It has the look of a Pilates class interrupted by someone throwing footballs into it
There’s nothing more annoying than listening to a person who’s no good at stuff complain how intimidating it is when you’re no good at stuff. So I’ll keep this quick: football is not for cissies. Socially speaking, I mean. I started off looking for a mixed beginner game, but the lowest level I could find was “recreational”, which is meant in the same sense as “recreational drugs”: “Yes this is my leisure time, but I take it very, very seriously.” I was too cowardly even to make myself known to the players, just sloped up, had a look, sloped away. In my heavily gendered analysis, this is men’s fault: the ones who are no good but want to play just organise kickabouts with their friends in a park. So as soon as you’re in the company of strangers, the level will be too high if you’ve never played before. Too late, I discovered meetup.com, which organises things like a “social sports mix”, where beginners are welcome, because it’s not a real game.
By then, though, I was on a different track. If you have no sense memory of football, played it once as a child, never watch it, aren’t as familiar with its core principles as those of hockey, the best thing is to do exercise crossed with ball skills for a while, and then find a proper game to ruin. If you’re young, there is quite a bit of this through Goals4Girls; but a pathway into the sport for the middle-aged isn’t such a priority for its assorted bodies.
Continue reading...from The Guardian http://bit.ly/2HB0NnY
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