this picture was taken the summer of 1995, and was one of my favorite soccer games, both becuase of the result and because it was one of my best games. we were in Brandon for a tournament. our first game was vs this brandon team. it was one of the roughest and worst officiated games i'd ever played in. they beat us 2-0, and i'm not blaming any of that on bad officiating, we deserved to lose that game. as usual we cruised past the rest of our games, won our semi-final match pretty handily and met this brandon team in the final! revenge!
I don't remeber exactly how the goals came, but i think we were up for most, if not all of the game. i suppose it was sometime in the 2nd half, browning gets a red card and give up a PK all in one shot. we were probably tied or up by 1 at the time. mund comes in to replace him in goal and saves the PK.
close to the end of the game i made a run up the middle of the field with the ball until i was fouled about 25 yards out. all in one motion i stopped the ball with my hand and as i was getting back up spotted a wide open oarman on the right wing, hit it to him and he probably needed only 1 touch to beat the keeper for the game winning goal. it was one of my proudest goals and i wasn't even the one to score it.
the ref had done a pretty good job, but for some reason added an insane amount of stoppage time, waiting for his home town boys to tie up the game on the bismarck team with 10 on the field. it must have been close to 10 minutes extra, but finally he gave up and stopped the game, we were champions of brandon! I finished that game with 2 goals and 2 assists, we won 5-4!
if only every picture of the day had such an interesting story. well okay, its fun for me to tell but mite be quite boring for you guys. sorry, but damm i miss playing...
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