So I joined the Christ College Girls Football Team (soccer for you uncultured types) last week!! A girl just asked if I played and when I answered with the affirmative she asked me if I wanted to be on the team, no tryout neccessary! I haven't played in a long time so I was a little nervous on the first day of practice, worried that my inadequate playing abilities would be scoffed at and I would be turned away for lack of any real skill. However, the very opposite happened. See, because football is a fairly popular sport here I thought that I would be in store of seeing a lot of great players, but what I came to find out is that the girls here rarely play football if any sport at all. There are a few girls on the team that are rather good and there are quite a few others, though I don't like to use this cliche, kick like girls, in the worst possible way. All my teammates are amazing people though, if not awesome footballers, and we have lots of fun.
We only had three practices before the first tournament, which was last week, and we had no coach to lead us in drills so they weren't very productive. I was again nervous as the tournament approached but not for my lack of skill but for the overall team's abilities. I was happy, or maybe more surprised, to find that we were actually one of the better teams. We won our first game 1-0 and it was really exciting but made me realize how utterly out of shape I am. Unfortunately, the next day we lost the second game which I came to find out half way through was our final game and that we were playing for the trophy. We were tied in the end and had to go into a penalty kick off. And can you believe, they made me kick first! I was really nervous and pretty much kicked it straight at the goalie who easily blocked it. In the end, they had two goals and we had one, it was quite depressing but I think with more practice we can be quite good.
The funny thing is, that now I can say I played college soccer and I won't be lying!
