By Sean T.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Saint Mary’s<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
It’s a soccer match against Saint Mary’s. I’m nervous. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n But not too nervous. My hands aren’t shaking. I don’t have <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n a sore stomach. My heart isn’t pumping tremendously. But<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n I know some people are nervous. The referee <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n blows the whistle. The match begins.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n There’s the kick-off. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n My position is a midfielder. I’m a right midfielder. We’re <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n all doing what we’re supposed to do. The stickers get <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n a long or short pass from the midfielders and <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n and tries to take a shot and score a goal. The defenders are <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n trying to defend the goal by not letting any opponent getting <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n past them so they can score a goal. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n The goalkeeper has to also defend the goal but with his<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n hands. The midfielders (which is what I am) is basically a <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n striker and defender. Midfielders have to run all around the court. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n They have to attack and defend. We’re losing brutally <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n losing by more than ten points. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n Eventually, we lost count. So did the coach. I bet we’re <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n all thinking the same thing which is that we are definitely not<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n going to win this match. Then I see the ball. I get the ball. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n I dribble with the ball. I pass to one of the stickers. He does his skills<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n to get past the defenders. He passes it to the other striker. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n He takes the shot. He scores. It’s the first goal of the season. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n He shouts out “YEAH! FIRST GOAL OF THE SEASON!” <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n Some people start to celebrate. But I don’t with some <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n of my other teammates. Because even though we scored, we lost. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n I’m disappointed that we lost but we still scored our first goal<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n of the season. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n I am definitely sure that the opponent thinks we’re weird<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n because even though we lost, some of us are celebrating. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n But as I say again, we still did score our first goal of the season. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n It was a step forward. We all know we can’t play like<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n this in our next match. We all have to improve our game.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Sean T. Saint Mary’s It’s a soccer match against Saint Mary’s. I’m nervous. But not too nervous. My hands aren’t shaking. I don’t have a sore stomach. My heart isn’t pumping tremendously. But I know some people are nervous. The referee blows the whistle. The match begins. There’s the kick-off. \u00a0 My position […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5,4],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-poetry","tag-soccer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stmaur.ac.jp\/cougarswrite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stmaur.ac.jp\/cougarswrite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stmaur.ac.jp\/cougarswrite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stmaur.ac.jp\/cougarswrite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stmaur.ac.jp\/cougarswrite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stmaur.ac.jp\/cougarswrite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stmaur.ac.jp\/cougarswrite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/19"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stmaur.ac.jp\/cougarswrite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stmaur.ac.jp\/cougarswrite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stmaur.ac.jp\/cougarswrite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}