A full soccer weekend for me.\u00c2\u00a0 World Cup games on at 9am, 12pm, 3pm every day, I’m drowning.\u00c2\u00a0 Plus I played in Strikers games on Saturday morning, and again on Sunday.\u00c2\u00a0 The Sunday game was a makeup for a rainout, and we only had 3 on our side.\u00c2\u00a0 The other team had a full 7 plus subs, and as if to rub it in, they even had a canopy for shade.\u00c2\u00a0 Well, we recruited 2 players from a team that had a game after ours.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s a coed league, and you’re supposed to have a female on your side playing at all times, but we had none.\u00c2\u00a0 The other team had 2, and each of them agreed to play a half on our side, very sporting of them.\u00c2\u00a0 Even with help, though, we were down 6 to 7, and in the middle of the hot day we ran ourselves to exhaustion.\u00c2\u00a0 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.\u00c2\u00a0 The one good forward pass came a millisecond too late, and offsides was called.\u00c2\u00a0 It did feel good to give it our all, though, what a great game.<\/p>\n
And the World Cup has been a blast.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ve caught a good deal of most 12pm games over lunch, and downloaded some of the rest.\u00c2\u00a0 England, Brazil, Germany all looking great, but time will tell…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"