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Pickup football at Drew's Place

My first football after a week. The knee is better, even though not completely healed. But at Drew's they play with turfs, so it is not such a strain.

I enjoyed the football, but I enjoyed the beer after it even more. David gave me a Polish Zywiec and it tasted like the best beer in the world. We sat there at Drew's backyard until almost 11 pm.

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I came in a black jersey, but Drew said that if I wanted to play, I should put on white, because there were only a few of them. So I played for the whites in attack with Trent and Trevor from Israel. In the first game, I had many chances, but I did not score. I was thinking to myself that my rule that I always score the first goal here probably would not work out today. After a 0:0 draw, we lost the coin toss, so we went to sit. But the second game also ended 0:0. In the third match I scored the first goal and also the second one. After a 2:0 victory, we continued further. Trevor assisted me on both.

The next game we also won 2:0, I scored my third goal and assisted Trevor on his. Another game was 2:0 as well. Again, my goal, and this time Trent scored an unbelievable curved shot after my back pass. I was doing very well, my legs were light and the desire was great. We won 5 games in a row and voices started saying that I should go in goal to play goalie.

So for the sixth game I started as goalkeeper. I did not concede a goal, but we did not score either. So two minutes before the end, they sent me into attack to score a goal. We had to play for a win, because only then can you continue the streak. A draw sends the team that just arrived further. We had chances, but we did not score, on the contrary in the last seconds we conceded one into the open defense and recorded our first real loss 1:0.

Then Trent left and our dominance ended. But we still kept winning and losing equally. Since we managed to switch sides, I scored a goal into the opposite net as well. In total I had 6 of them for the evening!