Score a goal in a competitive match

“I posted a month ago about playing in a rec league for the first time in decades and I just scored my first goal in over 20 years last night and I'm still riding that high. I've played ~8 different sports on a rec level in the last 10 years and honestly nothing compares to scoring in soccer. I stopped playing soccer in middle school, so I'm really not a soccer player, but this feeling was incredible. I think part of it was my own shock as I have like 0 shot power (this is why i stopped playing in the first place), but my teammate sent a chipped through ball in and I outfought the defender who had better position, chested it down off the bounce and slotted it in against my momentum through the charging keepers legs as I tumbled to the ground. Seeing the net move was indescribable.”

“Hi! I’m a teen girl playing in the senior women’s league for soccer. Last year I also played and my goal was to score a goal, unfortunately after many attempts I couldn’t get one in. We just had our second game for 2020. I was on the wing as usual and received the ball from the centre. I dribbled it through Defense and tapped it in at the goal box. The goalie dived but it went under her and straight into the net. I was so happy and filled with a huge amount of adrenaline, I couldn’t stop smiling. I always had trouble trying to score. I’ve had so many close calls and this is the first goal in Senior Women’s!”

“I am 24 and all my life I've never scored a goal before in all those pick up games and with a club I joined for a season with when I was younger. I am always the worst player in the team giving away the ball 90% of the time, missing sitters, passing it to my own opponents, dribbling against myself with no pressure. I can't even recieve a simple pass without it rolling past me. I would just anger my own team and people would just talk trash about me. I stopped playing for almost 1 year and just joined this football group a few months ago that sets up matches with a full sized field and goals once a week. It's been so rough these last few months I would ruin every single play and piss everyone off. I single handedly lost us some matches. There was no improvement at all, I thought I was just rusty but I was progressively getting worse every game. At one point I just wanted to give up thinking this sport isn't for me. For some reason all of this really motivated me to turn it around. One night it finally happened. I scored my first ever goal! The best feeling ever! 1 goal 1 assist.”