Griff Girls In Shorts: November 2010

Monday, November 29, 2010

Footballing Achievements

Football is a sport that is taken both serious and not so serious. It is something that brings you to another world a different level and lets you let loose. It is a game that helps you to bond with people and make new friends and also to work on you team work skills

Gaelic Football is a team game and can not be played without 15players. A game that brings people together to work as one in order to achieve.

There are many different competitions and tournaments for ladies football on both club and county levels.
for example in my home town we have
--> a mid Kerry league - This involves teams from the mid Kerry region to play games against eachother and in
the end a cup is given to the winning team.
--> County Championship - this is a competition for all the teams in Kerry. Very similar to the mid Kerry league
except there are more teams.
The County Championship competition has a continuation and gives clubs the chance to represent their province and reach the All-Ireland final. This is very tough to reach and is something that majority of clubs train so hard for all year round.

There are also a lot of 7 aside leagues and challenge games to be played throughout the year.

Playing for your county team is on the list of one of the highest achievements you can make when playing Gaelic football. Here you can go on to winning out your Provence and continuing onto All Ireland level success.

Trecking To Training

Hey everyone,
I'm back again. Hopefully by now those of you that didn't know anything about Gaelic football surly know a lot, or at least the basics. But the one thing that I haven't mentioned is that football like most other sports that requires to train all year round. Unfortunately this means training in the sun, rain, hail and yes even in the snow.
As a player myself I know that getting up from a warm comfy spot on the couch to a freezing cold football pitch is something that I dread. Even the thought of getting up is horrible never mind actually going forward with it. But if your a dedicated footballer you gotta do what you gotta do, and if that means you end up looking like a drowned rat after a session then that is what you got to look like to get your position on the team.

Making that effort to go to training has been quite difficult for me lately. Dublin being soo much colder than Kerry and the treck to training is considerably longer than any treck to training I have ever had to make =[. The hour long journey to training has been a thought that I have somehow managed to slip into the back of my mind lately and have had to persuade my self COMPLETELY to get up out of my warm apartment and go to.