09/21/11

(I better watch my writing, seems like my coach reads this blog as well- hej Anders!) Trying to leave Sunday's game behind, in my opinion one of the shittiest games I've ever played. However, a win 5-3, met the team that qualified for division 2 last season, not bad considering that we just advanced from division 4. So, what was, according to my self, improper? My running and movement. I ran, but I ran wrong. As my new role as forward on the left side (instead of the right, on which I've played during the last couple of years), I'm supposed to run my ass off and both disturb the opponent's defenders, as well as be in constant movement in order to be the first player by the ball when it's hit down to the corner of the pitch. Not often, I managed to be on the right place at the right time and this is the cause of my anger with myself. Therefore, I decided to use Tuesday's practice to learn the right running patterns. How that went? Good I think, but it would've been even better if more than four players had listened to the instructions...

I'm only going to play with the junior-team this week, as there are no games this weekend and my thighs and knees really need to recover.

Tournament in Spain

Just as last year, my team once again went to Madrid for five days to participate in an international torunament, competing amongst others the Spanish champions, containing half of the Spanish national team. Five games in three days, 35 degrees Celcius and a floor more bumpy than flat. How it went? Five victories and thereby an overall victory- we now consider ourselves as Campeónes Españoles, by all right. Personally, I did one (excuse my hubris) freakin' fantastic match when considering that I've only played one complete game since the 2nd of January. The second game was okay, played good but missed at least ten open goals. The third, fourth and fifth were nothing to brag about but I felt that I really got into the new system we're playing accordingly (just watching it for eight months didn't help that much). The knee felt great, despite some nice air crossings.

Got home, found out that I'm probably going to train three hours/time since the junior-team and the senior-team have the sessions straight after each other on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Don't know how my body is going to react but I guess we'll find out.

Season-premiere with the senior's B-team today, win 5-3 and for some reason, my coach thought I should play the A-team premiere tomorrow as well.

Anyway, after almost nine months- I hereby declare my knee as perfectly working again!