A team sport normally played during the fall after lots of rain. This rough sport is played on a soccer field that has been watered for several weeks without breaks, so the color of the field is brownish and itÂ’s soft and squishy.
The field size is 90-120m (100-130yd) length and 45-90m (50-100yd) width and goals in each end. Penalty box is 16m (18yd) from the posts and the goalkeeper may handle the ball inside it. ItÂ’s built on an old grass area with lots of mud dumped on it or it can be there naturally and usually next to a hillside or a swamp to increase the moisture.
Each team has eleven (11) players and normally they are considered as defenders, midfielders and forwards. Purpose of this game is to get the ball in to the goal of the opposite team by passing it to oneÂ’s teammates. If a player is brave enough, one might try to run through the whole field with the ball, but that may be hard and there are only few people who could even consider of doing that.
There are three referees, who try to keep order on the field. One is running on the field with the players and will put him- or herself into dangerous situations by blowing his or her whistle to call fouls and two of them are placed outside the field on each long side to assistant the main ref (normally they are more secured and doesnÂ’t get as much grief as the one on the field).
This game includes many close-call situations in front of the goal, but also other parts of the field too as the slippery mud makes players slide and fall. So one certain result for this game is that clean players, white shirts and other equipment are no longer their normal color, but every shade of brown and sometimes itÂ’s hard to even tell in which team a player belongs. A few times teams have had to stay and look for missing shoe or two, but that doesnÂ’t happen too often.
(This thing could also be titled as “East Tennessee/AAC Soccer Fall 2009”)
soccer girls in Dollywood <3