Four soccer games in the past five days.

It all started on this past Wednesday when I played at the new Rivers Edge soccer complex with my all women’s league. This is the first time I ever played indoor with all women because all other times I’ve played coed with friends. I was really happy to be playing with a lot of the mount soccer girls again. I didn’t think that this game was going to be as hard as it was. Then again, I should have anticipated the challenges to be tough after seeing the players arrive for the other team. It was just a practice game this week and we didn’t have all of our players so we had to pick up two other girls who where still in high school to play with us. Both high school girls where pretty good, one was a goalie. These two girls where just finished with their practice with their own select soccer team when we solicited their time to work out with us. I can’t wait for more weeks to come when I get to get a really good workout and play with my fellow mount players on the different playing field in in-door. I would have to say that playing one women’s league game would equal about three coed soccer games.
Thursday, I had another game, this time at the Western Hills Sports Mall. This team had a lot of older players and even two doctors who work with my mom at the hospital. But don’t let them fool you, the doctors are very good players. So we only had one girl and one guy sub for this team and that’s how I like it. I don’t like to sub unless I really have to because I like to play just about the whole soccer game. So the other team that we played against wasn’t the best team we won 8-3. We started to give up after the other team was getting frustrated and angry at us for playing so well. Their goalie even just walked off the field. I don’t know really why he did but he was pissed. Maybe it was because a lot of the players on our team poured several hard shots and he was getting killed with shot after shot. So we made a team decision that we had to score only by head balls which seemed to decrease the anger by the other team.
Friday’s game was again at Rivers Edge. This time it was a group pulled together with my old Westside soccer coach. She saw me up at Rivers Edge last Friday while I was watching my brothers and brother-in-laws flag football game. She said “do you mind if I call you sometime to sub for our soccer team” and I was like sure why not. I didn’t think it was going to be that very next week. When I got to the field to play I knew this was going to be a hard game because I saw Jessie who was two years older than me and played for the mount team with me for two years. But knowing how much I really have a hard time turning down any time I can play soccer, I made the best of it. We lost that game but it was a good game. I don’t remember the score of the game, but the action was very competitive.
Now on Saturday I didn’t have any soccer games, which was good since I have a few bruises that needed a day off. Sunday (today) I usually have two soccer games because I am on two different teams but one of the teams I play for re-scheduled the game earlier this week on Thursday. My game today is mostly just for fun. This team is coed and a lot of the players on the team our just playing for fun. I went to high school with a lot of team members. Sometimes I end up getting hurt the most in this league due to the players don’t go for the ball, they always try to take out the player. If you do the littliest move they fall for it and get easily frustrated.