shadowlove's Journal

There's something about the movie the sound of music that makes you think everything is right in the world.

(This is longer that I expected it to be)

So, I got back today from my brothers soccer tornament in Philadelphia. They played (supposedly) all Primier teams when they're a Division 1 team. And they should have won.... or had a better chance to.... I'll get to that later.

I missed the first game because it was really early in the morning and I'm nocturnal and don't sleep at night. Aparantly it was a very good game that ended in a tie: 1-1

The second game was a joke. My brothers team ran circles around the other team ending in a score of 8-1

Today, the first game was VERY phyisical.... and the ref let them all get away with it. Our team isn't generaly physical but when faced with that kind of phisicality... they can fight back with the rest of them. After the game, the coach was saying (loudly) how he was disapointed that we sunk down to there level, but then when we were in the parking lot he was like, 'if that ever happenes again and you don't retaliate, I will personaly punch you in the face'.... he was putting on a show before for the parents of the other team... he was really proud of them.

Okay... so the final.... the parents thought that the team was the penn. state champs but no one was sure. If they were it was because of their keeper. He made at least 4 game saving stops for their team in the second half. At the end of the fist half it was we were up 1-0, but within the first 10 mins of the second half they scored a goal on our mistake when we put the ball into the center of the defense. This was were their keeper came in handy. We had so many nice opportunities and took so many nice shots, but they either missed by an inch or the keeper stoped them. The only shots the other team seemed to be able to get off, would be ones resulting from our mistakes.

So, there's like a minute left in the second half, and one of their players is making a run at our goal when our defender runs in from the center and literaly body checks the kid out of the way (no one denies that happened). I'm not sure wether it was in the box or not.... from where I was sitting it looked like not - and I believe that parents that were sitting down there who say they saw it. Well, anyway, the ref calls the foul but as he's walking over the kid that got knocked down stands up and flat out punches our defender. The ref red card's the kid.... and gives his team a penalty kick.

Even the other teams coach knew that that was no way to end the final game in a tornament. Our coach called the kids off the feild after that, and wether it was that, or the last seconds played out, the ref called the game.