Description

Wednesday evening pickup game (9:6)

We played at Scottsdale Reata field #19 at 8 PM.

A lot of people showed up, so Scott divided them into two groups again: old and young. Since the season is coming, he was kind of strict about it. And sent me to play with the youngsters :)

Injury: Left patellar bone irritation is still present

Note

I was on fire! In the first minute I was looking for Charlie from our half, the ball just brushed off him and slowly bounced into the goal. Then Nico scored a goal when Chad found him well. Luigi passed to me and with a good first touch I dribbled around the defender/goalkeeper and scored for 3:0. Also before half I fought for a half-high ball in the middle and from about 20-25 meters I blasted it into the goal. Halftime 4:0!

I had 4 km, and I knew that if I wanted to have at least my usual distance, I would have to work hard in the second half. David left defense to mess around in attack, so the defending work fell to me:) I played center back. I really wanted us not to concede any goals, but I could not manage that because my teammates were so kind and passed them into chances. Never mind, I scored two goals again. The first was into an empty net after George's pass. But the second one was a masterpiece! As a center back, I brought the ball out, went past a few players, then I had it on a long run, but managed to carry it all the way to their half. Then I had just three defenders in front of me. I went left-right and hung it into the goal. After this, "Slavkovsky" was heard (again:)

Chad scored two goals, and I do not know who scored the remaining two. Adrian and his son Adrian were doing good work at the back, but the rest of the team was upfront. I dutifully returned, but of course I could not always fix everything. But guarded our comfortable lead and victory.