A day long remembered.

Since January 2 2010, A-TEAM SOCCER has taken the field 50 times. 3 sessions of indoor soccer, 3 sessions of outdoor soccer. We lost every game we played. Some games were ugly. Some games were close. We’d have a strong first half and then collapse from fatigue in the second half. But not today.

A-TEAM WINS!

I had expected that this would happen soon. I was not expecting it to happen today, to be honest. But finally, after a year of taking the field week after week and facing defeat, we can put one in the W column.

I want to thank the team, including the three surviving members who were originally cut a year ago and formed the core of the team. I want to thank the people who played with us for a time but weren’t able to take the field with us tonight. Your contribution was not unnoticed.

I don’t expect that we’ll win every game from here on out. I don’t even expect that we’ll win half of our games. But I feel like we can finally field a solid team. We’ve reached the end of the beginning, and when we take the field next Sunday we’ll be all the more pumped up for it. After 50 games we finally demonstrated that we can win, and it’s made the entire trip worth it. And the three times I got hit in the head tonight (including two in a row).

Here’s to A-TEAM!