Perfect!

Fatih Yayla (the team I train with, but can’t play for due to licensing issues) played a friendly game with local nearby club, Koca Mustafa Pasa. But of course these two have a lot of differences too, such as Yayla not even having a rented ground for 2 hours a week and K.M. Pasa having a real sized ground (Namik Sevik) 24/7. Or Yayla struggling for a 3rd place in their group in youth league’s second division and K.M Pasa being the unbeaten team in their group out of 6 games.

The game kicked off with three new possible signings also trying out for Yayla, one of them starting as left striker. In which position he was terrible at. Yayla went on to get 5-1 behind in the 78th minute, in which time the coach decided to do a substitute: Me going in, Oguzcan coming out. after 3 minutes I did an assist for Alican and he scored, 5-2. After the goal the game went on to be without action up until the very last seconds. Ramazan passed to Alican and he shot, the goalkeeper calmly took it in his arms.

And just as it looked there was no way ANYONE can score from such a position before the game ends, I did: The goal keeper was going to shoot the ball out of their field and after that the referee was going to end the game. Just as he was throwing it on his foot to shoot it I put my leg in the way of his shot (without committing any foul) and managed to get it, then the empty goal was mine to pass to! 5-3. Got to say I loved that game.