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Soccer Game: Pick-up

Apparently, the new fields aren't ready yet, so we were back to pick-up games. I played for about 2 hours, but the weather was so nice that it wasn't too bad. I played stopper for most of the time, which went pretty well. Broke up a lot of plays. I had a few really terrible plays, though. One was a mis-kick where I tried to clear but deflected it back towards the goal. The other team brought it down a little more and scored. Blah. I also lost a ball in the middle of the field a couple of times trying to turn around goal kicks. Blah. Defense I can handle, bringing the ball up the field is too hard. For the last 30 minutes we played co-ed, which was kind of neat until I kicked the ball really hard into a woman's stomach and she had the wind knocked out of her. It seemed like the women were not used to the "kick the ball as hard as you can away from the goal" strategy of defense. Shrug.