Last week I made my triumphant return to soccer. I’ve been itching to play for a long time now. For those of you keeping score, I tore my groin on July 17th. So it has been three and a half months since I had even touched a soccer ball.

Aside from being exhausted 10 minutes into the game, it went well. We had an adequate number of subs, which is key for me at this point. And though the team we played against was good, they didn’t have any subs at all.

We won 8-7 (if you would have seen some of the players on our team you would have been surprised that we even won). I scored three goals, including one from just past midfield (these are really small fields) and one around the hook, off the keeper and in. It felt good. I remember why I love this game so much.