Played soccer again today
Some of the other guys on the team were noticing and complimenting my improvement in that I was doing a good job today at being aggressive with getting in there and stealing the ball. I don't know what it is, whether its just an artifact of practice, or whether all the extra exercise from things like hiking is helping my endurance and speed. Maybe both. Today's game was about 10 on 10, and I haven't seen any other other girls who sometimes play in weeks. With that many people its almost like foosball with the ball just ricocheting off people because the field's so dense with people, kind of an interesting dynamic.
Seems like I've been making a lot more contact with the ball lately, and chances to score on goal, been consistently scoring at least one goal each game lately.
One of my favorite plays from today's game was when I was (as usual) playing a forward, and most of the people were in the midfield or other end of the field. And the ball comes to one of the guys on the other team who's playing defense...and I'm not that close, but I decide to pressure him and run toward him, and while his teammates are all screaming "man on" repeatedly he doesn't kick the ball soon enough and I run in from the side and "unexpectedly" kick the ball out from under his control.