by SBSP Thu May 12, 2011 2:09 pm
I only ever scored a handful of goals in primary school; was never very good compared to my friends.
I only remember two goals, and they were in an indoor team practice. The ball was bouncing right in front of me, somewhere between 10 and 20 yards from the goal. There was a guy right next to me, so I just hit it as hard as I could on the half volley. It looped up and went into the net. I remember one of the guys on my team jumped on me when I scored.
There was a rule where you couldn't kick it higher than a certain height, and I'm pretty sure it went over that because the other team was complaining about it. The coach just let it count though.
The other one was a penalty. I remember it being 0-0, and this fat Indian kid wanted to take it, so he could be a hat-trick hero, even though he hadn't scored yet.
I was a hard worker when I was younger, so the coach let me take it. It was a pretty poor penalty, but the goalie didn't move, so it went in.