Finally got to play football! Hell yes!!! I was craving it so much.
Actually the environment here for football is even better than in Perth. Way better. I don't have to drive all the way to Challenge Stadium for instance. And to be honest, I don't have to put up with shit Parry Ave turn outs.
Because at Berkeley, any day of the week, any time of day, I can walk 2 minutes to either Maxwell or Underhill and find a pickup game of 5,6,7,8... a-side football. This is the real shit too. It's kind of a mix between ghetto blacktop parking lot pickup and modern astroturf football. You can see what I mean by the pictures.
Underhill is basically an fenced off playing field about the size of a full 11-a-side pitch, but with markings for 5-a-side, NFL, Hockey and other stuff. The surface is really good astroturf (not like the hockey shit at Challenge), but the whole thing is actually the roof of a multi-storey parking lot!
Quality of football is a different thing. Most of the people who play are obviously decent. But the gap between the girls and the guys is a lot less, some of these girls can really play. Most of the international people are decent too, but so far Supplement would probably beat any team there. When the social leagues start in two weeks time I'll update on what I think the skill level is. But at the moment its good fun and still relatively competitive.
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