I have been currently leading a team as we play indoor soccer at the local Big League Dreams park. Seasons consist of 9 weeks of play and a playoff to cap it off. The playoff is handled in a single day with the top 4 teams duke'n it out. This is our 3rd season in which my team of old soccer contacts will be tested. My team has been very successful in our past two seasons as we played in a Saturday men's open league. This season will be a little different because we are playing on Friday nights... and its co-ed.
Season one started slow as we lost almost all of our games leading into the playoffs. One problem was the fact that we were a new team with only a few players having experience with one another under their belts. The other was lack of subs. In fact most of our games we played short handed the whole time, which is very hard for athletes who haven't had regular exercise since High School. By the time of the playoffs we had meshed as a team and were starting to win games with our high pressure offence and flexible defence. I still don't know how we made the playoffs, but I'm glad we did. We ended up beating the top seeded team in the semis and we pined up against "team Mexico" (actual team name) in the Final. We ended the first half in the lead which we held onto for as long as we needed to. Team Mexico grew more physical and aggressive after they scored midway in the second half taking our lead to 1. This caused their nice size crowd to turn up their olays and chanting as they took pride in the Mexican flag they posted up behind their bleachers. Unfortunately for them one of their smallest guys decided to shove my 6' 3" 225 lb player in the back. This caused my Goliath, Matt Lee, to turn and front him. When the team Mexico side line saw him front they decided they needed to jump onto the field for a closer look. This lead to team Mexico forfeiting the right to finish the game and us wining. I now have a big trophy to add to my collection. :D
Our second season we did well the first two or three weeks then hit a slump. We weren't playing well at all. I think it had a lot to do with the fact that we lost our star defender to a knee injury in the season 1 semis, and it started to take a toll on us. We again squeaked into the playoffs where we shined again to take another trophy home. This time I decided my collection was good enough so I named an MVP to dish it off to. It went to our goalie who had an excellent game. (I almost gave it to Mike Abeyta, aka spike, for taking a blatant kick to the family jewels from the other teams keeper in the final minuets of the match... besides he always gave 110% on the field) Well I'll cap this off by saying we are still piecing together this new co-ed team and this Friday will be game two.
Season one started slow as we lost almost all of our games leading into the playoffs. One problem was the fact that we were a new team with only a few players having experience with one another under their belts. The other was lack of subs. In fact most of our games we played short handed the whole time, which is very hard for athletes who haven't had regular exercise since High School. By the time of the playoffs we had meshed as a team and were starting to win games with our high pressure offence and flexible defence. I still don't know how we made the playoffs, but I'm glad we did. We ended up beating the top seeded team in the semis and we pined up against "team Mexico" (actual team name) in the Final. We ended the first half in the lead which we held onto for as long as we needed to. Team Mexico grew more physical and aggressive after they scored midway in the second half taking our lead to 1. This caused their nice size crowd to turn up their olays and chanting as they took pride in the Mexican flag they posted up behind their bleachers. Unfortunately for them one of their smallest guys decided to shove my 6' 3" 225 lb player in the back. This caused my Goliath, Matt Lee, to turn and front him. When the team Mexico side line saw him front they decided they needed to jump onto the field for a closer look. This lead to team Mexico forfeiting the right to finish the game and us wining. I now have a big trophy to add to my collection. :D
Our second season we did well the first two or three weeks then hit a slump. We weren't playing well at all. I think it had a lot to do with the fact that we lost our star defender to a knee injury in the season 1 semis, and it started to take a toll on us. We again squeaked into the playoffs where we shined again to take another trophy home. This time I decided my collection was good enough so I named an MVP to dish it off to. It went to our goalie who had an excellent game. (I almost gave it to Mike Abeyta, aka spike, for taking a blatant kick to the family jewels from the other teams keeper in the final minuets of the match... besides he always gave 110% on the field) Well I'll cap this off by saying we are still piecing together this new co-ed team and this Friday will be game two.
1 comments:
LOL! I like how they call it the "silver division." we actually made it into the upper half of our division for playoffs and ended up third overall in the league, much better from dead last of last season! keep playing! exercise and fun are important.
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