Beginnings

Today was just an awesome day.. Where do I start??

It started off pretty bad because we were all told that there would be a strike today but when we went to the college to see what was going on we found out that we would be having normal classes all day. So anyway we ended up at room 23 which is a really small, stufy room and we had Statistics there. Once the class was over we were free for the next period since we had no class for that hour. We all thought of going out to play soccer with the rest of our classmates who had bunked out of their Physics class. But the whole thing didn't work out at all because none of us had a soccer ball, this meant we would have to wait for the Phy Ed. Coach to give us a soccer ball and since we half of our classmates were supposed to be in Physics we knew that we would not be able to get the ball from the Phy Ed. Dept.

So I asked my physics classmates to attend their physics class so that they wouldn't waste their hour doing nothing. But none of them were interested in attending class.

We started about taking over where our Seniors had left off and decided that we would stage our own strike since all the other colleges were having a strike. The whole point was to show that our seniors were all spineless cowards who were just afraid of one of our prof's.

So we got some of the girls from our class together and asked them to help us cause a revolution against our new math teacher. I think she must have had the shock of her life when we told her that none of us were going to attend her class. This happened when she entered the room where our class was to take place. The girls promptly walked out and so did we.

Now that we didn't have class we got the soccer ball from the Phy Ed. Dept. and since the seinors had heard about what we had done they were too embarrased to even come and play us.

The weather which had been dull and cloudy all day decided to change and became sunny and hot but we knew that since we were already there we had to play our game.

I ended up as the captain of the team with 6 players while the other team had 7 members. My team consisted of PT, Ashmith, Shrieki, Abhineet, Sripad and Me. The other team had Guru as the Captain, his team members were Varun, Nitin, Goutham, Pavan, Gaurav and Nagaraj.

Ashmith was our goalie and he did a great job whenever the other team nanaged to get through our tough defense. The other team actually had more shots at our goal than we did at theirs but their strikers always managed to kick either too high or way off to one side or the other. Most the kicks that would have gone in were stopped brilliantly by Ashmith.

Srikanth was our defensive player and he was all over the other team's sstriker whenever they got in close with the ball. The funny thing was that they had 4 strikers and only one really defensive player. Varun was their defensive player and though he did a great job we managed to get by him with a little quick manuevering of the ball and players. We had someone playing mid field and this was really helpful since we always had soemone to help out Srikanth with the defense.

My team kept switching the positions around so that evryone could get a chance to try out all the different spots on the feild. We had a lot of ground to cover since we were only a team of 6 and we were playing on a full soccer ground.

The other team had a really weird set up. They had their goalie protected with one defensive player while the other 5 players were by our goal. I don't know how they planned to stop us from scoring. We also had some really good shots while most of their shots were just horrible since they couldn't ever get close enough to take easy shots like us.

The game went on for about 40 min's without any goals for either team. Until an extremely accurte pass which was a fluke managed to come off Srikanth's foot and right to Sripad. He ran it in about 10 yards from the penalty box before he decided that he wouldn't want to take the shot since he was afraid of Varun running into him. So he passed it over to me and this pass too was just perfect. Varun had no hopes of catching upto me before I had taken a shot.

Now there was nothing between me and the goal except for Nitin the goal keeper. Once i was into the penalty area I just kicked as hard as I could. Everything seemed to go into slow motion and I realized that I was now in the zone. I saw the ball go straight into the waiting hands of the goal keeper and my heart dropped. But it jumped up again when I realized that he had fumbled the ball and the ball rolled out of his hand slowly and moved towards me. I now had a second chance but this one was risky. I would end up either breaking my leg or Nitin's face. But what is life without a certain amount of risk? So I went for it. Nitin stopped running to grab the ball when he realized I was going to kick it again. He managed to take a few steps back but it was all for nought as I kicked the ball again but this time there was enough elevation to get it over his head. As I landed from my jump kick I knew the ball had gone in. I fell onto Nitin and just went crazy. I ran up and down the feild like a maniac. I realized that I had won the game and scored the first goal in what will definetely be a game that we will play again soon.

I couldn't have scored my goal if it wasn't for the 2 perfect passes that I recieved from my teammates Srikanth and Sripad. Mads props to ya'll.

Ok I know what your thinking.. whats the big deal of scoring one goal? Well maybe its not a big deal for most of you.. but it was a big deal for me. And I am really happy about scoring that one goal today. It will be something that I will cherish for a long time.



Peace out foo'z..