Soccer Update

Tonight the Green Zombies played an iron man game in the cold rain. Just enough players to play, but no substitutions. It was a great game and held to no score until the last moments, when one slipped by Galen's aggressive goaltending. Did I mention Galen is rather scary in the net? He does not believe in waiting for the game to come to him but instead charges out of the box at the attacking player to cut the angle. He has apparently watched too much World Cup as that is what the professionals do. However, he scares the hell out of the opposing team of seven and eight year olds, I swear some of them nearly pee their pants. Only the experienced all-star players keep cool and try to get around him (which one did). All the others nearly freeze and the ball becomes Galen's. He was only in net about 15 minutes but stopped more than 10 shots and attacks on the net.

Last week's game was a bit more chaotic, not much sense to it. The kids had a harder time with positions, but they certainly were enjoying themselves. They played to a 3-2 loss, but most had a good individual game.