Men’s soc­cer team at­tempts to set world record

The Bethel Col­lege men’s soc­cer team set a world record for the longest fut­sal game ever played. The record, which was 32 hours and 20 min­utes pre­vi­ously, was bro­ken around 8 Mon­day night. The ath­letes then con­tin­ued to play un­til 11 p.m., pos­si­bly set­ting the new record at 35 hours. The team will have to wait for con­fir­ma­tion on the ac­tual time from Guin­ness World Records.

“At the beginning it was hard because it seemed like forever,” said freshman Cesar Ontiveros. When asked what was most difficult, Ontiveros smiled. “The whole 35 hours.” The players participated in shifts of three hours, and planned to sleep in the hours in which they weren’t playing. It wasn’t always that easy, though, said Ryan Needs, a junior at Bethel. “Between midnight and 6 a.m. a lot of us crashed. A lot of us didn’t have sleep,” he admitted. To him, however, the best part about the experience was the camaraderie. “We’re all friends and come from different places,” Needs said, “We’re all friends forever.”