24th April 2008 :: Beach soccer

I like how this guy in yellow T-shirt is covering the boy with the football. He is not the goal keeper and I don't know why he has spread out his hands like he will catch the ball. The only equipment they had was a ball and they were using shoes as the goal posts. It reminded me of my childhood when we used to play cricket and the only equipment we used to have was a bat and a ball. For wickets used to keep two bricks. There used to a lot of arguments because of it and took some time to decide if the ball had gone above the imaginary height of bricks or through them or if it had missed the off or the leg stump. The run outs used to be the most difficult decisions so we started using the “contact” out—a rule like baseball where a player can stand with his foot on the brick and if he catches the ball before the batsmen gets there, he is out.