Physical Activity and the Outdoors

Rimu Homework Challenge #6

P5. Complete in a sport for an entire season

Football

I've been playing Football for 6 years now and this year is my 7th season. When I first started kicking a Soccer ball around I was 4 years old. I played it in my back yard and at the park with my Dad and he tort me the rules of Football and some skills as well.

 Two years later my dad signed me up for saturday morning Football at Blue Rovers. I played mini grade for one year and my team was called the Sharks. Our kit was green shirts, blue shorts, blue socks with a white stripe at the top and some normal sand shoes. I can't remember much about that grade but we managed to come 2nd in the mini grade league. At the end of this season I got a Participation certificate, Coaches award and a fun team photo.

The next year it was 2007 and I was in 7th grade. Again our team name was the Sharks and this time we wore black and red shirts and the same shorts and socks but this year was the start of boot grade. That year we came 2nd again but to a team called Bluebottles. The Bluebottles had some of the best players in that team such as Ollie Valentine who is in the U13 Man City squad. That year I didn't win anything but I got the average Participation certificate and the shinny team photo.

2008, the year that we played different clubs around the bay such as Papamoa, Te Puke and so on. That year I got put in Reserve 2A grade. That was the year that we played in all Blue with numbers and everything. Our team was called Blue Rovers Typhoons and we came 3rd in the league. I played centre defense in that season and scored a few goals as well. THat year was the same as the year before, just the average Participation certificate and the shinny new team photo.

2009, this was the year I decided to move football clubs. I was deciding between Waipuna FC witch was just across the road or Mount. I decided to go to Waipuna to play with some friends from school and managed to drag a couple mates from Blue Rovers with me. I got put in the reserve team with a few mates and I scored 8 goals in the season. If I can remember correctly we came 4th in the league and that year I got player of the year for my team plus the Participation certificate and a team photo.

In 2010 I made it into the Waipuna 10th grade Prem team. I played striker that season and scored 11 goals and trilled for reps but got rejected. We were one of the best teams in our league coming 3rd 2 points behind Nathans Papamoa team. We entered 3 tournaments . We entered the Papamoa mid season tourney and came 3rd in a penalty shoot out. We also entered the 10th grade Blue Rovers tourney and came runners up in a game against Cambridge. We entered the Waipuna 10th grade tourney as well and came first in a game that we won 5 nil but the week before that I fell of a 3 meter high bridge on to flat concrete and landed on my knee with my bike on my back, I was on crutches for 3 weeks.

In 2011 I was in the prem team again. That year I scored 13 goals 2 more goals than my previous record, 11. I played skriker again for the season but that year we played on a bigger field with bigger goals. We entered 3 tournaments again. Our first one was the Papamoa mid season tourney. We came second in the tournament against Three Kings United in a penalty shoot out. We lost 5-4. Our second tourney was the Blue Rovers Vincent Green tourney. We came third in that tournament in a shoot out as well. Our other tourney we went to was the New Zealand nationals. That was a tourney where anyone could enter but you had to be on of the top teams of your region. We where lucky to even get in the tourney. It was held in Taupo and it was very cold. We managed to make it in the plate final against and Auckland team. We lost that final 5-3. I scored a easy chip, Logan scored a wicked free kick and Skilly scored another awesome free kick. That final was one of the most intense games i've ever played. Their were probably 20 free kicks, 2 penalties and a few scraps as well. My dad got a yellow card from the ref for saying a very naughty word even though he is our coach.

Last year was my first season in 12 and 13th grade. We played against 12 and 13 year olds. We got put in the 2 div because of 3 of our top players left of go play at a different club. I scored 13 goals again that season. We won the league and never lost one game. 

This year i'm still in 12 and 13th grade. I've scored 6 goals so far and many more are coming my way. We are in 1st div this year and we've played our first game but lost 11-1 for so random reason. I'm also in the coerver elite squad and the new U13 Otumoetai federation sunday league team. I play center forward most games and I also play the odd centre mid as well. I play left and right mid on sunday for Otumoetai and sometimes play striker for the last 10 minutes.