The Soccer Report

[przed]

In spite of record-breaking heat today, we had a pretty good game. We played a team of bigger, faster, more aggressive kids (they kept committing fouls on each other, forget our team) and we managed to keep them to a draw, 2 - 2. Yay!

Also yay for Ros really getting in there and doing a fab job. She was getting into the scrum and regularly turning the ball when the other team got it, and in spite of overthinking the dribbling during the practice, she didn't during the game and made a couple of nice runs down the field with the ball.

Now if I can just get them to do a bit more passing in front of the net, I'll be happy.

Comments

[sarren.livejournal.com]

I am so impressed that Ros plays soccer. I did when I was a kid, and loved it. Of course, that was in the old days, and when the other teams eventually found out I was a girl I wasn't allowed to play anymore.

[przed.livejournal.com]

Oh my, they wouldn't let you play?! That's horrible.

I had a brief fling at playing soccer in grade 5, but it ended badly when I tripped over the ball just as someone else was winding up to kick the ball and I got kicked in the head.

I didn't take it up again until uni, but then I played in a weekly game with friends for ages. I'd love to find a league to play now, but most of the ones for women of my (advanced) age are for rather more serious players than I am.