Long Time no play

It was a cool fall day. Leaves of reds, greens, yellows and oranges blew across the pitch. After a much too intense game of pick up, we started the game, of which all hope rested.

It was a showdown between a conglomerate of Christian peace NGO's (and associated churches) versus a Buddhist human rights NGO. It was set up to be one of the most passive games of soccer ever played. But true to the almost perfect nature of soccer, it was both competitive and fun, aggressive yet friendly and was way too tiring. So much so that my body hurt for the next two days. I have to run more!

It ended with fellowship over a super of Kimbop (kinda like sushi), where the different groups talked a little about what they did and somehow each group ended up singing songs.

It was a lot of fun to play soccer again and it was particularly agreeable about the shape the game took. All the different organizations involved are somehow or another involved in peace work and it was fun to join together over a game of soccer. The setting was also quite aesthetically pleasing. I like the picture of a soccer pitch surrounded by trees in fall colours and above those trees are countless highrises. Its a rather foreign concept to me and makes me think of New York, or well, Seoul.

Anyway, here are a few pictures.


The fans were also quite exceptional. A lot of singing and chanting things I didn't understand.


Our team with their fans.