I have been so incredibly busy lately, unfortunately not all of it with soccer. I've been slacking off, the only soccer I've had was yesterday, when I had a short and small practice with some of my men's team and an indoor and outdoor game with my co-ed team. I think the rest may've been good for me, though, because in the outdoor game I popped in five and in the indoor team I scored a couple.
The outdoor team we played were very good sports, we won 7-1 or something like that and we tied 4-4 in indoor. I tried to take it easy on the outdoor team we played against closer to the end, and one of my shots that was supposed to go over just chipped the goalie. I felt kinda bad because of it. I've been beaten like that before and sometimes it just drains the fun out of the game. Jay told me to always aim to shoot over from now on, in order to score goals in other games. I'll have to give it a shot.
Both of my goals were full of follies in the indoor game. The first, I meant to cross the ball in, and was up against the boards. I crossed it, but the ball was amazingly off-balanced, and ended up skipping along the boards until it rolls in behind a goalie who was prepared for the cross.
But second goal was possibly funnier. In the arena that my team plays in, the nets are freestanding in relation to the boards, and they're a large 60 pound metal frame covered with a canvas as the actual net. Their goalie received a pass and so I sprinted at him to put on pressure as we were down a goal. I lifted my left leg as he got rid of it, and it bounced off my leg and towards the net. He raced back to his net and I raced to the ball, and I shot it at a moderate speed. It went in, but he managed to paw it just after it crossed the line, and throw it out, behind him.
That's not the end of it though. This guy was hauling ass, and continued into the canvas cover. He knocked the entire thing over and flew backwards with it, landing on the concrete in a Chaplin-esque way. I felt a bit bad up until then, but I heard no whistle for the goal (the ref was probably too shocked) and the ball popped back out to me while I was was standing there in awe. I really badly wanted to tie the game, so I slotted the ball through the spot where the net and goalie were not moments ago.
The outdoor team we played were very good sports, we won 7-1 or something like that and we tied 4-4 in indoor. I tried to take it easy on the outdoor team we played against closer to the end, and one of my shots that was supposed to go over just chipped the goalie. I felt kinda bad because of it. I've been beaten like that before and sometimes it just drains the fun out of the game. Jay told me to always aim to shoot over from now on, in order to score goals in other games. I'll have to give it a shot.
Both of my goals were full of follies in the indoor game. The first, I meant to cross the ball in, and was up against the boards. I crossed it, but the ball was amazingly off-balanced, and ended up skipping along the boards until it rolls in behind a goalie who was prepared for the cross.
But second goal was possibly funnier. In the arena that my team plays in, the nets are freestanding in relation to the boards, and they're a large 60 pound metal frame covered with a canvas as the actual net. Their goalie received a pass and so I sprinted at him to put on pressure as we were down a goal. I lifted my left leg as he got rid of it, and it bounced off my leg and towards the net. He raced back to his net and I raced to the ball, and I shot it at a moderate speed. It went in, but he managed to paw it just after it crossed the line, and throw it out, behind him.
That's not the end of it though. This guy was hauling ass, and continued into the canvas cover. He knocked the entire thing over and flew backwards with it, landing on the concrete in a Chaplin-esque way. I felt a bit bad up until then, but I heard no whistle for the goal (the ref was probably too shocked) and the ball popped back out to me while I was was standing there in awe. I really badly wanted to tie the game, so I slotted the ball through the spot where the net and goalie were not moments ago.
On a lesser scale, it was something akin to the picture shown.Fortunately the ref didn't miss the original goal and whistle down the play after the guy careened into the net.
At another point in the game, I very badly doo-daddled a guy trying to clear the ball using a roulette. Unfortunately I missed the shot.
Which actually brings me to another point. What if I had scored that goal? The entire game from then on would've changed, they may have scored a winner, we could have done the same, but the entire rest of the game would've been different. Maybe one of the players could've been hurt badly, or maybe something weirder than the net crash would've happened. Isn't it strange that a missed call, missed shot, or otherwise stoppage could affect the outcome of the game completely if handled even slightly differently?
As much of a loser as I must sound like, that's part of the game's mystique, and I like to think that's pretty cool.
At another point in the game, I very badly doo-daddled a guy trying to clear the ball using a roulette. Unfortunately I missed the shot.
Which actually brings me to another point. What if I had scored that goal? The entire game from then on would've changed, they may have scored a winner, we could have done the same, but the entire rest of the game would've been different. Maybe one of the players could've been hurt badly, or maybe something weirder than the net crash would've happened. Isn't it strange that a missed call, missed shot, or otherwise stoppage could affect the outcome of the game completely if handled even slightly differently?
As much of a loser as I must sound like, that's part of the game's mystique, and I like to think that's pretty cool.
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