soccer

Coed Indoor

September 11, 2007 By Bryan Coe Leave a Comment

We had our first game of the for coed indoor tonight. The team is a little bit different this session. We lost a couple of players and be picked up a great player: Aki. (Japanese woman) She scored 2 or 3 goals tonight.

The league is an open league and we are probably the oldest team. Everyone is over 30 and a couple of us are in their forties. Tonight we played a team that every player was in their early 20’s. And we beat them! 8-5! Woooohooo! I guess our experience out weighed their youth. 😉 Haha

It felt pretty good. Hopefully we can keep it up the whole session.

Own your own English Soccer Team: MyFootballClub

August 18, 2007 By Bryan Coe Leave a Comment

Not to long ago I posted about a book I recently read called Wikinomics. As I said before the book is about how collaboration projects like Wikipedia and many others are changing the face of the internet. However the idea of collaboration is much more widespread and is affecting the business world much more than most of us can even imagine. I came across a new kind of collaboration today, an organization called MyFootballClub.

MyFootballClub is a UK based organization looking to bring the power of collaboration to the world of professional soccer. The group plans to purchase a mid-tier English football club and build it into a Premier Division side in the future. The way it works is people sign up for a subscription that costs £35 (about $70) and the become members. “They (members) will own the club, vote on team selection, decide which players to buy and sell and guide the club up the leagues.”

As a member you can:

join other members on our private forum

read exclusive news on the takeover progress

be the first to find out which club is purchased

cast crucial votes to shape our club’s future

be part of a community that will make football history

Back in the Game

August 6, 2007 By Bryan Coe Leave a Comment

So, I played last night for the first time since the Keystone Games. I think my knee is doing ok. It was a little bit stiff around my knee this morning, but I don’t think it is anything major. I’ll just have to try and strengthen it again and not go for any hard tackles for the next few weeks. I think it should be ok then.

The game last night was good too. We won 5-1 and totally controlled the game. That was a nice change after the K-Games. One of the older guys on my team gave me a great compliment too. I’ve been playing sweeper most of the time and the guy said he thought I was doing a great job. He also said he thinks I play the purest sweeper he’s seen in a long time. 🙂

Goal of the Century

August 2, 2007 By Bryan Coe Leave a Comment

I was just doing some work for Google and came across this query. The Goal of the Cetury was chosen via a poll on the FIFA site. Number 1 goes to Diego Maradona (Argentina) 1986 FIFA World Cup vs. England 18,062 votes: 60-meter run from midfield beating Reid, Beardsley, Butcher, Fenwick then the keeper Shilton before tucking it away.

Check out the top ten list on Wikepedia: Goal of the Century

Keystone Games

August 2, 2007 By Bryan Coe Leave a Comment

Last Saturday some guys and I put a team together and played in the Keystone Games over mens 30’s tournament. Unfortunately we have really never all played together before. So, it was very difficult to play teams that have been playing together for years. We didn’t do that great, but we did end up with another bronze medal.

It wasn’t really the best day for me personally. I lost the ring I have been wearing for something like the last 12 years. I have been thinking about getting a new one, though. So, I guess it just made up my mind for me.
That’s not so bad compared to what else happened. I injured my knee. It actually started the previous Sunday in the Lititz league. It’s over 30 as well. It’s not very competitive, but ever since I started playing over 30 I have been worried I would get hurt… This league especially, and not because of hard play. The problem is: I’m on the younger end still, and there are a lot of guys that are older than they think, 20% slower than they used to be and over weight. They are often not in total control. Now, how did I get injured. I was playing sweeper when I cleared the ball and a guy came lunging in to block it… you guessed it he wasn’t as quick as he thought. He first knocked me off balance, which was a good thing because I was already falling over when his foot connected with the inside of my right calf. Let me tell you it hurt. Fortunately, I thought it was going to be worse than it was. Since I was already falling my foot wasn’t totally planted. He could have broken my leg or blown out my knee or ankle right there. Turns out it was sore down the outside of my leg from the ankle to the knee. I stayed off it for a few days to try and let it heal. Then I had the tournament. It was still a bit tender, but I thought ok. Then in the 3rd game (BTW 15 min halves), I had a really hard tackle. I stoned the guy of course. 🙂 But he really wailed on the ball. I took the ball and then a few steps, my knee felt pretty weird. I’ve never had knee trouble before though. So, later I went to the doctors that were there for the tournament and the guy said it might be a light tear in the ACL or MCL. Not sure which is which. He guessed that my patella jumped out of track when I had the hard tackle and then back in. Probably because it was week from the first injury. So, now I am taking some time off to let it heal. I really don’t want to have knee trouble or an operation or something like that.

Something else that has been bothering my knees recently is my stupid desk. I have this cheap thing from IKEA that has a shelve right about my shines. So, I have to sit with my feet under the chair, hunched over or my feet on the shelf. Not very comfortable at all. But, my sis Gen has designed me a desk to go in my office. woohoo! Now I just have to build it. 🙁 Maybe this weekend. I still need to finish my Biergarten too. Hmm… Priorities.