Not on the field but in the blogging world. For whatever reason (and probably as no surprise to those who know me) I lost motivation to continue writing after each one of my games. Perhaps it was the 3 games per week, or maybe I just got lazy. Whatever it was, it's gone and I am, once again, ready to tell the tales of my soccer adventures.
Since we last spoke, there has been no shortage of action and drama. To keep it short, I will just say that: 1.) neither of my teams made it to the Finals, 2.) I "trampled" an opponent's face which nearly lead to my own broken leg/blown out knee, and 3.) in that same game, both benches cleared and a decent shoving match ensued.
Now that we're caught up, let us focus on last night's game - the first game of the new season for ANI Direct. Our opposition for the game was a new team, that called themselves Pie Cookers. Their oldest player was probably 20 years old and from the looks of them, they were going to be pretty bad. From that standpoint, they didn't disappoint. This one was never a game and we quickly jumped out to a 5-1 lead. Though I scored all 5 of those goals, 2 of them stand out to me. In both instances, we had free kicks from about 12-15 yards out. The keeper had an interesting strategy: "NO WALL!!" I didn't know what to make of this. Actually, I did. With no one in my way, and about 5 people standing on the goal line, I decided to kick the ball as hard as I possibly could. Turned out to work quite well as both shots ricocheted of several players (and one face) before finding themselves in the back of the net.
Halftime saw a score of 6-1, after Bryan added a late first half goal. In games like this, the intensity drops and the play suffers. This game was no different. Although we ended up winning 9-1, the second half wasn't pretty with a lot of individual efforts going unfinished, and a lot of ankles and shins getting hacked at. Fortunately, no tempers really got going and the game ended peacefully.
It's always nice to start off the session with an easy game to get everyone ready to go. We don't play the good teams for a couple more weeks so hopefully the other new teams provide us with more opportunities to tune up. The game that is metaphorically circled on the calendar is July 28th when we play Curb Stomp, the aforementioned team with which we cleared benches.
This season I will be chronicling ANI Direct (Wednesday nights) as well as Inferno II (Sunday outdoor) so make sure you stay tuned. It's good to be back.
-GB Bomber
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