My First Goal...

I want to start off by wishing my sister Mo a happy birthday! Gosh you are so old now! I’m just kidding you definitely are not and I hope you have an awesome day!

Since my last update we have had 2 games, winning both. We won our games against South’s and Brisbane City 2-0 and 5-0 respectively.

I think I need to give some of the history of Wolves so people can understand what our games have been like to play in so far. Until 3 years ago Wolves had never won a single trophy usually finishing near the middle of the table in the league. However, since our current coach came to the club 3 years ago we have finished 4^th, 3^rd, and 2^nd in the league and won back-to-back Grand Finals (which is like winning the playoffs). So this year we have seen ourselves go from the hunters to the hunted, meaning we are now getting every team’s best game.

Getting back to our recent games, we were considerably better than both teams, although South’s certainly played very well against us, and all we need is to find that first goal and usually we will end up scoring a bunch. That’s what happened in our game against Brisbane City. I hope that these teams can continue to give us their best effort because it will make us that much better when we play against one of the other top teams in the league.

I am glad that we have been able to score so many goals (11 in 3 games) but what I am most excited about is that we have only conceded 1 goal so far this year. Our defense has been playing very well, and we hope that as we grow more familiar with each other we will be even harder to break down. I was also able to record my first goal of the season, scoring the first, or more importantly the winner, in our game against City. I say finally because I have had 2 headers cleared off the line and gone close with a couple of other headers so far in the season. Although the goal I scored wasn’t a header, it was a shot from the top of the 18 (maybe that will convince my coaches to put me back at forward where I belong, Ha).

Other than my soccer responsibilities I have only had time to go on one adventure in the past two weeks. Steffen, Pat, and I took a ferry to a small island just off the coast and engaged in some sea kayaking. We were able to rent the kayaks rather cheaply and took a trip around the island, which has a lot of beaches, mangroves, and a little bit of coral reef. The kayaking was awesome until the last half hour when we had to fight a stiff breeze to complete our trip around the island, we couldn’t move our arms for days after that adventure.

I’m hoping that I’ll be able to nail down a part time job soon so that I have more disposable cash to spend on trips. Until that happens though I am just sticking to soccer and making sure that we continue our hot start to the campaign.

Until next time…