LAST Wednesday afternoon was “picture perfect” for Tea Gardens Soccer Club, with sunny conditions, a welcome gentle cooling breeze and lots of keen smiling faces ready to take to the pitch for some exercise, fun and social interaction.
Welcome back to Len and Karen (Gossy) and g’day to all our newbies Robyn, Precy, Lyndal and Vicky who dropped in for a “look-see”.
Len broke his own all-time record for spills but picked himself up each time and got back into it in fine style.
There was much banter, laughter and well-deserved clapping as the game progressed. It took a bit of warming up as a lot of our players had not been trackside for several weeks but everyone soon got into the swing of things, even a few of our newbies showed some skills of a prior learning and the quick paced game developed into a very robust match of two 15 minute halves culminating in (I think) a draw of a trifecta of goals for each mixed team but don’t hold me to that.
Some players retired after the end of the second 15 minute half but a few keen folk opted to go back onto the field for another 10 minutes, then all agreed that was enough and a rest was needed.
Our friendly post-game gathering was, as always, full of friendly chit chat recounting of the games’ highlights and the week’s stories, lively laughter and a few tasty snacks, thanks to George.
By Shayne REYNOLDS
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