With no class because of October break and no practice until today, a lot of the team has been able to hang around campus without any real responsibilities for a few days, which has been nice. One of the best things about not having class on Tuesday was that we were all free to watch Champions League soccer on ESPN all day.
After watching Manchester United beat Celtic 3-0 at my house and before heading to a teammate’s place to watch TIVOed recordings of two other games (Real Madrid-Juventus and Arsenal-Fenerbahce), a group of us went up to the gym to kick a ball around. We ended up getting challenged by a group of Poughkeepsie residents who were there playing, and found ourselves in a hard-fought scrimmage with them that lasted an hour and a half.
These guys were pretty good and were clearly competitive as well, yelling at each other after every mistake and flying in with hard slide tackles whenever one of our guys held the ball too long. While we had come to the gym just expecting to fool around for a bit and go home to watch more soccer, it was good for us to be tested like that and to get such a workout after a few days off. I think we ended up winning 9-5, thanks to some great defending by senior Matt Pavlich and the goal-scoring prowess of Matt Belli and Noah Mosher. Today we begin real training again, in anticipation of our final weekend of Liberty League games.
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3 comments:
this weekend will be a true test of the character and fiber that hold vassar soccer together...
anything less than two stunning victories will leave this team with its usual post-season absence
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Is that morse code for Jimmy can last way longer than an hour and a half? (He can in case you were wondering)...
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