today is a saturday…
…and yup, i’m breaking the trend of normally posting on sundays. maybe i’ll do so again tomorrow anyway. but today, i just wanna post once more cos i’m just so relieved and glad i was able to keep my word today. haha
today there was a futsal tournament. my team were in arguably the tougher group. in any case, it started well. i scored a goal after about 5 minutes. we were quite comfortable, held on for a while, then suddenly capitulated by conceding 3 goals in bout 5 minutes. i think we have a problem of concentrating when defending. and the last time when i scored the first goal, we also shot ourselves in the foot by conceding 4 goals in bout 5 minutes. does this mean i shouldn’t score the first goal? haha
anyway, we lost that game. the next 2 games, we performed better as a team. drawing against eventual table toppers, and beating another team quite comfortably. personally, i was please with my own performance. even managed to do a few skills. stepovers, 360 degree turn, putting through balls. that was fun cos i was relaxed today. maybe cos i had enough sleep last night. wasn’t as nervous.
anyway, about keeping my words, well i was referring to the goal i scored. i said i’d score a goal the last time. i didn’t deliver. was bitterly disappointed. but promised i will score this time. and i did. that was pleasing. played as a defender in the last match, so didn’t get to add to my tally. but the 1 goal was a great relief. haha
well…that’s all i gotta say actually. yesterday was feeling horribly ill with flu and body aches and everything. took half day MC to rest for today. actually still woke up with some flu this morning. but decided must get past that to score my goal. hahaha and yes, that goal was very important. haha
highlights of today besides scoring my goal were 3 things. 1st was dribbling past 3 players with some left and right turns before doing a 360 degree turn. but failed to score cos tried to pass to teammate, to play a 1-2, but his pass back to me was too soft. 2nd was when i had the ball, 2 opponents were running straight at me trying to tackle me, so i lifted the ball through the middle in between them, and over their legs so i beat them both with 1 move. 3rd was making a through pass from my own half to cut open the opponent’s defense while under pressure. too bad teammate didn’t convert. would have been a great goal.
overall a satisfactory individual tournament for me even though team didn’t manage to get to semifinals. i think a lack of understanding and losing our goalkeeper to injury before the tournament even started was to our disadvantage. but was very glad everyone worked very hard. and definitely much happier about how the football went compared to the previous tournament. now…how is my weekend gonna go from here? hmmm….
