I've been playing on 2 indoor soccer teams and our Saturday team just finished the league tournament in first place! We showed up to the semi final on Saturday morning and had just enough players but not any substitutes. In indoor soccer, you get tired easily since the game never really stops so if you dont have any substitutes you get to run a lot! I sprained my ankle a few weeks back playing a game on my Thursday team so it's been pretty hard to play well since I have to wear an ankle wrap and a brace over the wrap. Anyway... long story short: We knew that if we won the morning game we would go on to the final that night for first place. I hurt my ankle again during the game (which we won) and had to show up that night to play again. Since I was limping and hopping around during the game, I wasn't doing the team much good. I couldn't just sit out because we desperatly needed all the players we could get so that we could have one person to rotate in and out so everyone could get a short break. So the second half we were up a few goals and I decided to be brave and play "goalie" and let our goalie play since he could run kick without hobbling. I was so scared to play goalie since I've never done it but we still did pretty good and I managed to do good enough for us to not loose! In the end we won 6-2 and took first place in the league!! We got a trophy and shirts and I limped home and iced my ankle for the rest of the night!
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Way to sacrifice your body for the love of the game! Congrats! Was this not the team with Shane?
A true team player. Way to go. I hope you had a lot of fun. Someday you should ask Rick about playing goalie on our indoor soccer team. Needless to say, we did NOT win that game.
Yes, Shane played on our team but unfortunately he wasn't able to make it out to the final game on Sat night so he missed out on being in the team picture. He played really well though and was definitely one of our strongest players on the team. He's going to be playing with us on our Thursday night team now.
Congrats! Sounds like you ar loving the life in AZ. Where else can you play on two teams and be the hero of the team?
Congrats! Hope your ankle gets feeling better!
Yeah Noah, How fun! Now you and Nik need to save your Thursday team and have a comeback and win the season!! This time we will be there to cheer you on, unless we're not.
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