Sporting Memories: The Pitch…My Joy…

image source

Quite a lovely and exciting one here, what a wonderful experience it was then...back in the secondary school years, memories! Memories! Memories…! In good times and in the odd times..., it was all fun and amazing. Just hanging out with my friends yesterday, we stopped by to check I took a stroll along with my high school friends some few weeks ago, at a point, we stopped over by the school to look watch a local match that was played on the pitch by the young boys. It was a nice one seeing spirit of sporting in the young boys in the pitch.

On watching the young boys playing..., this took my memories back to how it use to be in secondary school days, it was quite an experience not to be forgotten, would not forget the scenario where I went for a football competition at a neighbouring village close to my school…on reaching the venue, we were all short but strong when it comes to football and it looked as if we were selected of the same height. On the pitch about to start the match, I found out that the opponent we were to play with were very big, giant, and strong men...did I just say men? Yes, they were men. With great muscles, this actually terrified most of us and we spoke to our coach, if we were actually the ones to play with these people, and he answered yes, he tried to encourage us not to be afraid of the muscles and size of the opponents, that football is not about muscles and size but the skills and tactics we use will speak for us.

image source

This words he gave us actually built-up the man in me…the match started and the match went along well, on the course of this game, one of the opponents striked a shot directly to our post and the ball waved everybody down, it was as if he used an extra power to do this. I was terrified once again, but luckily for us ...it was an out ball.
The game continued till we had a first hit on their post, we were so very happy, but we never knew that was just the beginning of the Joy coming. Sooner, the whistle blown for the end of the first half of the match.

image source

Immediately the second half started, it is a very different ball game, we were overwhelmed with joy, not minding the size of the players...but because of the joy, we played like never before possessing everywhere in the pitch…this was a nice experience I ever got...