Friday, September 15, 2006
Goal?
Ah i remember the first time i scored from a corner. It was only like yesterday.
In a small field, it was crammed with 20 odd students. The main split between the teams were the colour of the pe shirts worn. Me being from 'Griffin' house was blue. The house that had the most number of studens playing and usually big enough to form a team was 'Pegasus' and the colour was yellow. That day i went over to help the yellows as there wernt enough people. I prefered playing for this side rather then my usual mix of colours of Red, Blue and Green. Wheres the challenge if your up against a team that has the number but 80% of the team does not know what an offside is? The only few that were truly 'Yellow' and held the team up was the strike force consisting of Colin and Paul.
So id go over whenever the chance was ever present. Into the game the ball was out for a corner and i decided to move up from the defence to join in the mess. It was a 0-0 game and i figured that ill stand outside the box so that i can fall back as fast as possible in case of a counter.
Colin stood up and i gave a signal that i wanted to give it a go. Perhaps he figured that there was nothing to lose or maybe that i somehow was left unmarked. He hit a grounder towards me and most of the people expected a high powered ball into the area. Left unmarked and with the ball admist the chaos, i drove a low one into the goal. The ball slid past the keeper and into the goal. There was a moment of silence as it was unexpected of me to actually score one due to my laid back nature. There was a shout of joy and my 'usual team' were stunned. Had they been wrong to have let me go over? I head comments that the keeper wasnt ready. But i brushed those off knowing that the keeper had actually flinched when he saw the grounder, he had almost jumped.
What i had just needed, a moral booster. That one goal had changed how i played the game, daring to go for the ball, having no regrets and knowing that i will stop the runs of players. Thats the way i played regularly till the start of the new chapter, Poly life.
What changed me?
Could it be that i stopped playing for a long time? Or did people change me? I want to be a stopper again. Make a name for myself on the pitch. But before that i need to get fitness back.
How will i go about doing these?
A story that has yet to begin.
In a small field, it was crammed with 20 odd students. The main split between the teams were the colour of the pe shirts worn. Me being from 'Griffin' house was blue. The house that had the most number of studens playing and usually big enough to form a team was 'Pegasus' and the colour was yellow. That day i went over to help the yellows as there wernt enough people. I prefered playing for this side rather then my usual mix of colours of Red, Blue and Green. Wheres the challenge if your up against a team that has the number but 80% of the team does not know what an offside is? The only few that were truly 'Yellow' and held the team up was the strike force consisting of Colin and Paul.
So id go over whenever the chance was ever present. Into the game the ball was out for a corner and i decided to move up from the defence to join in the mess. It was a 0-0 game and i figured that ill stand outside the box so that i can fall back as fast as possible in case of a counter.
Colin stood up and i gave a signal that i wanted to give it a go. Perhaps he figured that there was nothing to lose or maybe that i somehow was left unmarked. He hit a grounder towards me and most of the people expected a high powered ball into the area. Left unmarked and with the ball admist the chaos, i drove a low one into the goal. The ball slid past the keeper and into the goal. There was a moment of silence as it was unexpected of me to actually score one due to my laid back nature. There was a shout of joy and my 'usual team' were stunned. Had they been wrong to have let me go over? I head comments that the keeper wasnt ready. But i brushed those off knowing that the keeper had actually flinched when he saw the grounder, he had almost jumped.
What i had just needed, a moral booster. That one goal had changed how i played the game, daring to go for the ball, having no regrets and knowing that i will stop the runs of players. Thats the way i played regularly till the start of the new chapter, Poly life.
What changed me?
Could it be that i stopped playing for a long time? Or did people change me? I want to be a stopper again. Make a name for myself on the pitch. But before that i need to get fitness back.
How will i go about doing these?
A story that has yet to begin.
