A full soccer weekend for me. World Cup games on at 9am, 12pm, 3pm every day, I’m drowning. Plus I played in Strikers games on Saturday morning, and again on Sunday. The Sunday game was a makeup for a rainout, and we only had 3 on our side. The other team had a full 7 plus subs, and as if to rub it in, they even had a canopy for shade. Well, we recruited 2 players from a team that had a game after ours. It’s a coed league, and you’re supposed to have a female on your side playing at all times, but we had none. The other team had 2, and each of them agreed to play a half on our side, very sporting of them. Even with help, though, we were down 6 to 7, and in the middle of the hot day we ran ourselves to exhaustion. My game is really bad, being out of practice and out of shape, and just about every time I attempted to feed the ball to our main striker I missed the mark. The one good forward pass came a millisecond too late, and offsides was called. It did feel good to give it our all, though, what a great game.
And the World Cup has been a blast. I’ve caught a good deal of most 12pm games over lunch, and downloaded some of the rest. England, Brazil, Germany all looking great, but time will tell…
