we lost, oh well

we lost, oh well. haha, that's just about all I want to say or think about it. To make a long story short, after giving up our lead of one goal three times, and letting Japan push us into penalty kicks, we squandered the majority of our kicks wide or high, and let in more of theirs than we got, making them upset us (in many senses of the word) to win the title for the first time ever.

USA IN THE FINAL OF WORLD CUP!!!!

Wow. The USA womens world cup team won the semi-final against France today!! It was an awesome game with USA's early goal with a sweet cross for an easy finish. However, in the second half France equalized the game and took the momentum, actually making the game seem to be in danger of falling to them. But, on a breakaway, the US got their momentum back though they did not score on it. From that point on, they continually had possession and barraged the French goal with shots and chances until, by the end of the game, getting two more to make the final score 3-1 in the USA's favor!! Then in the other semi final game, japan won over sweden, so we'll be playing them on sunday at 1:00 pm!!!! on to the final!!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evEj-826K3k

We Won!!! On to Semi-finals!!

Great news! On Sunday, we (by which I mean the USA Women's World Cup team) won the quarterfinal game (which is in the knockout stage, meaning that one of the teams will be eliminated) against Brazil!! It was an amazing game, with an equalizing goal that kept the US alive in the tournament in the 122nd minute, (which is in the 2nd minute of stoppage time in the 2nd period of extra time) meaning that they scored the latest goal in the history of world cups!! That kept us alive to proceed to the penalty kicks stage, which the US won by the making of all five of their kicks, and their goalkeeper saving one of Brazil's kicks, making the final score of penalty kicks 5-4, after the tied game being 2-2. The late goal was from a perfect and precise cross from Megan Rapinoe to Abby Wambach who headed into the near post's net for an amazing point. Now we're heading on Wednesday to meet France!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOAJn8h6VAI&feature=topvideos_sports

2011 Womens World Cup!

Well, this year encompasses the Womens' world cup!!!! Though it's not quite as big a deal as the mens' world cup of last year, it still is a lot of fun to watch!!! USA has already clinched a spot in the quarter finals (their opener in the 1/4s is on sunday either at 5:30 am or 10 am, depending on the outcome of the matches in the following days) and they have their last non-knockout stage game tomorrow against sweden at 1:30 pm to decide whether they win their group as the top seed or not. They only have to tie the game to clinch that spot, but regardless of the outcome, loss, win, or draw, they will proceed to the next round. :D hooray!!

http://espn.go.com/espn3/index/_/sport/soccer-futbol

hmmm, refereeing...

Well...refereeing can get dicey. Tuesday I had to ref one game that involved nearly ejecting a coach, as well as two yellow cards....Not to mention the fact that even though I'm only old enough to be in 9th grade, I had to split center ref the game. Split centering is when you just have two refs, instead of three, and each of the two refs act as center refs in their half of the field....it's very annoying cause you can't call offside or anything...Oh, and did I mention that the other ref I worked with was a first year? In fact, the game was his very first time center refing...
So yeah, the coach was yelling and mouthing off at me for some so called "foul" that I missed, and I had to go and tell her to calm down and stop yelling at me or the other ref, or she'd be ejected...she did quiet down after that!

First post!

hello! Just wanted to make this blog..and fill it with stuff that I like, whether it be pictures, videos, or ideas...hope you like it, but i can't say for sure how much i'll post.