Nothing much to mention lately, though I think I'll be playing center-mid for the Hurricanes tomorrow. I'm pretty excited for that. We barely beat a team Tuesday, thanks to a hand ball in their box. They were a good team to beat, because we'll be competing to not get relegated with them. We won 2-1, and I played right back. The man I was supposed to mark scored, but that's because I had began to run at an unmarked guy with the ball in front of our net, near our penalty spot.
I'm completely oblivious as to what happened in the games earlier this week, other than the fact that Team Gigantic lost, I reffed half a game for Fabio (the manager of the Coverall), then lost with the Electric Shoes.
Taking a look at my schedule for the next few weeks, I have HUGE blocks of games. at one point, for about 6 weeks, I play every day except Fridays and Saturdays.
My kicking power has been lacking lately, so I have to get to work. I just hope I don't over-exhaust myself.
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Friday, July 3, 2009
You go to Turkey, and you get busy.
I'm not sure what it was, but I've got some sort of throat infection currently. This is both good and bad, though. Bad because my throat hurts, good because I can still play soccer. I suppose it's an extreme overstatement when I say that it's good, because it's really not - I'm just fortunate to be able to play.
Monday's indoor game was frustrating, yet a good example of why a small team can do well. Unfortunately, my team wasn't the small team (the small team was Sabres, they had no subs whatsoever). In fact, it was quite the opposite. I really cannot play on a line of three people, it's unbelievably hard to get into any sort of groove. We lost in the last minute because of an overcommitment while we were attacking, and while Derek made a good save on the counterattack, we got unlucky with the bounce off the rebound. These are easily the most frustrating kinds of games - those where you can do nothing about what you see.
Last night, I had four games and work. I made it to one and a half of the games and work, unfortunately.
The fortunate thing was that I managed seven goals in those games (Team Gigantic Indoor and Team Gigantic Outdoor). All of them were fairly textbook, especially in the indoor game in which I scored five. I also had a bagful of assists, but it was all a blur. It didn't feel fantastic because of the team we were playing, we managed to rout them 10-2. The outdoor game was 2-0 for us (both goals mine) when I left, and we won it 6-2 (or something to that effect).
In other news, my excellent friends Stephen and Carissa are back from Ontario. In their last few days there, they caught a Forest City London game, and they think I could cut it on a USL team such as FC London. I'm flattered, but I still think that I have a lot of work to do.
I suppose I should get to it.
Monday's indoor game was frustrating, yet a good example of why a small team can do well. Unfortunately, my team wasn't the small team (the small team was Sabres, they had no subs whatsoever). In fact, it was quite the opposite. I really cannot play on a line of three people, it's unbelievably hard to get into any sort of groove. We lost in the last minute because of an overcommitment while we were attacking, and while Derek made a good save on the counterattack, we got unlucky with the bounce off the rebound. These are easily the most frustrating kinds of games - those where you can do nothing about what you see.
Last night, I had four games and work. I made it to one and a half of the games and work, unfortunately.
The fortunate thing was that I managed seven goals in those games (Team Gigantic Indoor and Team Gigantic Outdoor). All of them were fairly textbook, especially in the indoor game in which I scored five. I also had a bagful of assists, but it was all a blur. It didn't feel fantastic because of the team we were playing, we managed to rout them 10-2. The outdoor game was 2-0 for us (both goals mine) when I left, and we won it 6-2 (or something to that effect).
In other news, my excellent friends Stephen and Carissa are back from Ontario. In their last few days there, they caught a Forest City London game, and they think I could cut it on a USL team such as FC London. I'm flattered, but I still think that I have a lot of work to do.
I suppose I should get to it.
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