.
She has like this air about her that is so
like confident and cool and collected
and it makes everything flow.
She's a great captain.
- [Matt Mott] We have had some great leaders,
but they've had to be in groups of two and three almost.
Now we have Bella and Bella is standalone, right?
She's the first time I've ever done this
and she just clicks all the boxes.
I mean, she does everything you want out of a captain.
- Bella is like the most perfect captain ever
and everyone loves her.
Bella is Matt's favorite probably (laughs).
She's just so awesome, I mean,
she's one of the most positive people I know.
She just like holds herself very well
and so you know, she just has perfect attributes
of what our team is.
- She just has been one of those people for me
that I know that if I need to go have a tough conversation
or if I need to just have hang out and want to chill
that she's gonna be that person that is there for me.
- [Matt Mott] I mean, everybody respects her,
they respect her work great, they respect her dedication,
but she's just somebody that you gravitate to,
that the players understand what they're getting from her.
They understand that she's got their back.
She's done a great job of building these relationships
with the young guys.
And again, if we had a Mount Rushmore,
she is smack dab in the middle.
- There's kind of a common theme going on
that I've I guess taken away from this whole experience
is that the coaches and the people here
I think believed in me before I even believed in myself.
And then also just pushing me as a player
and as a leader and coming to me with this opportunity
and truly giving me the confidence
in saying, "we think you can take on this role."
I still find myself second guessing it,
but I hope that I'm doing a good job
and that I've earned it at least (laughs).
- She's just a special, special individual
and I'm so glad she's an Ole Miss Rebel.
(inspirational music)
(lawn mower engine)
(spray paint engines churning)
- [Narrator] It's game day
and for the Rebels, nothing is more important
than a positive attitude.
- Good ball Shannon.
Good ball Maddi.
- Thank you.
I really like your hair like that.
It fits you.
- I think excited to play a top 25 team
and really I think all of us
wanted that test to see where we were
and the type of team we were gonna be
and did we match up?
- This was kind of the, people were back in school,
and I think there was a lot of buzz about this game.
- For the most part, we were all like super pumped.
I mean, I know the locker room was like
really crazy and rowdy before the game,
but I think everyone was really excited
to get on the field and play
a really competitive team like Michigan.
- All right, load it up. Load it up.
(stomping and cheering)
- [Coach] What time is it?
- [Students In Unison] Game time!
- What time is it?
- [Students In Unison] Game time!
- Who are we?
- [Students In Unison] Ole Miss!
- Who are we?
- [Students In Unison] Ole Miss!
- You gonna let Michigan come in here and knock you around?
- [Students In Unison] Sir no sir!
- You gonna work 'em tonight?
- [Students In Unison] Sir yes sir!
- You gonna take care of the details?
- [Students In Unison] Sir yes sir!
- [Coach] I need a hype up!
(Students screaming)
- [Coach] It's time to build it brick by
- [Students In Unison] Brick!
- Brick by!
- [Students In Unison] Brick!
- Brick by!
[Students In Unison] Brick!
- Let's go!
(Students cheer)
- [Narrator] The rebels are ready.
But before they can kick off against Michigan,
the stakes have to be made clear.
- Gabby, Gabby, you have to score one goal today
or you can't sleep in our house.
You will sleep in the garage.
I'm being serious.
I want you to get a goal so bad.
- Let's go guys, team on three, one, two, three.
- [In Unison] Team!
- Let's go Rebels!
(cheering)
- [Primary Announcer] We are underway in Oxford
on this Friday night.
- [Secondary Announcer] Looking at the way these two teams
set up and the stature of the Michigan side,
they are a big strong side and I think the Ole Miss team
wants to put themselves about a bit early
and let the opposition know they're there.
- All right, Gabby, head off it!
Shanelle, get there!
Split the difference CeCe, split the difference.
Come on, step on it. Good, Belle.
- [Secondary Announcer] Michigan have come into this game
first five minutes have been on their A game
by the look of it, pushing forward.
- [Primary Announcer] Michigan missed
on a scoring opportunity, previous corner kick.
This one headed in, and Michigan takes the early
one nil lead.
- I mean all the goals they had scored
leading up to our on set pieces,
so I think it was kind of a wake up call for us,
but I think the mentality of the team is very strong
and I think that everybody on the team
that just kind of even raised the intensity level
that said okay, this is what this game is gonna be like.
- Honestly, six minutes in, that can be rough,
but it's almost six minutes in.
You have the whole game left to play.
- It was more about our response too
and seeing how we would come back
and if we could go down one oh
and still keep our level up and respond.
- Come on, raise it up, raise the level, let's go!
- [Narrator] The level would indeed be raised
for both teams and chances would begin flying
at both end of the field.
- [Primary Announcer] Kizer on the run out out of the net
the aggressive play there by Jackson.
Ball still loose.
Smith, serves it into the box,
across the box, there's a header,
off the side bar!
And again, Michigan dodges a bullet.
- It seems like it's 20 to zero.
- [Primary Announcer] At around the six yard box
and Michigan this one is off the post for the Wolverine.
- [Secondary Announcer] Who put the added coat of paint
on these goals?
- [Primary Announcer] Busiest in the first half,
the goal posts.
- Hey let's go, keep it up, let's go.
Hey, good job.
Keep it up, let's go, come on, you got it.
- Just too many mistakes for us in that first half, right?
And close and we've kept the game close.
We've stayed in the game and I think we're better.
I'm sorry, but I think we're better than them.
We've gotta be just a little cleaner,
a little smarter in front of their goal,
and we're gonna get one.
I think we're gonna get a second one.
Guys, less dribbling in this middle section.
Can we pass the ball and make them chase, right?
You got 45 minutes.
We're gonna get one right when this starts, right?
We're gonna get one and then we work for the other one.
We gotta be smart defensively.
When we get our chance, knock it in the back of the net.
But there's goals out there for us tonight.
Good? Let's go guys, let's go!
- [Narrator] Ten minutes into the second half,
Ole Miss would earn an opportunity.
And the player chosen to capitalize on that opportunity
was never in question.
- Bella! You serve it Bella!
Bella, serve it!
Go get this great!
- [Primary Announcer] All set about 35 yards out,
Bella Fiorenzo sends it toward the six yard line,
into the air, kept alive, there is the equalizer!
(cheering)
- Bella served it in and it was kind of here to my right.
The goal was over here and so I headed it over
and then the goalie tipped it up off the crossbar.
- And then as soon as I saw it coming back,
I just attacked it, headed it, it went in,
well I didn't really know what happened at the time.
- I was standing at a perfect angle
to see her get right kicked in the face,
but she was right there, perfect timing,
but the girl definitely brought her leg up
and whacked her really hard.
- It wasn't broken, it just hurt,
because she got the whole face,
like lip, my mouth, my nose,
my head was rattled a little bit.
I did know it was gonna bleed
'cause my nose bleeds kind of easy.
It definitely hurt, but I didn't think anything was broken.
- [Primary Announcer] So one, one.
New match here in Oxford, Mississippi.
- [Narrator] With the score tied, one, one,
both teams would push forward to create chances.
However, after 90 minutes, neither defense would falter
and overtime beckoned.
(whistle blows)
- Listen, hey, listen!
You gonna hear me say this every time we're in overtime.
These things like to end early in these quarters.
So be focused right away.
Let's see if we can get at 'em right away.
Our first shot goes in, we celebrate like crazy, right?
But hey, we gotta be organized, we gotta be smart,
because again, they end early,
so everybody focused on their job right away.
- Mentally and physically it's very draining,
but you just gotta find that second wind
and I just always think about back in the summer
when we would run with Brian and he's just like,
we're gonna do one more rep just so that
when you're in overtime games like that,
you have that burst of energy
and you just remember oh my gosh, I've put in the work.
- You know that it's goal and goal.
So either we score and end it or they score
and nobody wants to be left on your home field
with them running out celebrating.
- I think we did a really good job of staying locked in,
staying dialed in, and saying,
"You know what, again, this is the number 23 team"
"in the country, we can do this."
"We can be successful."
- [Narrator] The Rebels and Wolverines
would battle through two overtime periods
and with the clock winding down,
Ole Miss would fire one last chance into the box.
- [Primary Announcer] Julia Phillips, the left foot,
swinging away from the net.
Outside the six yard box, a header, ball loose.
Jackson covers it up.
And this game is going to end in a one one draw.
- Good game guys, good game.
You should feel good about the effort we put in there.
Certainly the second, I mean the effort all night was good.
The tactics we got sorted out
in the second half there, right?
But we gotta be focused all the time.
It's not a great goal we gave up
and then we had to battle back,
but I like how we got back in it
and certainly bowed for the run,
had enough chances to win it,
which is gonna help us down the road.
But we gotta learn from this, right?
- I think that that really shows us
that we can compete with anybody in the country.
Big 10, pack 12, SEC, regardless of what it is,
we have the ability to compete at that highest level.
- Again, we've showed we can play
with the best in the country.
I think it shows that we belong
with the best in the country
and I think we showed on Friday night
that we're a team that is gonna be around
all season long.
- We have all the tools that we need
in order to be very successful.
And it's so early in the season.
Like we know that it's only gonna get better from here.
- (sings) If you want it you can get it
for the rest of your life.
- CeCe Kizer has the field to be SEC freshman
forward of the week,
wait, freshman, not freshman!
- I literally know no one on this campus.
- [Cameraman] Just the team.
- Yeah, I don't have any friends but the team.
It's kind of sad.
- We just saw someone absolutely eat it.
- These are my new fresh kicks.
Gotta start off the school year fresh.
- You're supposed to stay on the right side.
If you come to my side, I'm not gonna move.
I'm just gonna run right into you.
- I don't know if you want me to like look at the camera
or like look at you.
- Let's go Rebs!
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