The Greatest Soccer Game Ever

Okay, so yesterday morning, I had a soccer game against our rival team, the Cheetahs. All the girls on that team go to the same school as everyone on my team, so we've been rivals pretty much forever. My team has become convinced that it is their goal in life to beat us, since they have never managed it before. We tied 3-3 last time we played them, but that is the closest they've come. Okay. Now for the play-by-play........

1st HALF
So I get to the field half an hour early to pouring rain and wind. The field is pretty much a huge mud puddle, but soccer doesn't stop for a little rain. The rest of my team got there, and we started warming up. I had to take off my sport goggles because they were getting so fogged up with rain that I could see better without them than with them. Then one of the girls who brought an eye-black pen, writes stuff on our faces like "Destroy" and "Attack" and "Charge" and stuff, along with various nicknames. The game starts. They get a few shots on goal, but I'm the goalie, and nothing gets past me!! Then, one of the defenders has a hand ball, in the goalie box, and that results in a penalty kick. That means that the person kicking the ball has just the goalie to deal with, which means that if you have a good hard kick, it's pretty much a guaranteed goal. Or is it? Because I SAVED THE PK. The girl shot a few feet to my left, and I dived and I blocked it with my hand. Everyone on my team was cheering; it was the best feeling ever. I punted the ball out of the box, and was bored for a while while the ball was on the other end of the field. Then they come sprinting down the field with the ball, and they swerve around our defenders and shoot. They score. But I do have to say it was a really good kick, above my head and to the left. The rest of my team says it's okay, it's only the first half and it's only one goal, we can come back easily. Then half-time comes along with no more goals scored.

2nd HALF
I usually come out of goal in the second half to play some defense, but the other two girls who sub in for me were away playing basketball, so I had to stay in, which was completely fine by me. I didn't trust any of the other girls in my territory with a strong team like that. We play for a while, a few shots on goal, nothing really happens, a foul or two, then WE SCORE. It was the most beautiful kick I've ever seen. It was really high and looping over the goalie's head and into the goal. Everyone on our team started cheering because now we were tied! There were about 20 or so minutes left in the game. The ball was on their end of the field, which means I got to sit around in the goal picking grass and twiddling my thumbs while the defenders tried to clear it. Then suddenly I hear cheers. We had scored again!! It wasn't really intentional, a girl from the other team (so I hear) tried to clear it, and it ricocheted off one of our girls shin guards and into the goal! So we were ahead 2-1! Now there were 9 minutes left. They had a corner kick and a few shots on goal, but nothing happened. Now the ball was on their end, and we manuevered it around for a while until the ref blew his whistle. The game was over! WE WON!

POST GAME
We shook hands with the other team. There were no bad sports, because off the soccer field, we're all like best friends. We shook hands with the ref, then a few parents made a tunnel and we ran through it. We had a little meeting commemerating how awesome we were, said hi to a few people on the other team, then we all went into this huge puddle of rain water and did a Slip N' Slide into it. Then, after that, we were dripping wet and cold, but we were so happy, and we did a little dance to "Single Ladies" by Beyonce. Then I went home, and took a nice hot shower to get all the dirt and grass and sweat off of me because I was diving so much in goal. It was pretty much the best soccer game ever.