Who said you can't have fun with no opponent?

Yesterday, my team was scheduled to have a football match but the fact that the opposite team wasn't here was problematic. That is why we came up with the idea, instead of just kicking a football into an empty net, that we would play against each other on a smaller pitch. 

We divided each other into two teams of six with me as one captain and my brother as the other. I decided to get three other defenders on my team and one attacker so that the opposition would have a lot of troubles getting passed us; and I was right since at the end we scored so many that we lost track of the score. 

Physically, I was suffering from a hip injury that stopped me from running long distances but I tried my best to have little sprints to help out my team. I mostly stayed at the back since I knew I couldn't run back fast enough to help my team mates if I decided to go up front. Since it would just a simple match against friends I decided to use as much skill as possible so that I would build the confidence to use those moves again in other matches. That all paid off since I kept on dribbling so many of my opponents that they started to get mad at me since they couldn't get the ball off me. It was the most fun I had in a long time since I got to have fun with friends and also get closer to them since we hadn't really properly bonded before. I think that at times I might have dribbled too much and should have passed it instead to my team mates since I can imagine how annoying it is to have a player keeping the ball all the time but I only started doing this when our victory was obvious. I think that I improved my confidence and developed new skills yesterday and I hope to be able to use these skills next week during a real match.