Fourth of July in Israel

This morning we had our second scrimmage with the Open Women's Team. We played the first 30min very well controlling the play, changing the point of attack and creating several goalscoring opportunities. However, our inexperience kept us from taking advantage of our possession and unfortunately were punished the three times we turned the ball over at midfield giving up goals. We did finally manage an absolutely brillant goal scored from a 4o yrd driven cross from Maggie Zeitz (Def/Tex) who had the ball at the right midfield to the top left corner of the box to Amanda Epstein(Fwd/NY) who took the ball off her chest, touched it one time to the inside and cracked it into the upper corner of goal. Truely a different level of play.
We struggled a bit in the 2nd half until the final 15 mins when we stepped up to high pressure them and created several turnovers and opportunities for ourselves. The scored ended 4 - 1 but another great learning experience for us.

In the evening we had a July 4th B-B-Q at the Kfar Maccabiah Country Club with the entire US delegation of 900 + complete with fireworks at 9pm.

I'll tell you about the tour of the caverns of Beit Guvrin we took in the afternoon in the next post.