Soccer in Fukui

This Sunday, I traveled down to Fukui Prefecture (the "state" directly to the south of Ishikawa) to practice soccer with my team for the upcoming national amateur soccer tournament in Osaka on November 19th. We played a scrimmage against a team from Malaysia.

Unfortunately, the weather was utterly dreadful, and I have not yet purchased a proper pair of soccer cleats... What resulted was a 4 hour long soccer game in the pouring rain, in 3-4" of sticky nasty mud.

What a day! I left the field sore, bleeding and completely head to toe covered in mud. A good time was had by all despite this though!