On the very last weekend of the season, Danny’s Concorde Fire team finally managed to play in a tournament. Coming off an injury to his knee the weekend prior, and with a blazing hot forecast, he headed into it with a fair amount of trepidation. Let me put it this way: Before the first game, he was too nervous to eat bacon. Bacon!
I took him to the first game, on Saturday morning. The boys played hard, and Danny managed with his knee just fine, but they came up short. As we headed home to bide his time until the next game, which wasn’t until 6:30pm, Danny was definitely frustrated and we both wondered how much more the team had in it.
Tim took the evening game duty, and clearly brought with him some better mojo, because they came up with a solid win this time. This meant they would play again at 8am the following morning (a much better option than the 2:30 consolation game, given the heat). Feeling invested, Tim again headed to this game - and what a contest! The opposing team had a player get issued a red card, their coach a warning, and a lot of tension between the parents. At the end of regulation it was tied 2-2, so they headed into PKs. Danny was not among the first 5 to kick, but after that round it was tied at 3-3, so three more players came out to take shots. Danny was the last to do so, when it was tied 5-5 and their player had just missed. With an unsaveable (if a bit unplanned) kick, Danny won the game! Like a scene from any great sports movie, he turned and ran to his team, who were already running towards him with pure joy. They were headed to the finals!
This team dug in, KEPT THE PRESSURE, and pulled off a 2-1 victory after being down 0-1. The team wanted to win, pulled together more than they had all season, and were crowned the champions of the GSA Revolution Cup!
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