Soccer, T-Minus One Week

The adult outdoor soccer league starts one week from today. I've been practicing the past few Sundays with the team in preparation. The guys are very skilled - all played at least high school and some played D1 and D2 in college. It's fun to actually play with guys who know what they are doing. Unfortunately, I'm one of the younger guys. Most of the other guys are in their mid to late 30s - so speed, fitness, and endurance is a problem. Luckily we should have enough subs and can just rotate players in and out at will.

We'll see how it goes. Yesterday we practiced on a field that was 120 by probably 70 yards. It was huge so we only used 1/4 of it. I don't know how I'm even going to cope and I'm only 32 and in decent shape. A lot of the guys are probably better then I am - but I am faster and in better shape so it sort of evens itself out. Since we're starting in the third division I hope that means we're not going to play a bunch of kids right out of college! No matter how good we are, we'll probably get beat just because we won't be able to keep up. We should probably put the ambulance on standby.