My Embarrassing Moment

It was a cold, winter morning and I had to play hockey in the freezing rain. It couldn’t have been much worse. A wet slippery turf and a cold rainy day.

After my team had finished our warm up, we practised hitting the ball to each other and sorted out what positions we were playing. The other teams walked off the turf and it was finally our turn to play. We all got into position and the game began. We had won all of our games so far and there were only three more in the season, including the game we were playing, so we were all desperate to win this game to.

In the first half of the game, everyone was passing well, we had already scored a couple of goals and the ball was mostly on the opposition's side of the game. Everything was going great. At half-time we were all feeling good about how we were playing. We had a small team talk, and soon enough we were back out on the turf. About the first 15 minutes into the second half of the game were fine, but then it all started going downhill. Everyone was super puffed from running around so much, since it was a bigger turf we were playing on. The other team was playing a lot better further on in the game and had already caught up to us on 6 goals.

Finally, I thought I could save the game. I got passed the ball turned around and dribbled it up the field. Unfortunately, I face planted into the ground, and the ball rolled out of my stick.. I nudged the ball forward in hope that it would roll forward into the corner of the goal. The world seemed to be going in slow motion. We all waited in suspense for the ball to roll into the goal. Finally it did. I dropped my stick and ran over to my team mates. I was thrilled. We only had 1 minute left in the game for the other team to score a goal. As I turned around, I realised I was in our side of the turf. My whole team was frowning and the other team was celebrating. I soon also realised that I had scored a goal for the other team.

There was no hope in winning now since there was only 1 minute left, so we all gave up and waited for the game to finish. Overall, I definitely wish I had checked to see who’s side of the game I was on before I scored the goal because my friends have always remembered it and they constantly nag me about it.