Despite the cold weather and the chilling wind, the soccer match we organized on Monday with the Pantheon Institute students was a great success, as usual.Finally free after a long day spent among architectural projects and Italian grammar, some students met me on Monday night at 8.30pm just outside the Battistini Metro stop. From there, we headed to the soccer fields that are just few meters away.
Only 9 people were ready to play because of a last-minute defection, but the public, formed by other architecture students, was ready to “enjoy the show”. The match started and, for about 10 minutes, we played a 4 vs. 5 game. In spite of this, my team immediately scored a couple of goals thanks to fast and clever movements. Obviously, after a while, we started suffering from playing against 5 people, so we started begging Christian, one of the students who were watching us, to join our team. After refusing at first, Christian slipped on a pair of goalie gloves and started playing with us proving to be an exceptional goalkeeper! Christian guarded our net from the numerous attacks of the opposing team as a real champion!
The game was very tight: among the several game clashes (unwilled, of course), I can’t not mention the terrific bang me and Noah gave to each other’s heads! This head butt literally knocked the both of us flat! Luckily, after few seconds, we got up and started playing again as if nothing had happened. 
The final part of the game was very exciting, to say the least…after the opposing team equalized the score, they ended up winning the game!
Even though now I have a very hard time to move because of all the bangs and because I have run way too much for my liking - since I’m pretty old compared to the students - , I have to admit that I had a really good time playing soccer with them, as usual, anyway…
No comments:
Post a Comment