What I Would Do if my Soccer Team was in a Major Tournament

I lover soccer. If you've been reading this blog for any lengh of time at alll, I'm sure this will have become apparent to you. I've been playing the game for years, but only this year has my team advanced to the level we had- the very top tier of community soccer.

Let me give you some perspective on this. In under-16 year old community soccer in Edmonton, there are several tiers, each with five or six teams. This year, my team has managed to make it to the very top tier! And not only that, we've done very well in this top tier. As such we have been put into a cities tournament, where we will be battling along with three other teams to decide who is the best U-16 boys community team in Edmonton!

We have already had one game, earlier today. Unfortunately, we lost 3-1. As an attempt to credit myself and my team however, let me just say that;

-No goals were scored against us while I was on, and

-The ref was rather lax, and so didn't produce cards when my teams players were, A), checked into the boards, B), pushed, or C), in the case of our goalie, pushed five seconds after he had the ball in his hands. I mean, come on, ref! To be fair, though, he also didn't call it when I illegally pulled on someones shoulder and brought him down by doing so as he was attempting to run past me.

Anyway, as such my team will play once more tomorrow, to decide who wins the bronze medal. There is, however, a problem. We're expected to be at the game 30 minutes early. It takes about 20 minutes to drive there, and I'll take a further 30 minutes to wake up, get dressed, and all that jazz. So all in all, it will take me 1 hour and 20 minutes to get to the game from the time I get up. The problem? The game is at 7:00... AM. That means I should be waking up at around 5:40. It's 9:00 right now. Therefore, assuming that I get this done in the next ten minutes, I'll probably be in bed by 10:00, asleep by... 10:30.  That will give me just over 7 hours of sleep. SO I suppose what I'm trying to tell you is...

Goodnight!

Thanks for reading,

-Mark

(PS; I don't think that Laura has internet, which would be the reason why she didn't post yesterday. She probably texted me as such, but unfortunately my phone has run out of batteries and my charger has mysteriously stopped working. I'll take the blame for this one. Oh, and PPS... that extra post I promised will come soon, I swear. See you next time.)