Articles by Udar Gromov

We picked teams by method of simple division, just like cells.  Two captains – Yakov and Lyonya G. picked teams one chromosome after another.  Together with late arrivals, our total count was 13 DARKs on 12 WHITEs. We started at 09:41 on a large orange-neted goals.  By 10:00 it was […]

Who knew that a lonely call on Yahoo! message board from Lyonya G. could draw an “11-people response”.  And we did  it –  we had a wonderful game. People from Soviet Union, Barbados and Albania met in a friendly soccer game near Boston, but just a short 20 years ago […]

First praise goes to the miss Weather.  What a treat!  Sunny and warm.  And no bugs.  Remember greatest Pushkin words comparing Summer and Autumn.  Anyway – great work, Miss Weather. Second praise goes to our wonderful people, who organized a fair team picking with 2 patriarchs: Yakov and Yura D.  […]

We might need to find a better way to divide.  Over and over again this issue comes up.  Uneven team makes one team red with shame, and the other team hopeless and indignant.  What are the alternatives?  Should we pick captains again? DARKs this time had all the stars lined […]

09:35 Game started 10 on 10 with very strong teams on both sides.   WHITEs had Vova M., and Georgi, and Ruslan.  DARKs had Nelson, and Lesha Zh, and Danis, and Zhenia V. 09:35 Few seconds into the game – Goal from Zhenia V. – powerful shot – 0:1 for DARKs. […]

09:40 Started on Green field next to baseball without lines.  We had a wonderful 10 on 10. 09:43 Cüneyt serves a corner and Igor Gr. slightly touches ball into the net – 1:0 10:01 Georgi scores after a corner. Who served the corner? Ruslan? DARKs tie 1:1 10:13 Max navigated […]

We started at 09:39 on a beautiful green. Arnaud said that the weather itself promotes passionate, eventful games that both teams can enjoy. Teams were 11 on 11.  But very soon people left to join a second game. So, let’s count only people, who stayed.  There were 18. DARKs quickly […]

We started at 09:41.  It was 14 of us.    We played on a medium-sized goals on a good virgin grass. At the height of their domination WHITES were ahead 5:2 and 6:3, with Max scoring 3 perfect long-distance “gifts”. Game lasted till 10:17, when girls took over the field.   At […]

An interesting fact.  A careful comparative analysis of leading experts in the field concluded that short passes are much shorted than long passes in 75 to 80% of the cases.  A very strong correlation have been uncovered. We started at 09:39.  We stopped at 10:40.  Very short and intense game […]

We started at 09:41 on a smallest set of goals.  We had 4 on 5.  Girls kicked us out around 10:15. The score quickly become unbalanced and hard to keep track of – 11:2. We started a new OFFICIAL game at exactly 10:45. And we even had time to play […]

We started on a beautiful  sunny Autumn evening around 17:42.  We had a perfect 8 on 8. A bit later Victor, Vadim L. and Dr. Yurik complimented the teams and Max left really early. For the rest of the hour, teams played a cozy 9 on 9 game. Nebati started […]