Peach Of A Goal

Yesterday I scored one of the most beautiful goals of my career (if you didn't know, I play football [soccer], the best sport in the world). Before the game I was asked by one of my teammates if I was going to score. I wasn't expecting to of course and replied: "If you will, I will." Well, he didn't but I sure did and it was a strike of beauty. Let me take you to the action.
The game was literally over in the first ten minutes as we smothered them with our possession and scored twice. I actually should have been credited for our second goal as my teammate shot (while I was somewhat in the way) and the ball deflected ever so slightly off my right foot and trickled in. I wasn't going to celebrate such a weak goal so I respectfully gave that one away. Boom, not even ten minutes later we scored again with a precise tic-tac-toe play. A few minutes after that it was my time to shine. The ball was fed through the air just outside our opponents eighteen yard box. Our striker and their defender went up for the header and I yelled for the lay-off header as I ran up behind them from the left flank. The ball hit the back of the defender's head and bounced perfectly on the path where I was running. I didn't think twice, I struck the ball on the volley and watched as it blasted towards the net. The keeper had no chance as it sailed past his outstretched reach and disrupted the mesh top shelf! Double fist pump. That felt good.

Life Lesson: Lean over the football [soccer ball] when you strike it. This way you have more control and this usually ensures that it will not sail over the crossbar for a field goal (don't worry I know that there are no field goals in football [soccer], it's just a widely known player's joke. Okay, that probably confused some people because I used the proper term for soccer. Meh)!

Sadly, I will be missing the next few games due to heading out to Providence in Otterburne to coach at their Volleyball and Soccer Sports Camps. I'm excited to start working at Prov though! This means tomorrow is my last day as a painter (for the summer)... I will miss it; hopefully I will be able to return to Chromatic Painting soon.

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I just want to thank Josh Dyck for the shout-out on his last blog entry. We figured out how to use Bluetooth between our two phones and it is mos defs [most definitely] endless fun. Confusing, but fun. You would think it should be consumer friendly but somehow it never works how you think it should. Oh technology!