Slices of Cucumber: Crazy 88's venture into Soccer wasn't so crazy.

On Thursday the 16th of June @ 9PM MST, The Crazy 88's tried their hands... or rather feet at the sport of soccer (futbol?). It was a late time to play and proved to be quite the work out as well. We joined the rec league which was supposed to have less "hardcore" players but from our first encounter we know better now (they were pretty hardcore with matching jerseys!).

We were pretty unorganized on the field and at times lacked any real knowledge of how to play the game at all. The other team capitalized on our lack of "know how" and even though being substantially better than us still thought it was a good idea to cheat and be offside for many of their attacks and goals. Now we had a below average goalie in net for our side,a mediocore defensive line and no real forwards to lead any kind of attack so we were nothing more but annoying pylons to the other team at times. And all of this was just on the field.

Off the field we were victims of brutal mosquito attacks. And after our record rain falls for the month of June there were a lot of hungry mosquitos waiting to feed on our blood while we stood on the sidelines trying to look at the positive side of getting destroyed. I myself have counted 17 mosquito bites on my arms, legs and left shoulder and am pretty worried about West Nile Virus. So for our next game I will definitely be bringing some mosquito repellent to avoid this current itchiness and possible infection with the West Nile Virus.

I got in a few picture shots when we were warming up before the game but the day was overcast with cloud with no decent lighting so I put the camera away early. Hopefully the game on Tuesday will have better weather and since its earlier (7PM) I will be able to take a lot more pictures. I'll have to read up on how to take "sports action" photos this time so I know how to set my camera properly to take good pictures! I'm excited!

Overall I had a good time even though we loss, I think as the games progress we'll improve as a team and play a lot more organized game and hopefully our endurance will improve as well. I bought new equipment over the weekend, new shin pads/socks and sweatbands for the new game and can't wait to try them out. We are going to win the next one!!!!! *knocks on wood*. Anyways enjoy the pictures that I have added to the bottom here, and if you want full size ones just msg me and I'll see what I can do!

pieces,

Alex.

p.s. I want to buy a soccer ball soon and this device that I can somehow tie to my waist so I can practice foot eye coordination (I saw it on tv a while back). Anyone know where to get such a device/contraption in Calgary?

p.p.s. Does anyone know how to post more than one picture in one blog at the same time using the "hello" program? I had to do a lot of cutting and pasting in the dashboard to get all my pictures posted with hello into one blog.