Saw the new Shah Rukh Khan movie "Chak De". liked it. Really well made. More than anything else, it reminded me to my IIT days. I could feel for the SRK goal miss and how he felt that he let the team down.
My third year - Inter Hostel Hockey Semifinal match tie breaker. After nine shots (4 of us and 5 of their) we were even and I was taking the last one for us. H2 goalkeeper was our institute team's first choice. I was not worried as during our Institute team training, I had a scoring rate of above 90% against him. So, I knew I could get the ball past him. I took the shot and ball hit the top left corner net
GOAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!. Everyone in the hostel cheering squad was on seventh heaven and came running towards me.....But, I knew..... While taking the shot, my back foot had lifted off the ground. For a fraction of a second, I thought that the coach has missed the foul. While I was contemplating if I should tell the referee (who was also our institute team coach) or go with the flow, the coach (who had noticed that) blew the whistle that it doesn't count.
Finally we lost that game in the sudden death and had to be satisfied with a bronze medal.
Saturday, September 15, 2007
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