Today was the last game of the soccer season, although not an official game. Instead it was parents and siblings vs. the team. Previously in these games, the parent try to hold back so that the kids aren’t totally humiliated. Today, though, we played all out against the little buggers to eek out a 8-5 victory. I think the big difference is that the kids played as a team, where as before they’ve had a strong tendency to just swarm the ball and play hot shots, which is just not enough to make progress against adults, even ones as unskillful and out of shape as we.
Their skill is better as well. I didn’t get scored on as a goalie, but while defending I got owned twice. Once was Andrew. He had the ball and I got in front of him to block the goal, but not too close so that he could easily go around me. He was able to kick the ball over my head and in to the goal (we had a younger brother playing goalie, so once past me it was over). After that I went with rushing the kicker just to keep them off balance. The other time was when I was pacing PatrickM crossing in front of the goal. He managed to reach out and hook around with his foot to get the ball past me and in to the goal.
The best part was a goal scored by the coach. He kicked from outside the goalie box and actually bounced it off the goalie’s head in for the score. That was harsh, but hilarious.
At the end of the game, things kept running on a bit after the official end. I said “hey, it’s sudden death!”. Josh thought this was an excellent idea, because the kids were behind 7-5. About ten seconds after he endorsed my comment, a parent scored. Josh then tried to rescind his assent, but it didn’t matter then.
There will be a lot of sore winners tomorrow.…I should have brought advil!!
