Big soccer week last weekend. On Friday we got out of work early to play a game against Umzingisi. This is another organization in the area that does similar work to us, but steals our flair and brings in a lot of English interns for just a couple weeks to play soccer with kids. More soccer, in other words. Anyways, we played them before in the fall, and this was a rematch. There are a list of reasons why this didn't go to great, and the list is as follows:
- We just had the majority of our coaches (thus our players) leave GRS when their contracts ended thus having next to no players. We had Danny and Ivaylo - the film makers - play and borrowed some Umzingisi guys.
- The "interns" for Umzingisi are all young dudes who take this game wayyy to seriously.
- The City Lads had a scrimmage right afterwards so none of them played. This means no Titie, no Ngwenya, no Nowie.
We lost badly. O well.
The bright side was that the City Lads did have a scrimmage directly after against the KUBS. I got to suit up and played the whole second half. My first minutes with the team! This was right after I had finished by antibiotics for the gall bladder issue so I was out of shape and still feeling a little pain, but I made some good plays and felt good over all. We won 1-0 (should have been worse) and get to play this team again for real this weekend. Hopefully my player card comes in this week like it's supposed to.
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