Unexpected Goals

Our coach was telling us the day before the game that he was going to change things up because we already knew we were going to win the game. So my friend Max and I were trying to convince our coach to let both of us push up and play offense instead of our usual position which was defense. We had been trying to convince our coach throughout the whole season to let us play offense for a game and he finally agreed letting us play offense in the next game. The only reason he let us is because he knew we were going to win that game anyways so he did not really care. Our coach said the only way we will get to play offense is if our offense gets us up by at least 4 goals. So we had to wait for that to happen, so we knew we had a solid lead, so that we can switch things up and have fun.

Finally, it was game day and my friend Max and I could not wait to be able to play offense and try and score for the first time this season. We knew that we had to get a lead first while we played our regular position. The Referee blew his whistle and initiated the start of the game and that is when we started hard and wanted to get goals early and be up so we can have some fun. Very early on our team scored a goal, and then again right after that goal. After this, we started to slow it down, but still knew we needed to score more. So about half way through the first half we scored again, then a fourth time at the end of the half so we could finally switch it up and have fun. Once halftime hit, our coach was satisfied enough by the lead we had with goals so he said we could start the second half of the game with Max and I up on offense and put two other people back on defense to cover our spot. We all knew that doing this will leave our defense weak and that gives the other team, a whole lot better of a chance of scoring on us. We were not very afraid because if we really had to we could just put our real offense back in and get a goal back to secure the lead and the game. This is where it got interesting with Max and I playing offense because you could easily tell we are not the regular crew out there on attack. But the ball was kicked by one of our mid-fielders to the top left corner of the other team’s side and that happened to be my side because I was playing left striker at the time. So I sprinted down to where the ball was kicked to try and be the first one there and I was but the goalie also was headed to the same area which meant the goal was open. By the time I got to the ball I was basically on the end line of that side of the field so that is why the goalie was coming out to pressure me. The only way I was getting the ball into the net was challenging him to a 1v1 or kicking the ball around him. I really only had one choice because if I were to get by him in a 1v1 the other team’s defense would be back anyways. So I had to try and curve it around him so I took my shot and the ball went around the goalie and hit one of the defenders that was running back to help and the ball hit off of him and went into the net. That was the second time I scored this season.

This time I was very surprised because I had a really good feeling that I was not going to make it in. When I took the shot and saw it headed in the right direction, then the help of the other team accidentally hitting it in, I knew that I scored again. I was very excited and surprised that I scored that because it was very lucky because probably any other team would have saved that. This reminded me of the show “21 Thunder ” which is a soccer show and the reason it reminds me of that is because I really wanted to achieve a goal which was scoring when I play defense 99% of the times. This is similar to 21 Thunder because they had dreams they were chasing which was achieving stardom in the sport. Both the movie and I were trying to achieve a goal during the same thing which was soccer.

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