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I had my first season game of soccer today. I joined as an individual, so we got assigned teams of other people who joined by themselves, in my case I think the team is I31 Inter Intermediate Agents… interesting. I showed up at the fields really early, kinda didn’t have much else to do, so I figured I’d just watch some other games until our time. There was some concern for a while about how many players we had, since until the last moment we didn’t have a full team =P Oh well, I kinda like playing without any substitutes, more fun

We lost the game 0 to 2 by the way. Which isn’t too bad, I think we could have had it really. We spent most of the first half just getting settled into some positions and figuring out who plays better where. The first goal was a huge scramble in front of our net, and for a sec I thought we cleared it, but I guess not. The second one was, uhm, shite. There are two refs in the game, the main one, and one to call just outs and offsides on the opposite side. Apparently the one covering our goal didn’t know what the offside rule is until we brought it up at the half way point. Anyway, so that’s what happened with the second goal I also had one of my shots hand-balled right in the box without a call, meh. So, now that the griping part is over, it was a lot of fun! If our schedules were actually posted, I’d be saying “Can’t wait for ______!”, instead I’ll just go with can’t wait for it!

Was watching the hockey game in the lounge in the evening today too, and Sam actually gave me an awesome idea by proxy. He signed up for an all-star team and an advanced team to get more games. I should have really done the same if I thought of it sooner, good thing there’s always next year!