Goals - the object of a person's ambition or effort; an aim or desired result.
We played really well this weekend. On Saturday we won 2-0 against Zetech University. The second goal we scored was spectacular... Totally something to write home about those goals that you live to tell your great grandchildren about. Goals that are undeniable awesome. Oh, how I wish I had a camera and recorded it for you guys to be able to see.
Enough talking about it...
So we are leading 1-0 into the second half of the game midway we get a free kick close to the half pitch ( the center circle where kick off takes place) . I central defender steps up to take it. The distance is so far from the opponents post so the opposing goal keeper doesn't require a wall to protect him. Plus this goal keeper was big and had good reflexes noted from the shots he had saved earlier on from our strikers' attempts.
Our defender started calling out our wingers name indicating that he would cross to him so he had to prepare himself for a header or something. The goal keeper on the other hand was quickly dishing out instructions to his defenders to mark the player who was being called. Little did he know he had stepped out of his box and left his goal post unmarked probably. I mean who would even dare shoot from that distance only guys like David Beckahm or Juninho or Ronaldinho. Like in this goal he scored against England it was unforgettable:
So picture this half way goal but now as a free kick of the above video that's how awesome it was. The below video just summaries everything for me. Talk about technique and guts. I could imagine what the coach would have said if he missed it.
Sunday was almost disastrous because we threw a 1-0 lead to NYS late in the second half by gifting them a penalty due to an intentional handball from the same player who was the star on Saturday. How ironic. He wins us the game on Saturday and costs us the game on Sunday. It happened like this a cross was made into our box the goalkeeper got off his line and came to collect it but missed. One of the opponents strikers got the ball. There was a scramble in the box as we tried to block him from getting a shot off. We were unlucky. He shot the ball and then the unthinkable happened........
The ball was heading straight into our post we had 3 defenders rushing to save it with their heads of course because if anyone touched it would be a penalty. No sooner could you say that June first is a holiday our defender jumped thinking he was "maradona" (hand of god defender style though) brought the ball back down with his hands.
Something like this but in our case he was standing. He was given a straight red card and a direct penalty kick. And that is how the cookie crumbled and NYS equalized.
I can't wait till next weekends games. Till then #DreamBigPlayHard
