Tonight's tryout with the aptly named AFC Soccer was a success.
I started the game and was a little shaky, due to nervousness. After I played a little, things started to look better. By the half, we were up 4-3, but I had only played one shift. Substitutions work a little differently, I've found. I played 5 minutes the first half.
At half time, Jahan came to me and asked if "someone could get on there and score a goal". I put my head down a little because I was still nervous, but he sent me out anyway. I think he was just trying to rile me up. I'm really not sure why I was nervous after that, because I had already played and was playing alright until then - maybe because I was only alright.
I got out and begun playing, and made a spectacular assist by threading a pass through a tight defense, resulting in a goal. Jahan called from the sidelines and said "that counted as the goal". I ended up playing 20 of 25 minutes of that half, first as an attacker, then as a defender.
After this, I started feeling really good about it all - I ended up scoring one of my favourites to date by hitting a corner kick with a one-timed volley. Now that was one I was happy for my dad to see. I headed a couple on target and had a few other good passes, but aside from that, it was a slightly above-average game for me, seeing as I lost possession a couple times when I could've scored.
When I was moved back into defense, it was fairly routine - but I did end up thwarting a 2-on-1 with little effort. I say this because I had lost concentration while marking down the channel, but still managed to kick away a ball that had been touched slightly too hard by one of their forwards. I have to watch for that, I was quite out of position and very well should have been burned.
I would say a scoreline of 14-4 was a good way to win, though.
I started the game and was a little shaky, due to nervousness. After I played a little, things started to look better. By the half, we were up 4-3, but I had only played one shift. Substitutions work a little differently, I've found. I played 5 minutes the first half.
At half time, Jahan came to me and asked if "someone could get on there and score a goal". I put my head down a little because I was still nervous, but he sent me out anyway. I think he was just trying to rile me up. I'm really not sure why I was nervous after that, because I had already played and was playing alright until then - maybe because I was only alright.
I got out and begun playing, and made a spectacular assist by threading a pass through a tight defense, resulting in a goal. Jahan called from the sidelines and said "that counted as the goal". I ended up playing 20 of 25 minutes of that half, first as an attacker, then as a defender.
After this, I started feeling really good about it all - I ended up scoring one of my favourites to date by hitting a corner kick with a one-timed volley. Now that was one I was happy for my dad to see. I headed a couple on target and had a few other good passes, but aside from that, it was a slightly above-average game for me, seeing as I lost possession a couple times when I could've scored.
When I was moved back into defense, it was fairly routine - but I did end up thwarting a 2-on-1 with little effort. I say this because I had lost concentration while marking down the channel, but still managed to kick away a ball that had been touched slightly too hard by one of their forwards. I have to watch for that, I was quite out of position and very well should have been burned.
I would say a scoreline of 14-4 was a good way to win, though.
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