This blog entry is a thank you to my collegues from the football team (soccer for my American readers).  I play football every Tuesday evening, just a couple of friends and me, nothing professional.  Last Tuesday we were 10 people, so we divided in two squads of 5.  We stacked the deck in our favour because my squad consisted soleley of people who can handle a ball, and more importantly, know how to play with each other.  Naturally, we blasted the other squad into oblivion and won with 12 goals difference.

The other team had some good players too, but they didn't play together as good as we did.  If a team plays together instead of doing solo tricks, if every member works for the other guys, the results are enormously satisfying.

The ultimate proof of our team play must be this situation: I was standing in the point attack position, so I got the ball.  It was a really easy one, I only had to kick it into the goal.  But I screwed up.  Another guy recovered the ball, and since I was still in point I received the ball again.  I screwed up again.  It took me four attempts to kick the ball into the goal.  I want to say a heartfelt thank you to my team for giving me so many chances to score that goal.  It would have been easier for the other guys to put the ball into the goal themselves but they trusted me to get it right eventually.  Thank you.

Dirk