Description

Wednesday evening pickup game (5:9)

We played at Scottsdale Reata field #20 at 8 PM.

I started with Scott, Mike and others because the other field was not formed yet. Aki was there too! But then they sent me to play with youngsters:)

Injury: Right heel blister and left groin from the Monday workout

Note

Our team was full of individual characters, so there were a lot of long balls and not enough smart passing. Adrian and his son were in their defense. It was hard to play against them. I think we were losing 1:4, we scored only one random goal.

Finally, when I got the ball, I made a fast run on the left wing, crossed it, and it deflected into their net. Shortly after, I caught their pass, went around the defenders, and scored a nice individual goal - cooperation was not possible within our team anyway:) Then I passed for another goal, and the interim score was 5:5. I thought we could win.

But they played really well. They had fast Mexican guys and Luigi in the middle. We had Josh, but he went home. Anyway, we got two goals. Then we decided to play for two winning goals. But we got two more goals and finished the match as losers. But it was a good workout, nine kilometers run and 72 hours recovery.