October 5, 2008
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Orphanage Soccer Tournament!
My boys won it all last year for the first time in my orphanage’s history. This year, after losing our top 5 players to graduation and injury, we were a bit “green” (lots of junior high kids and even a couple elementary boys playing). Our boys were well practiced though and confident, so we won the first game against a team of all high school boys. We lost our second match though to a bigger and stronger team, thus dropping out of the tournament. I enjoyed cheering on the boys and spending time with them between games. Enjoy the pics…
Pastor Chae praying for the boys before they left in the morning…
The boys warming up… the tournament was held at the same place we held our orphanage ministry soccer tournament… makes me wonder if it was because of our camp that the organizers chose these fields…
Our coach trying to fire up the kids
The boys doing the customary shaking of hands with the opposing team before the game
Our boys then huddled up and some of the older boys tried to fire them up
Dae Chul throwing it in
Jong Hyun
Eun Ho making a pass that would lead to a one timer goal (pass and immediate shot from the receiver)
Celebration
The bench players =)
With Soo Hwan and his girlfriend… Soo Hwan graduated and moved out last year, but he came to cheer on the boys
The boys eating “choco pies” as their nutritional snack in between matches
Sang Hoon goofing around with Eun Ho
Now Go Hyun (another former boy) goofing around with Eun Ho
Some of the older boys laid out, waiting for the next match
During the second match, Sung Hyun took a penalty kick and he hit one of the opposing players right in the rear end… if you look closely (sorry so hard to see), you can see the ball about to leave a big bruise on the guy’s buttocks… the ball is above the boy crouched down on the left…
A team shot afterwards… a couple dorm mothers came as well
God bless!
