Getting Beat

There is nothing worse than getting beat in a game. I suppose the only thing worse than that would be getting embarrassed in a game. That's exactly what happened to me and my team this weekend in the Memorial Day Invitational. We had won our first game in a tight battle, so my team and I were feeling pretty good when we stepped onto the field for our second game. We had heard that the opponents were pretty good, but we had no idea. We got the kickoff, and the ball was played back to me. Immediately their forward was on me, fighting for the ball, and I was just barely able to kick the ball away. That was the beginning of a very long night. To make a long story short, the game ended in an 8-0 trouncing of the home team, us. I had been battered and bruised, had been independently responsible for at least two goals, I had dislocated thumb, and worst of all, I had let my team down. But I got to thinking, maybe we need beatings like these to realize what our flaws are, and what we need to work on more. We won the rest of our games, and I know that I worked especially hard to make up for my errors in that second game. I hope that I will become a better player from this game, and I am sure that the rest of my team will too.