Footie: Game Three

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Another soccer evening, with it threatening rain and then turning out pretty nicely if a tad cool.

The girls played really well again. We got two new volunteers in goal, both of whom did fantastically in spite of the fact that one nearly bottled it just as the game was starting. (That was one of our smallest players and our most sensitive--she started crying the first day when they were taking turns kicking on goal.) And we won our third in a row! The score was 0 - 2 this time, and yet again the scoring was spread around. And Ros is showing a good amount of grit and good defensive awareness.

Every week is showing what a deep team we have. Tonight there was one line up that I thought had the potential to get killed since none of our four strongest players was on it, but they totally held their own.

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There are winter soccer leagues here, but they're either held under domes (our local high school puts its field under a dome in the winter) or in gyms with an indoor ball.

Outdoor soccer is mostly a summer thing, though the schools tend to play in the fall. I used to hate soccer in school, because by November you still had games outside and it was usually freaking cold in your little gym uniforms. Though as an adult I played a regular weekly pick up game with friends for years, and we'd play until the snow flew. One year with not too much snow we had an outdoor game on New Year's Day.