Another two-fer on Saturday; football(!) starting at 10:45 and futbol at 2 pm in Novi. Dad realizes, after we’ve left, that he forgot to pack Matthew’s soccer cleats….looks like he’ll be battling in his football(!) cleats (no metal spikes, so, we’re good).
This, and the next five pictures, are Matthew taking a free kick. He lines up a very long distance away from the ball…..sometimes Mom and Dad think he lines up too far back. Not all of the pictures below are in the best focus, but, they do tell the story….
This game was different; we had a new goalie, a boy from the other team who was playing really well, and, a strange thing occurred….we had a lead at halftime, 2-1.
You can clearly see the black/blue football(!) cleats here. This boy, we think, hasn’t scored a goal for TNT since last April, by Suzanne and my estimation. He started the scoring today…..had a direct kick when their goalie left the box on a goal kick and got called for a hand ball. So, for the first time in a long time, we’ll have a futbol-video post soon.
A little too much celebration after the goal for Mom and Dad’s taste…..don’t mind the shenanigans in these photos…do mind when he went to the ground and did some sort of breast-stroke motion.
We may have to bring his football(!) cleats to more games….we went down 3-2 in the second half and Matthew put in a ball from about 40 yards out to tie them game up. Just one of those plays he needs to make on defense…he stepped up to stop a ball from coming back out and the other team having a counter-attack and just boomed it into the net. I didn’t think I caught this goal on video but it turns out that I actually got all of it quite well…..
The celebration was a little more subdued this time.
Sadly, the team, collectively, hit a wall about 45 minutes in, and we lost 5-3. This game was a definite improvement, and definitely got Matthew’s attention about getting in shape (or better said, getting in better shape). He played the whole game, all 60 minutes. If Matthew is going to log these type of minutes in these games (and it looks like he will be) he absolutely needs to be in the type of shape that he can run and run and run and run for these minutes…
