Soccer Times

A few of us recently joined a soccer league. Now, if you know anything about my previous experience with soccer, you might be laughing.... as it is none. Never ever played before, and I joined a county-wide women's league in a South American country. Am I insane? Yes.

We had our first practice several days ago, and BOY was it a day worth blogging about.

First thing in the morning, Sarah, Jackie, Krysta, and I hopped on a bus to meet Bibi at our field (about halfway in between our house and Quito). Once we got there our "coach" took us on quite the route to her house, because she wanted to see how the gringas play. After scooping up no less than 17 pounds of poop from her backyard (they have quite the collection of dogs), she through some tires down in her back yard, and we were off. She was having us run drills and yelling that our kicks were too hard, too soft, or just bad! All the while, a crowd had formed in the backyard to watch us while listening to Lady Gaga's new hit, "Pokerface" (where am I?!?!). Frustrations were rising on our end, as we were assured that this was a non-competitive social event.

An hour later, we were scrimmaging with other women on our team. We showed our loud mouth, nazi-esque, abrasive woman just how gringas can play, as we ran around aggressively and it showed that we were some of the best players on our team.

Of course, we didn't look as good as Liga (a pro soccer team from Quito of which we've become avid fans), but give us some time.

LIGA Game!!

mmm.. footlong hotdog with mustard, mayo, ketchup, tomatoes, onions, potato chips

The crew after the game

As far as our Ruminahui team goes, looking forward to jerseys and our first game next weekend!