royal cup

world cup warmup got put into gear with the royal cup over the weekend. its the annual cup tourney for kelowna's three mens league divisions. knockout styles. we had a pretty good draw and won our first 2 games to put us into the semifinals against a div 1 team on sunday morning. as always with these types of tourneys; the team with the least number of players hungover for the sunday games usually wins...... so we lost....lol. we played them pretty even as far as chances and such but our goalie was like wet toilet paper, letting in soft goals left and right. it really takes the heart outta the team when those happen, let alone 3 in a 3-2 defeat.J.J. has been injured as of late like glass man so i've stepped into starting up front with mr whitehouse and i've stepped up my finishing of late. had a hat trick in our 4-1 quarterfinal win and another in the semis. that puts me at 6 goals in 5 games.... pure overachievement. the hat-trick momentarily convinced my ego that i was somewhere along the lines of bo jackson or deion sanders in the upper echelon of two sport athletes, when the reality of the situation is that i'm closer to being like freddy jackson and colonel sanders....lol. i did feel like thierry henry out there for a lil bit, pulling out top spin instep lobs and clinical breakaway finishes. i had to pull out the ronaldo index finger wag after a couple of those goals though ..... CUZ YA GOTTA LET 'EM KNOW!! the lankiness and the left foot is causing these dudes problems since i moved to striking. remembering how fun soccer can be.

the karate chop to the sternum is a goalies only defence against me and the peter crouch arial assault. i love playing against the hobbit-esque backlines


andje and his right foot are the ying to christy brown and his left foot's yang. obscure reference made short... he can't kick with the left so you better lead him right....lol. i think he wears a white sock on his right leg so we can more easily see which side to put the ball to. him and JJ are the other strikers on the team. thanks for the pics by the way. note the knee braces: the andje 3000 and the goalie's terminator brace... so much for cyborg/human relations