Playing Soccer

Well guys, I played soccer for the first time in my life... and I'm not talking for the xbox360 neither. I joined up in an adult soccer league where my 9 yr old plays. Its a great soccer association.

It was 89 degrees and sticky. We played 2 - 30minute halves, there were NO SUBS! WOW! what a work out. I told the guys this was my first time ever playing soccer. they said they couldn't believe I never played soccer before.

I can't wait til sunday! It is suppose to be humid and 92 degrees!

I will let you know.

do any of you play?
-D

 

I am looking to get into something like this in the fall. I have not played since I was 12 and I am now 28. I am in good shape, but none of my friends play or are in shape to play. Thus, I would have to be on a team full of strangers. I think I might give it a go this fall.

 

Yep. Play with a mostly over 30 crowd of guys from all over the world and try to play twice a week, but sometimes that is difficult. I am located in what is known as the Florida Panhandle. I have forgotten what it is like not to be hot and sticky. But the good news is I have a little more room around my waist since I started playing with these guys about 6 months ago.

Do it and stick with it! Oh, and don't forget to buy some Fulham gear to sport on the pitch. Always a kick when people say, "So you're a Fulham fan,...huh."

 

Don, I did not realize we were jumping in the time machine. Ah yes, the good old days. Take heart Tom, once a booter, you never do forget that much. However, while the mind is willing, the body is overweight, sweaty, and working in slo-mo.

First time I played soccer, I was 6 or 7. I played one game and did not play again until I was 17, when I started at left forward and scored the only goal for my team (in a losing effort) in the playoffs. After a couple of years away from pretty much any sports, I played for a college team out in California at whatever position they needed. After that, strictly indoor and pick-up games. Now I find myself mostly playing defense, which I intially hated, but now take great pride in shutting people down with exclamations like, "Don't bring that weak ass sh*t in here!"

Great thing about soccer, you can play for a long time. Just ask the 50-something guys out there with us, and do a damn good job. It is a beautiful game at any age.

 

My profile on the member map is long enough...but needless to say, I was to big to play football (american) as a kid so baseball and soccer it was...baseball began to excite me less and less...and got more involved in soccer...coach one day asks if i wouldnt mind keeper, and at the time in the youth league they needed somebody to punt the ball long.....lucky for me i stuck w/ it and turned playing goalkeeper (and yes i'm nuts like all GK's out there :banana: ) from high school, club, and college.......now i play in the Central Florida Soccer League...a pretty decent league made up of several male adult division and has womens and coed. My squad (which is sponsored by a pub that supports some scum in blue) is a good squad, mixed English, Bulgarian, Ecuadorian, Irish, and an American or two!....we are in Div. 1A and need to finish in top two spots to move to Premier, where the soccer is (go figure) better and made up of players that played at pretty decent levels........enough of my rant to, but after not playing for the equivalent of one college season and not having the day in and day out training...getting back to playing, albeit a Sunday league is as Tony the Tiger says Grrrrrrrrrrrrrreaaattttttt!!!!!

and fulham 'till i die....

 

How nice to see the greatest game of all "taking over" USA (does Mr.Bush know about this infiltration :?: :twisted: )

Me, I played the game for about 14 years but when I finally started playing for Hammarby (yeah, Björns former club) it was only a few month before I thrashed my left knee and had to call it quits.

I still play for fun with my frinds once in a while, but as AmericanMike can vouch for I'm not a very fit person anymore


I've started to lose some wieght and will hopefully be fit enough to play 1-2 times a week in the adults leagues in a couple of moths I hope.

Maybe we could arrange a friendly between the US-fans, the Swedes and the FSC in the spring if we can arrage to travel to the same game?

 

I am way too old and clumsy to even attempt to play.
When i was young, Soccer was something that was played 'somewhere else' and I possess almost no quick-twitch traits.

Since I was too skinny {according to my skinny HS football coach} to play football I was left out though I beat the crap out of the HS players in pickup games, I last felt the elation when my son's Peewee footbal club had a parents' {mostly ex-HS jocks} flag match at the picnic.

Got accused of 'cheating' because on every play I just shoved/pulled the blockers aside using their own inertia and went straight for the flag on the ball carrier.
- and does anyone realize how easy it is to 'block' just by using the inertia of your match-up to just spin them off-balance?

NO ONE got around me! And despite me being a 2 pack a day smoker I was ready to play more when the rest crawled off the field...

Heh!

 

Petty, I got a good laugh out of this post!! I like the smoker reference and how you used your intelligence to beat bigger, faster lineman. I would kill to see some footage of Petty playing flag football.

 

You know what...I'm tempted to look for a geezer league, where you have to be older than sixty to qualify.

I might FINALLY be able to perform.
My motto: wait for them to deteriorate to your level, then outlast 'em!

Oh.. they were bigger and younger, but they DEFINITELY werent 'faster'.. look at most of your stereotypical ex-jock caricatures.. see line above

 

I love playing soccer, but I was never much good. 5 or 6 years ago, when I was growing faster and faster than ever, I had no co-ordination- it didn't help, because I went from like 5'5 to 6'1 in just under 2 years, so until I was 17, I never really had much co-ordination. I got better at that age, but not much...until I realised that I was a good keeper (being 6'2/6'3ft really helps with diving saves!). So I became a goalkeeper for my local team for about a year, then I obviously left for University in London, and now I'm a part-time youth coach. Being a coach is pretty fun.

 

Coaching seems like it would be a kick, especially if you get to coach your kid. Something I may be looking into.

That said, after getting on the pitch at 9:15 a.m. and then getting off the pitch at 1:15 p.m. in 90 degree heat with 90% humidity, I am wiped the f*ck out. Damn was it a good time, but dehydration was easily everyone's biggest nemesis. Looking forward to Wednesday though.

Folks, find out where you local field for pick-up games is and get into the game. You get to exercise, talk trash, and enjoy great comraderie, all while losing a few inches around the midsection. Oh and you get enjoy beer and fatty food with less guilt afterwards.

 

Don ~ I will be checking it out for sure. Panama City Beach Youth Soccer here I come.

 

getting my NSCAA Advanced Regional Diploma in a couple weeks and next month getting my NSCAA National GK diploma...hoping to get on a high school team, as I have coached 3 years before this while in college.....reason why i'm going into education as well, so i can continue coaching....it isnt playing, but really is the next best thing....cant wait to get back into it again!!!

 

I have some skill in this sport...right Tom?!

 

If anyone is gonna get signed by Fulham my guess is that it would be Mike. The kid can play the game!! I saw him busting people up in Columbus and I also know he played a big part in a match last season between Fulham supporters in London. Scored at least three goals in that one and maybe one or two more.

 

I know I'm not a full fledged Fulham fan yet (see my post entitled "I Too Am Looking For An EPL Team") but I feel compelled to chime in on this post.

I started playing soccer about 3 years ago. A buddy of mine played with some of the parents from his kid's team and he asked me to come out. I'd never played much before. I was a football (American)/baseball/basketball guy in high school.

I had a ton of fun. And, apparently I didn't screw up too badly because I was asked to be on an indoor team. As I got better, I found another, more competitive game outdoors and then got asked to be on another indoor team as well. Had lots of fun with that (it was a great group of guys from England, Brasil, Ecuador, Tunisia, Russia, Mexico and USA) until I tore my ACL about 2 months ago. I haven't had time to get it reconstructed yet but I'm hoping to soon so I can get back out on the pitch. I miss playing quite a bit.